Comparison

Fireflies vs Setup Vault

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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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

About

Setup Vault

Features
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Setup Vault is a digital setup management platform built for machinists and machine shops. Stop relying on scattered photos, handwritten notes, folders, and tribal knowledge. Setup Vault gives your team one organized place to document, manage, and retrieve critical CNC setup information. Capture the information you need to repeat a job confidently, whether you're on the shop floor, programming a machine, or preparing the next setup. Key Features Create and organize CNC machine setups Store setup photos and drawings Record tooling and cutting parameters Add written or voice setup notes Maintain machine, material, tool, and fixture libraries Quickly search previous setups Track setup history and changes Use Machinist Copilot for tooling, feeds & speeds, and machining questions Keep valuable setup knowledge accessible to your team Setup Vault is designed for CNC machinists, programmers, manufacturing engineers, supervisors, and machine shops running Swiss machines, lathes, mills, and other CNC equipment. Document it once. Find it fast. Run it again. Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Fireflies4 screens
Setup Vault4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fireflies at none against Setup Vault's 2. On price, ads, 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. Setup Vault sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Fireflies asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Fireflies versus Setup Vault: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirefliesSetup Vault
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews54.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFireflies.aiARCFORGELLC

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

Setup Vault

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Fireflies

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Setup Vault

Subscriptions2
  • SV Monthly$14.991 Month
  • SV_Pro_Annual$149.991 Year

Questions

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

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