The Fireflies alternative

Fireflies, minus the bot

Works with your Plaud, in the room and on phone calls.

No bot waiting to be admitted, no extra face in the grid. Kasset records your calls from your own computer and writes the notes, then stores and processes them in France, on every plan.

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Bring your Plaud

Plaud Note Pro and NotePin S, on Kasset Pro.

Fireflies records in the room on its phone app, but does not connect to a recorder. Kasset connects to the device itself.

  • Meetings in the room Clip on a NotePin S or set a Note Pro on the table, and the client visit gets the same notes as your calls.
  • Phone calls Snap the Note Pro onto the back of your phone and it records both sides of the call for Kasset to write up.
  • No Plaud subscription Kasset takes recordings straight from the device and transcribes them in France. A yearly Pro plan includes the device.
Kasset with Plaud
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Kasset vs Fireflies

Fireflies sends a bot to your meetings and runs them through US AI providers. Kasset does neither.

 
Kasset
Fireflies
Plaud recorder
Connects to the device, on Pro
No Plaud connection
Bot in the call
None, records from your computer
Fireflies Notetaker joins by default
Recording without a bot
Every meeting
Desktop app, or Chrome extension on Meet
Where meetings are stored
France, on every plan
United States; EU storage on Enterprise
Where meetings are processed
France
United States, even with EU storage
Transcription and AI
Mistral, France
OpenAI, Anthropic, AssemblyAI and other US providers
Participants told
Email to invitees, on by default
Email an hour before, and the bot itself
Conversations in person
Phone, or a Plaud on Pro
Mobile app and web recorder
Nothing joins the call

Your clients meet you, not a bot

A bot in the participant list changes the room: people hesitate, ask who invited it, or ask you to remove it. Kasset records from your computer on Meet, Teams and Zoom, and the conversation stays a conversation.

Stored is not processed

EU storage is only half the journey

A meeting stored in Europe but transcribed and summarised in the United States has still crossed the Atlantic. With Kasset, storage, transcription and the AI all run in France, without an Enterprise contract.

A few useful answers

Questions?

Is there a Fireflies alternative that does not join meetings as a bot? +
Yes. Kasset records Meet, Teams and Zoom from your own computer, so no notetaker appears in the participant list, on any meeting. Your invitees get a short email beforehand instead, saying the meeting will be recorded.
Does Fireflies work with a Plaud recorder? +
We found no way to connect one on Fireflies' published pages; you can upload audio files instead. Kasset connects to a Plaud Note Pro or NotePin S directly, so a meeting in the room, or a phone call on the Note Pro, becomes a Kasset note without exporting anything.
Does Fireflies keep data in the EU? +
Only for storage, and only on Enterprise. Fireflies' guide says data is stored and processed in the United States by default, and that with its EU storage option "your data will be stored in the EU, but processed in the US". Kasset stores and processes everything in France, on every plan.
Which AI providers does Fireflies use? +
Fireflies' sub-processor list names OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Baseten, Perplexity and ElevenLabs for language models and audio, and AssemblyAI and Soniox for speech to text, all in the United States where a location is given. Kasset uses Mistral, in France, unless a workspace administrator opts in to a US provider.
Will my clients know Kasset is recording without a bot? +
Yes, if the meeting is on your connected calendar. Kasset emails everyone on the invitation up to 30 minutes before the meeting, on by default, and anyone who would rather not be recorded can reply to you.
Can I import my Fireflies transcripts into Kasset? +
There is no Fireflies importer today. Keep your Fireflies archive, and start new conversations in Kasset.
Does Kasset work with Claude and ChatGPT? +
Yes. Kasset's read-only MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot search your conversations and answer from them. How it works.

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Meetings, voice notes and real-world conversations, captured in Europe and ready when you need them.

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The facts

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About Fireflies

Fireflies.ai Corp. is a US company whose terms are governed by Delaware law. Fireflies' guide says data is stored and processed in the United States on AWS and Google Cloud; Enterprise customers can store data in the EU through private or bring-your-own storage, but it is still processed in the US. Its sub-processor list names OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Baseten, Perplexity and ElevenLabs for language models and audio, and AssemblyAI and Soniox for speech to text. Fireflies says it does not use customer content to train models. The Fireflies Notetaker joins Zoom, Meet and Teams and stays in the participant list; the desktop app, and the Chrome extension on Google Meet, can take notes without it. Fireflies has iPhone and Android apps and an MCP server. We found no way to connect a Plaud or other recorder on Fireflies' published pages.

About Kasset

Plaud devices connect on Kasset Pro; phone calls need a Plaud Note Pro, and the NotePin S records in person only. Kasset has no importer for Fireflies transcripts. Kasset is on Mac first; Windows is coming, and the iPhone and Android apps are in beta. The recording notice reaches invitees of meetings on a connected calendar, up to 30 minutes before; it does not reach people who are not on the invitation. A workspace administrator can opt in to US AI providers; by default everything runs in France.

Sources

Fireflies is a trademark of Fireflies.ai Corp. Kasset is not affiliated with Fireflies.