Zoom AI Companion vs a third-party note taker: is it worth switching?
Stay with Zoom's built-in summaries if every meeting you care about is a Zoom meeting you host on a paid plan; switch when your calls are also on Meet, Teams or Lark, when you want the notes as your own files, or when you need memory across meetings. Zoom's AI features are included at no extra cost on paid Zoom Workplace plans, produce a recap with action items after each meeting, and are not available on the free plan; they only see Zoom meetings and store the summaries in Zoom's cloud. Audiee sits on your Mac and records whatever you hear: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Lark, a phone on speaker, an in-person conversation. It writes transcript and summary as Markdown you can open in any editor, files them into a knowledge base you can ask questions of, recognizes Mandarin and Cantonese mixed with English, and dictates into any app. Three meeting hours a month come free. Zoom's summary is a good default for Zoom-only teams; Audiee is the better tool for people whose day spans platforms.
Checked September 2026. Numbers about other products link to the page they came from.
Key facts
- Zoom AI Companion features: included on paid Zoom Workplace plans, not on Free; Zoom meetings only (checked September 2026).
- Audiee: Zoom, Meet, Teams, Lark auto-detected; Ctrl+M for anything else; Free 3 h/month.
- Storage: Zoom keeps summaries in Zoom's cloud; Audiee writes Markdown to your Mac.
- Audiee also: speaker detection on Zoom, Mandarin/Cantonese, memory with citations, MCP.
Who this fits
Zoom-only hosts on a paid plan can stay. Consultants, salespeople and anyone attending other people's Meet and Teams calls benefit from a Mac-side recorder.
Next step
Read Zoom meeting notes on Mac without a bot, then run Audiee alongside Zoom's summary on one call.