Fathom vs. Read AI Comparison


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About Fathom is an AI notetaking platform that records, transcribes, summarizes, and organizes meetings so users can stay focused on the conversation. The platform supports bot-based and bot-free capture, giving individuals and teams flexible ways to capture meeting notes. Fathom provides accurate transcripts, instant summaries, action items, follow-up details, and searchable meeting history. Users can ask questions across meetings, monitor key topics, and turn conversations into next steps for sales, customer success, marketing, and internal teams. Fathom integrates with tools such as Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Asana, ChatGPT, Claude, Zapier, and public API or MCP workflows. Built for teams and individuals, Fathom helps reduce meeting admin, improve follow-through, and keep important decisions visible.		About AI-generated summaries, transcripts, playback, and highlights to make your meetings more efficient and effective. By incorporating your engagement in meetings, Read accurately identifies the topics that matters most to you, and automatically summarizes those topics into a feed on your For You Page. With Read Workspace, create teams with customized sharing to make every meeting a coachable moment, automatically. Read isn't just one person's opinion – it's a smart, automated tool that uses data from millions of interactions to provide insight. And it doesn't just look at what people say – it also takes into account visual cues to get a complete picture. Analytics without actionability is useless. Read’s AI learns from past meetings to make turn-by-turn recommendations to improve existing meetings and setup future meetings for success. Read works with your preferred video conferencing and calendar solutions.
Why Fathom is Better than Read AI Fathom is better than Read AI for teams that want a dedicated meeting-recording and note-taking solution without introducing a broader enterprise-search and meeting-analytics platform. Read AI combines transcripts and summaries with engagement metrics, speaker coaching, recommendations, and search across meetings, emails, messages, CRM data, and documents. Fathom keeps the workflow centered on accurate transcripts, customizable summaries, action items, follow-up drafts, CRM updates, and searchable meeting content. Its focused interface and unlimited free recordings and storage can make adoption simpler for teams primarily trying to eliminate manual meeting administration. See more
Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported		Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Supported Android Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Fathom is best suited for individuals, sales teams, marketing teams, customer success teams, leadership teams, project teams, remote teams, operations teams, and organizations that need AI meeting notes, bot-free meeting capture, transcripts, summaries, action items, searchable conversations, topic monitoring, CRM updates, ChatGPT and Claude integrations, and meeting workflow automation		Audience Companies and professionals interested in an AI-powered solution for AI-generated summaries, transcripts, playback, and highlights to make meetings more efficient
Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported		Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Not Supported		API Offers API Not Supported
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Pricing Free Free Version Supported Free Trial Not Supported		Pricing $19.75 per user per month Enterprise+ version is 29.75/user/month (paid annually) Data Residency outside of the US is an additional $100/user one time setup fee Free Version Supported Free Trial Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews		Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
Pros from Real Users Pros As someone who spends nearly every day on Zoom calls, Fathom has truly been a game-changer for me. It seamlessly integrates with my meetings and provides invaluable insights that make my day-to-day so much more productive. Fathom records my Zoom meetings automatically, which is a huge time-saver. I never have to worry about forgetting to hit record or losing important details. The highlights feature is particularly useful; it captures key moments of the meeting, so I can easily jump back to specific parts without scrubbing through the entire recording. The transcription is accurate, and the search function makes it so much easier to find exactly what I need. It also integrates well with my existing workflow, which has made a huge difference in reducing friction.
Training Documentation Not Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported		Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Supported
Company Information Fathom.ai Founded: 2020 United States www.fathom.ai/		Company Information Read AI Founded: 2021 United States www.read.ai/
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Categories AI Meeting Assistants Supported AI Productivity Supported AI Sales Assistants Supported AI Sales Tools Supported AI Tools Supported Call Recording Supported Conversation Intelligence Supported Productivity Supported Sales Coaching Supported Transcription Supported		Categories AI Meeting Assistants Supported AI Summarizers Supported AI Tools Supported Meeting Supported Transcription Supported
		Transcription Features AI / Machine Learning Supported Annotations Supported Audio/Video File Upload Supported Automatic Transcription Supported Collaboration Tools Supported File Sharing Not Supported For Manual Transcription Not Supported Full Text Search Supported Multi-Language Support Supported Natural Language Processing (NLP) Supported Playback Controls Supported Speech Recognition Supported Subtitles Not Supported Text Editor Not Supported Timecoding Not Supported Show More Features Meeting Features Action Item Tracking Supported Agenda Management Supported Attendee Management Supported Board Meetings Supported Committee Meetings Supported Internal Meetings Supported Invitation Management Not Supported Legislative Meetings Supported Materials Management Not Supported Meeting Feedback Supported Meeting Preparation Tools Supported Meeting Room Booking Not Supported Minutes Management Supported Post-Meeting Tools Supported Scheduling Not Supported Travel Management Not Supported Voting Management Not Supported
Integrations Asana Supported Google Meet Supported HubSpot CRM Supported Management OS Supported Microsoft Teams Supported Notion Supported Salesforce Supported Slack Supported Tadata Supported Zapier Supported Zoom Supported alfred_ Supported Confluence Not Supported Dock Supported FollowClose Supported Gmail Supported Google Docs Supported Google Drive Not Supported Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported readywhen Supported Show More Integrations View All 22 Integrations		Integrations Asana Supported Google Meet Supported HubSpot CRM Supported Management OS Supported Microsoft Teams Supported Notion Supported Salesforce Supported Slack Supported Tadata Supported Zapier Supported Zoom Supported alfred_ Supported Confluence Supported Dock Not Supported FollowClose Not Supported Gmail Not Supported Google Docs Not Supported Google Drive Supported Model Context Protocol (MCP) Not Supported readywhen Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 18 Integrations
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