Best European AI Meeting Assistants (2026)

Best European AI Meeting Assistants

An AI meeting assistant hears everything that is said in a meeting, including the things nobody wrote down on purpose: the price that was agreed, the candidate who was discussed, the customer who was criticised.

These European alternatives to Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom and Read.ai come from companies established in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Estonia, Romania and Switzerland, and they differ most on one question that the marketing pages rarely answer: the recording may sit in Europe, but where does the transcript go for the AI summary?

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13 European AI Meeting Assistants

Happy Scribe

AI notetaker for Zoom, Meet and Teams from an Irish transcription company, 150+ languages

#1 of 16 in this category
Ireland Free plan; Basic €17, Pro €29, Business €89 per month; Enterprise on request
AI notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams150+ languages, optional human transcriptsNotes and transcripts via API and MCP server

Jamie

German meeting notes that need no bot in the call, with production data in EU data centres and a free plan priced in euros

Germany Free 10 notes / Plus €21, Pro €39, Team €33 per month
Production data in EU data centres on Google CloudApps for Mac, Windows and iPhone, plus webNo training on customer data, stated in the privacy policy

Seedext

Neuilly-sur-Seine meeting summaries hosted only on Microsoft Azure France, with AES-256 at rest and nothing transferred outside the EU

France No public pricing, demo on request
Data hosted exclusively in France, per the privacy policyTeams, Zoom, Meet, Webex, phone and in-person meetingsSalesforce integration and a mobile app

Amber Notes

Meeting notetaker from the Amsterdam transcription company Amberscript, with data kept in Europe and ISO 27001 and 9001 certification

Netherlands Not readable on the vendor pages (JavaScript only)
Amberscript states data is never stored outside EuropeISO 27001 and ISO 9001 stated on the privacy pageTranscripts not used to train language models

Recapro

French meeting reports processed in Vendee and Paris data centres, or on a physical air-gapped server on your own premises

France Free 300 minutes / €24.90 solo, €22.90 per user team
Sovereign cloud in France or on-premise server20 report formats in 70 languages, works offlineTLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest

Leexi

Brussels notetaker for sales and customer teams that runs its AI on Mistral and EU-region Azure, with an optional French storage add-on

Belgium $12, $23 or $39 per month, no free plan
AWS servers in Europe, Mistral AI and Azure OpenAI in EU regionsCRM, ATS and telephony integrationsScaleway storage add-on at $5 a month

Noota

Toulouse meeting recorder on Google Cloud with data centres in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, aimed at recruiters and sales

France Not readable on the vendor pages
Google Cloud in France, Belgium and the NetherlandsAES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2 and 1.3 in transitATS and CRM plugins, phone and email agents

Meeting Metrics

St. Gallen meeting protocols that transcribe Swiss German, with audio processed on servers in Switzerland and only text sent to language models

Switzerland CHF 29 or CHF 49 per month, annual billing
Audio and video stay on servers in St. GallenTranscription in 57 languages including Swiss GermanNo meeting bot, desktop and mobile recording

Wudpecker

Helsinki notetaker with user-defined templates and storage on AWS in Frankfurt and Stockholm, summarised through the OpenAI API

Finland Free 10 meetings / $19 or $32 per month
AWS eu-central-1 and eu-north-1 named in the privacy policyZoom, Google Meet and Microsoft TeamsUnlimited recording in desktop and phone apps

tl;dv

Aachen recorder with a free plan, EEA hosting on Google Cloud, Hetzner and Wasabi, and a US option for AI processing that the user can select

Germany Free forever plan / paid prices not readable on the vendor pages
Google Cloud and Wasabi in Germany, Hetzner in Germany and FinlandZoom, Google Meet and Microsoft TeamsAnthropic and Google Vertex among the AI subprocessors

MeetGeek

Romanian notetaker with a separate EU instance contracted through a Romanian company, next to a US instance with its own US entity

Romania Free 3 hours / Pro $15.99, Business $27 per user per month
EU instance stores data in the EU under Romanian lawThe instance you sign up to decides company, data location and lawFree plan with 3 hours of transcription a month

Superscribe

Tallinn call-notes app for iPhone that records on its own number, but names no company on its terms and stores recordings on AWS S3 with no region stated

Estonia Solo €49, Business Voice €99 per seat, Sales €179 per seat per month
Call and meeting notes with no meeting botEstonian and English, CRM sync with PipedriveApp Store seller is Haugas Development OÜ, Tallinn

Notuly

Dutch AI notetaker for in-person and online meetings, no bot, own AI model on servers in Amsterdam

#13 of 16 in this category
Netherlands Free (3 conversations a month); Pro €9.99 and Team €10.99 per user a month with yearly billing, monthly billing costs more
Phone app records meetings around the table, no laptop or bot neededDesktop app records Teams, Zoom and Google Meet without a meeting botAudio deleted within a minute of processing, report sent by emailAutomatic conversation type detection, templates, 90+ languages

MediSync Dictate

Desktop dictation app from Cologne that also writes meeting notes beside the call, with no bot joining

#14 of 16 in this category
Germany Free plan; Pro €10 per user a month plus VAT (as of November 2026); Enterprise on request
Dictation into any Windows or macOS program, recognised on the computer itselfNotes for Teams, Zoom, Webex, Slack and Google Meet calls from the computer's own audio, no botTranscript with up to six speakers and a draft summary, processed in Frankfurt, notes stored encrypted on the computer without audio

Thalassa Assistant

Budapest desktop app that suggests sourced answers live in a conversation, with no bot, and writes a debrief afterwards

#15 of 16 in this category
Hungary Free trial in the app; Standard €29.90, Professional €59.90, Premium €99.90 a month excluding VAT (as of November 2026); Enterprise on request
Drafts answers to detected questions from the user's own documents, with document and page citedNo meeting bot, window hidden from screen sharing where the system allowsBriefing before and debrief with open points and commitments after (Professional plan and up)

Klang

Helsingborg transcription and meeting assistant with a free plan, servers in France and an on-premise option

#16 of 16 in this category
Sweden Free plan; Pro €16 and Business €30 per person a month excluding VAT (as of November 2026); Enterprise on quote
Transcripts with speaker identification, summaries and chat over past conversationsMeeting assistant, mobile app and Mac desktop app, MCP access for AI assistantsServers in France at Scaleway; private cloud and own encryption keys on Enterprise

Key takeaways

  • Jamie ranks #1 among the European AI meeting assistants in this directory, because Jamie is the only one that combines a German company with a verifiable commercial register entry, production data in EU data centres stated in its privacy policy, no bot in the call, euro prices and a free plan.
  • The recording and the AI summary are two separate data flows. Wudpecker summarises through the OpenAI API, tl;dv lists Anthropic and Google Vertex and lets the user select US processing for AI features, and Meeting Metrics sends text to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI while keeping audio in Switzerland.
  • Only Leexi, Recapro and Seedext describe an AI step that stays in Europe: Leexi names Mistral AI and Azure OpenAI in EU regions, Recapro processes in France or on a server at the customer, and Seedext hosts everything on Azure France.
  • Leexi is a Belgian company, not a French one: its legal notice gives an address in Brussels and a Belgian VAT number. Comparison pages that call it French and say the data is 100% in France are not supported by its own privacy policy, which says AWS servers in Europe.
  • Seedext, Noota and Amber Notes publish no price that could be read on their own pages, which means a buyer has to ask before comparing cost.
  • MeetGeek runs two instances. The EU instance is contracted with a Romanian company under Romanian law, and the US instance with a Delaware company, so the sign-up route decides which of the two applies.

European AI meeting assistant software is the software that records or captures a meeting, transcribes it and writes the summary and action items, built by a company established in Europe, so that what was said in the meeting sits under European jurisdiction rather than American. It covers two different products that people ask for with the same words: notetakers that join the call as a bot, and tools that capture audio on the device with nobody extra in the meeting.

European AI meeting assistants compared

European AI meeting assistants compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolEstablishedEntry priceBest for
#1 Happy Scribe Ireland Free plan; Basic €17/month (€8.50 billed annually), Pro €29 (€19 annually), Business €89 (€59 annually); extra credits €0.20/min; human proofreading from €1.75/min on lower plans; Enterprise on request. Prices as recorded from the pricing page on 16 October 2026; the page returned a bot challenge on 27 October, so not re-checked, and the pricing page does not separate the Notetaker from the transcription credits. Teams that also need transcripts and subtitles
#2 Jamie Germany Free €0 (10 AI notes a month, 30-minute meetings) / Plus €21, Team €33, Pro €39 per month billed annually, Enterprise on request Teams that want meeting notes without a bot in the call, from a German company with EU data centres
#3 Seedext France null French and Francophone organisations that need everything hosted in France
#4 Amber Notes Netherlands null Organisations that already use Amberscript for transcription and want meeting notes from the same company
#5 Recapro France Cloud Starter free (300 minutes in total) / Solo €24.90, Team €22.90 per user (5+ users), Tailored €32.90 per user (3+ users) per month / Fortress €4,990 to €19,990 hardware plus €19.90 per seat per month Regulated firms that want the option of a physical server on their own premises
#6 Leexi Belgium Starter $12, AI-Meeting $23, Business $39 per month (struck-through list prices $15, $29, $49), Enterprise on request; add-ons Governance $5, Coach $16, Scaleway storage $5 Sales and customer teams that want the AI step on Mistral and EU-region Azure
#7 Noota France null Recruiters and sales teams that want ATS and CRM plugins on a French platform
#8 Meeting Metrics Switzerland Basic CHF 29, Pro CHF 49 per month billed annually (the terms list CHF 59 and CHF 99 on monthly billing), Enterprise on request Swiss and German-speaking organisations with Swiss German meetings and a preference for Swiss servers
#9 Wudpecker Finland Free $0 (10 bot meetings a month) / Plus $19, Pro $32 per month, 20% off yearly Small teams that want templates and a named AWS region in Europe
#10 tl;dv Germany Free forever plan with unlimited recordings and transcripts / paid plan prices not readable on the vendor pages Teams that want a free recorder with unlimited recordings and EEA hosting
#11 MeetGeek Romania Free (3 hours a month) / Pro $15.99, Business $27 per user per month, Enterprise on request, 30% off for startups, non-profits and education Teams that want a free plan and are willing to pick the EU instance at sign-up
#12 Superscribe Estonia Solo €49 (600 minutes), Business Voice €99 per seat (1,200 pooled minutes), Sales €179 per seat (2,500 pooled minutes) per month Sales and recruiting teams that live on the phone and accept an unverified company and an unnamed storage region
#13 Notuly Netherlands Starter is free: 3 conversations per month, 60 minutes per recording. Pro is €9.99 per user per month (€119.88 per year, yearly billing 26% cheaper), including VAT. Team is €10.99 per licence per month (€131.88 per user per year), from 2 users, excluding VAT, with a 14-day free trial. Enterprise from 50 users on request. No lock-in, cancel any month. Dutch teams that meet around the table as well as online, and want a notetaker without a bot that holds no data once the report is sent
#14 MediSync Dictate Germany Dictate Free is €0 a month. Dictate Pro is €10 per user a month, plus VAT, as shown on the pricing page (as of November 2026); the page has a monthly/yearly switch and we could not tell which period the €10 belongs to. Enterprise on request. Professionals who mostly dictate and want meeting notes from the same desktop app, without a bot in the call
#15 Thalassa Assistant Hungary Standard €29.90 a month (30 conversation hours), Professional €59.90 (75 hours, adds briefing and debriefing), Premium €99.90 (130 hours); business prices exclude VAT, annual billing is cheaper, as shown on the pricing page (as of November 2026). Enterprise on request; live translation costs €0.23 a minute extra. Professionals in sales, advisory or interviews who want sourced answer suggestions during a live conversation and a debrief afterwards, with no bot in the call
#16 Klang Sweden Free is €0 with 30 days of history; Pro is €16 per person a month (7-day free trial) and Business €30 per person a month, both excluding VAT, as shown on the pricing page (as of November 2026). The page offers a monthly/yearly switch with up to 16% saved on yearly billing. Enterprise on quote. Organisations that want transcripts, summaries and searchable conversations under Swedish law, with a free plan and enterprise options

Every European AI meeting assistant reviewed

#1 Happy Scribe

Dublin, Ireland Founded 2017 Free plan; Basic €17/month (€8.50 billed annually), Pro €29 (€19 annually), Business €89 (€59 annually); extra credits €0.20/min; human proofreading from €1.75/min on lower plans; Enterprise on request. Prices as recorded from the pricing page on 16 October 2026; the page returned a bot challenge on 27 October, so not re-checked, and the pricing page does not separate the Notetaker from the transcription credits. Free plan

Best for: Teams that also need transcripts and subtitles

  • Operating company. Happy Scribe Limited (company number 604917, VAT IE3502234EH)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Ireland)
  • Where the data sits. EU data centre stated on the security page (checked 16 Oct); privacy policy says content may go to sub-processors outside the EEA under SCCs or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and AI features use OpenAI and Anthropic under enterprise API agreements
  • Independent checks. SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance stated by the vendor (security page, checked 16 Oct; vendor statement in the request)
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom

Happy Scribe is a transcription company that added a meeting notetaker, and that origin shows. The AI Notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls, records them and sends notes, decisions and next steps afterwards.

The contracting entity is Happy Scribe Limited in Dublin, the terms are governed by Irish law, and the company says it was founded in 2017. Everything the notetaker produces ends up in the same workspace as uploaded files, so a call can become a transcript, a translation or a subtitle track.

Where it differs from the other tools on this page is breadth of language and output formats. It states 150+ languages, offers human-made transcripts for recordings where an error is costly, and exports to DOCX, PDF, SRT and VTT.

It also lists an API and an MCP server, so notes can be pulled into other tools. Security statements are SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance, with an EU data centre named on its security page. These are vendor statements, and we have not seen the audit report.

The weaker side is focus. Jamie, Leexi and Recapro are built around the meeting itself, with templates, coaching or on-premise options, while Happy Scribe treats the notetaker as one product beside transcription and subtitles.

The privacy policy names OpenAI and Anthropic for AI features and allows sub-processors outside the EEA under standard contractual clauses, so the summary step is not purely European. The pricing page is credit-based and does not price the notetaker separately, so cost per meeting is hard to predict.

What Happy Scribe does well

  • Irish contracting entity, Irish law and courts, EU data centre stated
  • 150+ languages across transcripts and notes
  • Human-made transcripts available when AI accuracy is not enough
  • Subtitles, translation and export formats beyond meeting notes
  • Free plan plus published euro prices

Where Happy Scribe falls short

  • Notetaker is one feature of a transcription platform, not the core product
  • AI features use OpenAI and Anthropic, and non-EEA sub-processors are allowed
  • Pricing is credit-based and does not isolate the notetaker cost
  • Enterprise pricing and the SOC 2 report are only available on request

Standout feature. It is the only tool here that turns the same call into notes, a human-checked transcript and subtitles in 150+ languages.

#2 Jamie

Rösrath, Germany Free €0 (10 AI notes a month, 30-minute meetings) / Plus €21, Team €33, Pro €39 per month billed annually, Enterprise on request Free plan, not time-limited

Best for: Teams that want meeting notes without a bot in the call, from a German company with EU data centres

  • Operating company. wespond UG (haftungsbeschränkt), HRB 100335 Amtsgericht Köln
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. European Union: the privacy policy states production data is stored in data centres in the European Union, on Google Cloud Platform, with PlanetScale, Cloudflare, Modal Labs and OneSignal as further subprocessors
  • Independent checks. No certification published; encrypted in transit and at rest, no training on customer data
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom

Jamie is the only tool in this category that combines a verifiable German company, a statement of EU production data, a free plan and prices in euros. The operating company is wespond UG (haftungsbeschränkt), registered at the Cologne district court under HRB 100335 with its office at Alte Kölner Straße 25a, 51503 Rösrath. The terms put the contract under German law with exclusive jurisdiction at the company's place of business.

The privacy policy states that production data is stored in data centres in the European Union. It names Google Cloud Platform, PlanetScale, Cloudflare, Modal Labs and OneSignal (Netherlands) among its subprocessors, each with EU processing, and refers to a full list in Annex 2 of the data processing agreement. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and the policy says personal data is not used to develop or train AI models.

The product captures audio on the device and is available for Mac, Windows and iPhone, plus web. Pricing is shown in euros: free with 10 AI notes a month and a 30-minute meeting limit, Plus at €21, Team at €33 and Pro at €39 a month billed annually, with 17% off against monthly billing.

What Jamie does well

  • German GmbH-type company with a commercial register entry and address
  • Production data stated to be in EU data centres
  • No bot joins the call; audio is captured on the device
  • Free plan that is not time-limited, and prices in euros
  • Privacy policy states no use of personal data for training AI models

Where Jamie falls short

  • Legal form is an UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a small-capital German company
  • Runs on Google Cloud and US-based subprocessors, with EU processing stated
  • Free plan is limited to 10 AI notes and 30-minute meetings
  • No security certification published on the pages that were read
  • The Team plan costs less than Pro, which the pricing page does not explain

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that gives a German entity, EU production data, no bot and euro prices on the same set of pages.

#3 Seedext

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Demo on request, no public price list found

Best for: French and Francophone organisations that need everything hosted in France

  • Operating company. Seedext SAS, RCS Nanterre 913 143 632
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. France: the privacy policy states all data is hosted exclusively in France by Microsoft Azure France, with no transfer outside the European Union
  • Independent checks. No certification published; AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Microsoft Copilot in Teams

Seedext makes the strongest hosting statement in the category. The privacy policy says all data is hosted exclusively in France by Microsoft Azure France, with AES-256 encryption for stored data, TLS 1.3 on all network communication, and no transfer outside the European Union. Personal data is kept while the account is active and for a maximum of 6 months afterwards.

The publisher is Seedext SAS at 18 rue des Graviers, 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine, registered at RCS Nanterre under 913 143 632 with share capital of €1,342.60 and VAT number FR73913143632. The legal notice says the website is hosted by Webflow, Inc. in San Francisco; the policy treats the application on app.seedext.com separately.

The product summarises meetings from Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, Webex, phone calls and in-person meetings, has a mobile app and a Salesforce integration, and is sold to teams through a demo rather than a public price list. The calendar data it reads is limited to URL and date, and the policy says no event title, description, participants or attachments are collected.

What Seedext does well

  • All data hosted exclusively in France, stated in the privacy policy
  • AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit
  • Calendar access limited to URL and date
  • French SAS with RCS number, capital and VAT number in the legal notice
  • Retention ends 6 months after the account closes

Where Seedext falls short

  • No public prices, so cost cannot be compared before a demo
  • The cloud provider is Microsoft, a US company, in its France region
  • The marketing website is hosted on Webflow in the United States
  • No free plan found
  • No security certification published on the pages that were read

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category whose privacy policy says all data is hosted exclusively in one named European country.

#4 Amber Notes

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Best for: Organisations that already use Amberscript for transcription and want meeting notes from the same company

  • Operating company. Amberscript Global B.V., KvK 81461887
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
  • Where the data sits. Europe: Amberscript's privacy policy states "Your data is never stored in locations outside of Europe", without naming a country or provider
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 stated on the privacy page
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Read.ai

Amber Notes comes from Amberscript, an Amsterdam transcription company, and inherits its legal footing. The operator of amberscript.com is Amberscript Global B.V., KvK 81461887, at Herengracht 477, 1017 BS Amsterdam, with a second entity, Amberscript GmbH, in Berlin under HRB 278874.

The privacy policy says "Your data is never stored in locations outside of Europe" and that uploaded audio and generated transcripts are never used to train the language models in use. It states ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certification and encryption in motion and at rest. It also says third parties are used to transcribe audio, with data processing agreements and NDAs signed.

The Amber Notes site is built with JavaScript and its pricing, platform and hosting detail could not be read from the vendor's own pages, so none is claimed here. What can be said is limited to the company and the Amberscript privacy policy.

What Amber Notes does well

  • Dutch B.V. with a KvK number and a published Amsterdam address
  • Data stated never to be stored outside Europe
  • ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 stated by the vendor
  • Audio and transcripts not used for training language models
  • Built by a company whose core business is transcription

Where Amber Notes falls short

  • No country or cloud provider named for the storage
  • Pricing could not be read on the vendor's own pages
  • Speech-to-text uses third-party processors
  • The privacy policy read covers Amberscript generally, not Amber Notes by name
  • Younger product than the transcription service behind it

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that comes with ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 stated by a Dutch transcription company.

#5 Recapro

Essarts-en-Bocage, France Cloud Starter free (300 minutes in total) / Solo €24.90, Team €22.90 per user (5+ users), Tailored €32.90 per user (3+ users) per month / Fortress €4,990 to €19,990 hardware plus €19.90 per seat per month Free Starter plan with 300 minutes in total

Best for: Regulated firms that want the option of a physical server on their own premises

  • Operating company. NOBULLSHIT CONSEIL SAS, RCS La Roche-sur-Yon 989 598 727
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. France: French data centres in Vendée and Paris, or an air-gapped server on the customer's premises
  • Independent checks. No certification published; TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest, no data used for training
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Microsoft Teams Premium

Recapro is the only tool here that sells a meeting assistant as hardware. Its Fortress option is a physical server installed at the customer, air-gapped with no internet egress, priced at €4,990 to €19,990 for the hardware plus €19.90 per seat per month. The vendor names legal, medical, defence and finance as the intended sectors.

The cloud option is hosted in French data centres in Vendée and Paris, with TLS 1.3 in transit and AES-256 at rest, and the site states zero data retention for training. The company is NOBULLSHIT CONSEIL, a SAS with €1,000 share capital, registered at RCS La Roche-sur-Yon under 989 598 727 at 11 avenue de la Promenade, 85140 Essarts-en-Bocage.

The product produces reports in 20 formats in 70 languages, works offline, and runs on iOS, Android, Web, macOS and Windows. Pricing is published in euros: a free Starter plan with 300 minutes in total, Solo at €24.90, Team at €22.90 per user from five users and Tailored at €32.90 per user from three.

What Recapro does well

  • On-premise air-gapped server available for regulated sectors
  • Cloud hosted in named French data centres in Vendée and Paris
  • Prices in euros are published for every tier
  • Works offline and on five platforms
  • Zero data retention for training stated

Where Recapro falls short

  • Small company with €1,000 share capital
  • The free plan is 300 minutes in total, not a monthly allowance
  • The Fortress hardware costs up to €19,990 before seat fees
  • No certification published on the pages that were read
  • Hosting statements come from the marketing site, not from a separate security page

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that can be delivered as a server on the customer's own premises.

#6 Leexi

Brussels, Belgium Starter $12, AI-Meeting $23, Business $39 per month (struck-through list prices $15, $29, $49), Enterprise on request; add-ons Governance $5, Coach $16, Scaleway storage $5 No free plan, free trials on the paid tiers

Best for: Sales and customer teams that want the AI step on Mistral and EU-region Azure

  • Operating company. LEEXI, VAT BE 0782 527 110
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Belgium)
  • Where the data sits. Europe: the privacy policy states data is hosted on AWS servers located in Europe, with no country named; a Scaleway storage add-on is sold separately
  • Independent checks. No certification found on the pages that were read
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Gong, Fireflies, Otter.ai

Leexi is a Belgian company despite the French associations that surround it. Its legal notice gives LEEXI at 2 Avenue Herrmann Debroux, 1160 Brussels, with VAT number BE 0782 527 110 and share capital of €974,000. The privacy policy states that data is hosted on AWS servers located in Europe and does not name a country.

Its subprocessor list is the most explicit in the category about the AI step: Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in EU regions, Mistral AI, and the speech-to-text providers Gladia, ElevenLabs and Microsoft Azure Speech. It also lists Pipedrive and Google Sheets, both US-based, for CRM and spreadsheet work.

Pricing is listed in US dollars: Starter at $12, AI-Meeting at $23 and Business at $39 a month, with higher struck-through list prices, and an Enterprise tier on request. A Scaleway add-on at $5 a month is described as a French cloud storage alternative. There is no free plan, only trials.

What Leexi does well

  • Belgian company with address, VAT number and share capital in the legal notice
  • AI step names Mistral AI and Azure OpenAI in EU regions
  • Scaleway add-on for storage on a French cloud
  • CRM, ATS and telephony integrations on the Business tier
  • Governance add-on with SSO, audit logs and roles

Where Leexi falls short

  • Prices are in US dollars, not euros
  • No free plan
  • The hosting country is not named, only "Europe" on AWS
  • Pipedrive and Google Sheets appear among the subprocessors
  • The pricing page shows a struck-through price, so the real price depends on the promotion

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that names a European model provider, Mistral AI, in its own subprocessor list.

#7 Noota

Toulouse, France

Best for: Recruiters and sales teams that want ATS and CRM plugins on a French platform

  • Operating company. NOOTA SAS, RCS Toulouse 888 965 951
  • Jurisdiction. EU (France)
  • Where the data sits. France, Belgium and the Netherlands: the security page states Google Cloud Platform data centres exclusively in Europe
  • Independent checks. Security page: SOC 2 Type II audit ongoing, ISO 27001 in preparation, GDPR; homepage lists ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II as held
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Gong

Noota is a French company: NOOTA SAS, registered at the Toulouse commercial court under RCS 888 965 951, with an office at 13 rue Sainte Ursule, 31000 Toulouse and share capital of €1,000. Its terms put disputes under French law and before the French courts.

The security page states that the platform runs on Google Cloud Platform with data centres exclusively in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, with 256-bit AES encryption at rest, TLS 1.2 and 1.3 in transit, keys managed by Google Cloud KMS, and a statement that customer data is not used to train its models. It reports penetration tests by Synacktiv.

The certification claims are not consistent. The homepage lists ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II as held, while the security page says the SOC 2 Type II audit is ongoing and ISO 27001 is in preparation. The product has meeting transcription, a phone system and an email agent, and pricing could not be read on the vendor's pages.

What Noota does well

  • French SAS with RCS number and a stated address
  • Google Cloud regions named: France, Belgium and the Netherlands
  • AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit
  • Training on customer data excluded in writing
  • ATS and CRM plugins for recruitment and sales

Where Noota falls short

  • Certification claims differ between the homepage and the security page
  • Runs on Google Cloud, a US provider, in European regions
  • Pricing could not be read on the vendor's pages
  • Wider scope (phone, email, agents) than a pure notetaker
  • Share capital of €1,000 for a platform with a large claimed user base

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that names three European countries for its data centres.

#8 Meeting Metrics

St. Gallen, Switzerland Basic CHF 29, Pro CHF 49 per month billed annually (the terms list CHF 59 and CHF 99 on monthly billing), Enterprise on request

Best for: Swiss and German-speaking organisations with Swiss German meetings and a preference for Swiss servers

  • Operating company. Meeting Metrics GmbH, UID CHE-355.175.403
  • Jurisdiction. Switzerland (St. Gallen)
  • Where the data sits. Switzerland: servers in St. Gallen hosted by HostTech; audio and video stay there, text goes to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI unless the Enterprise plan runs the AI locally
  • Independent checks. No certification published; GDPR and the revised Swiss Data Protection Act stated
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Microsoft Teams Premium

Meeting Metrics GmbH is a Swiss company, UID CHE-355.175.403, at Lerchenfeldstrasse 3, 9014 St. Gallen. Its terms apply Swiss law with jurisdiction in St. Gallen. The privacy policy says servers are in St. Gallen, hosted by HostTech, and that audio and video files do not leave them.

Text is a different matter. The policy says only text is passed to the language model providers it names, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI, and that Enterprise customers can run fully local processing in Switzerland. It also lists Stripe, HubSpot, Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, with US transfers relying on Standard Contractual Clauses and the data privacy frameworks.

The product transcribes in 57 languages including Swiss German and records on desktop and mobile apps without a bot. The site lists Basic at CHF 29 and Pro at CHF 49 a month on annual billing, while the terms list CHF 59 and CHF 99 on monthly billing.

What Meeting Metrics does well

  • Audio and video stay on servers in St. Gallen
  • Swiss German among 57 transcription languages
  • No bot; recording on desktop and mobile apps
  • Enterprise plan runs the AI locally in Switzerland
  • Swiss company with UID and a Swiss-law contract

Where Meeting Metrics falls short

  • Text goes to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI outside the Enterprise plan
  • Switzerland is not in the European Union
  • Prices are in Swiss francs and differ between site and terms by billing period
  • Zoom and Teams integrations are available on request only
  • No certification published on the pages that were read

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that transcribes Swiss German and keeps the audio on servers in Switzerland.

#9 Wudpecker

Helsinki, Finland Founded 2022 Free $0 (10 bot meetings a month) / Plus $19, Pro $32 per month, 20% off yearly Free plan, plus a 2-week trial with no card

Best for: Small teams that want templates and a named AWS region in Europe

  • Operating company. Wudpecker Oy
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Finland)
  • Where the data sits. Germany and Sweden: the privacy policy names AWS regions eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) and eu-north-1 (Stockholm); the OpenAI API is used for summaries
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom

Wudpecker is a Finnish company, Wudpecker Oy in Helsinki. Its terms apply Finnish law and send disputes to arbitration in Helsinki under the Finland Chamber of Commerce rules, with liability capped at the lesser of €5,000 or six months of fees. A business ID and street address were not found on the pages that were read.

The privacy policy names the storage precisely: AWS servers in two EU regions, Frankfurt (eu-central-1) and Stockholm (eu-north-1). It also names the OpenAI API as the service used to summarise meeting transcripts, and does not address training on meeting content. Default retention under the terms is the current year plus two previous calendar years.

The product works with Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams and supports 39 languages. Free gives 10 meetings a month with the notetaker bot, Plus at $19 gives 30 and Pro at $32 gives 100, with 20% off annually and a 2-week trial. Recording in the desktop and phone apps is unlimited on every plan.

What Wudpecker does well

  • AWS regions Frankfurt and Stockholm named in the privacy policy
  • Free plan with 10 bot meetings a month
  • Unlimited recording in desktop and phone apps
  • Finnish law and arbitration seat stated in the terms
  • Integrations with Notion, Slack and HubSpot from the Plus plan

Where Wudpecker falls short

  • Summaries go through the OpenAI API, a US provider
  • Privacy policy does not say whether meeting content is used for training
  • Liability capped at €5,000 or six months of fees
  • Prices are in US dollars
  • No business ID or address found on the pages that were read

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that names two AWS regions, Frankfurt and Stockholm, in its privacy policy.

#10 tl;dv

Aachen, Germany Free forever plan with unlimited recordings and transcripts / paid plan prices not readable on the vendor pages Free forever plan

Best for: Teams that want a free recorder with unlimited recordings and EEA hosting

  • Operating company. tldx Solutions GmbH, HRB 23730 Amtsgericht Aachen
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. EEA: Google Cloud and Wasabi in Germany, Hetzner in Germany and Finland; AI features may process transcripts in the US if the user selects that hosting preference
  • Independent checks. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 stated on the homepage; customer content never used for model training
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Gong

tl;dv is published by tldx Solutions GmbH, registered at the Aachen district court under HRB 23730, with its office at Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee 51, 52074 Aachen and VAT number DE330894275. It is the largest tool in this list by claimed user base, at over 2 million users on its homepage.

The privacy policy names Google Cloud and Wasabi in Germany and Hetzner in Germany and Finland, and says personal data is primarily processed and stored in the European Economic Area. The exception is stated in the same policy: AI features may process transcripts in the US if the user selects that hosting preference. The AI subprocessors include Anthropic and Google Vertex, with AssemblyAI and ElevenLabs for transcription.

The product records Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, and a free forever plan includes unlimited recordings and transcripts. Paid plan prices could not be read on the vendor's own pages. Customer content is stated never to be used to train AI models, and the homepage names SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

What tl;dv does well

  • German GmbH with commercial register, address and VAT number
  • Free forever plan with unlimited recordings and transcripts
  • Hosting providers named: Google Cloud, Wasabi and Hetzner
  • Training on customer content excluded in writing
  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001 stated on the homepage

Where tl;dv falls short

  • AI features may process transcripts in the US on user selection
  • Anthropic and Google Vertex are listed as AI subprocessors
  • Paid plan prices could not be read on the vendor's pages
  • A bot joins each meeting
  • Sales coaching and CRM focus goes beyond note-taking

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category with a free plan that has unlimited recordings and transcripts.

#11 MeetGeek

Buzău, Romania Founded 2021 Free (3 hours a month) / Pro $15.99, Business $27 per user per month, Enterprise on request, 30% off for startups, non-profits and education Free plan, not time-limited

Best for: Teams that want a free plan and are willing to pick the EU instance at sign-up

  • Operating company. AIVISION PRODUCTS SRL (EU instance), CUI 43674804, J10/164/2021
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Romania)
  • Where the data sits. EU or US by instance: the EU instance stores data in the EU under Romanian law; the US instance is contracted with MeetGeek US Infra, Inc. (Delaware)
  • Independent checks. SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA stated on the pricing page
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom

MeetGeek runs two separate instances and says so in its terms: the instance a customer signs up to decides the contracting company, the data location and the governing law. The EU instance is contracted with AIVISION PRODUCTS SRL, CUI 43674804, J10/164/2021, at Str. Vânători nr. 5, Buzău, Romania, with data stored in the EU under Romanian law. The US instance is MeetGeek US Infra, Inc. in Dover, Delaware.

That makes MeetGeek the one tool here where the European status depends on a sign-up choice. The pricing page lists EU and US data residency options on all plans and names SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA.

Plans are listed in US dollars: a free plan with 3 hours of transcription a month and 3 months of storage, Pro at $15.99 per user a month with 20 hours, Business at $27 with unlimited transcription, and Enterprise on request. Startups, non-profits and educational institutions get 30% off.

What MeetGeek does well

  • Romanian company with registration numbers in the terms
  • EU instance stored in the EU under Romanian law
  • Free plan with 3 hours of transcription a month
  • 30% discount for startups, non-profits and education
  • SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA named on the pricing page

Where MeetGeek falls short

  • A US instance and a Delaware entity exist alongside the EU one
  • The user has to choose the EU instance when signing up
  • Prices are in US dollars
  • Free plan keeps transcripts for 3 months only
  • A bot joins each meeting

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that states in its terms that sign-up route decides the contracting company, data location and law.

#12 Superscribe

Tallinn, Estonia Solo €49 (600 minutes), Business Voice €99 per seat (1,200 pooled minutes), Sales €179 per seat (2,500 pooled minutes) per month No free plan seen; unsigned demo sessions are deleted after 90 days

Best for: Sales and recruiting teams that live on the phone and accept an unverified company and an unnamed storage region

  • Operating company. Not named in the terms or privacy policy; the App Store seller is Haugas Development OÜ, registry code 12762577 in the Estonian business register
  • Jurisdiction. Estonia (entity unverified from the vendor's own pages)
  • Where the data sits. Not stated: recordings on AWS S3 and other data on MongoDB Atlas, no region named; transcription by ElevenLabs
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom

Superscribe is an iPhone app that records calls on a number of its own, so the customer keeps the carrier and the number, and turns calls and meetings into notes, tasks and follow-ups, with a keyboard for dictation, an Estonian-language speech model and a Pipedrive integration. It is included at the site owner's decision, at the bottom of the ranking, because two things that the other ten tools meet could not be confirmed.

The first is the company. The terms give only an email address and the privacy policy names no data controller, registry code or address.

The App Store lists the seller as Haugas Development OÜ in Tallinn, and the Estonian business register shows that company under registry code 12762577, registered 2 December 2014, with VAT number EE101968931 and share capital of €2,500.

The register also shows annual reports for 2024 and 2025 not submitted and a deletion notice in the Official Announcements, and its address differs from the one in the App Store. The link between the company and superscribe.io rests on the App Store listing, not on the vendor's own site.

The second is storage. The privacy policy says voice recordings are kept in AWS S3 and other data in MongoDB Atlas, names ElevenLabs as the transcription provider and gives no region for any of them. Pricing is published in euros: Solo at €49 for 600 minutes, Business Voice at €99 per seat for 1,200 pooled minutes and Sales at €179 per seat for 2,500 pooled minutes a month.

What Superscribe does well

  • Records calls without a meeting bot and without the other party installing anything
  • Speech model built for Estonian alongside English
  • Prices published in euros for every tier
  • Estonian company found in the national business register
  • Recordings and account data can be deleted by the user at any time

Where Superscribe falls short

  • The terms and privacy policy name no company, registry code or address
  • Recordings are on AWS S3 and other data on MongoDB Atlas, with no region stated
  • The register entry carries a deletion notice and annual reports for 2024 and 2025 not submitted
  • The link between the register entity and superscribe.io rests on the App Store listing only
  • No free plan, and transcription is sent to ElevenLabs

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category built around recording phone calls on its own number rather than joining a video meeting.

#13 Notuly

Deventer, Netherlands Starter is free: 3 conversations per month, 60 minutes per recording. Pro is €9.99 per user per month (€119.88 per year, yearly billing 26% cheaper), including VAT. Team is €10.99 per licence per month (€131.88 per user per year), from 2 users, excluding VAT, with a 14-day free trial. Enterprise from 50 users on request. No lock-in, cancel any month. Starter plan free (3 conversations a month, no payment details); Team free for 14 days

Best for: Dutch teams that meet around the table as well as online, and want a notetaker without a bot that holds no data once the report is sent

  • Operating company. Scolutions B.V. (KVK 76325296)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
  • Where the data sits. Netherlands: the vendor's pricing and terms pages state all processing runs on its own infrastructure in an ISO 27001-certified data centre in Amsterdam, with no processing by OpenAI, Microsoft or other American parties
  • Independent checks. No certification of its own published; the company says it works in line with ISO standards and hosts in an ISO 27001-certified data centre
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Microsoft Copilot in Teams

Notuly is an AI notetaker from Scolutions B.V. in Deventer, the Netherlands, for in-person, hybrid and online conversations. The desktop app for macOS and Windows takes the notes from the laptop without a bot joining the call, and iOS and Android apps cover meetings around the table. A report with summary, decisions and action points arrives by email, and the type of conversation is detected automatically to pick a template.

Its main argument is where the data goes. The vendor states that the whole AI step runs on its own self-hosted model on its own servers in an ISO 27001-certified data centre in Amsterdam, with no processing by OpenAI, Microsoft or other American parties, and that audio is deleted within a minute of processing. The terms add that conversations are not used to train models. These are vendor statements, and we have not seen an audit.

Plans are published in euros: a free Starter plan with three conversations a month, Pro at €9.99 and Team at €10.99 per user a month with yearly billing (monthly billing costs more, according to the vendor), with a data processing agreement from Team upwards. Compared with Jamie or Leexi it is lighter on integrations and published certifications, and since nothing is stored there is no searchable archive of past meetings to go back to.

What Notuly does well

  • Dutch company with a KVK number, terms and privacy statement on one page
  • Own AI model on servers in Amsterdam, no US party named in processing
  • Records meetings around the table with the phone app, and Teams, Zoom and Google Meet with the desktop app, without a bot
  • Audio deleted within a minute, report delivered by email
  • Free Starter plan and euro prices published for every tier

Where Notuly falls short

  • Free plan is limited to three conversations a month
  • No archive of past meetings, because nothing is kept after sending
  • No ISO 27001 certificate of its own, only a certified data centre
  • Data processing agreement only from the Team plan

Standout feature. Its zero-retention design stands out: audio is deleted within a minute and nothing is kept after the report is sent.

#14 MediSync Dictate

Cologne, Germany Dictate Free is €0 a month. Dictate Pro is €10 per user a month, plus VAT, as shown on the pricing page (as of November 2026); the page has a monthly/yearly switch and we could not tell which period the €10 belongs to. Enterprise on request. Free plan, not time-limited: unlimited local dictation and 100 minutes of cloud processing a month

Best for: Professionals who mostly dictate and want meeting notes from the same desktop app, without a bot in the call

  • Operating company. MediSync GmbH (HRB 125341, Amtsgericht Köln)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Dictation: on the user's own computer by default. Notes (transcript with speakers and summary) and optional cloud dictation run in Frankfurt, which the vendor says is not stored and not used for training; notes are kept encrypted on the computer, as text without audio
  • Independent checks. No certification found on the product page; Enterprise plans list a DPA, TOMs and an operating concept
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Granola, Dragon

MediSync Dictate is a desktop app from MediSync GmbH, a Cologne company that sells software for healthcare providers. Its main job is dictation: hold a key, speak, and the text appears at the cursor in any Windows or macOS program. The meeting notes are a second function. The app notices calls in Teams, Zoom, Webex, Slack and Google Meet and takes notes from the computer's own audio, so nobody extra joins the meeting.

Where the work happens differs per function. Dictation starts on the user's own machine, and the vendor states that audio and text then never leave it.

Meeting notes are different: the transcript with up to six speakers and the draft summary are produced by the vendor's cloud in Frankfurt, according to its FAQ, while the finished note is stored encrypted on the computer without audio. If the cloud cannot be reached, a local model keeps transcribing, but then without telling speakers apart. These are vendor statements, and we have not seen an audit or a certificate.

The free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited local dictation and 100 minutes of cloud processing a month.

Pro is shown at €10 per user a month plus VAT (as of November 2026), and Enterprise adds a data processing agreement and a private tenant. Next to a dedicated notetaker such as Jamie it is thinner as a meeting tool: the tool is built for healthcare and its medical formatting covers German and English only, though the speech model lists 25 European languages.

What MediSync Dictate does well

  • German company with a commercial register number and a full imprint
  • Meeting notes without a bot, taken from the computer's own audio
  • Dictation is processed on the computer by default, also without internet
  • Free plan with unlimited local dictation
  • Notes are stored encrypted on the computer, without audio

Where MediSync Dictate falls short

  • Meeting notes need the Frankfurt cloud for speakers and summary
  • Built primarily for dictation, so meeting features are narrower than in dedicated notetakers
  • No certification found on the product page
  • Windows and macOS on Apple Silicon only, no mobile app

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category that is mainly a dictation app, with meeting notes added to a product that already types into every program.

#15 Thalassa Assistant

Budapest, Hungary Standard €29.90 a month (30 conversation hours), Professional €59.90 (75 hours, adds briefing and debriefing), Premium €99.90 (130 hours); business prices exclude VAT, annual billing is cheaper, as shown on the pricing page (as of November 2026). Enterprise on request; live translation costs €0.23 a minute extra. Free trial inside the app, no payment method: one conversation of up to 15 minutes and 5 preparations

Best for: Professionals in sales, advisory or interviews who want sourced answer suggestions during a live conversation and a debrief afterwards, with no bot in the call

  • Operating company. Thalassa Consulting Kft. (Cg. 13 09 200621)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Hungary)
  • Where the data sits. Hosting on AWS in Frankfurt (eu-central-1). Speech recognition runs on the vendor's listed EU endpoint and answers come from Claude models on Amazon Bedrock in the EU. The knowledge base is searched on the user's device; audio is never stored and the transcript is deleted after the conversation. Optional web search sends the query to Anthropic in the USA under the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, and the vendor says it can be turned off
  • Independent checks. No certification found on the vendor's pages; a data processing agreement is available on request
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Microsoft Copilot in Teams

Thalassa Assistant is a desktop app for Windows and macOS from Thalassa Consulting Kft., a Budapest company. It listens to a conversation and, in a window only the user sees, drafts replies to questions it detects. Answers are taken first from the user's own documents, with the document and page cited, and the internet is only a fallback. No bot joins the call and nobody appears in the participant list.

Before a meeting it builds a briefing from the user's files, and afterwards it can produce a closing report with open points and commitments.

On where data goes, the vendor is specific: the knowledge base is indexed and searched on the user's device, hosting is on AWS in Frankfurt, and speech recognition and answers run on EU endpoints.

Audio is not stored and the transcript is deleted after the conversation. The exception is the optional web search, which, according to the vendor's privacy policy, sends the query to Anthropic in the USA under the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses; the vendor says it can be turned off. A data processing agreement is available on request.

A free trial gives one conversation of up to 15 minutes. Paid plans start at €29.90 a month excluding VAT (as of November 2026), and briefing and debriefing begin at the Professional plan. It is a tool for talking, not a note archive: unlike Jamie, it is built around being prompted during the conversation, and the vendor lists no certification, so the claims above are the vendor's own.

What Thalassa Assistant does well

  • Hungarian company with a registration number, VAT number and full imprint
  • No meeting bot, and the window is hidden from screen sharing where the operating system allows
  • Answers cite the user's own documents, searched on the device
  • Audio is not stored and the transcript is deleted after the conversation
  • Free trial without payment details and published euro prices

Where Thalassa Assistant falls short

  • Optional web search goes to Anthropic in the USA
  • Debriefing only from the Professional plan, and its time counts against conversation hours
  • No certification found on the vendor's pages
  • Desktop only, no mobile app

Standout feature. It is the only tool in this category built to prompt the user live during a conversation, with answers sourced from the user's own documents.

#16 Klang

Helsingborg, Sweden Free is €0 with 30 days of history; Pro is €16 per person a month (7-day free trial) and Business €30 per person a month, both excluding VAT, as shown on the pricing page (as of November 2026). The page offers a monthly/yearly switch with up to 16% saved on yearly billing. Enterprise on quote. Free plan, not time-limited; Pro can be tried free for 7 days

Best for: Organisations that want transcripts, summaries and searchable conversations under Swedish law, with a free plan and enterprise options

  • Operating company. Klang AI AB (org. nr 559378-4571, VAT SE559378457101)
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Sweden)
  • Where the data sits. Servers in France, operated by Scaleway, according to the security page; the vendor says all customer data is processed within the EU. The privacy policy names Mistral AI, Microsoft Ireland (EU Data Boundary), Amazon Bedrock (EU) and Swedish providers for language models, and lists ElevenLabs, Inc. in the USA among its speech providers
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001 certified, stated on the vendor's pricing and security pages; certificate not seen by us
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Otter.ai, Fireflies, Fathom

Klang is a transcription and meeting assistant from Klang AI AB, a company registered in Helsingborg, Sweden. It turns meetings and calls into transcripts with speaker identification, summaries and a chat over past conversations, and it has a meeting assistant, a mobile app and a desktop app for Mac. Pro and higher plans add integrations, automations, exports to Word, Excel, SRT and VTT, and access for AI assistants through MCP.

On data, the vendor's security page says its servers are in France, run by the French cloud provider Scaleway, and that all customer data is processed within the EU.

The privacy policy is more detailed than most: it lists Mistral AI, Microsoft Ireland and Amazon Bedrock in EU regions for language models, but also names ElevenLabs, Inc. in the USA among its speech providers, so a buyer with strict requirements should read that list. The vendor says it is ISO 27001 certified and does not train models on customer data; we have not seen the certificate.

Free costs nothing and keeps 30 days of history. Pro is €16 per person a month and Business €30, both excluding VAT (as of November 2026), with SSO, a data processing agreement in the account and an audit log from Business. Enterprise adds a private cloud, own encryption keys and an on-premise installation. Compared with Jamie, it asks the buyer to read the sub-processor list more carefully, but it offers more deployment choice at the top end.

What Klang does well

  • Swedish company with an organisation number and VAT number in its footer and terms
  • Free plan, and published euro prices for Pro and Business
  • Servers in France at a European provider, stated on the security page
  • ISO 27001 certification stated by the vendor
  • Private cloud, customer-held encryption keys and on-premise installation on Enterprise

Where Klang falls short

  • Privacy policy lists a US speech provider among its sub-processors
  • Free plan keeps only 30 days of history
  • Data processing agreement and SSO only from the Business plan
  • Certificate not published for inspection on the pages we read

Standout feature. It combines a free plan with an enterprise tier that offers a private cloud, customer-held encryption keys and on-premise installation.

Where does the recording go, and where does the transcript go?

These are different questions and most marketing pages only answer the first. The recording is audio, stored in a data centre whose country the vendor can name. The transcript is text, and for the summary it is sent to a large language model run by a third party, which is a separate subprocessor with its own region.

Three vendors describe a European answer to the second question. Leexi lists Mistral AI and Microsoft Azure OpenAI in EU regions among its subprocessors. Recapro states that processing happens in France or on a server on the customer's premises. Seedext states that all data sits on Microsoft Azure France.

Four vendors name American model providers openly. Wudpecker uses the OpenAI API. tl;dv lists Anthropic and Google Vertex, and its privacy page says AI features may process transcripts in the US if the user selects that hosting preference. Meeting Metrics sends text to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI while audio stays on its Swiss servers. Jamie names Google Cloud, PlanetScale and Modal Labs with EU processing and does not list a model provider in the section that was read.

Naming a provider is not a defect. It is the information a procurement form asks for, and the vendors that publish it are easier to assess than the ones that do not.

Does a bot in the call matter, and who needs a bot-free tool?

A bot is a visible participant. Every attendee sees it join, which is a form of consent and also a source of friction with clients who do not expect to be recorded. Wudpecker, tl;dv, MeetGeek and Leexi work with a notetaker that joins Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams.

Jamie and Meeting Metrics capture audio on the device instead. Jamie runs on Mac, Windows and iPhone, Meeting Metrics on desktop and mobile apps, so nothing extra joins the call and the same tool works for in-person meetings and calls on platforms no bot supports.

The trade-off is that a device-side tool records what your device hears. Whether the other participants have agreed to being recorded is still the user's responsibility under the national rules on recording conversations, which differ between European countries.

What does "European" mean when the vendor is Swiss or runs two instances?

Meeting Metrics GmbH is established in St. Gallen and its terms apply Swiss law. Switzerland is in Europe but not in the European Union, and the vendor relies on Standard Contractual Clauses and the data privacy frameworks for US providers such as Stripe and HubSpot.

MeetGeek states in its terms that the instance a customer signs up to decides which company they contract with, where data is stored and which law applies: AIVISION PRODUCTS SRL in Romania for the EU instance, MeetGeek US Infra, Inc. in Delaware for the US instance.

In both cases the answer is in the legal text rather than the product name, and that is why the contracting entity is checked for every tool in this list.

What does "free" mean in this category, and where does it stop?

Five tools offer a free plan, and the limit differs in kind. Jamie caps the count and length (10 AI notes a month, meetings up to 30 minutes). Wudpecker caps bot meetings at 10 a month but allows unlimited recording in its apps. MeetGeek caps transcription at 3 hours a month. Recapro gives 300 minutes in total, which does not renew. tl;dv offers a free forever plan with unlimited recordings and transcripts.

Leexi has no free plan and offers trials. Meeting Metrics starts at CHF 29 a month on annual billing. Seedext, Noota and Amber Notes publish no price that could be read on their own pages. Superscribe has no free plan and charges €49, €99 or €179 a month.

How we selected and ranked these 16 tools

Every tool on this page is in the European Purpose directory, which means the operating company is established in Europe and we have verified that from the company register or the vendor's own legal notice rather than from a marketing page. Tools headquartered outside Europe are not eligible, however good they are.

  1. Feature verification (weight: 40%). We check each capability against the vendor's own documentation and product pages, and record what the tool does rather than what the category is assumed to include.
  2. Ease of adoption (weight: 30%). Integrations, published API access, trial availability and how much configuration stands between signing and a usable result.
  3. Value and transparency (weight: 30%). Published pricing counts in a vendor's favour; quote-only pricing is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated. We weigh what a buyer gets for the entry price, not the headline feature count.
  4. Editorial review. Every page is researched and drafted with AI assistance, and the compliance and pricing claims are checked against the vendor's documentation before it is published under the founder's editorial responsibility. The three weights above decide the order; a position is a ranking against the other European tools in this category, not an absolute score.

Vendor-reported outcomes — ROI figures, margin uplift, time saved — are labelled as vendor claims wherever they appear on this page. We have not audited them, and neither has anyone else who quotes them. Read our full editorial process for how pages are re-verified.

Frequently asked questions

Jamie holds #1 among the European AI meeting assistants in this directory, because it pairs a German company registered in the Cologne commercial register with production data in EU data centres, no bot in the call and a free plan.

The right answer depends on the job: Seedext when everything must sit in France, Recapro when the server has to be on your premises, Leexi when the AI step must stay on Mistral and EU-region Azure, and Meeting Metrics for Swiss German meetings.

Five of the eleven: Jamie, Recapro, Wudpecker, tl;dv and MeetGeek. tl;dv is the most generous in recordings, with a free forever plan with unlimited recordings and transcripts. Jamie limits notes to 10 a month, Wudpecker limits bot meetings to 10 a month, MeetGeek limits transcription to 3 hours and Recapro gives 300 minutes in total.

Recapro, through its Fortress option, which is a physical air-gapped server on the customer's premises priced at €4,990 to €19,990 plus €19.90 per seat per month. Meeting Metrics runs the AI locally on Swiss servers on its Enterprise plan. No other tool in this directory publishes a self-hosted edition.

Seedext names Microsoft Azure France. Noota names Google Cloud in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Recapro names data centres in Vendée and Paris. Wudpecker names AWS in Frankfurt and Stockholm. tl;dv names Google Cloud and Wasabi in Germany and Hetzner in Germany and Finland. Meeting Metrics names servers in St. Gallen hosted by HostTech. Jamie names Google Cloud in the European Union, Leexi names AWS in Europe, and Amber Notes says only that data stays in Europe.

Otter.ai is an American company and is not in this directory. The tools in it come from companies established in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Romania and Switzerland, each checked against its own legal notice or terms.

Jamie, tl;dv, Amberscript for Amber Notes, Noota and Recapro each state in their own policies that customer data is not used for model training. Meeting Metrics states that no training use is contractually guaranteed away. Wudpecker's privacy policy does not address training. Seedext, Leexi and MeetGeek were not checked for a statement on this point on the pages that were read.