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Comparison

Oatmeal vs Fathom

Fathom is a generous cloud notetaker with CRM sync, now with a bot-free option in beta on Mac. Oatmeal skips the cloud entirely and keeps every meeting on your Mac.

Coming soon for MacFree for Apple silicon Macs · macOS 15 or later

At a glance

Oatmeal and Fathom side by side
OatmealFathom
Bot in the callNoneA bot, or bot-free capture in beta on Mac
Where your meetings end upOn your MacIn your Fathom account, with unlimited recording storage
When you see notesAfter the meetingSummaries right after the call
Who said whatLabelled Me and System audio; no speaker namesSpeaker attribution
LanguagesEnglishSeveral languages, plus translation
Works with other appsNo connections; export to MarkdownHubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, Asana, Zapier and more
PriceFree, coming soonFree plan with unlimited recordings, and paid plans

Choose Oatmeal if

  • You want meetings recorded and summarised without anything going to a server.
  • You want no bot and no account, ever.
  • You want suggested action items to wait for your confirmation.

Choose Fathom if

  • You run sales or customer calls and want notes written into your CRM.
  • You want speaker names, more languages, or recordings available from anywhere.

Fathom has a strong free plan and deep sales tooling. Oatmeal has a narrower aim: a private record of your meetings that never leaves your Mac.

Fathom: generous, connected, in the cloud

Fathom records with a bot or, in a Mac beta, without one. Recordings and summaries live in your Fathom account with unlimited storage on every plan. Paid plans add CRM syncing into HubSpot and Salesforce, coaching tools and team features.

Oatmeal: everything on your Mac

Oatmeal records your microphone and your Mac’s audio without joining the call, then writes the transcript and summary on your Mac after the meeting, with models you add yourself. Suggested decisions wait for your confirmation. It’s English only, has no integrations and runs only on Apple silicon Macs.

The short version

For sales teams who live in a CRM, Fathom fits. If you want meeting notes with no cloud involved, choose Oatmeal.

Sources

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Questions

Is Fathom bot-free now?

It offers a choice. Bot-free capture is a beta feature on Mac; the bot is still available.

Is Oatmeal free like Fathom’s free plan?

Oatmeal will be free with no plans or limits to upgrade from. It isn’t available yet.

No bot

Oatmeal records your microphone and the sound your Mac plays. Nothing joins the meeting, nobody gets a notetaker invite, and it works with whatever call app you use.

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Private summaries

Oatmeal turns the transcript into an overview, follow-ups and a timeline without sending a word anywhere. Every part points back to the moment it came from, so you can check it.

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Decisions and action items

Oatmeal can suggest what was decided and who said they’d do what. Each suggestion shows when it was said, and it only counts once you confirm it.

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Oatmeal vs Granola

Neither puts a bot in your call. The difference is where your audio goes. Granola sends it to a transcription service as you talk; Oatmeal keeps everything on your Mac.

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Oatmeal vs Otter.ai

Otter is a cloud notetaker with live captions and a bot that can join your calls. Oatmeal is a private Mac app that records without a bot and does the work afterwards, on your Mac.

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Oatmeal vs Fireflies.ai

Fireflies is built for teams that want meetings flowing into their CRM and workspace. Oatmeal is built for people who want their meetings to stay on their own Mac.

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Oatmeal is almost here

Free for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later. Coming soon.

Coming soon for Mac