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Humla vs Fellow.
Fellow can skip the bot, but every recording still lands in its cloud. Humla keeps meetings on your Mac — and it's free.
Free · Open source · macOS 13+ (Apple Silicon)
In short
Which should you pick?
- Pick Humla for privacy, on-device processing, and price.
- Pick Fellow for integrations and enterprise controls.
Side by side
How they compare.
An honest look. Humla wins on privacy, price, and openness; Fellow leads on integrations and enterprise controls.
| Humla | Fellow | |
|---|---|---|
| No bot joins the call | Optional (botless) | |
| Runs fully on your device | — | |
| Open source (auditable) | — | |
| Bring your own AI key / model | — | |
| Speaker labels (who said what) | ||
| AI summaries & action items | ||
| App integrations (Slack, CRM…) | — | |
| Mobile app | — | |
| Price | Free | Free / $11–23/user/mo |
Reflects each product's standard plans as of 2026 — check their sites for the latest.
Why Humla
What you get instead.
- No bot, and nothing uploaded. Fellow offers a botless desktop mode, but its own docs say audio is processed and stored in Fellow's cloud, never on your device. Humla records your Mac and can keep everything on-device.
- Nothing to train on. Humla has no backend and no telemetry — it only talks to the providers you choose.
- Free and open source. Fellow's free tier caps you at 5 AI notes for life, then runs $11–23/user/month. Humla is free forever and MIT-licensed, with optional sync at $5/user/month — or self-host it free.
- Own your data. Notes live in local SQLite on your disk — no workspace to adopt, no vendor retention.
- Speaks your language. Around 99 languages via Whisper — on-device or with your own key — plus a dedicated Norwegian model and per-language routing.
Demo
See a meeting become a note.
New note, record, summary — that's the whole workflow. The cleanup afterwards is none, on a five-minute meeting or an hour-long one.
Being fair
When to pick Fellow instead.
Humla isn't for everyone. Choose Fellow if:
- You want notes and action items pushed automatically into Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Jira, or Notion.
- You need Windows, iOS, and Android support with shared team libraries and admin controls.
- You need enterprise compliance out of the box (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, provisioning).
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