Otter.ai

Otter.ai is the meeting-transcription veteran: it joins your Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls, transcribes in real time with speaker labels, and turns every conversation into searchable, shareable notes. Its AI meeting summaries land minutes after the call ends.

It popularized the category and remains the simplest entry point — a generous free tier covers casual use, while business plans add org-wide search and admin controls. Accuracy dips on heavy accents and crosstalk, but for standard meetings it quietly deletes an entire category of note-taking work.