The best AI meeting note taker for Android in 2026

The short answer

Noter AI records the room and joins your calls from one Android app. Fathom has no Android app at all.

1. Noter AI. Records the room from a phone in your pocket and sends a bot into Zoom, Teams, Meet or Webex calls. 60+ transcription languages with automatic detection, so an unplanned meeting in another language still comes out readable. Flat $9.99/month or $69.99/year.

2. Fireflies.ai. Its Android app now records in-person conversations as well as online calls, and covers 100+ languages. Priced per seat, and the deeper features assume you live in a CRM.

3. Otter.ai. A long-running Android app with a live transcript. 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.

5. Granola. Android arrived in July 2026 after a long Mac-and-iPhone run. Its mobile side is still catching up.

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

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, Noter AI covers both in one app at one flat price.

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 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, and you can start recording from the home-screen Quick Record widget or a long-press launcher shortcut. 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, Google Meet or Webex 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 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.

Transcripts can be translated into other languages. The summary, analysis and action items come in the meeting's language automatically, or in the language you choose (English, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi).

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 1.5.7 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.

Plans and pricing. Google Calendar sync is built in. There's a free plan to try the app, and a free trial on every subscription. Paid is $9.99/month or $69.99/year with everything included and no per-seat charge. The iOS app is rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store (checked 13 October 2026).

#2 Fireflies.ai 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 100+ transcription languages and roughly 50 integrations, including Slack, Notion, HubSpot and Salesforce.

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 free plan limits AI summaries, and extra AI features run on monthly credits even on paid plans. 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 a long-running Android app with a live transcript, 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 works; if they are in Arabic, Turkish, Hindi, Korean or anything else, Otter cannot help you at all. See the Otter.ai comparison.

Notta goes the other way with 58 transcription languages and translation into 42, which on paper is among the widest coverage here. Then you hit the workflow. Notta's help docs have 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. 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. It captures system and microphone audio on the machine without sending a bot into your call, and the AI builds on the notes you typed. On Android it is young. 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 read the transcripts and summaries on the web. 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 cannot show transcripts or summaries. See the tl;dv comparison.

#7 Fathom has no Android app

Fathom does not reach Android phones. 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, there is no Fathom app at all. 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 free 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. What it does not do is act as a meeting tool. It will not join a Zoom or Teams call. 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. 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. 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.