HumlaHumla vs Fireflies
Fireflies emails your recap to everyone on the invite. Humla sends nothing anywhere.
- Free, no account
- Open source, MIT
- Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later
Which should you pick?
- Pick Humla for privacy, on-device processing, and price.
- Pick Fireflies for integrations and a mobile app.
How they compare
An honest look. Humla wins on privacy, price, and openness; Fireflies leads on integrations and mobile.
| Humla | Fireflies | |
|---|---|---|
| No bot joins the call | Optional (botless desktop) | |
| 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 / $10–39/user/mo |
Reflects each product's standard plans as of 2026. Check their sites for the latest.
What you get instead
- Nothing gets auto-shared. Fireflies defaults to emailing the recap to everyone on the invite, external guests included (July 2026) — handy for adoption, awkward for confidential client calls. Humla's summary goes exactly where you send it.
- Local and private. Fireflies is cloud-only, even in its botless desktop mode; Humla can run fully on-device with your own key or offline.
- Open source and cheaper. Fireflies paid plans run $10–39/user/month; Humla is free, with optional sync at $5/user/month.
- Own your data. No vendor retention — notes live in local SQLite on your disk.
- Speaks your language. Around 99 languages via Whisper — on-device or with your own key — plus a dedicated Norwegian model and per-language routing.
One meeting, from agenda to recap
Write the agenda, record the call, press Summarize. Your note stays on the left while the transcript and the recap fill in on the right.
Six pages, maybe a new CMS?
Keep the brand palette
Who signs off the budget?
Hanna approves budget, wants qu
Speakers are identified when you stop.
When to pick Fireflies instead
Humla isn't for everyone. Choose Fireflies if:
- You want the 100+ integrations, 200+ AI 'skills', and CRM automation.
- You need a mobile app and team analytics dashboards.
Fireflies vs the field
Weighing Fireflies against another tool? These honest head to heads put Humla up as the third option.
Related reading
- What is Meeting bot?A meeting bot is an automated participant that joins a video call to record and transcribe it, appearing in the attendee list like another guest.
- What is On-device transcription?On-device transcription converts speech to text entirely on your own computer, with no audio sent to a cloud service.
- What is Speaker diarization?Speaker diarization is the process of splitting an audio recording into segments by who is speaking, so a transcript can show “who said what.”
- What is AI notetaker vs AI notepad?An AI notetaker records and transcribes a meeting for you; an AI notepad is one you write in yourself while the AI augments your notes with the transcript.
Keep your meetings on your Mac.
Free and open source. Apple Silicon, macOS 13 or later.