A private memory of your people, not a shared meeting tool.
Fellow records the meeting and shares the notes with the room. Notivo remembers your people between the meetings: type a line about someone, and it files itself into their private timeline. When the 1:1 or the review comes, you already remember. No recording, no seats for the team, nothing to share.
Fellow is a shared meeting tool. Notivo is a private memory.
Fellow is genuinely good at the live meeting. It joins the call (or records without a bot), transcribes across Zoom, Meet, and Teams, pulls out action items, and lets your team build a shared 1:1 agenda and leave feedback afterward. If your problem is “our meetings are chaotic and nothing gets captured,” Fellow is a strong, well-built answer, and its compliance story is serious.
Notivo solves the other half: the eleven months between the reviews. A meeting recorder tells you what was said in the room on May 14. It doesn’t quietly hold the private thought you had about Maya on February 9 (“led the billing migration, zero downtime”), the kind of specific, dated detail that makes a review fair instead of foggy. You type one line with @Maya, it files under her, and by review time you have her whole year in front of you, in your words, private to you. No transcript to share, no seat for Maya, no meeting required.
“Meetings are scheduled in Outlook, held in Teams, and followed up, if they are followed up at all, in personal notes, email threads, spreadsheets, or memory.”
— Fellow’s own guide to one-on-one meetings
For a manager’s private memory, side by side.
An honest comparison for the specific job of remembering your people. For live meeting capture, transcription, and shared agendas, Fellow wins. That’s its home turf.
| For remembering your team | Notivo | Fellow |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | One manager privately remembering their people | A shared, team-wide AI meeting assistant & notetaker |
| Records & transcribes meetings | No, by design; you write the note yourself | Yes: live capture across Zoom, Meet, Teams |
| Per-person timelines | Automatic, from @mentions | Organized around meetings and agendas |
| Private by default | Yes, scoped to your account | Built to share notes, agendas & feedback with the room |
| Shared agendas & feedback | Not the job. Private notes only | Collaborative agendas & post-meeting feedback |
| AI from your own notes | Yes, on Plus (14-day free trial); recaps, never auto-writes | AI summaries & agent over meeting transcripts |
| Capture | Web + iOS + WhatsApp; ChatGPT & Claude connectors | In-meeting capture + web & mobile |
| Pricing shape | For one person’s notebook (see pricing) | Per user, per month, sold to teams |
| Best when | You want a focused private notebook for 1:1s & reviews | The whole team needs meeting capture & shared notes |
Prepping a review? Notivo recaps your own notes so you walk in remembering the whole year, not the last meeting.
See review prep in Notivo- You just want to remember what your people did, all year.
- You want notes private by default, not shared with the room.
- You’d rather write a quick line than record a call.
- You want to walk into 1:1s and reviews already prepared.
- Your team needs live meeting capture and transcription.
- You want collaborative agendas the whole room shares.
- Post-meeting feedback and action items matter to you.
- You’re rolling an AI notetaker out across a team.
Plenty of managers use both: Fellow for the team’s live meetings, Notivo for their own private memory of the people in them.
Walking into your own 1:1 with your manager? Keep a private line on what you shipped, so you show up with specifics.
How to prepare for your 1:1Notivo vs Fellow, answered.
Is Notivo a Fellow alternative?
For one specific job, a single manager privately remembering what each person did all year and walking into 1:1s and reviews prepared, yes. But Fellow and Notivo are not the same category: Fellow is a shared, team-wide AI meeting notetaker that records and transcribes live calls; Notivo is a private, per-person notebook you own alone, with no recording. If you need meeting transcription and collaborative agendas for the whole team, Fellow is the better fit. If you want a private memory of your people between meetings, that is Notivo.
Does Notivo record or transcribe my meetings like Fellow?
No. Notivo does not record or transcribe meetings, and that is deliberate. Notivo is for the quick private note you capture yourself, like “@Sam handled the outage calmly”, not for capturing what was said on a call. If live transcription is what you need, Fellow does that well. Notivo is the memory you build in your own words over time.
Are my Notivo notes private, or shared with the team like Fellow’s meeting notes?
Private by default and scoped to your account. Fellow’s value is largely in shared meeting notes, agendas, and feedback the room can see; Notivo is the opposite, a private notebook nobody else reads unless you choose to act on it. Only the optional Black Box vault is end-to-end encrypted; regular notes are private by default on secured infrastructure, not end-to-end encrypted.
Fellow charges per user for the whole team. What does Notivo cost a single manager?
Notivo is priced for one person’s private notebook, not per team seat, so a single manager is not paying for the whole team to have accounts. Fellow’s model, free with a small lifetime AI limit and then a per-user monthly price across several plans, makes sense when you are rolling an AI notetaker out across a team. Notivo makes sense when the tool is just yours. See the pricing page for current Notivo plans.
Can I use both Fellow and Notivo?
Yes, and plenty of managers do. Fellow handles the live meeting for the whole team; Notivo is your own private memory of the people in those meetings, kept in your words between calls. They do not overlap, one is shared and live, the other is private and cumulative.
Start remembering your team in one note.
No calls to record, no team to onboard, no notes to share. Type one line about someone today and let it file itself.