Bluedot vs Supernormal
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Both sides assessedBluedot compared with Supernormal
Both are bot-free. Supernormal charges by credits with unlimited seats and turns meetings into decks and documents; Bluedot charges $20 a seat, keeps the video, and focuses on notes, clips, and sharing. Supernormal is far cheaper for a team of five or more and better if the deliverable is the work; Bluedot is better if you need the recording itself and per-seat predictability.
Supernormal compared with Bluedot
Both capture without a bot. Bluedot keeps the video so you can replay and clip a moment, charges $20 per seat on Pro, and publishes an explicit no-training policy. Supernormal has no video review workflow but charges $20 for the whole organisation with unlimited seats and generates decks and documents from the meeting. Bluedot if you need the recording itself; Supernormal if the deliverable is the work and per-seat pricing is what is stopping you covering the team.
Choose Bluedot if
Recruiters, consultants, and client-facing teams who need a recording they can replay and clip but cannot put a bot in front of the person they are talking to, and privacy-sensitive buyers who want a written no-training guarantee rather than a data processing agreement they have to negotiate.
Choose Supernormal if
Consultants, agencies, and client-facing operators whose real post-meeting cost is producing a document or deck, and small teams who want everyone captured without paying per seat, on a bot-free capture model suitable for client calls.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Bluedot | Supernormal |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Free, 5 meetings lifetime), then $14 per user per month billed annually (Basic) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $20 per month (Team) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Per-user-per-month subscription with no minute or meeting meter on paid plans. Capability is tiered by recording type (audio versus video), recording length, template customisation, and integration depth. | Credit-based subscription with unlimited seats on paid plans. Credits are consumed by AI tasks such as generating presentations, spreadsheets, documents, and images, and are shared across the whole organisation. Meeting capture and notes are not sold per seat or per minute. |
| Free plan | Five meetings for the lifetime of the account, one hour maximum per recording, with the Chrome extension, desktop and mobile apps, and basic integrations including Slack, Notion, Zapier, and Make. | 15 monthly credits with a 5 credit daily limit, the bot-free meeting notetaker, deliverable generation, unlimited projects, and the MCP connector. |
| Free trial | No fixed-length trial; the free plan's five lifetime meetings serve as the evaluation | No fixed-length trial; the free plan is the evaluation path and requires no credit card |
| Best for | Recruiters, consultants, and client-facing teams who need a recording they can replay and clip but cannot put a bot in front of the person they are talking to, and privacy-sensitive buyers who want a written no-training guarantee rather than a data processing agreement they have to negotiate. | Consultants, agencies, and client-facing operators whose real post-meeting cost is producing a document or deck, and small teams who want everyone captured without paying per seat, on a bot-free capture model suitable for client calls. |
| Setup time | Under ten minutes. Install the Chrome extension for browser calls or the desktop app for Zoom, Teams, and Slack, grant permissions, and record with one click. There is no calendar bot to configure. | Under ten minutes. Download the desktop app, grant microphone and audio permissions, and the next call is captured. There is no bot behaviour to configure and no per-platform integration to authorise. |
| Learning curve | Very low. The only thing worth deliberate attention is template design on the Pro tier, because the difference between a default summary and a template shaped for your meeting type is most of the perceived quality of the product. | Low for capture and notes, moderate for the generation layer. Getting a usable deck out of a project takes some prompt iteration, and understanding what consumes credits takes a month of watching the usage dashboard because the vendor does not publish unit costs. |
| Platforms | Chrome extension, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS and Android, Apple Watch, Web | macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, Web app |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II (independently audited), GDPR-compliant data processing controls | SOC 2 certified with periodic security reviews, GDPR, HIPAA compliant and certified per the vendor |
| Founded | 2022 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom, with operations in Dusseldorf, Germany | Remote-first with bases in Stockholm, Sweden and New York, United States |
| Ownership | Angel-funded | Venture-backed (Supernormal Technologies, Inc.) |
Strengths and limitations
Bluedot
Strengths
- Bot-free capture that still keeps the video, which is a combination Granola and Circleback deliberately do not offer and bot-based tools cannot offer without a participant in the room.
- The clearest published privacy position in the category: no training on customer data, no retention by AI providers, immediate deletion with backups cleared within thirty days, all stated on the security page rather than buried in a DPA.
- SOC 2 Type II with annual third-party penetration testing and AES-256 encryption, which is stronger assurance than most companies this size can show.
- No minute, meeting, or storage meter on paid plans, so the bill does not move with usage.
Limitations
- A twenty-person company with roughly 560,000 euros of angel funding. The product is good and the balance sheet is thin, which is a genuine continuity risk for anything you plan to depend on for years.
- The free plan is five meetings for the lifetime of the account, which is the stingiest free offer here by a wide margin.
- Basic at $14 is audio only with a one-hour cap, so the advertised advantage of the product costs $20 rather than $14.
- CRM and ATS integrations, SSO, and custom retention are all on the $32 Business tier, which is expensive relative to what larger vendors include lower down.
Supernormal
Strengths
- Bot-free desktop capture with nothing in the participant list, which is the right architecture for client-facing and confidential conversations.
- Unlimited seats on both paid plans, so a small business can cover everyone for $20 a month instead of paying $14 to $22 per person.
- SSO, audit logs, and retention controls at $40 a month for the whole organisation, undercutting every competitor that puts SSO behind an enterprise quote.
- Generated deliverables (decks, spreadsheets, documents, images) attack the post-meeting cost that notes alone do not remove.
Limitations
- Credits are unforecastable by design. The vendor explicitly declines to publish what a credit buys, so you cannot budget without running a month first.
- Fifty credits is the entire monthly allowance on both paid plans, and heavy generation users will be buying top-ups regularly.
- No bot means no proxy attendance: you cannot capture a meeting you are not personally in on a machine running the app.
- Capture requires a macOS or Windows desktop app, so Linux, Chromebook, and tablet-first users are excluded.
Pricing compared
Bluedot
Per-user-per-month subscription with no minute or meeting meter on paid plans. Capability is tiered by recording type (audio versus video), recording length, template customisation, and integration depth.
- Free$0
- Basic$14
- Pro$20
- Business$32
Priced against what it uniquely does, Bluedot is fair. Someone in 20 meetings a week pays exactly the same as someone in two, because nothing is metered: $20 per seat per month billed annually on Pro, about $240 a year, for bot-free capture that keeps unlimited-length video, custom templates, unlimited storage, an API, and MCP. Granola at $14 is cheaper and keeps no recording. Krisp at $8 keeps recordings but caps storage at 10 GB and writes weaker notes. Circleback at roughly $21 to $25 is bot-free with better language coverage but again no video. Bluedot is the only one of the four that lets you replay and clip a client call that had no bot in it, and $240 a year is a reasonable price for that specific capability. Where it is poor value is at the edges: $14 Basic withholds video and caps recordings at an hour, and $32 Business is a steep jump to get CRM writeback and SSO from a twenty-person company.
Supernormal
Credit-based subscription with unlimited seats on paid plans. Credits are consumed by AI tasks such as generating presentations, spreadsheets, documents, and images, and are shared across the whole organisation. Meeting capture and notes are not sold per seat or per minute.
- Free$0
- Team$20
- Business$40
Supernormal is the cheapest way to cover a whole small team, and the awkward part is that you cannot forecast it precisely. Someone in 20 meetings a week generates about 80 captures a month, and capture with notes is not what is metered, so on paper the free plan covers the notetaking and the Team plan at $20 a month covers the whole organisation for the generation work. Against per-seat competitors that arithmetic is dramatic: five people on Granola Business is $70 a month, on Otter Business roughly $100, on Read AI Pro $75, and on Supernormal Team it is $20 for everyone. The catch is that 50 credits is the whole allowance and the vendor will not say how far it goes, so a team that leans hard on generated decks will be topping up. Treat the $20 as a floor, not a ceiling, run a month on the usage dashboard, and then decide. For teams that mostly want bot-free notes with occasional generated output, it is the best deal here.
Editorial verdict on each
Bluedot
Bluedot occupies a gap nobody else fills cleanly: bot-free capture that keeps the video. Granola will not store the recording, Circleback will not either, and every tool that does keep video puts a participant in your client's call to get it. If you are a recruiter, a consultant, or a customer success team who needs to replay and clip conversations that cannot have a bot in them, Bluedot at $20 a seat billed annually with unlimited storage, custom templates, an API, and MCP is the obvious answer, and its published no-training, immediate-deletion, SOC 2 Type II posture is the most straightforward privacy statement in the category. The two things to weigh honestly are the tiering, because $14 Basic withholds video and caps recordings at an hour and $32 Business is where CRM writeback and SSO live, and the company, because twenty people on angel funding is a real continuity risk. Buy it for what it uniquely does, on Pro, and keep your own copies through the API.
Read the full Bluedot profileSupernormal
Supernormal made two good decisions and one uncomfortable one. Dropping the bot puts it on the right side of the client-call problem, and dropping per-seat pricing makes it the only product here that a five-person agency can deploy to everybody for $20 a month, with SSO and audit logs available at $40 for the whole organisation rather than an enterprise quote. The generated deliverables are a real answer to a real cost: for consultants, recruiters, and researchers, the deck after the meeting is the work, not the notes. The uncomfortable decision is credits with no published unit cost, which means you genuinely cannot budget this from the pricing page and must run a month to find out. Buy it if you are a small client-facing team that cannot afford per-seat pricing for everyone and cannot put a bot in the room. Buy Granola instead if the notes themselves are what you want, and buy something else entirely if you need video review, sales coaching, or a bill you can forecast in advance.
Read the full Supernormal profileBluedot profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Supernormal last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.