Fireflies vs Thinkonaut
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Thinkonaut
Capture thoughts instantly and transform them into usable content. This app generates clean transcripts, summaries, and structured insights from voice recordings, helping you move from scattered ideas to clear direction.
- Instant voice transcription
- AI-powered summaries
- Structured outlines
- Modes for Brain Dumps, Meetings, Video Ideas
- Convert notes to actionable projects
- Distraction-free interface
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Thinkonaut is where raw ideas become usable. Capture thoughts the moment they happen—then instantly transform them into something usable. Record voice notes, meetings, or creative bursts, and Thinkonaut will generate clean transcripts, summaries, and structured insights you can actually work with. Whether you’re developing a video, organizing a meeting, or building your next big idea, Thinkonaut helps you go from scattered thoughts to clear direction in seconds. Core Features: • Instant transcription from voice recordings • AI-powered summaries and structured outlines • Modes for Brain Dumps, Meetings, Video Ideas, and more • Turn notes into actionable projects • Clean, distraction-free interface built for thinking Stop losing good ideas. Start building them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Fireflies at Free against Thinkonaut's $1.99. Fireflies also leads on ratings volume (5.4K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.2). On rating, update cadence, 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
Fireflies is free to download; Thinkonaut costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thinkonaut holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fireflies has 5.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Fireflies ships an update every 8 days, Thinkonaut every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fireflies | Thinkonaut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fireflies.ai | Ben White |
Bugs and 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
Thinkonaut
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fireflies
No in-app purchases
Thinkonaut
No in-app purchases
