Comparison, updated 2026-08-15
MemorDesk vs Fireflies.ai
Both MemorDesk and Fireflies.ai automatically join Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls, record them, transcribe them, and generate AI summaries and action items afterward. That baseline is table stakes for both products. Where they differ is what happens to that meeting data afterward, and how granular each product lets you get about who can see it.
Choose Fireflies.ai if
- You need transcription in more than 5 languages. Fireflies supports 100+ with auto detection, MemorDesk currently supports English, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese.
- You need to capture phone calls or in person conversations today. Fireflies covers this now through dialer integrations and its desktop/mobile apps, MemorDesk currently joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams only (uploading a recording or audio file directly is in development, coming soon).
- You need HIPAA compliance today. Fireflies offers it on Business and Enterprise plans now, MemorDesk's is coming soon.
Choose MemorDesk if
- You want to ask about a decision from months ago and get the state of the conversation at that exact point in time, not just the latest summary. MemorDesk builds a temporal knowledge graph across your meetings, not a flat transcript index.
- You need per meeting and per group visibility control. Any meeting can be restricted to specific people or specific departmental groups, invisible everywhere (lists, search, action items) to everyone else.
- You want an AI assistant (Kojo) that also navigates the app for you, not just answers questions, ask it how to do something and it tells you exactly where to click on both desktop and mobile.
- You run a small team and want shared credits instead of per seat licensing. MemorDesk's Team plan includes 5 seats and pools 1,500 monthly credits across the whole workspace rather than charging per person for usage, extra seats beyond the included 5 are ₦5,000/month each. This makes MemorDesk the cheaper option against Fireflies at typical team sizes, a 10 person workspace runs about ₦47,000/month on MemorDesk versus roughly $180/month for 10 Fireflies Pro seats.
- You're paying for yourself, not a team. Fireflies' only individual paid tier is $18/month. MemorDesk's Lite plan is ₦4,500/month (₦3,800/month billed annually, about $3), and Pro is ₦7,300/month (about $5), both well under what Fireflies charges for a single seat.
Feature by feature
Core meeting capture
| Feature | MemorDesk | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Auto joins and records Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic transcription with speaker identification | Yes | Yes |
| AI meeting summaries | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic action item extraction | Yes | Yes |
| Decision log extracted from meetings | Yes | Yes |
| Google Calendar auto join for scheduled meetings | Yes | Yes |
| Slack integration (notifications, action item DMs) | Yes | Yes |
| Export formats | PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, JSON | PDF, DOCX, TXT |
| Public share links | Yes | Yes |
| Live transcript during the call | Yes | Yes |
| Upload a recording or audio file for transcription | Coming soon | Yes |
| Capture phone calls or in person conversations | No | Yes |
| Transcription languages | 5 (English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese) | 100+ |
Intelligence and memory
| Feature | MemorDesk | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Semantic search across meetings | Yes | Yes (AskFred) |
| Cross meeting knowledge graph | Yes, query the state of a decision at any past point in time | No, search returns matching transcript excerpts |
| In-app AI assistant that also gives navigation guidance | Yes (Kojo, desktop and mobile) | No, AskFred answers meeting questions only |
| AI generated voice recap | Yes (Pro plan and above) | No |
| Conversation intelligence (talk time, sentiment, topic trackers) | Yes, live during the call (talk time, sentiment, topic trackers) | Yes, full post call analytics (Business plan and above) |
Collaboration and privacy
| Feature | MemorDesk | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Per meeting visibility control (restrict to named people) | Yes | Limited (user groups, Business plan and above) |
| Departmental groups scoping which meetings a group can see | Yes (Team plan and above) | Yes, user groups (Business plan and above) |
| Compliance override so admins can still open restricted meetings | Yes, toggle per workspace | Not published |
| Action item reassignment restricted to owners/admins in team workspaces | Yes | Not published |
Security and compliance
| Feature | MemorDesk | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Encryption at rest and in transit | AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit | Encrypted (specifics not published) |
| SOC 2 | In progress | SOC 2 Type II, all tiers |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | Coming soon | Yes, Business and Enterprise plans |
| SSO | Google sign in today, SAML planned for the Business plan | SSO plus SCIM, Enterprise plan |
| Audit logs | Business plan and above | Enterprise plan |
| Two-factor authentication | Yes | Not published |
Pricing and plans
| Feature | MemorDesk | Fireflies.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes, 180 credits/month (180 minutes) | Yes, 400 minutes of storage per team, unlimited transcription |
| Entry paid tier (individual) | Lite, ₦4,500/month, or ₦3,800/month billed annually (about $3) | Pro, $18/month, Fireflies' only individual paid tier |
| Power user tier (individual) | Pro, ₦7,300/month (about $5) | Same as above, $18/month, no separate power user tier |
| Pricing model | Per workspace credits, Team plan includes 5 seats with a shared pool, extra seats ₦5,000/month each | Per seat, every member licensed individually |
| Cost for a 10 person team (approx.) | ₦47,000/month total (Team plan plus 5 extra seats) | $180/month total (10 x Pro seats) |
| Custom / enterprise pricing | Business plan, contact sales | Enterprise plan, contact sales |
What both products do out of the box
This is worth stating plainly: MemorDesk records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings automatically, the same as Fireflies. Send MemorDesk's note taker to a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call (or connect your Google Calendar so it joins automatically), and it produces a full transcript, an AI summary, extracted action items, and a decisions log, no manual note taking required. This is the baseline both tools compete on, and both do it reliably.
Where Fireflies has broader reach
Fireflies currently supports more languages (100+ versus MemorDesk's 5) and captures from a few extra sources like phone dialers. MemorDesk is closing the gap fast, upload support for existing recordings and audio files is already in development, and every other place the two products actually compete, capture reliability, summaries, action items, decisions, and what happens to that data afterward, is where MemorDesk pulls ahead.
Notes vs a temporal knowledge graph
Both products let you search past meetings. Fireflies' AskFred returns matching transcript excerpts. MemorDesk instead builds a knowledge graph out of every meeting, connecting people, projects, and decisions across your whole history. Ask MemorDesk's assistant, Kojo, about a decision from three months ago, and it can tell you what was true at that point in time, not just the most recent state. This is a structural difference, not a bigger index, and it is the main reason to evaluate MemorDesk if your team needs to trace how a decision evolved rather than just find where it was mentioned.
Granular visibility vs user groups
Fireflies added user groups at the Business tier for access control. MemorDesk's visibility system is per meeting by default: every recorded meeting can be set to Everyone in workspace, Specific groups, or Only me and people I invite, and a restricted meeting disappears completely (not just hidden from a list, but excluded from search, action items, decisions, and the AI assistant's answers) for anyone outside its audience. Workspace owners can also set default visibility per connected calendar, so a leadership calendar can be scoped to the right group automatically the moment an event syncs, not case by case.
Pricing shape: per seat vs shared credits
Fireflies prices per seat, every teammate needs their own paid license to use paid features. MemorDesk's Team plan instead includes 5 seats and pools 1,500 credits a month across the whole workspace, anyone within those seats can use the assistant and it draws from the shared pool rather than each person paying for their own usage. This tends to favor teams where usage is uneven, a few heavy users and many occasional ones cost the same as licensing everyone individually on a per seat model. Once a workspace grows past its 5 included seats, additional seats are ₦5,000/month each. Worked out for a 10 person team, that is about ₦47,000/month total on MemorDesk versus roughly $180/month for 10 Fireflies Pro seats, MemorDesk is the cheaper option at this size and stays cheaper as the team grows, since ₦5,000 per extra seat undercuts a full per seat license. The gap holds for individuals too: Fireflies' only paid tier for a single user is $18/month, MemorDesk's Lite plan is about $3/month and Pro is about $5/month, well under Fireflies. Compare exact numbers on the [MemorDesk pricing page](/pricing).
Why teams pick MemorDesk
Time aware
MemorDesk's knowledge graph remembers what was true at a past point in time, not just the latest state
1 pool
Team plan credits are shared across the whole workspace instead of licensed per seat
~₦47,000
Approximate monthly cost for a 10 person team on MemorDesk, versus $180/month for 10 Fireflies Pro seats
Frequently asked questions
Does MemorDesk actually record and transcribe meetings, or is it just a search tool over other transcripts?
MemorDesk records meetings itself. Send its note taker to a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call, or connect Google Calendar so it joins automatically, and it produces the recording, transcript, AI summary, action items, and decisions log directly. It does not depend on another transcription tool.
How many languages does MemorDesk transcribe?
Five: English, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. Fireflies supports over 100 languages with automatic detection, which is a genuine advantage for multilingual teams.
Can MemorDesk capture phone calls or in person conversations like Fireflies can?
Not currently. MemorDesk joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls. Fireflies additionally supports phone dialers, file uploads, and in person recording through its desktop and mobile apps.
Can I upload an existing meeting recording or audio file to MemorDesk?
Not yet, this is in development and coming soon. Once it ships, you'll be able to upload a recording or audio file directly and get the same AI transcript, summary, action items, and decisions MemorDesk generates for meetings it joins live. Today, MemorDesk's coverage is limited to Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls it joins itself. Fireflies already supports file upload.
What is MemorDesk's temporal knowledge graph and how is it different from Fireflies' AskFred search?
AskFred searches your transcripts and returns matching passages. MemorDesk builds a graph of entities (people, projects, decisions) and the relationships between them, and tracks how that graph changes over time. That lets you ask about the state of a decision at a specific past date, not just find where it was last mentioned.
Is MemorDesk HIPAA compliant?
Not yet, HIPAA compliance is coming soon. Fireflies offers HIPAA compliance on its Business and Enterprise plans today. If HIPAA is a hard requirement right now, Fireflies is the better fit until MemorDesk's ships.
Does MemorDesk have SSO?
Google sign in is available on every MemorDesk plan today. SAML 2.0 SSO for identity providers like Okta and Azure AD is planned for the Business plan but not yet available. Fireflies offers SSO with SCIM on its Enterprise plan.
Is MemorDesk cheaper than Fireflies?
Yes, for individuals and typical teams alike. Fireflies' only individual paid tier is $18/month. MemorDesk's Lite plan is about $3/month and Pro is about $5/month, well under Fireflies. For teams, Fireflies charges $18/month per seat, while MemorDesk's Team plan includes 5 seats and pools credits across the whole workspace instead of licensing each person for usage, with extra seats beyond the included 5 at ₦5,000/month each. For a 10 person team, that works out to about ₦47,000/month total on MemorDesk versus $180/month for 10 Fireflies Pro seats. See exact current pricing on the [MemorDesk pricing page](/pricing) and [Fireflies pricing page](https://fireflies.ai/pricing).
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