Comparison

LabJAM vs Fireflies

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

Head to head
About

LabJAM

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Access the most up-to-date ASCLS-AGT-SAFMLS Joint Annual Meeting information from your smartphone or tablet with the LabJAM App. View session descriptions, speaker bios and handouts. Learn about industry participants, plan your networking events, and get alerts about important meeting news. You can also create your own personal JAM schedule, set up meetings with exhibitors and colleagues, and follow your friends social posts about the meeting.

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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Meet Fred, your AI teammate from Fireflies. Fred takes your meeting notes, preps you for every meeting, tracks your tasks, and types what you say in any app. Record any conversation in one tap, in person or on a call, and get the transcript, summary and action items in seconds. NEW: FIREFLIES TALK Say it instead of typing it. Tap the mic on the Fireflies Keyboard and clean, punctuated text lands in any app: Messages, Mail, Slack, Notes and more. 90+ languages. Unlimited on every plan. Talk requires iOS 18 or later. RECORD AND TRANSCRIBE ANYWHERE • One tap to record in-person meetings, interviews, lectures and coffee chats • Invite the Fireflies notetaker to your Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls from your calendar • Accurate transcripts in 100+ languages, with speaker labels, ready in seconds SUMMARIES YOU CAN ACT ON • AI summaries organized by topic, with action items and key decisions • Search across every meeting to find exactly what was said • Clip soundbites and share the moments that matter YOUR AI TEAMMATE, EVERY DAY • Daily Brief: start each morning with action items, topics and open questions from your meetings • Meeting Prep: see what happened last time and what's still open before your next call • Tasks: action items tracked automatically from every conversation ASK FRED ANYTHING, OR PUT FRED IN CHARGE • Ask Fred anything about one meeting or all of them • Answers link to the exact moment it was said • Put Fred in charge of the busy work: draft a follow-up, update your CRM, prep you for a call, or summarize your week WORKS WITH YOUR TOOLS • Send notes to Slack, Notion, your CRM and more PRIVACY AND SECURITY Fireflies Talk: Dictations are stored on the user’s device. Fireflies doesn’t keep a copy, and no one else at Fireflies or in the user’s workspace can see them. Dictations are never used to train models. Fireflies is SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and HIPAA compliant, and ISO/IEC 42001 certified. Questions? support@fireflies.ai

Screenshots

LabJAM3 screens
Fireflies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Fireflies at none against LabJAM's shown. Fireflies also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 26 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LabJAM ships an update every 26 months, Fireflies every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LabJAM versus Fireflies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLabJAMFireflies
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (5.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews—54.1% of reviews
Number of ratings—5.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 26 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB117 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAmerican Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)Fireflies.ai

Bugs and requests

LabJAM

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

LabJAM

No in-app purchases

None

Fireflies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LabJAM free?
LabJAM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fireflies free?
Fireflies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LabJAM or Fireflies have ads?
LabJAM shows ads; Fireflies does not.
Which is updated more often, LabJAM or Fireflies?
LabJAM ships an update every 26 months, and Fireflies every 2 weeks. Most recently, LabJAM was updated on November 7, 2026 and Fireflies on November 14, 2026.

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