Comparison

Fireflies vs Refyner

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

Refyner

Features
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Refyner is your second brain for content — capture the ideas that strike you, and turn any one of them into a polished, ready-to-publish LinkedIn post in a single message. CAPTURE ANYTHING Drop a thought, a link, or a voice note into your brain. Refyner remembers it, connects the dots, and surfaces the themes worth posting about. DRAFT IN ONE MESSAGE Start from a rough idea and Refyner writes a real first draft instantly — then refines it with you through a quick back-and-forth until it lands. SOUNDS LIKE YOU A one-time voice assessment maps how you actually write. Every draft is shaped to your tone, so it never reads generic or AI-written. POLISHED & READY TO PUBLISH Preview your post exactly as it will look on LinkedIn, tweak it, add an image, and publish — right from the app. BUILD A LASTING PRESENCE Track your consistency, content mix, and momentum over time. Showing up is the whole game — Refyner helps you keep showing up. Stop staring at a blank page. Capture the thought, refine it, publish it. Refyner Basic is an auto-renewable monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://refyner.me/terms Privacy Policy: https://refyner.me/privacy

Screenshots

Fireflies4 screens
Refyner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fireflies at none against Refyner's 1. Fireflies also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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. Refyner sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $29.99 per month. Fireflies asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fireflies versus Refyner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirefliesRefyner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFireflies.aiBuidly Labs SRL

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

Refyner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Fireflies

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Refyner

Subscriptions1
  • Basic$29.991 Month

Questions

Is Fireflies free?
Fireflies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Refyner free?
Refyner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fireflies or Refyner have ads?
Neither Fireflies nor Refyner shows ads.

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