Donna vs Fathom
Donna or Fathom? Pick Fathom if you want a zero-setup free tier that covers Zoom, Meet, and Teams. Pick Donna if you want analysis beyond summaries — six lenses, verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read — from a Flocci product that treats sharing as a decision.
Fathom won its audience honestly: a genuinely useful free tier and summaries that appear almost before you’ve left the call. For an individual who wants a fast recap, it is an easy pick. Donna is for the team that needs the meeting interpreted — six lenses, receipts, memory — from a product they already trust for identity and credits.
Side by side, structurally
| Axis | Fathom | Donna |
|---|---|---|
| How it attends meetings | Bot joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams calls | Joins Google Meet as a visible participant — on demand, or auto-joined from your calendar |
| Meeting video capture | Yes — call recording with highlight clips | Yes — screen video and audio, compressed after the call |
| Transcription | Vendor-managed | Flocci Speech Recognition, with real speaker names from Meet captions |
| What you get after the call | Fast summaries, action items, highlight clips, CRM sync on team plans | Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders |
| Pricing | Generous free tier for individuals; per-seat team plans | Credits by usage — no per-seat fee |
Where Fathom genuinely wins
- The best free tier among cloud notetakers — unlimited recordings for individual users.
- Summaries arrive within moments of the call ending.
- Covers Zoom and Microsoft Teams as well as Google Meet — Donna is Google Meet only today.
Where Donna wins
- Fathom’s free tier is still a notetaker cloud. Donna starts with a credit grant and a monthly allowance, then meters real work — and the archive sits in your private Flocci workspace.
- Fathom optimizes for speed of recap; Donna optimizes for depth of read. Highlight clips won’t tell you who dodged a commitment or which decision skipped its tradeoff discussion.
- Team features at Fathom sit behind per-seat plans; Donna’s dashboard, upload pipeline, and full reports are the product, whoever is in the meeting.
The read, since summaries are not the product
Fathom: Fast summaries, action items, highlight clips, CRM sync on team plans. Donna: Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders. For boards, client work, hiring, negotiations, and one-on-ones, that line is usually the whole decision.
What each one charges
| Fathom | Donna | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Unlimited recordings and transcriptions on the free plan | One-time credit grant plus a monthly free allowance |
| Paid | Premium $20/month or $16 annual; Team $19 or $15 annual; Business $34 or $25 annual | Credit-metered usage — meetings attended, minutes transcribed, reports delivered. No seat licence. |
Fathom’s figures were read from their own pricing page on 29 July 2026; check it before you buy, because plans change without notice. Donna’s current credit costs live on your billing page at account.flocci.in.
Questions, answered straight
Is Donna free like Fathom?
Donna has no per-seat subscription. You start with a one-time credit grant plus a monthly free allowance, then buy packs when you need more. Fathom’s individual tier is free on Fathom’s cloud; Donna trades unlimited-free for a deeper report and a private Flocci archive.
Does Donna support Zoom and Teams like Fathom?
Not yet. Donna attends Google Meet calls today, and can also ingest uploaded recordings from any source for transcription and analysis. If your organization lives in Zoom or Teams, Fathom covers those natively.
Why choose Donna over a free cloud notetaker?
Because the meeting record is often the most sensitive document a team produces. Donna keeps it in your private Flocci archive and returns a deeper artifact: six lenses, decisions with tradeoffs, receipts with timestamps, tensions, and the room read — not just a fast summary.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Access is open — sign in with your Google account and she’s in your dashboard in minutes. Rolling out to a whole team, or want a hand with the server setup? We’re glad to help.