Fireflies reaches into email and Slack by connecting accounts to its cloud. Smart Jelly reads the apps you choose from your screen and keeps the memory on your Mac.
An AI meeting assistant that transcribes, summarizes and analyzes team conversations. Built for teams in sales, recruiting and support.
Smart Jelly goes furtherA memory for your working life: formed on your Mac, kept on your Mac, handed back the moment you need it.
| Smart Jelly | Fireflies | |
|---|---|---|
| Joins your call as a bot | Never. It listens on your Mac | Fred joins by default; bot-free desktop recording on paid plans since November 2025 |
| What it remembers | Chats, mail and calls in the apps you choose, read from the screen. No accounts to connect | Your meetings; Gmail or Outlook through the Email Assistant once you connect it |
| During the call | Recall from your memory, answers from general knowledge or the web, suggestions for your own choices, ⌥Space for help now | Live Assist: notes so far, catch-up, AskFred with web search, answers from a knowledge base |
| Before the call | From your whole history with that person: chats, mail and past calls | Meeting Prep email an hour before, from past meetings with the same people |
| What you owe people | One list across every app. Each closes itself when the reply, file or meeting happens, with the proof attached | Tasks feed from meetings, ticked by hand or pushed to Asana, Trello or Monday |
| Where your history lives | On your Mac, encrypted | Cloud, encrypted |
| Model training | What is sent to answer a question is never used to train any model, and never stored by Smart Jelly | Says data is never used for AI training |
| Platforms | Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14+) | Mac, Windows, web, iPhone, Android, Chrome |
| Teams | Personal: built for one person’s memory | Channels, conversation intelligence, CRM sync, SSO/SCIM, HIPAA |
A tick marks the side that does more on that row. Where Fireflies’s documentation says nothing, we say “not documented” rather than guess.
No. It reads what’s on your screen in the apps you choose, so there’s nothing to connect and no account access to revoke later.
Its cards draw on your memory of everything, not only past meetings: what was said on WhatsApp last week, what you promised by email. It also answers general questions and suggests how to answer ones about your own work.
Yes, there’s a free plan, with paid plans for heavier use.
Compiled from Fireflies’s publicly documented behaviour, 5 October 2026. These products ship fast — check their own site before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.