Roofle vs Fireflies
A Fireflies alternative built for your role. No bot, no upload.
Fireflies sends a notetaker into your meetings and processes the recording in the cloud. Roofle runs privately on your Mac, with nothing to invite and nothing uploaded.
Comparison
Side by side.
| Fireflies | Roofle | |
|---|---|---|
| Joins your call as a bot | Yes | No |
| Speech recognition | Cloud | On your Mac |
| Suggested follow-up questions during the call | No | Yes |
| Built around your role | Generic summaries | Pick sales, recruiter, PM, founder, CS or engineer and get questions and notes tuned to that job |
| Where recordings live | Fireflies cloud account | Your Mac |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Cost | Monthly subscription after the free tier | App is free. You pay your model provider, about $0.05 to $0.10 per 30-minute call with GPT-4o mini, or nothing with a local model |
| CRM and team integrations | Yes | Not yet |
Details about Fireflies checked November 2026 and may have changed. Check their site for current plans.
Built around you
Pick your role, get a copilot for your job.
Generic note takers give every user the same summary. Roofle shapes the live questions and notes to the conversation you are in.
Be honest
Which one fits you?
Stay with Fireflies if
- You want automatic CRM sync and team-wide analytics.
- You record meetings you do not attend.
Pick Roofle if
- You want help tuned to your role, not a generic summary.
- Clients are uneasy about a bot on the call.
- You want recordings to stay off third-party servers.
- You want help asking better questions in the moment.