Fellow vs Wudpecker
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 Wudpecker
Wudpecker is bot-only, EU-hosted in Finland, and metered by meetings from $19 a month, with strong custom vocabulary handling. Fellow gives both capture modes, unlimited notes at $15 a seat, agendas, mobile capture, and a compliance layer Wudpecker does not attempt. Wudpecker's advantages are EU servers and simplicity; Fellow's are depth and per-seat economics at team scale.
Wudpecker compared with Fellow
Fellow gives you both bot and botless capture chosen per meeting, unlimited AI notes at $15 a seat, agendas and one-on-one workflow, conference-room diarization, SOC 2 Type II, and regulated-industry controls Wudpecker does not attempt. Wudpecker's answers are EU servers and unlimited free in-person recording. Unless EU residency is mandatory, Fellow is the deeper product for comparable money.
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 Wudpecker if
European small businesses that want a straightforward recording notetaker on EU servers under GDPR, and anyone whose meetings are largely in person, since unlimited face-to-face recording is included even on the free plan.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Fellow | Wudpecker |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $7 per user per month billed annually (Team) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $19 per month (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 metered by bot-attended meetings per month, with unlimited in-person recording on every tier and a 20 percent annual discount. |
| 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 notetaker bot meetings per month, unlimited in-person recordings, three Ask AI questions per recording, 39-language transcription, note organisation, sharing, editable notes, and email notifications. |
| Free trial | No fixed-length trial is published; the free plan is the evaluation path but is capped at lifetime rather than monthly usage | Two weeks of premium features with no credit card required, alongside a permanent free tier |
| 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 small businesses that want a straightforward recording notetaker on EU servers under GDPR, and anyone whose meetings are largely in person, since unlimited face-to-face recording is included even on the free plan. |
| 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. Connect a calendar so the bot schedules itself, install the desktop or phone app if you want in-person capture, and you are running. There is nothing for IT to package unless your meeting platform administrator blocks external bots, in which case the online path may need whitelisting. |
| 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 configuration steps that repay effort are building a custom vocabulary list, which visibly improves transcript quality within a week, and choosing templates per meeting type so notes come out in a consistent shape. |
| Platforms | macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Web, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex | Desktop app, Phone app, Web, Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, Global Relay archiving for SEC and FINRA record-keeping | GDPR compliant as an EU company, No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification published |
| Founded | 2017 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Helsinki, Finland |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Venture-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.
Wudpecker
Strengths
- EU-based company with EU-hosted servers, so GDPR applies natively rather than through contractual extension by a US vendor.
- Unlimited in-person recording on every tier including free, which is the most generous free capability in this batch and unusual anywhere.
- The bot can attend meetings you cannot, which no local-capture competitor is able to do at any price.
- Custom vocabulary recognition genuinely improves transcript quality for teams with product names and jargon, and it is a feature most competitors skip.
Limitations
- No botless option for online meetings at all, so client-facing users who object to a visible vendor bot have no path within Wudpecker.
- Hard bot meeting caps at 10, 30, and 100 per month with no unlimited tier, which is the tightest ceiling structure in this batch.
- No SOC 2 and no ISO 27001; the security story is GDPR plus documented encryption, which will not satisfy a formal vendor questionnaire.
- Language coverage of 35 to 39 is narrow next to jamie's 99-plus or Circleback's 100-plus, and the company's own pages disagree on the number.
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.
Wudpecker
Freemium subscription metered by bot-attended meetings per month, with unlimited in-person recording on every tier and a 20 percent annual discount.
- Free$0
- Plus$19
- Pro$32
Wudpecker's value depends almost entirely on where your meetings happen. Model 20 meetings a week: about 80 a month. If those are video calls, you need Pro at $32 a month, and you are at 80 percent of a 100-meeting ceiling with nowhere to go if the month is busy. That is $384 a year for a plan you can outgrow, against Granola Business at $14 a seat or Fathom's unlimited recording with no meter at all, both of which handle the same volume without you counting. But if a meaningful share of those 80 are in person, the arithmetic inverts completely: in-person recording is unlimited and free, so a consultant doing three site visits a day may never pay anything. Between those poles, Plus at $19 for 30 bot meetings plus unlimited in-person is fair for a moderate European user who wants EU servers. Just count your meetings before you buy, because this is one of the few products here where the meter can actually bite.
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 profileWudpecker
Wudpecker is a small, honest, well-made European tool that knows exactly which two customers it is for. The first is a European buyer who wants a conventional recording notetaker without sending customer conversations to a US server, and who does not need SOC 2 to prove it. The second, and more interesting, is anyone whose meetings happen in a room rather than on a screen: unlimited free in-person recording is a genuinely unusual offer and it makes Wudpecker the cheapest serious option for field consultants and on-site salespeople by a wide margin. Against that, the constraints are real. There is no botless online path, so client-facing users who object to a visible bot are simply not the customer. The bot meeting ceiling tops out at 100 a month with nothing above it. Language coverage is thin, the integration set is three connectors and no API, and the company is running on a €330,000 pre-seed. Buy it for the geography or for the in-person capture. Do not buy it expecting a platform.
Read the full Wudpecker profileFellow profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; Wudpecker last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.