The best Bluedot alternatives for bot-free recording

For bot-free recording on a Mac with video and no per-meeting limits, Koi records the call on your Mac and keeps the transcript and the audio or video there. For a free cloud notetaker, tl;dv and Fathom give far more than Bluedot's 5 free meetings. Jamie keeps the no-bot approach with data in the EU, and MeetGeek and Tactiq suit teams that live in a CRM.

We make Koi, so read this with that in mind. Koi is Mac only, writes You and Them rather than speaker names, and has no CRM, ATS or team features. Every fact about another app comes from its own site, checked October 21, 2026. We didn't run tests.

Bluedot records meetings without a bot: its homepage says it never invites a bot to your meeting or asks for calendar access. You record with a Chrome extension for Google Meet and calls in the browser, with its Mac and Windows apps, or with its iPhone, Android and Apple Watch apps for meetings in person. It transcribes and summarizes in 100+ languages, and takes uploaded audio and video files too.

Recordings go to Bluedot's cloud. Its security page says data is stored on AWS, encrypted in transit and at rest, with EU data residency supported, and is never used to train AI models. It lists a SOC 2 Type II report. Business plans can set custom retention.

Bluedot also auto-updates CRMs: its homepage shows HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Copper and Zoho, and the pricing page puts CRM and ATS integrations on Business.

Mostly the plans. On Bluedot's pricing page:

• Free is 5 meetings for the life of the account, not per month.
• Basic, $14 a user a month billed yearly or $18 monthly, is audio only and stops each recording at 1 hour.
• Video and recordings of any length start on Pro, $20 a user a month billed yearly or $25 monthly.
• CRM and ATS integrations, SSO and custom retention are on Business, $32 billed yearly or $39 monthly.
• If you cancel, you lose access to recordings, and they're deleted a month later unless you subscribe again.

The other reason is where the call goes. Bot-free means nobody sees Bluedot in the participant list, but the recording still leaves your computer and lives on Bluedot's servers.

With Bluedot's Chrome extension, for Google Meet:

1. Add the Bluedot extension to Chrome and sign in.
2. Join the call in Chrome and start recording from the extension.
3. When it ends, Bluedot uploads the recording, transcribes it and writes the notes in its cloud.

With Koi, for any call app on your Mac:

1. Tap Fn + ⌃, or click Record on Koi's dock.
2. Pick Online call, then Audio only or Audio and video.
3. The first time, allow Screen Recording for Koi in System Settings and reopen Koi, so it can hear the other side.
4. Stop from the dock, or tap Fn + ⌃ again. The call's page opens in Recents with the recording and You and Them in turns.
5. Say yes to Summarize this call? if you want notes, to-dos and a follow-up email.

From each app's own site, checked October 21, 2026.

Koi is the better pick when you're one person on a Mac who wants every call recorded, with video, without counting meetings or paying a per-seat price for it. Your recordings are files you own, and the call's page is a document you can edit or export to Word or PDF. Koi also offers to record when a call starts, briefs you before meetings, and can put the dates a call agreed on into its calendar.

With a cloud recorder, your library lives on the company's servers, so cancelling matters. Bluedot's pricing page says you lose access to recordings when you cancel, and they're permanently deleted a month later unless you restore your subscription. tl;dv deletes Free recordings after 3 months.

A local recorder works the other way round. Koi saves the audio or video and the transcript on your Mac, not on a server, so there's no cloud library to be deleted. Koi itself needs a plan to work, so export the pages you want to keep to Word or PDF while you have one. For more apps that work this way, see the best call recorders for Mac.

• Bot-free with video, kept on your Mac, no meeting limits? Koi.
• A free plan with unlimited recordings? tl;dv or Fathom.
• No bot and data kept in Europe? Jamie.
• CRM fields filled in for a sales team? MeetGeek.
• Just a live transcript in Chrome? Tactiq.

Bot-free recorders don't tell the call they're recording, so ask first. Our guide to recording Google Meet on a Mac walks through it, and Koi's plans show what each includes.