Comparison

Fireflies vs IDB Digital CE

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

Head to head
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.

About

IDB Digital CE

This application streamlines the process of proving retiree and beneficiary eligibility for pension benefits. It leverages facial biometrics, liveness checks, and geo-location to securely submit a digital certificate to a blockchain, replacing a slow, paper-based system.

Highlights
  • Digital Certificate of Eligibility
  • Facial Biometric Technology
  • Liveness Check
  • Geo-location Submission
  • Secure Blockchain Storage
  • Eliminates Paper-Based Process
Features
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The current paper-based process for the IDB Certificate of Eligibility to prove a retiree's/beneficiary's eligibility for continued pension benefits caters to thousands of retirees and beneficiaries across the Americas and beyond. As it uses postal services, the process is very slow and cumbersome. The App uses facial biometric technology, liveness check, and geo-location to submit a Digital Certificate of Eligibility to a secure blockchain. Use of location makes it possible for retirees and beneficiaries in multiple countries to also use the app. All user data is stored securely either in the App or in data centres protected by IDB institutional policies. No cloud-based services are used for processing of user information. The paper-based CE will continue to be an option for retirees/beneficiaries who cannot or do not want to use the app.

Screenshots

Fireflies4 screens
IDB Digital CE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: IDB Digital CE at free against Fireflies's freemium. IDB Digital CE also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 54%). Fireflies's advantage is ratings volume (5.4K vs 307). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Fireflies against 4.8 for IDB Digital CE. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fireflies has 5.4K ratings behind it against 307, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 54% of Fireflies's written reviews are positive against 75% of IDB Digital CE's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fireflies ships an update every 8 days, IDB Digital CE weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fireflies versus IDB Digital CE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirefliesIDB Digital CE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.4K ratings) — better4.8 (307 ratings)
Positive reviews54.2% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.4K — better307
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB345 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFireflies.aiInter-American Development Bank

Customer experience

Fireflies

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

IDB Digital CE

All ratings61 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.3%
Negative4.9%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

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

IDB Digital CE

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Fireflies

No in-app purchases

None

IDB Digital CE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fireflies free?
Fireflies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IDB Digital CE free?
IDB Digital CE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fireflies or IDB Digital CE?
Fireflies is rated higher. Fireflies averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.4K ratings, while IDB Digital CE averages 4.8 from 307 ratings.
Do Fireflies or IDB Digital CE have ads?
Neither Fireflies nor IDB Digital CE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fireflies or IDB Digital CE?
Fireflies ships an update every 8 days, and IDB Digital CE weekly. Most recently, Fireflies was updated on November 3, 2026 and IDB Digital CE on November 1, 2026.

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