App Profile: Fireflies: AI notetaker

jdog-01

Rating: 4/5

Please fix the bugs where it doesn’t let you upload or download after a little bit

elambeth

Rating: 1/5

The AI itself is an interesting and potentially useful tool, but the whole concept is completely ruined because it forces you to login with a federated Microsoft or Google ID, and then invites itself to join every meeting on your Microsoft or Google calendar. This has the side effect of jumbling all your personal meetings and work meetings into one account where everything is saved and accessible by your coworkers. (Maybe I don’t want my coworkers to access a recording of me chatting g with my kids, you know?) Once you discover this problem and try to migrate the account to a separate ID, it requires a manual human assisted migration process which raises a whole additional host of problems and errors. Now I have one random jumble of personal and business recordings on one account and another whole random jumble of other personal and business meetings on another account. I stupidly paid for a full year of the tool in advance because I was dazzled by the AI features the first few times I tried it. Don’t make that mistake, sample this clunky service for a few months at the monthly rate first before you commit. Better yet, look elsewhere for your meeting AI tool. (Microsoft teams is slowly adding copilot features that do everything this tool does anyway.)

Jacob Ford

Rating: 4/5

Wonderful tool for transcribing audio, and making the spoken word searchable. I’m a longtime paid web user and happy an app was launched. While optimized for videoconference calls, I use this for transcribing Voice Memos I record of lectures, live panels, and Q&As. I’ve built up a searchable, shareable, exportable database of thoughts and things I’ve heard. As others have pointed out: don’t put too much trust in the in-app recorder. Instead best to import audio files via share sheets from Voice Memos or other recorders, which it handles well. I wish they would chill on the bloated interfaces, and focus on rock-solid speed, search, and readability. We are talking about text here: the oldest content on the web. And focus the AI elsewhere please. I don’t need to chat with a transcript of my chat, but I would love if Mr. Fred could ascertain the names of of everyone in audio uploads.