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Circleback
Freemium
Most meeting tools give you a transcript and call it done — leaving you to excavate the action items yourself, reassign them manually, and search through an unindexed archive the next time someone asks what was decided three weeks ago.
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Summary
Circleback processes recordings from in-person and remote conversations, generates structured notes and automatically assigned action items, and surfaces answers from past meetings through a cross-conversation search layer. The transcription engine handles technical terminology and accents across 100+ languages, with per-speaker identification, which means your notes from a dense engineering call are actually readable. Integrations cover the expected CRMs and project tools — HubSpot, Salesforce, Linear, Notion, Asana — with automations that push structured data into those systems after each meeting. The ceiling appears when teams need custom branching logic or deeply conditional post-meeting workflows; the webhook and Zapier exits exist, but teams needing multi-step conditional automation end up maintaining that logic elsewhere. No self-hosted option exists, so organizations with strict data residency requirements are stopped before they start.
Bottom line: Circleback earns its place on a solo founder's stack or a small team that lives in back-to-back calls — but the moment your compliance team asks where the data lives or your ops team needs conditional routing that goes beyond 'update this CRM field,' you are building the missing layer yourself.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 2 weeks ago- Price
- $15/mo
- Free Tier
- AI meeting notes and action items, speaker-labeled transcripts, automatic tagging and sharing, limited automations, 30-day meeting and recording history, API/MCP/CLI access, 2 teams
Free
Free
Free tier with basic features
- AI meeting notes and action items
- Ask Circleback
- View and draft emails
- Online and in-person meetings
- A bot or bot-free desktop app for online meetings
- Mobile and Apple Watch apps for in-person meetings
- Speaker-labeled transcripts
- Automatic tagging and sharing
- Limited automations
- 30-day meeting and recording history
- API, MCP, and CLI access
- 2 teams
Pro
$15per month
Everything in Free, plus unlimited meeting history and advanced automations
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited meeting history
- 1 year of recording storage
- Automations with all integrations (Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, webhooks, and more)
- Custom AI insights
- Personalized notetaker participant
- 5 teams
Business
$25per month
Everything in Pro, plus admin controls and extended storage
- Everything in Pro
- Admin and member roles
- Unlimited free viewers
- Custom data retention
- Default and enforceable settings
- 2 years of recording storage
- Usage dashboard
- Unlimited teams
Enterprise
Custom
Everything in Business, plus enterprise features and volume pricing
- Everything in Business
- Single sign-on (SAML or OIDC) and SCIM provisioning
- Invoice/PO billing
- Unlimited recording storage
- Priority support
- HIPAA compliance
- Volume pricing with automatic discounts
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Pros
- Automatic per-speaker action item assignment after every call, so nobody leaves a meeting needing to manually redistribute tasks or guess who said they would own something.
- Cross-conversation search that queries your entire meeting history in plain language, which means decisions made six weeks ago are retrievable without manually tagging or filing any call.
- Transcription that handles technical terminology and accents across 100+ languages with named speaker identification, so engineering and product call notes are usable without a cleanup pass.
- In-person recording support alongside remote meeting capture, so field sales teams and on-site standups are not excluded from the same workflow remote calls use.
- Native integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, Linear, Notion, Asana, Slack, and others that push structured data automatically after meetings, so CRM updates and task creation do not require a separate manual step.
Cons
- No self-hosted or on-premises option exists, which means any organization under data residency mandates or with policies against third-party audio processing cannot deploy Circleback at all — those teams evaluate self-hostable alternatives from day one.
- Post-meeting automation logic is structured around field-update patterns, not conditional branching: when a team needs 'if action item owner is in department X, route to system Y,' they reach for Zapier or a webhook and maintain that logic outside Circleback, effectively running two systems.
- There is no API listed as available in the product's current feature set beyond CLI, webhook, and MCP access, so teams expecting to build tightly integrated internal tooling against a documented REST API find the integration surface narrower than expected and lean on the webhook exit instead.
About
- Platforms
- Web, Desktop, Mobile
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- July 26, 2026
Best For
Who it's for
- Solo professionals and creators
- Organizations requiring custom automations and retention
What it does well
- Automated meeting note generation
- Action item assignment and tracking
- Team-wide meeting search and collaboration
- In-person and remote conversation recording
Integrations
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Circleback free?
- Circleback offers a free option alongside paid upgrades. Pricing: $15/mo. Check the current allowances and terms before choosing a plan.
- What platforms does Circleback support?
- Circleback is available on: Web, Desktop, Mobile.
Curated lists that include this category
After every meeting, Circleback produces structured notes, captures action items with automatic speaker assignment, and pushes that data into connected tools — without you writing a summary, chasing down who owns what, or logging the call yourself. The workflow is passive: connect your calendar, record in-person or via the desktop and mobile apps, and the processed output lands in your inbox and your connected apps. The vendor describes the transcription as handling technical terms and accents with high accuracy across 100+ languages, with each speaker identified by name rather than left as an anonymous label.
The cross-meeting search layer is the feature that separates Circleback from tools that stop at notes. Rather than hunting through a folder of PDFs, you query your entire conversation history in plain language and get answers drawn from across every call Circleback has processed. For teams that make decisions in meetings and then argue about them a month later, this is the feature that earns retention.
Circleback fits solo professionals and small teams who need meeting output to flow into their existing tools without manual entry. The integration list covers Google Calendar, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Notion, Linear, HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio, Asana, Zoho, Monday, PostHog, Ashby, Intercom, Zapier, Make, plus MCP connectivity for tools like ChatGPT and Claude. Where it breaks: there is no self-hosted deployment, so any organization that cannot send audio to a third-party cloud is excluded entirely. Automation logic is template-driven; teams needing branching post-meeting workflows based on what was said reach for Zapier or webhook exits and maintain that conditional logic outside Circleback.
The CLI and webhook access, along with MCP and Zapier/Make connectors, mean technically comfortable teams can pipe meeting data into broader pipelines — but those are exits from the product, not extensions of it. The automation surface inside Circleback is oriented toward field-update patterns, not conditional multi-step flows.
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