Acta vs Fellow: from meeting notes to follow-through
Fellow helps teams run meetings, with agendas, AI notes and Ask Fellow. Acta records with or without a bot too, then turns each meeting into the report your role needs and tracks every action item and decision across meetings.
Acta vs Fellow in short
Fellow and Acta both record meetings with a bot or bot-free from a desktop app, write AI notes and answer questions about meetings (Ask Fellow in Fellow, OneChat in Acta). Reviews describe Fellow's free plan as 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings per user in total, and list different paid prices between sources. Acta adds 42 templates that read the conversation, OneChat over the files you add, an action item tracker with daily follow-up emails and a decision log.
The right report, picked for you
Acta reads what each meeting was about and fills the templates that fit, from MEDDPICC to a candidate scorecard to a PRD.
Your files in the same answer
Ask about a project and OneChat reads the meetings together with the specs, contracts and spreadsheets you add.
A trial that isn't counted in notes
Acta's 15-day free trial includes unlimited recordings and transcriptions.
Acta vs Fellow, feature by feature
FellowAsk across everything
Recording
Plans
Fellow details are from their public website and reviews, checked November 2026. Products change: if something here is out of date, tell us at contact@acta.ai and we'll fix it.
What you get with Acta beyond Fellow
Templates
42 templates, chosen by the conversation
Sales frameworks, interview scorecards, 1:1 notes, PRDs, post-mortems and board minutes. Acta fills the ones that fit and skips the rest.
- MEDDPICC, BANT, SPIN and SPICED for sales calls
- Shows what's missing and what to ask next time
- Marks a template “Not relevant” instead of making things up
From the call
“If we get each rep four hours back a week, that's the case.”
“Anything above fifty thousand goes to our CFO.”
“We need a SOC 2 report before procurement.”
Metrics
Champion
Economic buyer
Paper process
Ask next: who signs off above $50k?
OneChat
Ask across meetings and files
Choose meetings by date, people or type, add PDFs, Word and Excel files or web pages, and OneChat answers with a link to every source.
- Choose meetings by date, people or type
- Contracts, price lists and playbooks in the same answer
- Click a source to play that moment
Yes. The contract allows a two-year price hold 1, and you agreed to it on the renewal call, subject to finance 2. Increases after that are capped at 5% 3.
Action item tracker
Action items with a finish line
One tracker for every meeting: open, overdue, due this week and done, grouped by meeting or person, with a daily follow-up email.
- Group by meeting or by person
- Overdue items flagged automatically
- Daily follow-up email to owners
Overdue
3
Due this week
4
Done
12
Daily follow-up, 9:00
Priya, 1 item is overdue: Send Acme the revised proposal.
Decision log
One log of decisions
Every decision with who made it, who owns it, the quote and the moment, and the history when a later meeting changes it.
- “Was 60 minutes, changed to 90 on Oct 8”
- The quote and the moment it was said
- Linked actions with progress
Recordings stop after 90 minutes
Discussed in 2 meetingsWas: 60 minutes · changed Oct 8
Oct 4 · Sprint review
“Recording should stop on its own after 60 minutes.” 14:11
Oct 8 · Recorder check-in
“Sixty is too short, let's make it 90 minutes.” 8:41
Actions
Every decision, from every meeting, in one log
Where Fellow does well
- Collaborative meeting agendas.
- Bot-free recording from the Mac and Windows desktop apps.
- Ask Fellow for questions about your meetings.
Best for: Managers who want shared agendas and meeting notes in one workspace.
Choose Acta if you want
- Templates matched to each meeting
- Answers across meetings and your files
- Action items tracked to done
- A decision log with history
- Unlimited recordings during the trial
How to switch from Fellow to Acta
- 1
Start your free trial
Sign up and connect your Google or Microsoft calendar. The trial is free for 15 days.
- 2
Choose how to record
Let the Acta notetaker join from your calendar, or record without a bot using the desktop app for Windows and Mac or the Chrome extension.
- 3
Turn on what happens after the call
Pick your templates and turn on the daily follow-up, so action items and decisions are tracked from the first meeting.
- 4
Coming from Fellow?
Install the Acta desktop app for Windows or Mac if you record without a bot today. It opens by itself when a Zoom or Teams meeting starts.
Acta vs Fellow: questions
Is Acta a Fellow alternative?
Yes. Like Fellow, Acta records with or without a bot. Acta also fills 42 templates from the conversation, answers across meetings and files with OneChat, tracks action items to done and keeps a decision log.
Can Acta record without a bot like Fellow?
Yes. The Acta desktop app for Windows and Mac records Zoom and Teams, and the Chrome extension records meetings in the browser, both without a bot.
What does Fellow's free plan include?
Reviews in 2026 describe 5 AI notes and 5 AI recordings per user in total, not per month. Acta's 15-day free trial includes unlimited recordings and transcriptions.
Does Acta write 1:1 notes?
Yes. The 1:1 check-in template records wins, blockers, feedback, growth goals and action items.
Can I try Acta for free?
Yes. Acta is free for 15 days with unlimited recordings and transcriptions. After that, Pro is priced per user on the pricing page.
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