by Fireflies.ai · AI meeting assistant
See the Fireflies.ai free tier entry alongside other no-cost AI tools in the SpotFreeAI free tools directory.
Joins your call, records everything, and delivers a structured summary within minutes of the meeting ending.
Identifies tasks, decisions, and follow-ups and lists them separately from the full transcript.
Search across all recorded meetings for specific topics, names, or decisions, even from months ago.
Strong accents, technical jargon, or several people talking at once can reduce transcription accuracy.
Conversations are processed by a third-party server. Check your organisation's policy before recording sensitive meetings. The difficulty of evaluating summarisation quality, which is what a transcription tool is ultimately judged on, is surveyed in a survey of large language model evaluation.
| Works in Singapore | ✅ Yes, no VPN needed |
| Works in Malaysia | ✅ Yes, no VPN needed |
| Works in Philippines | ✅ Yes, no VPN needed |
| Data stored | United States |
| PDPA consideration | Review before recording sensitive meetings |
Fireflies.ai works across SEA on standard video platforms. Because it records and stores conversations on its servers, confirm consent and your organisation's data policy before enabling it on confidential calls.
| Plan | Price | SGD | Key Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | 800 transcription minutes/month, summaries, action items, searchable transcripts |
| Pro | $10/user/month | ~SGD 14 | Unlimited transcription, more AI features |
| Business | $19/user/month | ~SGD 26 | Advanced analytics, CRM integration |
Automatic, structured notes for people who attend multiple meetings per week.
Pulls tasks and decisions out of the conversation so commitments are not lost in long notes.
Search across past meetings to find what was decided weeks or months ago.
For study and research capture, NotebookLM is a related productivity AI worth a look.
Fireflies.ai is one of the most practically useful free AI tools for knowledge workers who attend regular meetings. The 800 minute free tier is generous enough for most individual users. The time saved on manual note-taking and action item tracking provides genuine daily value. For how quickly meeting and productivity assistants have been taken up in workplaces, the Stanford HAI AI Index reports adoption across sectors.
Here is where Fireflies pays for itself: recurring client calls where the same handful of details resurface weeks later. A freelancer running six discovery calls a month does not need a polished transcript of each one. They need to answer the question of what a client said about budget in March, without rewatching an hour of video. Fireflies makes that searchable, so the answer takes seconds instead of an afternoon. The action item extraction matters for the same reason. Notes taken while you are also talking are always incomplete, because attention goes to the conversation and not the keyboard. Worth knowing the limit, though. Accuracy drops on heavy accents and crosstalk, so for calls where the exact wording carries contractual weight, treat the transcript as a first draft and check it.