# Fireflies.ai alternative. Meet Brifo

Fireflies is built for sales teams that live in Salesforce or HubSpot and don't mind a bot showing up in their meetings. Brifo is built for Mac-first knowledge workers who want bot-free local capture and Jira-ready action items. Different audiences.

## What is Fireflies.ai?

CRM-first bot that drops into your meetings, transcribes them, and pushes summaries into Salesforce or HubSpot. Built for sales orgs.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Pricing:** 800 mins storage per seat, unlimited transcription, basic features; Pro $18/seat/mo. Business $29/seat/mo. Enterprise $39/seat/mo.
- **Platforms:** web, ios, android, chrome-extension
- **Capture model:** bot
- **Integrations:** Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive, Slack, Notion, Asana, Trello, Microsoft Teams

## Cons of Fireflies.ai
- Joins meetings as a bot called 'Fred'. Disruptive. Hosts sometimes kick it.
- Audio uploads to Fireflies' cloud. Privacy risk for sensitive calls.
- No Mac-native desktop app. Web only.
- Setup per meeting platform required (calendar integration, bot permissions)
- Pricing escalates fast. $18/seat for Pro adds up across a team.
- Limited engineering integrations. No Jira-first workflow.

## Why Brifo
- No bot in the meeting. Other participants see exactly what they'd see without Brifo running.
- Audio captured locally on macOS, never uploaded.
- Auto-detects every meeting platform. No per-platform setup.
- Free during public beta. No seat-based pricing.
- Native Jira, Linear, and OpenProject integration for engineering teams.
- Meeting Q&A chat similar to AskFred, without the bot and cloud audio model.

## Honest tradeoffs (Fireflies.ai wins on)
- Fireflies has web, iOS, Android. Brifo is macOS only.
- No native CRM integration. We focus on engineering and PM workflows.
- No conversation intelligence (sentiment, deal scoring). We prioritize notes and tasks over sales analytics.

## Long-form
Fireflies.ai serves sales-led organizations well. The Salesforce and HubSpot integrations are genuinely deep and AskFred is a useful conversation-search tool. But the architecture has two costs that matter more every year. Every call has a bot named 'Fred' attached to it, and every minute of audio uploads to Fireflies' cloud. For sensitive conversations (legal, healthcare, customer escalations, anything under NDA), those costs are dealbreakers. Brifo solves both by capturing system audio locally on macOS, processing only the transcript in the cloud, and never adding a bot to the meeting. The trade is that our integrations are engineering-first (Jira, Linear, OpenProject), not CRM-first. If you're a PM, engineering lead, founder, or consultant, that probably matches your stack. If you're a Salesforce-centric AE, Fireflies' CRM hooks are still deeper.

## FAQ
**Is Brifo a Fireflies alternative?**

Yes, for Mac users who don't need CRM integrations. Brifo replaces Fireflies' bot model with local system-audio capture (no bot joins the call) and replaces the Salesforce/HubSpot focus with Jira, Linear, and OpenProject for engineering and PM teams.

**Does Brifo have a chatbot like AskFred?**

Yes. Brifo includes Meeting Q&A chat where you can ask questions across all past meetings. 'What did we decide about pricing in the last three calls?' returns the relevant exchange. Functionally similar to AskFred, without the bot-in-meeting and cloud-audio architecture.

**Is Brifo cheaper than Fireflies?**

Yes. Brifo is free during public beta. Fireflies starts at $18/seat/mo for Pro features.

**Does Brifo integrate with Salesforce or HubSpot?**

Not natively today. Brifo focuses on engineering and product workflows (Jira, Linear, OpenProject). For Salesforce-heavy sales teams, Fireflies' CRM integration is currently deeper.

**Will participants see a Brifo bot in my meeting like Fred?**

No. Brifo captures macOS system audio locally. There's no bot, no extension, nothing in the call. Participants see exactly the same Zoom, Meet, or Teams meeting they'd see without Brifo running.

**Why switch from Fireflies to Brifo?**

Top reasons: no bot in the meeting, audio never leaves your Mac, Jira and Linear action items for engineering teams, free during beta. If you need Salesforce integration, Fireflies still wins.