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Zoom's built-in AI is genuinely good — inside paid Zoom. Reline records any meeting — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or in-person — bot-free on your own device, then turns it into citation-backed summaries in a collaborative Notion-style notepad. 60+ languages, free to start, no Zoom license required.
Choose Reline if you want AI notes for every meeting — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or in-person — captured bot-free on your device, with collaborative Notion-style notes, citation-backed summaries, and 60+ languages. Choose Zoom's built-in AI (formerly AI Companion) if you already pay for Zoom Workplace and want unlimited summaries at no extra cost, natively in-meeting.
What Reline does that Zoom's AI doesn't.
First, the name: Zoom retired the AI Companion brand in mid-2026 — per Zoom's blog, the features live on as Meeting Summary and My Notes, with the agentic ZoomMate add-on on top. This page compares Reline against that whole stack. Zoom's pitch is unlimited AI included with paid Zoom Workplace; Reline's is one notepad for every meeting on every platform — captured bot-free on your device, summarized with citations, and edited together by your whole team.
Records any meeting — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or in-person — bot-free on your device, with no Zoom license required.
No visible bot, ever: per Zoom's docs, its AI joins Meet and Teams calls as a Zoom-branded participant everyone can see. Reline never joins the call.
Notes are a collaborative Notion-style doc your whole team can edit — Zoom summaries can only be edited by the meeting host.
Citation-backed summaries — every point links back to the moment it was said in the transcript.
Transcription in 60+ languages, versus 32 for Zoom meeting summaries and 9 for My Notes (per Zoom).
Reusable AI Lenses and multi-note rollups — weekly digests, quarterly research, executive summaries.
RAG chat across notes, folders, and entire workspaces with cited answers.
A free plan that renews monthly — no credit card — versus 3 AI summaries on Zoom's free Basic plan (per Zoom's pricing page).
Full web app at reline.so plus desktop apps for macOS and Windows (Linux in beta).
Reline vs Zoom AI Companion — feature comparison
| Capability | Zoom AI Companion | |
|---|---|---|
Works with any meeting platform — Zoom, Meet, Teams, in-person Zoom's AI is native in Zoom; per Zoom's docs it joins Meet and Teams as a visible Zoom-branded bot, and My Notes claims bot-free capture from the Zoom app. | Yes | Partial |
No visible bot in the call — on any platform Nothing joins native Zoom meetings; on Meet and Teams, Zoom's AI appears as a participant with Zoom branding and an AI indicator (per Zoom's docs). | Yes | Partial |
Works without a paid Zoom license Full AI use requires a paid Zoom Workplace plan; the free Basic plan lists 3 meeting summaries (per Zoom's pricing page). | Yes | No |
Free tier | 1 hr per note, 10 hrs of transcription / mo, unlimited notes | 3 meeting summaries / AI note-takings on Basic (per Zoom's pricing page) |
Price for AI meeting notes | $15/user/mo · $12 annual (free plan available) | Included in paid Zoom Workplace from $14.16/user/mo annual; standalone My Notes from $8.33/user/mo |
Transcription / summary languages | 60+ | 32 for meeting summaries; 9 for My Notes (per Zoom) |
Editable, collaborative meeting notes Only the meeting host can edit or delete a Zoom summary; participants get read-only copies by email. | Yes | No |
AI summaries with citations back to the transcript | Yes | No |
Notion-style collaborative notepad (real-time co-edit) | Yes | No |
Reusable AI Lenses (templates with 4 output formats) | Yes | No |
Multi-note rollups across a folder | Yes | No |
RAG chat across notes / folders / workspaces Zoom bundles AI chat in its suite, and the ZoomMate add-on (priced separately) extends it with agentic features. | Yes | Partial |
Live speaker-separated transcript Reline separates Me vs Other (mic vs system audio); Zoom transcribes in-meeting. | Yes | Yes |
Captures breakout rooms Zoom's Meeting Summary is not available in breakout rooms (per Zoom's docs); Reline records whatever you can hear. | Yes | No |
Full web app for notes Zoom summaries surface in the web portal and Zoom Hub, but editing stays host-only. | Yes | Partial |
Linux support | Beta — mic capture works; system-audio capture in active testing | Desktop apps incl. Linux (per Zoom's docs) |
Self-serve sign-up, no credit card | Yes | Yes |
Comparison reflects public pricing + feature pages at the time of writing. Found something out of date? Let us know.
Last updated July 2026
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When Zoom AI Companion is the better choice
Choose Zoom's built-in AI if your team already pays for Zoom Workplace: meeting summaries and AI chat are included at no extra cost with unlimited use on paid plans, generated natively in-meeting with nothing extra to install, and administered from the same Zoom console. Its standalone My Notes plan — from $8.33/user/month billed annually — is also one of the cheapest entry points to AI meeting notes.
Switching from Zoom AI Companion
- Is Zoom AI Companion still a product?
- The name is being retired — Zoom announced in June 2026 that the AI Companion brand is going away, with the features living on under functional names like Meeting Summary and My Notes, plus a new agentic add-on called ZoomMate. The capabilities remain, so this comparison covers Zoom's current AI stack under its best-known name.
- Does Zoom's AI work on Google Meet or Microsoft Teams?
- Partially, per Zoom's docs. Zoom's AI can join Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings — but it joins as a visible participant showing Zoom branding and an AI indicator, requires a paid Zoom Workplace plan and the desktop app, and covers only those two platforms. Zoom's My Notes separately claims bot-free notes on third-party platforms when you run the Zoom app alongside. Reline records any meeting from your device with nothing joining the call and no Zoom license at all.
- Can participants edit a Zoom meeting summary?
- No. Per Zoom's support docs, only the meeting host can edit or delete a summary; participants receive read-only copies by email or team chat. In Reline, notes are a collaborative Notion-style document — everyone with edit access can correct, annotate, and build on them in real time.
- Do I need a Zoom license to use Reline?
- No. Reline captures audio locally on your device, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or an in-person conversation regardless of which licenses you hold. The free plan needs no credit card.
- How many languages do Reline and Zoom's AI support?
- Reline transcribes and summarizes in 60+ languages. Zoom lists 32 languages for meeting summaries and 9 for its My Notes feature, and notes that language support may be reduced for some regional configurations.
- Is Reline cheaper than Zoom's AI notes?
- It depends on what you already pay for. If your team has paid Zoom Workplace seats, Zoom's summaries are included at no extra cost — that's Zoom's strongest card. If you don't, Reline starts free (10 hours of transcription a month) and Professional is $15/user/month ($12 annually), with no Zoom license required. Zoom's standalone My Notes plan starts at $8.33/user/month annually per its pricing page.
- Reline vs Zoom AI Companion: which is better?
- Reline, if you want one notepad for every meeting — any platform plus in-person, no visible bot, collaborative editing, citation-backed summaries, and 60+ languages. Zoom's built-in AI is better if your meetings are all in Zoom and you already pay for Zoom Workplace, where summaries and AI chat come at no extra cost.
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