# Fireflies.ai 6 Hacker News commenters recommended Fireflies.ai and 11 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Used for searchable call transcripts and decent summaries, but critics say it falsely claimed human note-taking was AI and worry about cloud storage of meetings. ## Why people recommend it - Seen as interesting and successful (2 comments): "fireflies.ai is interesting though, that's more what i was looking for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947600)) "Yeah imo this is a success story." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934794)) ## What people warn about - Claimed AI transcripts were human notes (11 comments): "If you were one of the customers who bought an automated (AI) service and instead got 2 guys gathering info during meetings" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935618)) "Claiming that the transcripts were generated by a nonexistant AI is fraud and should be treated as such." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935029)) "This was an incredibly stupid scheme, made even more stupid by publicly confessing to it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934962)) - Stores meetings in US cloud (2 comments): "Cool tool, but I'm sending dozens of internal meetings to an american company." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591518)) "Don't they realize the company will store their whole conversation in the cloud" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45936725)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Granola](https://hackerapproved.com/p/granola.md): 11 recommend - [Docket meeting note-taking app](https://hackerapproved.com/p/docket.md): 8 recommend - [Summit meeting insights](https://hackerapproved.com/p/summit.md): 5 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://fireflies.ai/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Fireflies.ai", https://hackerapproved.com/p/fireflies/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).