Otter AI

About Otter AI

Real-time transcription, meeting notes, and action items automatically generated from Zoom, Meet, and Teams calls. Searchable meeting archive.

Otter is an AI meeting assistant: it joins your Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls, transcribes them in real time, and produces a summary and a list of action items when the call ends. Every transcript goes into a searchable archive, so you can find what was said in a meeting weeks later without rewatching a recording.

The practical benefit is that nobody has to take notes instead of taking part. In our productivity-stack guide, Otter is the tool for calls, so transcription and action extraction happen in the background; once a call is transcribed, our guide to turning meeting notes into a mind map with AI shows how to reshape the transcript into decisions, actions, risks and open questions.

On cost, our small-business guide recorded a Basic plan with 300 transcription minutes a month and Pro at $16.99 per user month to month, or $8.33 a month billed annually, and noted that Otter charges per seat — which matters as soon as a whole team uses it. Plans change, so confirm the current figures on Otter's own pricing page.

Before you switch it on, check consent: everyone on a recorded call should know it is being transcribed, and some workplaces and jurisdictions require explicit agreement. Also check what happens to transcripts — whether the tool trains on them and how long they are kept. Fireflies.ai does a similar job across the same three platforms and is worth comparing. Otter suits professionals with heavy meeting schedules.