Littlebird vs Wispr Flow

Littlebird is an AI note taker that captures your meetings AND understands everything around them as it learns through watching your screen. It records your calls, lets you take notes, and then layers in context from your calendar, email, and even what you had open on your screen. Which means your notes aren't living somewhere in isolation; instead, they're considered as part of a bigger picture of your day.

With Littlebird you can ask things like "What happened today?" or "Where did this come up?" and it can pull from meeting notes, Slack, tabs you had open, and anything else it saw (read-only) during the day. That makes it especially useful if you're constantly context switching and don't want to rely on memory to track everything.

The truth of the matter is a lot of work gets done outside of formal recorded meetings, like on Slack, or email and Littlebird is one of the only tools that captures all of that context.

The tradeoff here is that while you do get a smarter, more useful note-taking experience, the context awareness layer means it's more invasive. With other tools like Granola, we feel comfortable using everywhere, even in our private lives, but the level of access Littlebird requires gives us pause. That doesn't make it unusable since they have controls that give you some guardrails, but it is something to consider.

• Notes connect to your entire work-life context
• Great to lean on as an assistant, you can ask questions
• Lightweight, non-intrusive meeting recording experience
• Can recall information across any website or app you visit
• Reduces the mental load brought on by constant context switching

• More invasive than traditional AI note takers
• Slower at generating meeting notes
• Not purely focused on meetings

I'm usually working on different tasks back to back, which leaves little time for meeting prep. When Littlebird prompted me to prep for a meeting, I was curious and just so happened to be running late for the call, so I figured, "What the hell, let's see what it can do."

It went way deeper than other tools I've used. It knew what I was doing on X and was able to gather and understand the entire reason for my booking the call, including overlapping areas of interest. That was huge, considering I had actually forgotten the entire context as to why we were even meeting!

Littlebird definitely took inspiration from Granola. The flow is very familiar; it asks to join your call (when you have a meeting starting), and stays as a scratchpad so you can jot down notes while you're on the call.

After it'll generate a structured summary that does take a bit longer than Granola, but only because it actively ties everything back into your broader context.

Since I'm constantly context-switching, I don't always know what happened when or where. So, having Littlebird follow along like an actual assistant who's with me during my work day, I can just ask it to find that information and pull those answers.

Sometimes I forget whether something was discussed within a meeting or on Slack, and with other tools I'd need to search each individually to find what I am looking for. But with Littlebird, it already has seen everything that I have with my own eyes so when I ask "What did our engineering team say about website this week?" it just tells me an aggregate from all the context is has.

If something came up in a LinkedIn DM, a tab, or another tool on my computer, it can pull that into its answers as well. It's super helpful and makes my notes feel more complete and helpful when I need to look back at them later.

The memory layer is such a big differentiator across all my tools, especially when you're looking for something broader and need it to consider various pieces in your workday puzzle.

• Basic: Free. Best for those wanting to test the product and see if the context-aware approach actually clicks for their workflow.
• Plus: $17/mo. Best for people who want more depth, more routine usage, and plan to use Littlebird as an everyday assistant.
• Pro: $100/mo. Best for those who need significantly higher usage limits or like advanced intelligence and want early access to feature releases.

Wispr Flow started as an AI detection tool that works across your phone and computer, but they recently just added AI note-taking to their product called Notetaker. We've been using Wispr Flow for well over a year, and it's become an integral part of our productivity suite. You can read our full Wispr Flow review to get our full thoughts on how we use it.

It makes sense that Wispr Flow would add AI note taking as a feature because people are already used to talking to Wispr Flow all day at work. Instead of just writing one message, now you can record entire conversations and even voice memos to yourself. What's unique about Wispr Flow's notetaker is that they are able to detect who is speaking (similar to Otter).

The long-term vision for Wispr Flow is that one day they will able to take action for you based on what you say.

Imagine you're planning a trip with a friend and you use Wispr Flow as a note taker. You mention you'll be traveling to a new place and need to rent a car, and Wispr Flow then goes and finds some options for you proactively. It's not there yet, but we wouldn't be surprised if this is coming soon 👀

• Labels who said what during each meeting
• Natural extension of a tool you might already be talking to all day
• Not bot joins your meeting
• Included in Wispr Flow subscription

• Limited integrations compared to other AI notetakers
• Not available on Windows, Android and iPhone (yet)
• Will not record audio or video (if that matters to you)

Wispr Flow can detect who is speaking and who is saying what. If you have five people on a call and you are trying to distinguish who is responsible for what, this is helpful.

Meetings don't actually even need to involve other people. A lot of Wispr Flow users have said that they wish they can just dictate voice memos, aka their thought processes and ideas. While the notetaker is available on Mac only at the moment, you can use the Wispr Flow iOS app for voice memos, which I love.

When comparing Wispr Flow's AI note taker to something like Granola, Wispr Flow is still very much brand new and doesn't have the amount of third party integrations that something like Granola has at this stage, so thats something to be aware of. For example, Granola integrates in with all of our AI tools, including our AI CRM.

If you use Wispr Flow as a notetaker, you automatically get access to their dictation feature (which is their main product). It uses AI to clean up your text as you speak, so you can send messages faster from your phone or computer. In fact, I used Wispr Flow to dictate the first draft of what I've written here.

• Free: $0. Best for anyone who wants to try Wispr Flow and see if it fits into their workflow. Dictation is capped at 2,000 words a week on desktop and 1,000 on iPhone, with Android unlimited for now. Includes notetaker and voice memos on Mac.
• Pro: $15/mo per user ($12/mo billed annually). Best for individuals who plan to use Wispr Flow daily or for team collaboration. Unlimited dictation, higher meeting limits, longer note retention, access to the advanced thinking models, and centralized billing with no seat minimum.
• Enterprise: Contact for pricing. Best for teams that need more control around security and compliance. Adds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, a HIPAA-ready BAA, SSO and SAML, audit logs, and enforced privacy mode across the team