Fellow vs jamie
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 assessedFellow compared with jamie
jamie is EU-hosted with ISO 27001 and 99-plus languages, bot-free only, and costs €39 for an unlimited individual plan. Fellow is Canadian with no EU residency commitment, but offers both capture modes, conference-room diarization, agendas and one-on-ones, and regulated-finance controls at $15 to $25. If EU residency is mandatory, jamie wins by default; on everything else Fellow is the deeper platform for less money.
jamie compared with Fellow
Fellow offers both bot and botless capture, agendas and one-on-one workflow, 90-plus languages, zero-day retention options, and a compliance stack built for SEC and FINRA-regulated finance, from $7 a seat annually. jamie is simpler, EU-hosted, and covers more languages, but has no agenda layer and costs far more per user. Take Fellow if meeting workflow and North American regulatory posture matter; take jamie if EU residency is the requirement.
Choose Fellow if
Managers and teams that want meeting workflow rather than just transcription, and regulated organizations in finance, legal, or healthcare that need retention controls, redaction, information barriers, and auditable archiving alongside AI notes.
Choose jamie if
European companies with real GDPR obligations and a requirement for EU data residency, multilingual teams working across many languages, and anyone who needs bot-free capture for both online and in-person meetings.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Fellow | jamie |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $7 per user per month billed annually (Team) (free plan available) | €0 (Free), then €21 per month billed annually (Plus) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium per-seat subscription metered by AI note and AI recording counts, with unlimited AI from the Business tier and a 10-user minimum on Enterprise. | Freemium subscription in euros, metered by meetings per month and by maximum meeting duration on individual tiers, with per-seat pricing on team plans. |
| Free plan | 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings in total, not per month, plus audio and video uploads, summaries, transcription, action items, AskFellow, and Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, and Slack integrations. | 10 meetings per month with a 30-minute cap per meeting, notes and transcripts in 99-plus languages, unlimited storage, Ask jamie, and Notion, Google Docs, and OneNote integrations. |
| Free trial | No fixed-length trial is published; the free plan is the evaluation path but is capped at lifetime rather than monthly usage | No fixed-length trial is published; the free tier is the evaluation path |
| Best for | Managers and teams that want meeting workflow rather than just transcription, and regulated organizations in finance, legal, or healthcare that need retention controls, redaction, information barriers, and auditable archiving alongside AI notes. | European companies with real GDPR obligations and a requirement for EU data residency, multilingual teams working across many languages, and anyone who needs bot-free capture for both online and in-person meetings. |
| Setup time | Fifteen to thirty minutes for an individual: connect a calendar, install the desktop app if you want botless capture, and pick your default capture mode. A team rollout takes longer because agendas and one-on-one templates deserve configuration, and an Enterprise deployment with SSO, provisioning, retention policy, and redaction rules is a multi-week project with the vendor. | Around ten minutes. Install jamie, connect a calendar, grant microphone and system audio permission, and the next meeting is captured. There is no bot to whitelist and no meeting-platform admin approval to obtain. |
| Learning curve | Moderate, and higher than pure notetakers, because Fellow is two products stacked: a meeting workflow tool and an AI assistant. Teams that adopt only the AI half get a fine notetaker and wonder why they are paying for the rest. | Low. The two things worth configuring early are speaker identities, so speaker memory starts building correctly, and the note language, since jamie will happily produce notes in a different language from the one the meeting was held in. |
| Platforms | macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Web, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex | Desktop application, Any online meeting platform via device audio, In-person and hybrid meetings, MCP endpoint on Pro and above |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, Global Relay archiving for SEC and FINRA record-keeping | ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant with EU processing, Data processing agreements available on Enterprise |
| Founded | 2017 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Berlin, Germany |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Privately held, venture and angel backed |
Strengths and limitations
Fellow
Strengths
- The only product in this batch that offers both bot-based and botless capture with the choice made per meeting, which resolves the client-call awkwardness without giving up proxy attendance.
- A genuine meeting workflow layer with collaborative agendas, one-on-one templates, and persistent action items, built over eight years rather than bolted on last quarter.
- Regulated-industry controls that nothing else here comes close to: zero-day retention, transcript redaction of MNPI and account numbers, information barriers, and Global Relay archiving.
- Conference-room speaker diarization, which is the scenario where system-audio-only competitors produce an unusable single-speaker transcript.
Limitations
- The free plan's 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings are lifetime allowances, which is close to misleading and makes free evaluation genuinely difficult.
- The $7 Team tier's 10 AI notes and 10 AI recordings per user per month is a light allowance that most buyers will exhaust within two weeks.
- No published EU or regional data residency, which is a hard stop for European buyers regardless of how good the compliance tooling is.
- The regulated-industry features that most distinguish Fellow all sit at Enterprise with a 10-user minimum, excluding the small advisory firms that need them.
jamie
Strengths
- Complete EU hosting for both storage and processing, which resolves the data transfer question that blocks most American tools in European procurement.
- ISO 27001 certification plus a clear, unambiguous statement that customer data is never used to train models.
- More than 99 languages for both transcripts and notes, the broadest coverage among the bot-free tools in this category.
- Device-level capture handles in-person and hybrid meetings as well as online calls, which browser-extension rivals cannot do at all.
Limitations
- Expensive: Pro at €39 a month is roughly triple Granola Business for a comparable individual, and the euro pricing adds currency risk for non-eurozone buyers.
- Hard meeting-duration caps at 30 minutes, 2 hours, and 5 hours by tier, which is an unusual constraint and a genuine problem for workshops and all-day sessions.
- The cheap tiers are not viable plans: 10 meetings at 30 minutes on Free and 20 meetings on Plus rule out anyone with a normal calendar.
- No audio or video retention means no playback for coaching, demo review, or checking how something was said.
Pricing compared
Fellow
Freemium per-seat subscription metered by AI note and AI recording counts, with unlimited AI from the Business tier and a 10-user minimum on Enterprise.
- Free$0
- Team$7
- Business$15
- Enterprise$25
Fellow is priced sensibly if you buy the right tier and badly if you buy the cheap one. Model 20 meetings a week: roughly 80 a month, which blows past Team's 10-note ceiling on day three. That person needs Business at $15 per user per month annually, $180 a year per seat, with unlimited notes and recordings, org-wide templates, and real CRM integration. Against Granola Business at $14 and Tactiq Team at $16.67 that is competitively priced, and Fellow gives you an entire meeting workflow layer, both capture modes, mobile in-person recording, conference-room diarization, and 90-plus languages that neither competitor matches. Where the value gets genuinely strong is Enterprise at $25: zero-day retention, redaction, information barriers, and exam-ready audit export are worth several times that to a regulated firm, and the realistic alternative is not another notetaker but a bespoke compliance project. Just do not mistake the $7 tier for the product.
jamie
Freemium subscription in euros, metered by meetings per month and by maximum meeting duration on individual tiers, with per-seat pricing on team plans.
- Free€0
- Plus€21
- Pro€39
- Team€33
- EnterpriseCustom
jamie is priced as a compliance product, and if you have the compliance requirement it is worth it. If you do not, it is hard to defend. Model 20 meetings a week: roughly 80 a month, which immediately eliminates Free and Plus and puts you on Pro at €39 a month, about €468 a year, or Team at €33 a seat. Granola Business gives an equivalent user unlimited notes, unlimited history, CRM connectors, API, and MCP for $14. Tactiq Team gives unlimited AI generation for $16.67. On raw capability per euro jamie is roughly two to three times the market. What the premium buys is complete EU hosting, ISO 27001, 99-plus languages, in-person capture, and a vendor that answers to European regulators. For a Berlin or Munich buyer with a data protection officer to satisfy, that is a rational purchase. For a US startup that has never been asked where its data lives, it is an expensive way to get notes.
Editorial verdict on each
Fellow
Fellow is the most complete product in this batch and the least fashionable, which is roughly the right description of a nine-year-old company selling to compliance officers. If your problem is meetings rather than transcripts, the agenda, one-on-one, and action item layer is worth more than any summarization improvement, and the per-meeting choice between bot and botless capture solves a problem the rest of the category makes you pick a side on. If you are a broker-dealer, an RIA, a law firm, or a healthcare provider, the zero-day retention, redaction, information barriers, and exam-ready audit export are genuinely unmatched here and make the $25 Enterprise tier a bargain against the alternative of doing it yourself. Two warnings. The free plan is a lifetime-capped trial and should not influence your evaluation, and the $7 Team tier's 10-note ceiling means the real price for a busy person is $15. And if you need EU data residency, Fellow cannot help you no matter how good its compliance tooling is.
Read the full Fellow profilejamie
jamie is what you buy when the answer to where does the data live has to be Europe. Complete EU hosting, ISO 27001, no model training on your conversations, audio deleted after transcription, and 99-plus languages add up to a product that clears European procurement in a way that most of this category cannot, and the bot-free local capture means it clears the client-relationship test too. The cost of that position is real: Pro at €39 a month is around triple Granola Business for a comparable individual, the meeting-duration caps are an odd and genuinely limiting constraint, and the cheap tiers are demonstrations rather than plans. If you have a data protection officer to satisfy or a genuinely multilingual European operation, jamie is the right choice and the premium is defensible. If you do not, you are paying two to three times the market rate for a compliance property nobody will ever ask you about.
Read the full jamie profileFellow profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; jamie last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.