Tactiq alternatives for meetings and YouTube transcripts
Tactiq alternatives fall into two groups, because Tactiq does two jobs: live meeting transcripts and a free YouTube transcript tool. Here are the best options for each.
Tactiq is two things, and people arrive at it for either one. The main product is a Chrome extension that transcribes Google Meet, Zoom and Teams calls live, without adding a bot to the call. The other is a free YouTube transcript tool on its website: paste a link and you get the transcript with a timestamp on every line, with no email asked.
So the right alternative depends on which Tactiq you came for. This guide splits in two: meeting tools first, then YouTube tools. We make Claras, which sits in the second group. It doesn't do meetings at all, and we say plainly where the others are better.
The short answer
- Free meeting notes with no minute cap: Fathom.
- Meeting notes for a team, with lots of integrations: Fireflies.
- The best-known notetaker, with phone apps: Otter.
- Meetings with a bot or bot-free, plus live translation: Notta.
- YouTube transcripts in bulk, or by API: YouTube-Transcript.io.
- A free summary beside every YouTube video: Glasp.
- A transcript, summary, chapters and answers for a video or playlist: Claras.
What Tactiq does well, for reference
On meetings, Tactiq's draw is no bot, a low price and a long list of claims about security: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA. It lists 60+ languages and workflows into Slack, Notion, Linear and HubSpot, and besides the Chrome extension it has a Mac app that for now covers Zoom desktop calls. The free plan gives 10 meeting transcripts and 5 AI credits a month. Paid plans, billed annually per user, are Pro at $8 a month with 10 AI credits, Team at $16.67 with unlimited credits, and Business at $29.17. Visitors in Europe see €6.67, €13.33 and €25.50.
On YouTube, the free tool is quick and needs no account. What it doesn't do on the page is summarize: for that you sign in, upload the transcript file, and spend an AI credit.
We read every product's own site on 11 and 12 November 2026, and only give a price when it was there. Prices change, so check before you buy.
| Tool | For | Bot-free option | Free plan | Paid, as listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fathom | Meetings | In beta, on Mac | Unlimited recordings and transcripts | Premium $20, or $16 billed annually |
| Fireflies | Meetings | Yes, from its Chrome extension | 400 minutes of storage per team | Pro $18, or $10 billed annually |
| Otter | Meetings | Yes, from its desktop app, Chrome or phone | 300 minutes a month | Pro $16.99, or $8.33 billed annually |
| Notta | Meetings | Yes, recording on your device | 120 minutes, 3 per conversation | Pro $8.17 billed annually |
| YouTube-Transcript.io | YouTube transcripts in bulk | Not relevant | 25 transcripts a month | Plus $9.99 for 1,000 |
| Glasp | YouTube summaries while you browse | Not relevant | 3 summaries beside the video a week, 3 a day sent to an AI chat | Pro $15, or $150 a year |
| Claras | Understanding videos and playlists | Not relevant | 3 videos a month | See pricing |
Meeting alternatives
1. Fathom: free notes for every call
Fathom records Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls and writes a summary as the call ends. Its free plan includes unlimited recordings and transcripts, clips and search across calls, and a choice of a bot or bot-free capture, which is in beta on Mac. Asking questions about a call is included with limited use.
Where it beats Tactiq: the free plan. Tactiq's stops at 10 transcripts a month. Fathom also records video and makes clips.
Where it falls short: bot-free capture is still a beta, and action items and unlimited advanced summaries are on Premium. The free plan gets advanced summaries for the first 5 calls a month. Team plans need at least 2 users.
Price: Premium is $20 per user a month, or $16 billed annually. Team is $19, or $15 billed annually.
2. Fireflies: notes for a team, with integrations
Fireflies joins Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and more, or records from its Chrome extension without a bot. It lists 100+ languages, most of them in beta, plus live notes, an editable transcript, file uploads, desktop and phone apps, and an API.
Where it beats Tactiq: video recording on paid plans, phone apps, a desktop app that covers more than Tactiq's Zoom-only Mac app, and team analytics on Business.
Where it falls short: free storage stops at 400 minutes per team, and AI summaries are limited on free. Recordings cap at 2 hours on Free and Pro.
Price: Pro is $18 per seat a month, or $10 billed annually. Business is $29, or $19 billed annually.
3. Otter: the best-known notetaker
Otter's notetaker joins Zoom, Teams and Google Meet, or you record from its desktop app, Chrome extension or phone with no bot in the call. You get a live transcript with speakers, a recap with action items, and Otter AI Chat across your meetings.
Where it beats Tactiq: phone apps for meetings in a room, and a free plan counted in minutes, 300 a month, rather than in transcripts.
Where it falls short: six transcription languages, against Tactiq's 60+. The free plan caps a conversation at 30 minutes.
Price: Pro is $16.99 per user a month, or $8.33 billed annually. More options are in our Otter alternatives guide.
4. Notta: live translation, more minutes
Notta sends a bot to Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or Webex, or records on your device with no bot. It transcribes 58 languages, offers live translation, labels speakers, and writes notes with decisions and action items.
Where it beats Tactiq: live translation (2 uses a month on every plan, more as a paid add-on), documents and slides from meetings, and phone apps.
Where it falls short: the free plan stops each conversation at 3 minutes.
Price: Pro is $8.17 a month billed annually ($97.99 a year), with 1,800 minutes. See how Claras and Notta differ.
YouTube alternatives
A quick way to tell these three apart. Say you have a 90-minute conference talk on YouTube. If it has captions, all three can give you the words. YouTube-Transcript.io hands them over as text, ready for a script or a spreadsheet, and can summarize them too. Glasp puts a summary beside the player for you to skim. Claras gives you the transcript, a summary, chapters to jump between and a chat to ask about it. If the talk has no captions, Claras is the only one of the three that says it can get the words, by transcribing the audio. A 90-minute talk needs a paid plan for that, since the free plan stops at 30 minutes.
5. YouTube-Transcript.io: transcripts in volume
If you liked Tactiq's YouTube tool and want much more of it, this is the closest match. It pulls captions from single videos, playlists, whole channels and CSV lists, has a Chrome extension, and offers an API with n8n and Make templates.
Where it beats Tactiq: bulk. Paid plans include 1,000 or 3,000 transcripts a month, with channel extraction and watchlists.
Where it falls short: it reads captions only. Its FAQ says it doesn't create transcripts from audio, so a video with no captions gives you nothing. Summaries use tokens too, and chat with a transcript starts on Plus.
Price: free for 25 tokens a month, no card. Plus is $9.99 a month for 1,000 transcripts and Pro $24.99 for 3,000. See Claras and YouTube-Transcript.io side by side.
6. Glasp: a summary beside every video
Glasp's free extension puts a summary and the full transcript beside the YouTube player, or sends the video to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini in a new tab. You can highlight transcript lines, add notes, and export to Notion, Obsidian and other note apps. It runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, with phone apps.
Where it beats Tactiq: the summary is right there, with no file to upload. It also works on articles and PDFs.
Where it falls short: its page doesn't say it handles videos with no captions, and the free plan has caps: 3 basic summaries a day and 3 advanced ones every 7 days.
Price: Pro is $15 a month, or $150 a year. Unlimited is $30 a month, or $360 a year. Read how Claras and Glasp compare.
7. Claras: from link to understanding in one step
Claras doesn't join or transcribe meetings, so it is no replacement for Tactiq's extension. It also needs a free account from the first video, where Tactiq's YouTube tool needs nothing, and the free plan is 3 videos a month. If you just want a quick free transcript now and then, Tactiq's tool is the easier choice.
Claras is for the step after the transcript. Paste a YouTube link, or press the Claras button on the video with the Chrome extension, and you get the timestamped transcript, a summary with key takeaways, chapters that jump to their moment, and Ask AI, all on one screen. In the web app, click any transcript line to jump there, or search it. Download TXT with or without timestamps, or .srt subtitles, from the web app.
Tactiq's tool reads a video's captions and says a transcript might not be available for every video. Claras transcribes videos with no captions with AI (30 minutes free, 3 hours on a paid plan), and also takes Instagram and TikTok links and your own video and audio files up to 6 hours. Bulk Summaries reads a whole playlist or YouTube search page and gives you one summary you can ask questions about.
The full comparison of Claras and Tactiq goes into detail, there is more on Claras transcripts, and plans are on the pricing page.
How to choose
- You want meeting notes for free: Fathom.
- Your team needs shared notes and integrations: Fireflies, or stay with Tactiq's Team plan if no bot matters most.
- Some of your meetings happen in a room: Otter, Notta or Fireflies, for their phone apps.
- You need thousands of YouTube transcripts, or an API: YouTube-Transcript.io.
- You want a quick free summary while you browse: Glasp.
- You want to understand videos and playlists, including ones without captions: Claras.
Questions people ask
What is the best free Tactiq alternative for meetings?
Fathom, on the plans we checked. Its free plan includes unlimited recordings and transcripts, a summary of every call, and advanced summaries for the first 5 calls a month. Tactiq's free plan stops at 10 meeting transcripts a month.
Which Tactiq alternatives work without a bot?
Fireflies can record from its Chrome extension without its bot, Otter can record from its desktop app, Chrome extension or phone, Notta records on your device, and Fathom offers bot-free capture in beta on Mac.
Is there a free alternative to Tactiq's YouTube transcript tool?
YouTube-Transcript.io gives 25 free transcripts a month with no card. Glasp's free extension shows the transcript beside the video. Claras gives you 3 videos a month on a free account, with a summary and chapters as well as the transcript.
Can any of these get a transcript of a YouTube video with no captions?
Claras can. It transcribes the audio with AI, up to 30 minutes on the free plan and 3 hours on a paid one. YouTube-Transcript.io says it doesn't create transcripts from audio, and Glasp's page doesn't say it handles videos without captions.
Which one can summarize a whole YouTube playlist?
Claras's Bulk Summaries reads a playlist of up to 50 videos, or a search page of up to 20, and gives you one summary. YouTube-Transcript.io extracts transcripts from playlists and channels in bulk. We found no combined summary on its pages.
Is Claras a Tactiq alternative for meetings?
No. Claras doesn't join or transcribe calls. If you have a recording of a call, you can upload it to get a transcript and summary, but there are no speaker labels.
More guides are on the Claras blog, and every head-to-head we have written is in all comparisons.
Competitor details checked on their own sites on 11 and 12 November 2026, and they can change. Sources: Tactiq home page, Tactiq pricing, Tactiq YouTube tool, Fathom pricing, Fireflies pricing, Otter pricing, Notta pricing, YouTube-Transcript.io pricing, Glasp pricing.
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