Bluedot

Name: Bluedot
Brand: Bluedot
Price: 0514 USD

Bot-free recording that keeps the video, with the clearest privacy policy in the category

Bluedot is a bot-free AI notetaker that records meetings through a Chrome extension or desktop app rather than joining as a participant, keeps the audio or video, and produces transcripts, templated summaries, action items, and AI chat across the archive; it is sold per user per month with no minute or meeting meter on paid plans and states plainly that customer data is never used to train AI models.

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Overview

Bluedot solves the problem that makes bot-free tools frustrating: they usually throw the recording away. Granola's desktop path stores no audio at all, which is excellent for privacy and useless the moment you want to replay how a client phrased an objection. Bluedot captures locally through a Chrome extension or a desktop app, so nothing appears in the participant list, and then keeps the media so you can play it back, clip a highlight, and comment on a specific moment. That combination of bot-free capture plus retained video is rare and it is the main reason to shortlist the product.

The company was founded in 2022 by Dima Eremin and Ruslan Halilov, is based across London and Dusseldorf, and raised about 560,000 euros in angel funding from backers including Daniel Gross and Google for Startups. It employs roughly twenty people and reports more than 1,500 customers. By the standards of this category that is tiny, and it is the single biggest risk in buying it: Bluedot is a real product with real customers and a balance sheet that would not survive a bad year.

What that small team has produced is unusually well judged. The security page states flatly that customer data is never used to train or improve AI models, that AI providers do not retain data after generation, that deletion is immediate with backups cleared within thirty days, and that the company holds SOC 2 Type II with annual third-party penetration testing. Most vendors in this category require you to read a data processing agreement to find out half of that, and several never answer it at all.

Pricing is per seat with no meter, which is the right structure, but the tiering is unusually aggressive about what it withholds. The free plan is five meetings for the lifetime of the account, not per month. The $14 Basic tier is audio only with a one-hour cap per recording. Video, unlimited recording length, and custom note templates all sit on the $20 Pro tier, and CRM and applicant tracking system integrations plus SSO sit at $32. If your reason for choosing Bluedot is that it keeps the video, Pro is your actual starting price.

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.

Not the right fit for

Anyone who needs to send a recorder to meetings they are not attending; capture is local and requires you present on a machine running the extension or app.
Buyers who want a meaningful free tier; five meetings for the lifetime of the account is a demo, not a plan, and it is the least generous free offer in this category.
Teams that want video on a budget; the $14 Basic tier is audio only with a one-hour cap, so the realistic entry price for the product's main advantage is $20 a seat.
Organisations that need a large vendor behind the contract; this is a twenty-person angel-funded company and procurement will notice.
Sales managers wanting scorecards, playbook adherence, and rep-level analytics; Bluedot clips and shares moments but does not score calls.

How it works

1
You install the Chrome extension for browser calls, principally Google Meet, or the desktop app for Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack. Both capture locally, so no bot joins the meeting and nobody in the room sees a vendor-named participant.
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Recording starts with a click rather than being scheduled by a calendar bot. In-person meetings and phone calls are handled by the same mechanism, and there is an Apple Watch surface for starting capture away from a screen.
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After the call Bluedot produces a transcript and a summary shaped by whichever template you chose. Templates cover the common jobs (question and answer capture, sales notes, customer check-in) and Pro allows custom ones, which is where most of the output quality difference lives.
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Everything lands in a shared team archive: searchable transcripts, shareable links, comments on specific moments, and clipped highlights. AI chat answers questions across multiple meetings. The Bluedot API and MCP connector push notes, transcripts, and action items into CRMs, applicant tracking systems, and anything else you can reach, with the CRM and ATS connectors themselves gated to the Business tier.

Feature breakdown

31 features in 5 modules

Bot-free capture

Local recording across browser, desktop, phone, and in person.

No bot in the participant list: Recording happens locally through the extension or desktop app, so no vendor-named participant appears to your client, candidate, or customer.
Chrome extension for browser calls: One-click capture for Google Meet and other browser-based calls, which is the path most Bluedot users start on.
Desktop apps: Mac and Windows apps handle Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack calls that do not run in the browser.
Phone calls and in-person meetings: The same capture model covers calls and face-to-face conversations rather than only video conferencing.
Apple Watch: Start capture from the wrist for conversations that begin away from a screen.
Video recording: Pro and above record video, not just audio. Bot-free capture that keeps the video is the combination almost nobody else offers.

Notes, templates, and search

Where the output quality difference between tiers actually sits.

Templated summaries: Prebuilt note shapes for common jobs including question and answer capture, sales notes, and customer check-ins rather than one generic summary format.
Custom note templates: Pro allows you to define your own output shape per meeting type, which is the single biggest reason to move off Basic.
Action item extraction: Commitments are pulled out of the conversation and carried into the automation layer rather than left in prose.
AI chat across meetings: Ask questions spanning multiple meetings rather than one call at a time, which turns the archive into something you revisit.
Searchable shared archive: Transcripts and summaries are searchable across the team, with unlimited storage on paid plans.
Highlights and clips: Clip an important moment and share it as a link rather than sending someone a full hour of recording.
Comments on key moments: Team members annotate specific points in a recording, which is the lightweight coaching mechanism in the product.

Automation and integrations

An API and MCP connector, with the ready-made connectors held at the top tier.

Bluedot API: A public API for syncing notes, transcripts, and action items into other systems.
MCP integration: Available from the $14 Basic tier, letting AI assistants read meeting context directly. Business adds organisation-wide MCP and webhooks.
Webhooks: Included from Basic for personal automation, with organisation-level webhooks on Business.
CRM and ATS integrations: Ready-made connectors to CRMs and applicant tracking systems are a Business-tier feature at $32 a seat; below that you wire it yourself through the API.
Slack, Notion, Zapier, and Make: Basic integrations are available from the free plan onward, covering routing notes into channels and documentation.
Zoom and Google Drive imports: Pro imports existing recordings for transcription; Business makes audio and video imports unlimited.

Privacy and data handling

The clearest published position of any vendor in this category.

No training on customer data: Bluedot states plainly that customer data is never used to train or improve AI models. This is a statement, not an opt-out you have to find.
No AI provider retention: Data is not stored, logged, or retained by the underlying AI providers after generation.
Immediate deletion: Deleted data is removed immediately, with backups cleared within thirty days, which is a specific published commitment rather than a vague policy.
AES-256 and TLS: Encryption at rest and in transit, with data stored in AWS under network isolation and least-privilege access.
SOC 2 Type II and GDPR: Independently audited controls for security, availability, and confidentiality, plus GDPR-compliant data processing practices.
Annual penetration testing: Third-party penetration testing every year with continuous monitoring across infrastructure, access, and anomalies.
Custom data retention: Configurable retention windows are a Business-tier feature, alongside SSO and SCIM.

Team and administration

Thin below Business, adequate at it.

Unlimited storage on paid plans: No storage meter, which distinguishes it from Krisp's 10 GB and Fireflies' storage minutes.
SSO and SCIM: Business-tier features at $32 a seat billed annually.
Advanced admin controls: Business adds workspace administration for organisations that need central oversight of who is capturing what.
Shareable links: Recordings and notes share by link with control over who can open them.
Flat rate option: Custom enterprise pricing is available on request for organisations that would rather not count seats.

Use cases

4 documented

Recruiter running candidate screens

A bot named after a software vendor joining a candidate interview sets exactly the wrong tone, but the hiring manager still wants to hear how the candidate answered.

Bluedot records locally with nothing visible to the candidate, keeps the video, and lets the recruiter clip the relevant two minutes to share with the hiring manager instead of a full hour.

Consultant handling confidential client work

Client agreements make a third-party participant in the call awkward to justify, but the engagement needs an accurate record.

Local capture with a published no-training guarantee and thirty-day backup deletion is something the consultant can actually put in front of a client's legal team.

Customer success team on Google Meet

Check-in calls all blur together and nobody can find the moment where a customer raised the issue that later became a churn risk.

Templated customer check-in notes plus AI chat across the archive surface the moment, and highlights make it shareable to the account team in seconds.

Small team wiring meetings into its own systems

The business runs on tools no notetaker integrates with natively, and copying action items by hand defeats the point.

The Bluedot API and MCP connector, available from the $14 tier, push notes and action items wherever they need to go without waiting for a native connector.

Pricing

from $0 (Free, 5 meetings lifetime), then $14 per user per month billed annually (Basic)

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.

Plan	Price	Includes
Free	$0 per user per month	5 meetings for the lifetime of the account Maximum 1 hour per recording Chrome extension plus desktop and mobile apps Basic integrations: Slack, Notion, Zapier, Make Bot-free capture Lifetime, not monthly. This is a demo allowance and should be read as one.
Basic	$14 per user per month billed annually ($18 monthly)	Unlimited meetings, audio only Maximum 1 hour per recording Unlimited storage Webhook access MCP integration No video and a one-hour cap. Cheap, but it withholds the feature most people come to Bluedot for.
Pro	$20 per user per month billed annually ($25 monthly)	Unlimited meetings with video Unlimited recording duration Custom note templates Zoom and Google Drive imports Everything in Basic The real starting price for the product as advertised. Bot-free capture with retained video lives here.
Business	$32 per user per month billed annually ($39 monthly)	CRM and applicant tracking system integrations SSO and SCIM Custom data retention Organisation-wide MCP and webhooks Unlimited audio and video imports, advanced admin controls

Add-ons

Flat rate plan (Custom): Enterprise pricing on request for organisations that prefer not to be billed per seat.

Billing notes

Annual billing saves roughly 20 percent on every paid tier: Basic is $18 monthly or $14 annually, Pro $25 or $20, Business $39 or $32.
There is no minute, meeting, or storage meter on paid plans, so the bill is genuinely fixed per seat.
The free plan's five meetings are lifetime rather than monthly, which is the least generous free structure in this category and should not be mistaken for a usable tier.
Basic's one-hour recording cap and audio-only restriction are the two limits that push most buyers to Pro; budget for $20 rather than $14.
CRM and ATS integrations sit on the $32 Business tier, so a recruiter who wants automatic writeback to their ATS is paying more than double the entry price.
Custom data retention is also a Business feature; below that you accept the vendor's defaults, which are documented as immediate deletion on request with backups cleared within thirty days.

Value assessment: 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.

Strengths & limitations

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.
An API plus an MCP connector from the $14 tier, which is more open than several competitors charging more.
Custom note templates on Pro produce genuinely better output than a generic summary, and clips and comments make specific moments shareable without sending an hour of video.
Coverage beyond the browser: Chrome extension, Mac and Windows desktop apps, mobile, Apple Watch, phone calls, and in-person meetings.

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.
No bot means no proxy attendance; you cannot capture a meeting you are not in.
No published headline language count, so multilingual buyers cannot compare it against Notta's 58 or Fireflies' 100-plus without testing their own language first.
No sales coaching layer: clips and comments are useful for review but there is no scoring, playbook adherence, or talk-time analytics.

Head-to-head comparisons

6 alternatives

Bluedot vs Granola

from $0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business)

Both are bot-free and both are aimed at people who take client calls. Granola costs $14, writes better notes because it enhances what you type, and stores no desktop recording at all. Bluedot costs $20 on Pro and keeps the video so you can replay and clip a moment. Choose Granola if the writing is the point and you never want the media to exist; choose Bluedot if you need to be able to hear it again.

Full Bluedot vs Granola comparison

Bluedot vs Krisp

from $8 per user per month billed annually (Core), $16 month to month

Both capture locally and keep recordings. Krisp is $8 a seat, adds noise cancellation and accent conversion, and caps storage at 10 GB on its entry tier. Bluedot is $20 on Pro with unlimited storage, custom templates, and clearly better notes and sharing. Krisp for the lowest price and the audio layer; Bluedot for better output, unlimited storage, and a published no-training guarantee.

Full Bluedot vs Krisp comparison

Bluedot vs Circleback

from $20.83 per user per month (Individual, billed annually)

Both are bot-free premium notetakers at similar prices, roughly $20 against $21 to $25. Circleback wins on note quality, 100-plus languages, and the depth of its automation layer. Bluedot wins by keeping the video and letting you clip and comment on moments. Circleback for multilingual teams building workflows; Bluedot for recruiters and consultants who need playback.

Full Bluedot vs Circleback comparison

Bluedot vs Fathom

from $0 (Free plan, unlimited recording and transcription)

Fathom records video too and has a genuinely generous free tier, but it does it with a bot in the participant list. Bluedot has almost no free tier and a much smaller company behind it, but nothing appears in your client's call. If the bot is acceptable, Fathom is the better value; if it is not, Bluedot is the closest thing to Fathom's capability without one.

Full Bluedot vs Fathom comparison

Bluedot vs tl;dv

from EUR 0 (Free), then EUR 216 per seat per year for Pro (EUR 18 per month equivalent; EUR 29 billed monthly)

tl;dv is the bot-based recorded-call platform for revenue teams, with reels, coaching, and CRM playbooks at a comparable seat price. Bluedot has no coaching layer and no bot. A sales floor that wants call review and scoring should take tl;dv; a recruiter or consultant who needs recordings without a visible bot should take Bluedot.

Full Bluedot vs tl;dv comparison

Bluedot vs Supernormal

from $0 (Free), then $20 per month (Team)

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.

Full Bluedot vs Supernormal comparison

Implementation & onboarding

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.
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.
Onboarding: Entirely self-serve through Business. The free plan's five lifetime meetings mean your evaluation window is measured in meetings rather than days, so plan which five calls you test on.
Migration notes: Zoom and Google Drive imports on Pro let you backfill from existing recordings, and Business makes those imports unlimited. There is no direct importer from another notetaker's archive. Leaving is straightforward because the API exists on paid tiers and deleted data is documented as removed immediately with backups cleared within thirty days.

Platform, API & security

Platforms: Chrome extensionmacOS desktop appWindows desktop appiOS and AndroidApple WatchWeb
API: A public Bluedot API plus an MCP connector available from the Basic tier, with organisation-wide MCP and webhooks on Business.
Compliance: SOC 2 Type II (independently audited)GDPR-compliant data processing controls
Data residency: Data is stored in AWS with network isolation; no self-serve regional residency selection is advertised. The company operates from London and Dusseldorf.
SSO: SSO and SCIM are Business-tier features at $32 per user per month billed annually.
Security notes: AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS in transit, least-privilege production access that is restricted, logged, and monitored, role-based access controls with audit trails, annual third-party penetration testing, and Cyber Liability and Tech E&O insurance. The vendor states customer data is never used to train or improve AI models, that AI providers do not store or retain data after generation, and that deleted data is removed immediately with backups cleared within thirty days.

Support & resources

Channels: Email supportIn-app chat
Documentation: Product documentation and help material on bluedothq.com covering the extension, desktop apps, templates, API, and MCP.
Community: Small; more than 1,500 reported customers but no significant official user forum.

Company

Founded: 2022
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom, with operations in Dusseldorf, Germany
Ownership: Angel-funded
Founders: Dima Eremin, Ruslan Halilov
Employees: Approximately 21 (2026)
Funding: Approximately 560,000 euros raised in angel investment, with backers including Daniel Gross, Greg Jakacki, Tomas James, Bridget Harris, and Google for Startups.

Funding history

Round	Amount	Year	Notes
Angel	Approximately 560,000 euros	2024	Angel round including Daniel Gross and Google for Startups; the company has not announced an institutional round.

Timeline

2022Founded by Dima Eremin and Ruslan Halilov as a Chrome extension for recording Google Meet calls without a bot.
2024Raises roughly 560,000 euros in angel funding from backers including Daniel Gross and Google for Startups, positioning around meeting privacy.
2025Expands beyond the browser with Mac and Windows desktop apps covering Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack, plus mobile and in-person capture.
2026Adds the Bluedot API and MCP connector, custom note templates on Pro, and publishes an explicit no-training and immediate-deletion policy alongside SOC 2 Type II.

Integrations

Google Meet via the Chrome extension
Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Slack via the desktop apps
Slack
Notion
Zapier and Make
CRM and applicant tracking system connectors (Business tier)
Zoom and Google Drive imports (Pro and above)
Bluedot API and MCP connector
Webhooks (personal on Basic, organisation-wide on Business)

Frequently asked questions

10 questions

What is Bluedot?

Bluedot is a bot-free AI notetaker. It records meetings locally through a Chrome extension or a Mac or Windows desktop app rather than joining as a participant, keeps the audio or video, and produces transcripts, templated summaries, action items, clips, and AI chat across your meeting archive. It also covers phone calls and in-person conversations.

How much does Bluedot cost?

The free plan gives five meetings for the lifetime of the account with a one-hour cap. Basic is $14 per user per month billed annually ($18 monthly) for unlimited audio-only meetings, still capped at one hour each. Pro is $20 annually ($25 monthly) and adds video, unlimited recording length, and custom templates. Business is $32 annually ($39 monthly) and adds CRM and ATS integrations, SSO and SCIM, and custom data retention.

How is Bluedot metered, and what would 20 meetings a week cost?

It is metered per user only. There is no minute meter, no meeting count, and no storage cap on paid plans. Someone in 20 meetings a week pays the same as someone in two: $20 per seat per month billed annually on Pro, about $240 a year. The only limits that bite are on the cheaper tiers, where Basic restricts you to audio and one hour per recording, and on the free plan, whose five meetings are lifetime rather than monthly.

Does Bluedot put a bot in my meetings?

No, and this is the point of the product. Capture happens locally in the browser or the desktop app, so no participant named after the vendor appears in the room and your client, candidate, or customer sees nothing. The tradeoff is the same as with Granola, Krisp, and Supernormal: you have to be present on a device running Bluedot, and there is no way to send it to a meeting you are skipping.

Does Bluedot keep audio and video, and for how long?

Yes, and this is what separates it from most bot-free tools. Pro and Business record video as well as audio, with unlimited recording length and unlimited storage, so you can replay a call, clip a moment, and comment on it. Custom retention windows are a Business feature. Deleted data is documented as removed immediately, with backups cleared within thirty days, which is a more specific commitment than most vendors publish.

Does Bluedot train its AI on my recordings?

No. The security page states directly that customer data is never used to train or improve AI models, and that data is not stored, logged, or retained by the underlying AI providers after generation. That is a plain published statement rather than an opt-out you have to hunt for or a term you have to negotiate into a data processing agreement, and it is the clearest position any vendor in this category takes.

How does Bluedot handle consent in two-party recording jurisdictions?

Because there is no bot, nothing on screen tells the other side that the call is being recorded, which makes your disclosure obligation greater rather than smaller. In two-party consent states such as California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington, and under GDPR in the EU, you must announce that you are recording and get agreement before you start. Bluedot's strong data-handling posture helps you answer the follow-up questions a client or candidate asks after you disclose it, but it does not replace the disclosure.

Can Bluedot write to my CRM or applicant tracking system?

Native CRM and ATS connectors are a Business-tier feature at $32 per user per month billed annually. Below that you can still do it, but through the Bluedot API, webhooks, MCP, or Zapier and Make, which are available from the $14 Basic tier. For a recruiter whose whole reason for buying is automatic ATS writeback, budget for Business rather than Pro.

Is Bluedot safe to depend on given how small the company is?

That is the right question to ask. Bluedot is roughly twenty people with about 560,000 euros of angel funding and more than 1,500 reported customers, which is a fraction of the scale of Otter, Fireflies, or Granola. The product is credible and independently audited, but a company this size can be acquired, repriced, or wound down more easily than a venture-backed one. Use the API to keep your own copies of transcripts if the archive matters to you long term.

Why would I pay $20 for Bluedot instead of $14 for Granola?

Because Granola's desktop path stores no recording at all. If you only ever need the notes, Granola is cheaper, writes better prose, and comes from a far larger company. If you need to hear the exact phrasing again, share a two-minute clip with a hiring manager, or comment on a specific moment for a colleague, Granola structurally cannot do it and Bluedot can. That capability is the entire premium.

Editorial verdict

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.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.