Overview
Read AI joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings to produce transcripts, summaries, action items and highlights, and its mobile apps can capture in-person meetings. Ask Read answers questions with citations across meetings, emails and messages. It offers a free plan, paid per-user plans, integrations with CRMs and work tools, an API, and an MCP server.
Label: Vendor-described — Captured from the vendor's own materials. Not independently verified.
Best for
- Teams that want automatic notes across Zoom, Meet and Teams
- Sales and client-facing staff who push meeting notes into a CRM
Key features
- Meeting transcripts, summaries and action items
- Ask Read search across meetings, email and chat
- In-person capture via mobile apps
- CRM and work tool integrations
- MCP server, Claude connector and ChatGPT app
- Free plan with 5 meetings per month
What it does
- Automatic meeting transcripts, summaries and action items
- Works across Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, plus in-person via mobile
- Ask Read search across meetings, email and messages with citations
- Pre-meeting briefs from calendar, email and CRM context
- Push notes to CRMs and work tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot and Notion
- API, MCP server, Claude connector and ChatGPT app
Use cases
Not mapped to a use case yet.
Drawbacks & cautions
- Free plan is capped at 5 meetings per month and 1-hour meetings
- Audio/video playback requires Enterprise; HIPAA, SAML and SCIM require Enterprise+
- No refunds on cancellation; credit card is the only payment method
What users say
On G2, users are moderately positive about Read AI's transcripts and action items. Trustpilot reviews are overwhelmingly negative, centered on the bot joining meetings uninvited, privacy worries and difficulty removing it.
What people like
Common complaints
- Bot joins meetings uninvited and keeps reappearing after removal uk.trustpilot.com
- Privacy concerns over broad email, chat and file permissions and spammy invite emails uk.trustpilot.com
- Hard to remove the tool or delete an account, with slow support uk.trustpilot.com, g2.com
- Some G2 reviewers note integration issues and weak summaries g2.com
Scores are shown as each site published them on the date checked. They come from those sites' reviewers, not from us, and they never affect our rankings. Ratings based on fewer than 10 reviews are left out. The summaries are our own words, gathered Oct 22, 2026; follow the links to read the reviews.
Alternatives
- Fathom — Free AI notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams with summaries, action items and CRM sync
- Fireflies.ai — AI notetaker that records, transcribes, summarizes and searches your meetings
- MeetGeek — AI meeting recorder that transcribes and summarizes Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls
- Otter.ai — AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes Zoom, Teams and Meet calls
Evidence
| Fact | Label | Source | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| capabilities | Vendor-described | www.read.ai | Oct 22, 2026 |
| hasApi | Vendor-described | www.read.ai | Oct 22, 2026 |
| pricing | Vendor-described | www.read.ai | Oct 22, 2026 |
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