Fireflies sends a bot to record your sales calls and pipe transcripts into your CRM. LUCI is a personal AI memory that captures from your machine and remembers across all your work — without a bot in the room.
Life memory for every AI agent — 100% local, no meeting bot, remembers your whole day from your own machine.
Sales-focused meeting recorder. Bot-based, CRM-centric, cloud-based.
Fireflies is built around a meeting bot: invite Fred to a call, get a transcript and a CRM-ready summary. It's optimized for revenue teams that want every customer call indexed and tagged. LUCI takes a different shape — instead of a bot guest, it captures from your computer, and instead of being sales-specific, it's a general-purpose memory layer that includes meetings, screens, and threads.
LUCI leads on 5 of 11 rows.
| Feature | LUCI | Fireflies |
|---|---|---|
| Captures without a meeting bot | Yes | No"Fred" bot is always visible in the participant list |
| Works when clients block notetaker bots | Yes | NoBlocked by Zoom admin blocklists; Teams auto-block coming Aug 2026 |
| Data stays on your device (no cloud) | Yes | NoCloud transcription + storage |
| Records non-users only with their consent path | You disclose; you control capture | PartialPending BIPA class action alleges voiceprints of non-consenting participants |
| Meeting transcription | Yes | Yes100+ languages |
| Recording length limits | Up to 4 h/session | 2 h free/Pro, 3 h Business, 4 h Enterprise |
| Storage limits | Your disk — no vendor cap | 400 min (free) to unlimited by tier |
| Captures screen activity | Yes | No |
| Memory accessible to AI agents (MCP) | Yes | Partial |
| HIPAA / BAA available | N/A — PHI stays on your device | PartialEnterprise plan only |
| Pricing | Free — 100% local | Free; $10–$39/user/mo (annual) |
Per-user personal memory, screen capture, 100% local storage. No bot joins your calls. Free forever.
Meeting bot + transcription. Storage and AI credits capped by tier.
Download past meeting transcripts and notes. LUCI imports them as searchable memory so prior call history stays accessible.
LUCI captures from your Mac directly. No notetaker bot shows up as a participant in your calls, removing the consent-friction Fireflies creates.
Point the agents you already use at LUCI so they can pull call insights and deal context straight from your local memory.
Fireflies summarizes; LUCI remembers — action items, exact quotes, and cross-call context, searchable the moment the call ends.
Capture every Zoom, Meet & Teams call locally on your device — no bot joins the call — and turn it into searchable notes and action items.
Fireflies is upfront that its bot is "always visible in the participant list" — and that visibility has consequences: hosts must admit it, some clients refuse it, organizations like Cornell block it automatically, and Microsoft Teams is adding auto-blocking of external AI bots in August 2026. LUCI captures audio and screen from your machine — same coverage, no extra participant, nothing to get bounced at the door.
A pending Illinois class action alleges Fireflies' speaker-recognition feature creates biometric voiceprints of everyone on a call — including non-users who never consented. Those are allegations, not findings. But the structural point stands: a cloud service identifying speakers across a customer base has to answer biometric-privacy questions that simply don't arise when diarization runs privately on your own machine.
Fireflies is tuned for revenue ops. LUCI is general-purpose: it works for engineers reviewing PRs, founders running customer interviews, and recruiters tracking candidate threads — not just sales calls.
Fireflies sees what was said. LUCI also sees what was on screen — the deck the customer reacted to, the dashboard you reviewed, the doc you opened mid-call. That context shows up in summaries and search results.
For deals or interviews you can't put in a third-party cloud, LUCI keeps everything on your own device — nothing is uploaded — while still giving you the full memory layer.
LUCI captures meeting audio from your machine, so no bot joins the call. This avoids awkwardness with clients and works in environments where third-party guests aren't welcome.
Not automatically. LUCI keeps your call memory on your device and exposes it over MCP — so an AI agent you already use can pull deal context from LUCI when you ask it to update your CRM.
Yes. While Fireflies is sales-focused, LUCI works equally well for engineering, product, recruiting, customer success, and founder workflows.
Yes. LUCI captures from any video meeting tool because it records from your machine, not as a bot guest.
Fireflies is cloud-only. LUCI keeps call recordings and transcripts on your own device — nothing is uploaded to the cloud — which is useful for regulated industries.
Free on Mac and Windows. Fully local.