Comparison

Doc vs Fireflies

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Doc

This HIPAA-compliant app allows physicians to dictate patient notes, save drafts, and submit them for transcription. Completed reports can be viewed and electronically signed for chart completion.

Highlights
  • HIPAA compliant dictation
  • Save dictations as drafts
  • Submit for transcription
  • View completed reports
  • Electronic signature for documents
Features
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Doc-U-Scribe is a HIPAA compliant dictation and transcription app that enables physicians to dictate patient notes, save incomplete dictations as drafts and submit completed dictations for transcription. Once transcribed, physicians can view the completed reports and optionally they can also e-sign documents for chart completion.

About

Fireflies

This AI-powered tool automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes your voice conversations and meetings. It allows you to search through transcripts, extract key information like action items, and collaborate with your team by sharing soundbites and insights. Analyze meeting performance to improve various business processes.

Highlights
  • Automatic meeting recording and transcription
  • AI-powered search for key topics and action items
  • Meeting summarization in minutes
  • Integration with video conferencing and collaboration apps
  • Conversation intelligence for performance analysis
  • Create and share meeting soundbites
Features
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Fireflies.ai helps your team transcribe, summarize, search, and analyze voice conversations. Automatically record and transcribe meetings - Transcribe meetings across several video-conferencing apps, dialers, and audio files. - Easily invite Fireflies.ai notetaker to meetings on your calendar. - Fireflies captures video + audio and generates transcripts in minutes. - Integrates with apps like Google Meet, Zoom, Teams, Webex, RingCentral, Aircall, and other platforms. Find anything with AI-powered search - Review a 1-hour meeting in 5 minutes. - With 1 click, see action items, tasks, questions, and other key metrics. - Filter and listen to key topics discussed in your meetings. Collaborate with your co-workers - Create soundbites and easily share the most memorable moments from meetings. - Use AskFred to answer questions, summarize key moments, or create content. - Send meeting notes to your favorite collaboration apps like Slack, Notion, Asana, and more. Analyze meetings using Conversation Intelligence - Track speaker talk time, sentiment, monologues, and other key metrics to coach teammates. - Identify objections, competitors, and other topics that you can customize. - Measure performance and improve your sales, recruiting, and internal processes.

Screenshots

Doc4 screens
Fireflies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fireflies at 4.8 against Doc's 3.0. Fireflies also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (5.3K vs 5). Doc's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fireflies holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fireflies has 5.3K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Doc's written reviews are positive against 55% of Fireflies's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Doc ships an update every 3 months, Fireflies every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Doc versus Fireflies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDocFireflies
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (5 ratings)4.8 (5.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews54.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings55.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSainceFireflies.ai

Customer experience

Doc

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Fireflies

All ratings5,262 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews130 reviews
Positive54.6%
Neutral4.6%
Negative40.8%

Bugs and requests

Doc

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Fireflies

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes during live recordings
  • Recordings disappearing after upload
  • Inability to log in from iPhone
  • Transcription failures for some meetings

Requested features

4 requests
  • On-device settings for audio controls
  • Automatic meeting title generation
  • Improved summarization of key contributions
  • Standalone login option without calendar access

In-app purchases

None

Doc

No in-app purchases

None

Fireflies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Doc free?
Doc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fireflies free?
Fireflies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Doc or Fireflies?
Fireflies is rated higher. Doc averages 3.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Fireflies averages 4.8 from 5.3K ratings.
Do Doc or Fireflies have ads?
Neither Doc nor Fireflies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Doc or Fireflies?
Doc ships an update every 3 months, and Fireflies every 2 weeks. Most recently, Doc was updated on October 8, 2026 and Fireflies on October 19, 2026.

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