folo vs Fellow
Last updated: July 2026
Fellow is more than a notetaker: it wraps meetings in a workflow — collaborative agendas and briefs before the call, botless recording during it, and AI summaries, decisions and tracked action items after. Everything lands in a shared, permissioned library, which makes it strong for teams (especially on Microsoft Teams) that want accountability across every meeting. folo is built for one person’s Mac instead — it captures locally, offers local or optional cloud backends, and turns the meeting into billable time rather than a team workspace.
Where Fellow is the better fit
- Collaborative agendas and pre-meeting briefs, so meetings are structured before they start.
- AI summaries with tracked action items and decisions, shared across the team.
- Botless recording across Zoom, Teams, Meet, Webex and in-person, plus a bot when you want one.
- A permissioned team library with org-wide search and enterprise controls (SOC 2 Type II, GDPR).
- Cross-platform capture on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android.
Where folo is the better fit
- Recording is local, and selected local backends process transcription and summaries on your Mac — Fellow centralizes everything in its cloud.
- On-device speaker recognition that remembers people across future meetings.
- Summaries process locally with Apple Intelligence, Ollama or Local MLX; when globally selected, folo sends transcript text directly to Anthropic with the stored API key, or the local Claude CLI sends it using separate CLI authentication.
- Finished meetings flow into Døgn, turning the call into tracked, billable time.
- A one-time purchase for Mac instead of a per-seat subscription.
At a glance
| Feature | folo | Fellow |
|---|---|---|
| Bot in the call | None — local capture | Botless or bot |
| Where meetings live | On your Mac | Fellow cloud library |
| Agendas & action tracking | Not a focus | Yes — core feature |
| Team workspace & org search | Local, single-user focus | Yes — permissioned library |
| Where summaries run | Can be fully local | Cloud |
| Time-to-invoice loop | Feeds Døgn → tjent | Not a focus |
The short version
Pick Fellow if you want collaborative agendas, shared action-item tracking and a team meeting workspace, especially on Microsoft Teams.
Pick folo if you work solo on a Mac and want meetings kept on your device and turned into billable time, not a shared cloud workspace.
Questions, answered
Does folo do agendas and action-item tracking like Fellow?
No — structured agendas and shared action tracking are Fellow’s core, and it does them well. folo focuses on private capture and turning meetings into tracked time, not team meeting management.
Is folo a good fit for a whole team?
Not really — folo is built around one person’s Mac. If you need a shared, permissioned library with org-wide search, Fellow is designed for exactly that.
What does folo do that Fellow doesn’t?
It offers local transcription plus Apple Intelligence, Ollama and Local MLX for local summaries, remembers speakers on-device, and hands finished meetings to Døgn so the time becomes billable. Cloud backends are selected globally in Settings.
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