Fireflies.ai vs Horch

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

	Fireflies.ai Audio	Horch Audio
Tagline	AI meeting assistant that joins calls, transcribes them, and turns the talk into searchable notes and action items.	Privacy-first, on-device meeting assistant for macOS
Category	Audio	Audio
Pricing	Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact sales	Paid· One-time purchase: €49 once
Model	Multi-model (proprietary ASR + LLM layer)	Whisper (local) for transcription; optional Ollama / MLX local LLMs for summarization
Editorial score	8.2 / 10	—
Use cases	meeting transcriptioncall summariesaction item extractionsales call analysisrecruiting notesvoice search	Confidential client meeting transcriptionAutomatic action-item extractionPer-contact relationship historyPre-meeting briefings from prior callsLocal Whisper transcription without cloud uploadFeeding meeting context into Claude or Cursor via MCPPersonal second-brain in MarkdownLegal, medical, or NDA-bound conversation notes
Pros	Joins all major meeting platforms plus dialers and uploaded files with one workflow Strong CRM/ATS sync (Salesforce, HubSpot, Greenhouse) keeps notes out of inboxes AskFred chat and AI Apps make weeks of past calls actually searchable Free tier is genuinely usable for solo evaluators Public API for programmatic transcription and summary retrieval	Fully on-device by default — audio and transcripts never leave the Mac unless the user opts in One-time €49 purchase instead of a recurring per-seat SaaS bill Records at OS level so no bot appears in the meeting and any app (Zoom, Meet, Teams, in-person) works Notes stored as plain Markdown in ~/Meetings — portable, greppable, Obsidian-friendly Auto-generates action items, topic summaries, and per-person profiles from spoken content MCP server exposes meeting history to Claude, Cursor, and other agent clients Local Whisper transcription plus optional Ollama/MLX means you pick the summarizer
Cons	Visible bot attendee can feel intrusive in client or candidate calls Conversation intelligence and unlimited storage are gated to Business+ Summary quality drops on noisy multi-speaker calls in less-supported languages Closed-source, fully cloud-hosted - no self-hosted option	macOS only — no Windows, Linux, iOS, or web client Local Whisper and summarization need a reasonably modern Apple Silicon Mac to feel fast No cloud sync or team workspace, so sharing across a team requires bring-your-own storage Small independent product without the integrations catalog of Fireflies, Otter, or Fathom OS-level capture depends on macOS screen/audio permissions, which some corporate MDM setups block
Website	fireflies.ai	horch.app

Pick Fireflies.ai if

✅ Joins all major meeting platforms plus dialers and uploaded files with one workflow
✅ Strong CRM/ATS sync (Salesforce, HubSpot, Greenhouse) keeps notes out of inboxes
✅ AskFred chat and AI Apps make weeks of past calls actually searchable
✅ Free tier is genuinely usable for solo evaluators

Pick Horch if

✅ Fully on-device by default — audio and transcripts never leave the Mac unless the user opts in
✅ One-time €49 purchase instead of a recurring per-seat SaaS bill
✅ Records at OS level so no bot appears in the meeting and any app (Zoom, Meet, Teams, in-person) works
✅ Notes stored as plain Markdown in ~/Meetings — portable, greppable, Obsidian-friendly

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