Most lists of Cluely alternatives are note takers wearing the wrong label. Only some of these tools help you during a call the way Cluely does, so we split them clearly and verified every price on the vendors' own pricing pages in August 2026.
| Tool | Helps during the call? | Bot in the meeting? | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flintalk | Yes, real-time | No bot | Free 30 minutes, then $12/mo or $39/mo |
| Cluely | Yes, real-time | No bot | Free tier, Pro $19.99/mo, Pro + Undetectability $149.99/mo |
| Granola | No, post-call notes | No bot | Free tier, Business $14/user/mo |
| Fathom | No, summaries after the call | Bot, or bot-free beta on Mac | Free (unlimited recordings), Premium $20/mo |
| Otter | Live transcript, no answers | Bot joins the meeting | Free 300 min/mo, Pro $16.99/mo |
| Fellow | No, post-call | Bot joins the meeting | Free (5 notes lifetime), Team $11/mo |
| tl;dv | No, post-call | Bot joins the meeting | Free tier, Pro from €18/seat/mo annually |
Free 30 minutes, then $12/mo or $39/mo
Full disclosure: Flintalk is our product, so judge this entry accordingly. It does the same core job as Cluely, live suggested answers during the call, with three differences you can verify in the free plan. Every answer cites the file it came from, so you know whether to trust it before you say it out loud. Screen-share invisibility is included in every plan, not sold as an upsell. And the app ships a Safety Test (Cmd-Shift-T) that takes a real screenshot so you can confirm the overlay is hidden before the call, instead of taking our word for it. It runs on Windows and on Mac, Apple Silicon and Intel.
Free tier, Pro $19.99/mo, Pro + Undetectability $149.99/mo
The tool you are here to replace, so a fair word first: Cluely is genuinely real-time, runs on Mac, Windows, and iOS, and reads your screen as well as the audio. The reasons people look elsewhere are also concrete. Hiding from screen-share software costs $149.99 a month on top of the product. Answer citations are not documented, so you cannot see where a suggestion came from. And the company built its brand on 'cheat on everything' marketing, then its founder admitted in March 2026 that the revenue figures he had claimed were fabricated (TechCrunch). If you use an assistant on client calls, the vendor's own credibility is part of what you are buying.
Free tier, Business $14/user/mo
The best pick if what you actually want is notes without a bot in the room. Granola captures audio on your device, blends the transcript with what you type, and produces the cleanest meeting notes of any tool here. It will not help you answer anything mid-call. Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.
Free (unlimited recordings), Premium $20/mo
The strongest free tier in the category: unlimited recordings, transcription, and summaries at no cost, with summaries arriving about thirty seconds after the meeting ends. Reviewers rate it extremely well for exactly that. Everything it gives you arrives after the call is over.
Free 300 min/mo, Pro $16.99/mo
The most accurate transcription in independent comparisons and the most mature product here. Its OtterPilot bot joins the meeting visibly, which is the most common complaint, and while you can read the live transcript during the call, it does not suggest what to say.
Free (5 notes lifetime), Team $11/mo
Less a Cluely replacement and more a meeting management layer: collaborative agendas, action items with owners, and calendar-linked notes around the recording. Good for running better meetings, not for surviving hard questions inside them. The free tier is five AI notes total, not per month.
Free tier, Pro from €18/seat/mo annually
Built for sales teams that live in recordings afterwards: CRM sync, highlight clips, multi-meeting AI reports across 30+ languages. The bot is intrusive and the value is retrospective, which is the opposite of what a Cluely user is usually looking for.
Decide what your real problem is. If it is remembering meetings, Fathom's free tier or Granola's notes will serve you better than anything real-time. If it is the moment mid-call when a hard question lands and the answer is somewhere in your files, you need a real-time AI meeting assistant, and the honest shortlist is Cluely or Flintalk. Try both on a real call: Cluely's free tier and Flintalk's free 30 minutes cost nothing, and twenty minutes of actual use will tell you more than any list, including this one.
Written by the Flintalk team. Prices checked on each vendor's pricing page on August 24, 2026; tell us if one has changed and we will correct it. Flintalk is our product and appears first for that reason.
Live answers from your own documents, cited, in an overlay screen share cannot see. No card.