Comparison

Barnfox vs Fireflies

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

Head to head
About

Barnfox

Connect with your community, book spaces, and manage purchases. This app facilitates event participation and fosters connections among members.

Highlights
  • Room booking
  • Event management
  • Purchase tracking
  • Community connections
  • Member app
Features
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The Barnfox members app for booking rooms, events, purchases, and community connections.

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 Talk now on mobile. Tap the mic and dictate into any app, in 90+ languages. Unlimited on every plan. 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

Barnfox4 screens
Fireflies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Fireflies at 5.5K against Barnfox's 18. Fireflies also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 6 weeks). Barnfox's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs freemium). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Barnfox holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fireflies has 5.5K ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Barnfox ships an update every 6 weeks, Fireflies every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Barnfox versus Fireflies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarnfoxFireflies
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings) — better4.8 (5.5K ratings)
Positive reviews—54.2% of reviews
Number of ratings185.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB102 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBarnfox LLCFireflies.ai

Customer experience

Barnfox

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Fireflies

All ratings5,367 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive54.2%
Neutral4.6%
Negative41.2%

Bugs and requests

Barnfox

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

Barnfox

No in-app purchases

None

Fireflies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Barnfox free?
Barnfox 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, Barnfox or Fireflies?
Barnfox is rated higher. Barnfox averages 5.0 out of 5 from 18 ratings, while Fireflies averages 4.8 from 5.5K ratings.
Do Barnfox or Fireflies have ads?
Neither Barnfox nor Fireflies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Barnfox or Fireflies?
Barnfox ships an update every 6 weeks, and Fireflies every 8 days. Most recently, Barnfox was updated on November 3, 2026 and Fireflies on November 7, 2026.

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