You recorded a meeting. You want the text. Upload the recording (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, or any other platform that lets you save the audio/video), get a transcript back in minutes. NOT a real-time meeting bot like Otter or Fireflies that auto-joins your calls — mdisbetter is a manual post-meeting upload tool. For meetings where you want topic-section structure and inline timestamps, use the Markdown variant.
Be clear: NOT a real-time meeting bot
Tools like Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, and tl;dv auto-join your calendar meetings as a bot, transcribe in real time, and push notes to your CRM/Notion/Slack automatically. mdisbetter does NONE of that. We are a manual upload tool. You record the meeting yourself (using Zoom's built-in recorder, Teams recording, or any other capture method), download the recording, upload to mdisbetter for transcription. No real-time presence, no calendar integration, no auto-pushing notes anywhere.
When the manual workflow makes sense
Solo founders or small teams who don't want a recording bot in every meeting (some clients/prospects find them off-putting). Internal meetings where a permanent record is needed but a real-time bot is overkill. Recorded meetings you join later (you couldn't attend, watch the recording, want a transcript for reference). One-off interviews or recordings where setting up a meeting bot isn't worth it. Cases where the meeting platform doesn't support real-time bots and you only have the recording afterwards.
Workflow
Record your meeting using whatever your platform supports (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet all have recording built in). After the meeting, download the recording (most platforms email a download link or store it in cloud storage). Upload the audio/video file to mdisbetter — for video files, audio is auto-extracted. Get the transcript back in minutes. Use plain text for ctrl-F search through meeting content; use the Markdown variant for structured output with H2 topic sections and inline timestamps.
For full meeting-intelligence workflows, use a real-time bot
If you need automated meeting capture, real-time transcription, action-item extraction, CRM sync, and team-wide meeting libraries, the right tools are Otter Business, Fireflies, Fathom, or tl;dv. Their per-user pricing reflects the integration depth. mdisbetter is the cheap manual alternative when those features aren't needed.
Frequently asked questions
Is this an Otter / Fireflies replacement?
No. Otter, Fireflies, Fathom, tl;dv are real-time meeting bots that auto-join your calendar meetings, transcribe in real time, and push notes to CRM/Notion/Slack automatically. mdisbetter is a manual post-meeting upload tool — you record the meeting yourself using your platform's built-in recording, then upload the file. For real-time auto-joining bots with team workflows, pay for Otter/Fireflies/Fathom. For occasional manual transcription of recorded meetings, mdisbetter is the cheap alternative.
How do I get the recording from Zoom / Teams / Google Meet?
Zoom: enable Cloud Recording or Local Recording in your meeting settings; after the meeting, the recording is in your Zoom account or local folder. Teams: recordings save to OneDrive/SharePoint automatically (admin must enable recording). Google Meet: requires Workspace plan; recordings save to Google Drive. Once you have the audio or video file, upload to mdisbetter. Audio is auto-extracted from video files.
Will it identify who said what?
No. mdisbetter does no speaker identification, in any output format. You get everything that was said, in order, with punctuation and paragraphs; the Markdown variant adds ## H2 sections at topic shifts and inline timestamps so you can jump back to the moment in the recording. Nothing in the output says who was talking. If per-participant attribution is what you need, use a tool built for diarisation (AssemblyAI, Deepgram, WhisperX, pyannote-audio) or a real-time meeting bot (Otter, Fireflies) that gets names from the call itself.
How long can the meeting recording be?
Free tier handles meetings up to ~60 minutes per file. Pro handles multi-hour meetings in a single pass. For longer meetings on free tier, split the recording with any audio editor before upload. Most business meetings fit in the free tier limit.
Can I extract action items automatically?
Not directly through mdisbetter — we transcribe, you extract. Workflow: get the transcript via Audio to Markdown, paste into ChatGPT/Claude with "extract action items as a bullet list, noting who is responsible for each". For automated action-item extraction across all your meetings without per-meeting prompting, real-time meeting bots (Fireflies, Fathom) do this automatically as part of their feature set — pay for those if it's your daily workflow.