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Share your Google Meet, Zoom or Teams tab and watch the conversation written out as it happens — then get the summary, action items and full transcript by email. No bot joins your call, and the audio never leaves your machine. Everything Otter and Fireflies charge for, free.

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Today
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Product Review
Yesterday
In Progress
B+
Client Kickoff
Mon
Done
A
Sprint Planning
Last Fri
Done
A-
1:1 with James
Last Thu
Review
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What is Meetings Brief?

Meetings Brief is a free AI meeting assistant made by KCF LLC. It transcribes your meetings, writes the summary and the action items, and remembers what was decided so you can ask about it later. It is free with no paid tier, no trial and no credit card.

What makes it different from Otter, Fireflies and Read.ai is where the speech recognition runs. Those services upload your audio to their servers and send a bot into your call. Meetings Brief downloads the speech model into your browser and runs it on your own machine, so the audio of your meeting never leaves your device and nothing appears in your participant list.

You can use it three ways: capture a meeting you are already in with live meeting notes, upload a recording you already have to the free transcriber, or paste notes into the summary generator. None of them ask you to sign up.

Live meeting transcription — without a bot

Watch your meeting
write itself.

Works with Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams in the browser. The speech model runs on your own machine, which is why it can be free without caps — and why your audio is nobody else’s to keep.

1
Share your meeting tab
Open the meeting in a browser tab, press Start listening, and share the tab with tab audio on. Nothing joins the call and nobody sees a bot.
2
Read it as it happens
The transcript builds every 30 seconds — everyone in the call, not just you — and saves on your device as it goes.
3
Get the brief by email
Stop, enter your address, and receive the summary, topics, action items with owners and open questions, transcript attached.
Otter, Fireflies, Read.ai
Send a bot into your call and upload your audio to their servers. Free tiers are capped — Fireflies stores 400 minutes per team — because every minute you send them costs them compute.
Google Meet's own transcripts
Need a paid Workspace edition — Business Standard or Plus, Enterprise, or Education tiers. On a normal Gmail account the feature is not there at all.
Meetings Brief
No bot, no upload, no cap and no account. Transcription runs in your browser, so it costs us nothing per meeting — which is exactly why it can stay free.
2,400+
Forum threads read
8 mo.
Research before code
$0
Cost to use. Ever.
Free
Forever. Always.
The transformation

People don't buy features.
They buy outcomes.

Your meetings become searchable, actionable, and remembered with Meetings Brief.

✗
Before — every meeting
✕Notes scattered across apps and emails
✕Decisions buried in Slack and chat
✕“I thought YOU were handling that”
✕Action items forgotten by Friday
✕No record of what was actually decided
✕Painful follow-up threads that go nowhere
✓
After — with Meetings Brief
✓Every decision captured, searchable, permanent
✓Clear ownership on every action item
✓Meeting Memory connects every session over time
✓Aria AI remembers what you forget
✓Share a clean brief link — in one tap
✓Your team stays aligned, automatically
Decision continuity

Built for organizational clarity —
not just meeting notes.

Most meeting tools summarize what happened. Meetings Brief remembers what matters — decisions made, commitments given, and threads left open — across every session.

Voice + Multi-Language

Speak in Any Language.

One tap captures your thought before it fades. Switch between 13 languages — English, Hindi, Hinglish, Tamil, Spanish, and more. Zero audio upload. Just your words, saved instantly.

Semantic Search

Search for Meaning.

"Budget" finds "spending", "costs", and "Q1 surplus". Search across both quick notes and meeting notes with filter chips. AI understands intent — not just keywords.

Meeting Memory

Never Forget a Decision.

Connects meetings together. Recurring topics, unresolved threads, what changed since last time, open commitments. The cross-meeting intelligence no other free tool has.

AI Summaries × 6 Styles

Your Brief, Your Format.

Short recap, full minutes, action-items-only, follow-up email, Founder Mode, Interview Mode — generate any style instantly, then share it as a clean public link.

Action Items

Nothing Falls Through.

AI extracts every task, owner, and deadline from raw notes automatically. Tap to mark done. Re-detect anytime. Works on messy, casual notes.

Aria — Your AI Memory

Gets Smarter Over Time.

A persistent AI that remembers your projects, people, and decisions across every conversation. Ask for a weekly digest. Voice input. Long-term memory you can manage and delete.

No account needed

Three tools you can use
before you sign up for anything.

Open them, use them, close the tab. No account, no card, no trial. The two that handle audio run the speech model on your own machine, so the recording never reaches us.

Live, during the call

Live meeting notes.

Share your Google Meet, Zoom or Teams tab and it transcribes the conversation as it happens — everyone in the call, not just you. No bot joins, and the audio never leaves your machine.

Try live notes →
From a recording

Transcribe any recording.

Drop in an audio or video file and get the text back. No minute limit and no upload — the speech model runs in your browser, which is why it can be unlimited and free.

Transcribe a file →
From notes

Turn notes into a brief.

Paste rough notes or a transcript and get decisions, action items with owners, and a follow-up email you can send. Six formats, nothing saved, no sign-in.

Generate a summary →
How it works

From scattered conversations
to aligned action.

01

Capture — Voice or Text

Tap mic or type. 13 languages supported. Contextual Bridge silently surfaces related past notes as you write.

02

Run Better Meetings

Agenda, Focus Mode, live timer, raw notes — all in one place. Then AI extracts action items, owners, and deadlines automatically.

03

Never Lose Context

Meeting Memory shows what changed, what's unresolved, and who committed to what — across every session, not just the last one.

04

Share & Remember

Generate a brief in 6 formats, share it as a clean public link, and ask Aria for a weekly digest of everything that mattered.

05

Search by Meaning

Semantic search understands intent — "budget" finds "costs", "surplus", "spending". Filter by quick notes or meeting notes. AI retrieves what keyword search misses.

06

Ask Aria Anything

Aria is your persistent AI memory — across every meeting and note. Ask for summaries, open commitments, or a full weekly digest. It remembers so you don't have to.

07

Export & Share Briefs

Download summaries as PDF or plain text, copy as formatted Markdown for Notion or Google Docs, or share a clean public link in one tap.

08

Works on Any Device

Mobile-first design that runs in any browser. No download, no install, no credit card. Open it on your phone and start your first meeting in under 30 seconds.

The founding story

8 months of listening.
Before one line of code.

Month 1–2

2,400+ threads. Zero building.

We read Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News. No pitching — just absorbing every complaint, workaround, and wish from real people in real meetings.

Month 3

One pattern kept repeating.

People don't struggle to record meetings anymore. They struggle to remember decisions, retrieve context, and track commitments weeks later. That was our focus.

Month 4

First prototype. Users hated it.

"Too many features," said every tester. We threw it away and rebuilt around a single principle: every feature must earn its place in under 3 seconds.

Month 5–6

Meeting Memory — our killer feature.

We built what no competitor had: intelligence across meetings. Recurring topics, unresolved threads, what changed, open commitments. Decisions that actually stick.

Month 7–8

Beta launch. Real users. Real feedback.

Nonprofits, startups, schools, government orgs. Then Aria — a persistent AI assistant with long-term memory. Then smart search. Then shareable briefs. Then we launched — free, forever.

Mission & Vision

"No one should lose a great idea to a broken meeting."

The Kindness Community Foundation was built on one belief: the best tools should be available to everyone — not just companies with enterprise budgets.

We watched teachers, nonprofit directors, and founders getting crushed by inefficiencies already solved for Fortune 500s.

Our promise

"A world where every meeting creates real impact — and every voice in the room is heard."

Free forever — no freemium, no paywalls.
No ads. Not now, not ever.
No data selling. Your notes stay yours.
Open to every person on Earth.
Run by a US-registered nonprofit, not a VC.

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Got questions?

Everything you need to know.

Yes — that is the flagship feature. Open meetingsbrief.com/meet-notes beside your Google Meet, Zoom or Teams call, share the meeting tab with tab audio on, and the transcript builds every 30 seconds as people speak. No bot joins the call, the audio never leaves your machine, and when you stop it emails you the summary, action items and full transcript. It needs Chrome or Edge on a desktop.

Yes. 100% free with no freemium tier, no paywall, no credit card, and no ads. It's a gift from the Kindness Community Foundation (KCF LLC), a US-registered nonprofit in Newport Beach, California. Free now, free always.

No. A workspace is created for you the moment you open the app and your notes save immediately — there is no sign-up form. Adding an email address is optional and does one thing: it makes the same notes reachable from another device. Your existing notes carry over, so nothing is lost.

Voice capture in 13 languages, semantic AI search, Meeting Memory (cross-meeting intelligence), 6-style AI summaries (bullet points, follow-up email, quick recap, action items, full minutes, founder mode), auto-extracted action items, a shareable brief link, an AI timeline view, and Aria — a persistent AI assistant with long-term memory.

Aria is your personal meeting intelligence assistant that remembers context across every session — your projects, people, decisions, and commitments. Unlike ChatGPT, Aria is connected directly to your meeting notes and memory, so it can answer questions like 'What did we decide last week?' or 'What tasks are still open from March?' You can also manage and delete Aria's memory at any time.

Meeting Memory is our signature cross-meeting intelligence feature. It connects meetings together over time — surfacing recurring topics, unresolved threads, what changed since last time, and open commitments. No other free tool does this.

Go to /summary-generator, paste your raw notes or pick a meeting from the app, choose a summary style (bullet recap, follow-up email, action items only, etc.), and get a clean AI-generated output in seconds. You can copy it, download it as a .txt file, copy as Markdown for Notion/Google Docs, or share it as a public link.

Never. Your notes, voice captures, and meeting data are never sold, shared with third parties, or used to train any AI model. Your data is yours — always. We are a nonprofit with no commercial incentive to misuse it.

Meetings Brief is the only free tool combining all of the following: voice capture in 13 languages, semantic AI search, cross-meeting intelligence (Meeting Memory), 6-style AI summaries, shareable brief links, auto action item extraction, a Timeline View, and Aria — a persistent AI assistant with long-term memory. No other free tool has all of these together.

Anyone who runs meetings and loses ideas inside them: nonprofits, educators, startups, remote teams, coaches, consultants, product managers, community organizers, government agencies, freelancers, and founders. If your work depends on conversations, this is for you.

The Kindness Community Foundation (KCF LLC), Newport Beach, California. We spent 8 months reading 2,400+ forum threads before writing a single line of code. Our mission: build genuinely useful free AI tools for people everywhere.

Still have questions? We're real humans.

contact@kindnesscommunityfoundation.com
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