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Bluedot
Bot-free meeting recorder and AI note taker that runs as a browser extension
As of 31 August 2026, Bluedot has a free plan and paid plans start at $14/month. Records Google Meet, Zoom and Teams from the browser rather than joining as a visible participant, and lets you edit the resulting video by deleting words from the transcript. Softwr lists it under Productivity. Bluedot is available on Web, Chrome, macOS, Windows.
Overview
What Bluedot does
Bluedot is a Chrome extension and desktop application that captures online meetings without dialling a bot into the call. It transcribes, produces summaries against templates for sales calls, customer check-ins, interviews and Q&A sessions, and includes a transcript-driven video editor where deleting a sentence from the text removes the corresponding footage from the recording. Notes push into CRM and applicant tracking systems on the higher tier. Two things distinguish it commercially. The first is bot-free capture, which matters in client-facing and recruitment settings where a visible third-party participant prompts a consent conversation and often a refusal. The second is the seat model: pricing is per workspace with charges applying only to users who actually record, so a team of thirty where four people run the calls does not pay thirty seats. Most competitors charge for everyone with an account, and for organisations where note reading is widespread and note taking is not, that difference decides the total bill. Pricing is published in full, from a free tier of five lifetime meetings to Business at $32 a month billed annually. The distinctions between tiers are unusually consequential: Basic at $14 records audio only and caps recordings at one hour, so anything longer or anything needing video requires Pro at $20. The retention policy also deserves attention before adoption, because cancelling ends access immediately and recordings are permanently deleted thirty days later, which makes Bluedot a poor place to hold a meeting archive you may need after the relationship ends.
What people use it for
- A sales team where prospects decline to admit recording bots but the manager still needs call notes in the CRM
- A recruiter conducting interviews who wants a structured summary per candidate without a visible third party in the call
- A customer success team of thirty where only four people run calls, so per-recorder pricing costs a fraction of a per-seat competitor
- Cutting a short clip from a long call to share internally, done by deleting text from the transcript rather than opening a video editor
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Bluedot.
- Cancelling ends access immediately and recordings are permanently deleted after thirty days, so the product is unsuitable as a meeting archive and any record you need to keep must be exported before the subscription lapses.
- The Basic tier at $14 records audio only and caps recordings at one hour, which excludes most workshops, training sessions and long client calls and pushes anyone with real meetings to Pro.
- The free tier gives five meetings in total rather than five a month, so it functions as an extended trial and cannot be used as a genuine free option for occasional users.
- Recording without a visible bot removes the prompt that alerts participants, but not the consent obligation in jurisdictions requiring all parties to agree, and the product design makes that omission easy to overlook.
- It is a small independent vendor in a category where Zoom, Microsoft and Google now bundle equivalent summarisation into subscriptions customers already hold, which is sustained pressure on both pricing and survival.
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Otter.ai: A larger established option with a more generous free tier and wider integrations, but it joins calls as a visible participant
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tl;dv: Comparable recorded-meeting review with clips and CRM push, aimed squarely at sales teams
Pricing
What Bluedot costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 5 meetings in total, not per month
- Chrome extension and desktop and mobile apps
- Basic integrations
Basic
$14 /mo
- Unlimited audio meetings
- One hour maximum per recording
- Webhook access
- $18 a month if billed monthly
Pro
$20 /mo
- Video meetings as well as audio
- No recording duration limit
- Custom templates
- Zoom and Google Drive imports
- $25 a month if billed monthly
Business
$32 /mo
- CRM and applicant tracking integrations
- SSO and SCIM
- Admin controls
- Unlimited imports
- $39 a month if billed monthly
Capabilities
Features
Bot-free capture
Records from the browser or desktop so no extra participant appears in the meeting
Transcript-based video editing
Delete words or paragraphs from the transcript and the video trims to match
Custom note templates
Summary formats for sales calls, interviews, customer check-ins and research
Record-only seat pricing
Charges apply per user who records rather than per person with access
CRM and ATS push
Notes and summaries written into CRM and applicant tracking systems on the Business tier
Imports
Upload existing recordings from a computer, Google Drive or other sources for transcription
Webhooks
Programmatic delivery of transcripts and summaries from the Basic tier upwards
SSO and SCIM
Single sign-on and directory provisioning with admin controls on Business
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Does Bluedot join the meeting as a bot?
No. It captures through the browser extension or desktop app, so no additional participant is visible to anyone in the call.
How is it priced?
Per workspace, with charges only for users who record. Free covers five meetings in total, Basic is $14, Pro is $20 and Business is $32 a month on annual billing.
What happens to my recordings if I cancel?
Access ends at cancellation and recordings are permanently deleted after thirty days. Export anything you need to keep before you cancel.
Can I record video, not just audio?
Only from the Pro tier. Basic is audio only and limits each recording to one hour.
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