Tools · Comparison

Fathom vs Read AI vs Wave

All three are meetings & notes tools. Here is what separates them.

	Fathom	Read AI	Wave
What it is	Meeting notes with a free tier that is unusually complete, and summaries ready seconds after the call.	Read AI, the fastest growing AI meeting assistant, ever, delivers real-time transcription, smart summaries, and enables AI search and discovery across all your content including meeting, messages, emails, CRM, and documents.	Wave is the #1 AI note taker for iPhone and Android. Record, transcribe, and summarize meetings, lectures, and conversations. Try free.
Category	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes	Meetings & Notes
Pricing	Freemium · Free · from $19/user/mo	Freemium · Free · from $19.75/user/mo	Freemium
How it bills	Per seat	Per seat	Not published
Free tier	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rating	Not yet rated	Not yet rated	Not yet rated
Features	Unlimited recording on the free plan Summaries within seconds of ending Highlight clipping during the call CRM sync on paid plans Zoom, Meet and Teams	Engagement and sentiment scoring Speaker time analysis Transcripts and summaries Email and chat coverage Meeting recommendations	—
What works	Best free tier in the category Very fast summaries Simple to adopt	Insight into how meetings actually go Broad coverage beyond meetings Useful for improving your own facilitation	—
What does not	Fewer analytics than rivals Team features need a paid plan Bot must join the call	Raises legitimate surveillance concerns Sentiment scoring is crude Expensive per seat	—