Sopravo vs Fireflies.ai
Last updated: 8 July 2026 · Based on both products' public documentation — corrections welcome
The one-sentence difference: Fireflies works by sending a notetaker bot into your video calls and processing everything in their cloud; Sopravo records the conversation from your iPhone in the room and processes everything on the device — no bot appears in anyone's meeting, and no audio leaves your pocket.
Where the data goes
| Sopravo | Fireflies.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| How it captures | Records in the room from your iPhone | A bot participant joins your Zoom / Meet / Teams call |
| Audio processed | On your iPhone (Apple's on-device speech models) | On Fireflies' cloud servers |
| Everyone on the call knows | You record openly, like a dictaphone on the table | A visible bot participant appears in the meeting |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Works with no internet | Yes — end to end, including the AI summary | No — it is a cloud service |
| Confidential-work fit (GDPR, attorney-client, medical) | By architecture: content never reaches a third party | Depends on their terms, retention and your DPA with them |
What each does better
Choose Fireflies if you need…
- Automatic capture of remote calls: the bot attends scheduled Zoom/Meet/Teams meetings for you, even ones you skip.
- Workflow integrations: CRM sync, Slack, task managers — meeting data flowing into team tools.
- Team knowledge base: searchable cloud archive across everyone's calls, plus a free tier.
Choose Sopravo if you need…
- In-person conversations: client meetings, interviews, site visits, lectures — situations a call bot can never attend.
- No bot, no cloud, provably: everything runs on the device — see the testable network inventory. Works in airplane mode.
- Who-said-what without uploading voices: speaker separation runs locally.
- Cross-lingual summaries: an English meeting can produce its summary in German, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese — 16 languages.
- Ownership: a one-time lifetime purchase exists; notes live on your device and your own iCloud, not in a vendor account.
Pricing model
Fireflies sells per-seat cloud subscriptions with a limited free tier. Sopravo has no free tier: a 7-day full-feature trial, then a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription — or a one-time lifetime purchase. No seats, no cloud storage quotas.
The honest bottom line
If your meetings are scheduled video calls and you want them flowing automatically into team tools, Fireflies is built for exactly that. If your meetings happen in rooms — and especially if they involve clients, patients or anything under professional-secrecy obligations — a bot-and-cloud architecture is the wrong shape entirely, and an on-device recorder is the tool that fits.
Fireflies is a trademark of Fireflies.ai Corp. Sopravo is not affiliated with or endorsed by Fireflies.ai. Comparison reflects public information as of the date above; if anything here is out of date, email [email protected] and we will correct it.