The best AI meeting note taker for Android in 2026

The short answer

Six of the seven have a real Android app. One of them has none.

1. Noter AI. Records the room from a phone in your pocket and sends a bot into Zoom, Teams or Meet calls. 60+ transcription languages with automatic detection, so an unplanned meeting in another language still comes out readable. Flat $9.99/month or $49.99/year.

2. Fireflies.ai. Its Android app now records in-person conversations as well as online calls, and covers 60+ languages. Priced per seat, and the deeper features assume you live in a CRM.

3. Otter.ai. The most mature Android app here and still the best live transcript to watch in real time. It transcribes 6 languages, and that number settles whether Otter works for you before any other feature matters.

4. Notta. 58 transcription languages, which sounds great until you find you have to choose the language before you hit record. No automatic detection.

5. Granola. Android arrived in July 2026 after a long Mac-and-iPhone run. It is strongest at a desk and its mobile side is still catching up. Granola Chat is iPhone-only.

6. tl;dv. Its Android app is a capture-first Lite build. You record on the phone and do the real reviewing on desktop.

7. Fathom. No Android app exists. Its mobile page lists an iOS waitlist and nothing else.

If your week mixes real rooms and video calls, the shortlist is Noter AI or Fireflies. If you never leave your desk and never leave English, Otter and Granola both work.

What an AI note taker has to get right on Android

Android recording is a harder engineering problem than iOS recording, and you can feel which apps took it seriously. Six things separate an app that captures your meeting from one that quietly stops at minute nine.

• Background recording via a foreground service. Android kills apps that go quiet. A note taker has to run recording inside a foreground service with a persistent notification, or the system reclaims it the moment you lock the screen or open Slack. Test this before you trust it: start a recording, lock the phone, use another app for ten minutes, come back.
• Battery optimisation that doesn't fight you. Aggressive OEM battery managers on Samsung, Xiaomi and OnePlus phones are the usual reason a recording ends early. Whichever app you choose, exempt it from battery optimisation in Android settings before a meeting that matters.
• A widget or shortcut you can reach fast. iOS people get Control Center. On Android the equivalent is a home-screen widget or a long-press launcher shortcut, and the difference between one tap and unlocking, finding the app and hunting for a button decides whether you catch the first two minutes of a meeting that started early.
• Google Play billing. If you subscribe inside the app, cancelling and refunding runs through Google Play. Apps that push you to a web checkout are moving that admin off their plate and onto yours.
• A Google Calendar connection. Android users overwhelmingly run Google Calendar. A note taker that only reads Outlook is useless to most of them, and a per-meeting auto-join toggle beats an all-or-nothing switch.
• Audio import from local files. Android file storage is more open than iOS, so a decent app should let you point at an M4A or MP3 already sitting in Downloads and transcribe it.

All 7 apps compared

Two columns do most of the work here. "Records in person" thins the field of anything bot-only, and "Auto-detects language" thins it again if your meetings are not all in one language. Notta's 58 languages look impressive next to Otter's 6, but you have to pick the right one in advance every time, which is exactly what you cannot do when a client switches to Spanish halfway through.

#1 Noter AI on Android

Noter AI is the app this site is about, so weigh the ranking accordingly. It sits first on an Android page for one specific reason: it is the only app here that treats the phone as the recording device and still sends a bot into your video calls, on a flat price with no seats.

Recording starts from the home screen. There is an inline recording bar on the main screen, plus a home-screen Quick Record widget and a long-press launcher shortcut if you want to skip opening the app. You can pause and resume mid-meeting. Recording runs in a foreground service, so it keeps going with the screen off or while you are in another app.

Video calls are handled by a bot. Paste a Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet link and the Noter AI bot joins the call, records, transcribes and summarises it. Connect Google Calendar and you get a per-meeting auto-join toggle and reminders, so the bot shows up to the meetings you chose and skips the rest.

Transcription covers 60+ languages with automatic detection. You never pick a language before recording. Output includes speaker labels, timestamps and tap-a-sentence synced playback, so tapping any line jumps the audio to that moment. Processing runs in the cloud through Soniox at roughly two minutes per hour of audio.

The AI output has a meeting-notes format. You get an executive summary tab and a detailed analysis tab, an AI-generated title, and a notes format that pulls out decisions and action items (there is a to-do list format too). You can chat with a single note or across every note you have, with answers streaming as they generate.

Finished notes translate into 18 languages: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.

Getting things out is straightforward. Export to PDF or Word, both saved to Downloads, or plain text, or push it through the Android share sheet. Copy to clipboard gives you plain text on Android. You can also save the raw audio file to the device. Sign in with Google, an email and password, or stay a guest; notes sync through the cloud with the iOS app on the same account. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and is not used to train AI. You can delete your account from Settings.

Version 1.4.5 requires Android 8.0 or newer. Importing an existing recording works from the in-app file picker and handles M4A, MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG and more.

The honest limits, and there are several. There is no web or desktop app, so reviewing notes happens on the phone. No CRM integrations. The Outlook calendar connection is iOS-only, so on Android you get Google Calendar and nothing else. Webex is not offered on Android, only Zoom, Teams and Meet. There is no tablet layout, just a phone layout in portrait. The interface is English-only on Android even though transcription handles 60+ languages. Audio import needs a subscription, and free recordings stop at 4 minutes 59 seconds, which is enough to judge transcript quality on a real conversation and not enough to run a work week on. Paid is $9.99/month or $49.99/year with everything included and no per-seat charge. The iOS app carries a 4.8 star rating on the App Store.

#2 Fireflies.ai: the strongest alternative on Android

Fireflies used to be strictly bot-only, and plenty of comparison articles still say so. That changed when it shipped a mobile app for iOS and Android with a one-touch record button that captures in-person conversations, interviews and voice notes directly on the phone. If you have read older reviews saying Fireflies cannot record a meeting in a room, they are out of date.

It covers 60+ transcription languages and roughly 50 integrations, including Slack, Notion, HubSpot and Salesforce. For a sales team that already runs its pipeline through a CRM, that integration depth is worth more than anything on this page.

The catch is the pricing shape. Fireflies charges per seat, so a team of eight pays eight times, and the useful tiers sit in the $10 to $19 per seat per month range. Its AI summary allowance is credit-based on the lower plans, so summaries run out. If you are one person recording your own meetings, you are paying for a team product. See the Fireflies comparison.

#3 and #4: Otter.ai and Notta

Otter.ai has the longest-running Android app in this group and it shows in the polish. Its live transcript, where words appear on screen as people speak, is still the best in the category, and it will record through your phone microphone. The problem is language coverage. Otter transcribes English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese Simplified. Six languages. If your meetings are in any of those, Otter is a solid Android choice; if they are in Arabic, Turkish, Hindi, Korean or anything else, Otter cannot help you at all. The interface and support are English-only. See the Otter.ai comparison.

Notta goes the other way with 58 transcription languages and translation into 42, which on paper is the widest coverage here after Fireflies. Then you hit the workflow. Notta has no automatic language detection, so you set the transcription language before recording starts. Get it wrong and the transcript comes back as nonsense. For a scheduled interview in a known language that is fine. For a walk-in conversation that switches languages, it is the wrong tool. Notta's free tier also stops at 3 minutes per session, and its Android app wraps the web product instead of being a native build. See the Notta comparison.

#5 and #6: Granola and tl;dv

Granola spent most of its life as a Mac app with an iPhone companion, and its Android app only landed in July 2026. The core idea is still very good: it captures system and microphone audio on the machine without sending a bot into your call, and the AI improves the notes you typed instead of overwriting them. On desktop it is one of the nicest products in this category. On Android it is young, and Granola Chat, its ask-your-notes feature, is iPhone-only for now. Choose it if your meetings happen with a laptop open in front of you and your phone is a secondary screen. See the Granola comparison.

tl;dv ships an Android app called tl;dv Mobile, described by tl;dv itself as capture-first and Lite. You record in-person conversations on the phone and the fuller AI features live on desktop. That split is a reasonable design if you already run tl;dv on a laptop all day. It is a bad fit if the phone is your only device, because the app is not built to be the place you read and search your notes. tl;dv's iOS app has a poor rating history and users have reported recordings failing, so run a low-stakes test before you rely on it. See the tl;dv comparison.

#7 Fathom has no Android app

Fathom is a genuinely good product with the most generous free plan in the category, and none of that reaches an Android phone. Its own mobile page is titled "iOS Mobile APP", carries a "Coming soon" banner and an Apple waitlist button, and mentions Android nowhere.

If you search Google Play for Fathom you will find results, but they are unrelated apps from other developers. Do not install one expecting your meeting notes. On Android today, Fathom is a browser tab. See the Fathom comparison.

Free built-in options and when they are enough

Before paying anyone, check what your phone already does. For some people the answer really is nothing more.

Google Recorder is excellent and Pixel-only. It transcribes on-device using the phone's neural processor, which means the audio never leaves the handset and it works with no signal. Search inside recordings is fast and the transcript quality on clear English speech is very good. What it does not do is act as a meeting tool. There is no AI summary pulling out decisions and action items, and no speaker-labelled export built for sharing. It will not join a Zoom or Teams call either. Google has since added a cloud-based "Transcribe again" option that reaches 42 languages, which breaks the on-device promise if you use it. If you own a Pixel, record English meetings, and just want to find what someone said later, Recorder is enough.

Samsung Voice Recorder with Galaxy AI does more. Transcribe assist produces a transcript, can translate it, and can generate a summary of a long recording, across a language list that includes Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. It needs a compatible Galaxy phone or tablet, and summaries require you to be signed into a Samsung account. Short recordings will not summarise at all.

Where both stop. Neither joins a video call or syncs your notes to another platform, and neither lets you ask questions across every meeting you have recorded. Both are also locked to one manufacturer, so moving from a Pixel to a Galaxy means starting over. They are strong voice recorders with transcription attached, which is a different product from a meeting assistant. If your meetings are occasional and personal, save the money. If you record several a week and need to find decisions and follow-ups across all of them, you will outgrow both quickly.

How to pick

There is no single right answer, so match the app to where your meetings actually happen.

Pick Noter AI if your meetings are a mix of rooms and video calls, you want one flat price with no seat maths, and your meetings are not always in English. Automatic language detection across 60+ languages is the feature that separates it here, along with the fact that the phone itself is the recorder.

Pick Fireflies if you are a team, your meetings are mostly video calls, and your notes need to land in HubSpot or Salesforce automatically. It is the better tool for a sales organisation, and its per-seat pricing makes it a poor deal for one person.

Pick Otter if you record English (or one of its other five languages), you want a live transcript on screen while people talk, and you value a long-established app over feature breadth.

Pick Notta if you need a language Otter does not have, your recordings are planned in advance, and you can reliably set the language before you press record.

Pick Granola if you work from a laptop and want notes that read like you wrote them. Its Android app is new, so treat it as a companion to the desktop app for now.

Pick nothing if you have a Pixel and take occasional English notes for yourself. Google Recorder is free and it is on your phone already.

One last piece of advice regardless of choice: test with a real meeting, not a two-minute demo. Record a genuine 45-minute conversation with several people at different distances from the microphone, lock the screen partway through, and read the transcript afterwards. That test rules out more apps than any feature list.