Enzo vs Fireflies
A Fireflies alternative with no bot in the room.
Enzo is your own AI assistant for Mac. Dictation, meeting recording, speaker labels and meeting notes are free, and capture runs on your Mac. Chat answers from your own work with cloud AI, and Plus adds all your history, Medium and High effort, about 6× the AI usage and sending for $10 a month.
Respect first, then the difference.
Fireflies is one of the most capable meeting note-takers there is. Its bot joins your calls, transcribes them, writes AI summaries, and files everything into a searchable, shareable workspace with CRM integrations. For teams that live in that workflow, it genuinely delivers.
Where Enzo is different
Unlimited free voice typing
Speak into the Mac apps you already use. Free has no word limit or expiry, and keeps your recordings, transcripts and speaker labels.
Help throughout your day
Ask a question, attach a document, use your current screen, or draft a follow-up. Chat answers from your own work and shows its sources.
Meetings you can revisit
Enzo records meeting audio on your Mac without a bot, with separate speaker labels. On every plan it writes notes after your meetings, a brief before them and follow-ups after them.
Recall is your choice
Opt in to let Enzo remember what you worked on. Recall stays encrypted on your Mac, and you can pause it or delete it any time.
Private by design
Transcription and Recall run on your Mac, and your history is stored only there. Chat sends only the context a question needs to Enzo’s cloud AI. Enzo’s service keeps none of it, and the AI provider keeps it only briefly to check for abuse.
Free, or Plus for $10
Free has no time limit. Plus adds all your history, Medium and High effort, about 6× the AI usage and replies sent from Enzo, with a 14-day free trial. Cancel anytime.
Sits in on every meeting.
Enzo records from your Mac and labels who said what. No bot joins the call.
Side by side
As of June 2026. Check fireflies.ai for their current plans.
| Feature | Enzo | Fireflies |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; Plus $10/mo; Pro $20/mo | Free tier; Pro ~$10–18/mo; up to $39/user/mo |
| How it captures | Records on your Mac, no bot | Bot joins the meeting |
| Where audio is processed | On your Mac | On their servers |
| Usage limits | None for recording; AI within your plan | Minutes and AI credits per plan |
| Works as a guest | Yes, any meeting you can hear | Host or invite permitting the bot |
| Platforms | Mac (Apple Silicon) | Cross-platform, web |
What Fireflies does better
Team workspace and integrations
Shared meeting libraries, channels, comments, and CRM integrations like Salesforce and HubSpot. Fireflies is built for a team operating on meetings together; Enzo is built for your Mac.
Cross-meeting AI and team workflows
Fireflies can answer across calls and feed a shared workspace with action items and integrations. Enzo keeps the verbatim record on your Mac and answers across your saved recordings and Recall in Chat.
Works from anything
Phone, web, Windows. Enzo is Mac-only by design.
If your whole team runs on shared AI meeting notes, Fireflies earns its seats, honestly. If you want your own meetings transcribed accurately, privately, on your own machine, with no meter running, that's what I built Enzo for.
Questions, answered.
What is free in Enzo?
Free has no time limit: unlimited dictation in any app, even offline; unlimited meeting recording with no bot, and who said what by name; notes, briefs and follow-ups; answers at Low effort about your meetings, apps and work from today and your last working day; every connected app; replies drafted for you to copy; and AI usage that renews every 5 hours, within a weekly limit. Your history stays on your Mac.
What does Plus add?
Answers from all your history, Medium and High effort, about 6× Free’s AI usage, and replies and messages sent from Enzo. Plus is $10 a month or $100 a year, with a 14-day free trial.
How does the Plus trial work?
Start it from Enzo, in Settings, Plan. Checkout asks for a card and charges nothing today. Plus is yours for 14 days, then your card is charged unless you cancel before the trial ends.
What stays on my Mac, and what uses the internet?
Recordings, transcripts, chats and Recall stay on your Mac, and transcription runs there, so dictation and recording work offline. Enzo uses the internet to sign you in, download models and updates, search the web, send anonymous usage statistics you can turn off, and run its AI features, which send text, never audio, through Enzo’s service to an AI provider. Enzo’s service keeps none of it, and the provider keeps it only briefly to check for abuse.
How is recording history different from Recall?
Saved recordings stay in Speak on every plan. Recall is a separate, optional timeline of the apps and text you worked with, encrypted on your Mac and deleted after 30 days unless you choose another period. On Free, Chat’s answers reach today and your last working day; Plus and Pro reach all your history.
Coming soon to your Mac.
Free, with no time limit. Try Plus free for 14 days when you want more.
Coming soonFor Macs with Apple silicon on macOS 15 or later.