MeetGeek is a bot-based AI meeting assistant built around meeting analytics — it joins your Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams calls automatically via calendar sync, transcribes, summarizes, and layers on team dashboards. CraftNote is a bot-free AI note taker built for capture beyond scheduled meetings: lectures, in-person conversations, phone calls, and uploads. Both transcribe in 100+ languages and offer AI summaries. The real differences are capture method, how each free plan resets, and where usage caps show up on paid tiers. Verified against both vendors' own pricing pages as of 2026-08-26.
Overview
CraftNote
CraftNote is a bot-free AI note taker available on iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, and the web. It records directly from your device — nothing joins your calls as a visible participant — and works equally for scheduled meetings, lectures, in-person conversations, phone calls, and uploaded audio/video/PDF/YouTube/podcast content. Free plan meters by weekly usage (2 hours of recording, 10 uploads) rather than by lifetime import count.
MeetGeek
MeetGeek is a bot-based meeting recorder that joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls automatically through calendar integration, transcribes in 100+ languages, and adds meeting analytics — team dashboards, searchable meeting history, and AI chat with workflow automation on its Pro and Business tiers. There's no bot-free capture option and no built-in support for lectures or in-person conversations; it's designed around calendar-scheduled video calls.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | CraftNote | MeetGeek | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capture method | Bot-free on every platform — records from your own device, no visible call participant. | Bot-based only — MeetGeek's bot joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams calls as a visible participant; no bot-free option exists. | ✓ |
| Free plan structure | 2 hours of recording + 10 uploads/imports per week, ongoing — no lifetime or monthly cap. | 3 hours of transcription per month, capped at 2 hours per meeting; transcripts auto-delete after 3 months and audio after just 1 month. | ✓ |
| Entry-tier price & usage cap | $9.99/month, or $8.33/month billed annually ($99.99/year) — unlimited notes and transcripts, recordings up to 4 hours each. | Pro is $9.99/user/month too, but caps at 20 hours of transcription per month with a $0.50/hour overage fee past that. | ✓ |
| Cost to reach unlimited transcription | Unlimited notes and transcripts already included at the $9.99/month entry tier. | Unlimited transcription requires the $17/user/month Business tier — 70% more than CraftNote's entry price. | ✓ |
| Meeting analytics & team dashboards | Team plan ($15/user/month, $12 annual) adds shared notes, centralized billing, and admin controls — not analytics-focused. | Business tier includes team analytics dashboards and meeting-comment threads, a more mature reporting layer built for sales and CS teams. | ✓ |
| Beyond scheduled meetings | Built for lectures, in-person conversations, phone calls, and uploaded audio/video/PDF/YouTube/podcasts as first-class use cases. | Designed around calendar-scheduled Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls; no dedicated lecture or in-person capture mode. | ✓ |
| Speaker identification | Speaker diarization with renameable labels, persistent across recordings. | Automatic speaker identification included across all tiers, including the free plan. | ― |
| AI assistant depth | Ask AI answers questions about a single note's content. | AI Chat with tools and meeting workflows (Pro and above) can trigger follow-up actions, not just answer questions. | ✓ |
Who Should Pick Which?
Choose CraftNote if…
Anyone who wants one bot-free tool across meetings, lectures, in-person conversations, and phone calls, with a free plan that resets weekly instead of expiring your storage after a few months.
Choose MeetGeek if…
Sales and CS teams fully standardized on Zoom, Meet, or Teams who want MeetGeek's meeting analytics dashboards and AI workflow automation, and don't mind a bot joining every call.