Read AI
the only one that lets the other people in the meeting opt out of being recorded.
alone in this ranking in giving non-hosts a way out — which also means it's collecting on everyone who doesn't take it.
read notifies participants that the meeting is being measured and gives them an opportunity to opt out, which they do by typing 'opt out' in the chat. across fourteen tools that is the only product-level consent mechanism for people who didn't choose the software, and it's the reason this ranks fourth despite weaker answers elsewhere.
the design implies presence in the call rather than silent device capture, so unlike granola or bluedot there's something to notice. the mechanism does fail where meeting chat is disabled or unsupported, and the vendor says so.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai meeting notetakers
- pricing
- $15/user/mo
- website
- read.ai
alone in this ranking in giving non-hosts a way out — which also means it's collecting on everyone who doesn't take it.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.