Fathom is a meeting recorder: its notetaker joins your video call, records it, and stores the footage so you can rewatch and share clips. Amlin is a meeting notepad: it listens from your own Mac, writes everything up, and keeps no recording at all. Which one you want depends on whether you ever want the tape.
Facts checked September 2026 against Fathom's public pricing and documentation. Spot something outdated? Tell us.
Fathom records unlimited Zoom, Meet, Teams, and Slack Huddle calls on its free plan but caps AI summaries at 5 per month. Premium is $20 a month (or $16 billed annually) per user, with Team and Business tiers for sales orgs that want CRM sync.
Amlin is $10 a month, works with anything that makes sound on a Mac, stores no audio or video, and folds dictation and a to-do list into the same app.
If you need the video, pick Fathom. If you need the notes, the privacy, and the follow-through, pick Amlin.
| What matters | Amlin | Fathom |
|---|---|---|
| Bot joins your call? | Never. System-level audio capture on your Mac; attendees see only people. | By default, yes. A bot-free capture mode (Mac beta, Zoom only) skips the bot and can now capture video too, with Windows and Google Meet support expanding. |
| What gets stored | Text only. Audio is transcribed live and discarded; there is never a recording of you or your clients. | Full video recordings of your calls, stored for playback and clip sharing. |
| Works with | Anything that makes sound on your Mac: Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, phone calls, webinars. | Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Slack Huddles. |
| Price | $10 / month, or $108 / year, all features included | Premium: $20 / month, or $16 / month billed annually. Team and Business tiers from $15 to $34 / user / month. |
| Voice dictation | System-wide. Hold a key in any app, speak, get clean text. Runs on-device. | None. |
| To-do list | One list across every meeting, with owners and due dates, split into yours and what you're waiting on. | Action items appear per meeting, with follow-up email drafts. |
| Free plan | 4 meeting-hours per month with the full write-up on every meeting; complete note history; dictation included. | Unlimited recordings, but 5 AI summaries per month. |
| Ask / chat over meetings | One meeting or your whole history, with citations back to the source line. | Ask Fathom: 5 free calls a month, unlimited on paid plans. |
| Platforms | macOS 13+ (Apple silicon) | Mac, Windows, mobile |
| Sales-team features | None; Amlin is built for individuals. | Clip sharing, coaching metrics, Salesforce and HubSpot sync on Team and Business tiers. |
Highlighted rows are where Amlin pulls ahead: no bot, nothing recorded, any audio source, and a lower price with more of your workday covered. Fathom's pricing and features change; treat their official site as the source of truth. We update this page when we notice a change.
If you work on a Mac and don't want a notetaker bot appearing in your calls, yes. Amlin captures audio from your own machine, works with any app that makes sound, never stores audio or video, and includes dictation and a cross-meeting to-do list for $10 a month. Fathom is the better fit if you want video recordings, clip sharing, or sales-team features.
No, deliberately. Fathom stores the footage so you can rewatch and share clips, which is genuinely useful for sales coaching. Amlin makes the opposite trade: audio is transcribed live and discarded on the spot, nothing is ever recorded, and only your notes and transcript text remain. For client work under NDA, "there is no tape" is often the feature that matters. Details in our privacy policy.
Fathom's notetaker joins meetings on those three platforms, and now Slack Huddles too. Amlin captures system audio at the operating-system level, so it works with them plus anything else that plays sound on your Mac: Webex, a client's webinar tool, a phone call on speaker.
Fathom's free plan records unlimited meetings but includes 5 AI summaries per month; past that you have recordings without write-ups. Amlin's free plan includes 4 meeting-hours per month (about 5 or 6 meetings) with the full write-up on every one, plus unmetered dictation and your complete note history.
Download Amlin and let your next meeting write itself up, with no recording left behind.
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