# Bubbles review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Screen and meeting replay for Mac, with an AI notetaker option Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Bubbles is a Mac app that keeps a rolling two-hour replay of your screen and calls on your computer, so you can trim a moment and share it as a link. It also offers an AI Notetaker that joins calendar meetings on Zoom, Google Meet and Teams and sends back summaries and action items. The site presents both a no-bot desktop mode and a bot-based notetaker. - **Category:** AI Meeting Notes - **Made by:** Bubbles - **Website:** https://www.usebubbles.com - **Runs on:** macOS, Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 5 recordings a week, 30 minutes each, locked after 2 weeks. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Bubbles has a free plan, and paid plans start at $12 per member / month, billed yearly ($15 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Basic: 5 meeting recordings a week, 30 minutes per recording, unlimited screen recordings, AI summaries and action items, 2 channels. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of Pro for every new workspace. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | Free | 5 meeting recordings a week of up to 30 minutes, unlimited screen recordings; Bubbles lock after 2 weeks and the Notetaker joins all meetings. | | Pro Teams | $12 per member / month, billed yearly ($15 billed monthly) | For workspaces of 3 or more: unlimited length and recordings, AI transcripts, choose which meetings the Notetaker joins, custom branding. | | Pro Personal | $18 per member / month, billed yearly ($22 billed monthly) | Same features as Pro Teams for workspaces of 1 or 2 members; switches to Pro Teams pricing when the workspace reaches 3. | Read from https://www.usebubbles.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Bubbles before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing lowers the member price** (Annual discount): Pro Teams is $12 a member billed yearly against $15 billed monthly. Pro Personal is $18 against $22. Source: https://www.usebubbles.com/pricing ## Key features - **Two-hour rolling replay:** The Mac app keeps the last two hours of screen and audio, encrypted on your computer, and erases the oldest minute as new ones arrive. - **Notes from jotted fragments:** During a call you can type a few fragments; on save, AI turns the transcript and your fragments into a summary, action items and a full transcript. - **AI Notetaker for calendar meetings:** After you connect a calendar, the Notetaker joins meetings on Zoom, Google Meet and Teams and emails a summary and action items. - **Trim and share:** Scroll back through the replay, trim a moment and share a link. The site says only the trimmed part is uploaded. - **Chat with your meetings:** The site shows ChatGPT and Claude among the places where you can chat with your meeting content, and it publishes a Bubbles API. - **Controls on who gets recordings:** On Pro you choose which meetings the Notetaker joins and who receives recordings. On the free plan all invitees receive them. ## Good for - Mac users who want to rewind recent screen and call activity - Teams that want async video sharing together with AI meeting notes - People who want notes without a bot in the call ## Worth knowing - The homepage says no bots join your calls, while the Notetaker and pricing pages describe a bot that joins meetings; the two modes work differently. - The download listed is for macOS 13 or later; the Notetaker is the route for other computers. - On the free plan the Notetaker joins all meetings with 2 or more invitees and every invitee gets the recording. - Pro pricing is $18 per member a month for 1 or 2 members and $12 at 3 or more. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Bubbles is a Mac app that keeps a rolling two-hour replay of your screen and calls, plus an AI notetaker that joins Zoom, Meet and Teams. The free plan is capped at 5 recordings a week of 30 minutes, and one or two people pay $18 each on Pro. - **Value for money: C.** $12 a member a month, billed yearly, but only for workspaces of 3 or more. One or two people pay $18 each, in the dearest quarter of the category. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Basic is free with 5 meeting recordings a week of up to 30 minutes and unlimited screen recordings. Bubbles lock after 2 weeks, and the Notetaker joins every meeting. - **Features: C.** Rolling replay, trim and share, notes from jotted fragments and a Notetaker for calendar meetings. The homepage says no bots join your calls, while the pricing page describes a bot. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You install the Mac app and connect a calendar, and two modes work differently. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Mac app and web, with Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, Google Calendar, ChatGPT and Claude, and an API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Bubbles's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI meeting note takers - Bubbles's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 8 of the 68 other AI meeting note takers we grade, and level with 20. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 9 of 68) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $12 a month for each person, against a middle price of $11.99 for the category: 34 of the 62 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 25 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-meeting-notes ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Bubbles you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 40 of the 68 other AI meeting note takers grade higher. It costs $144 a year. - You could not: A bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. - You could not: An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: Recording the screen with its sound, and somewhere to keep the video. - You could not: A real app for macOS. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, GoTo Meeting, Google Calendar, ChatGPT, Claude **Tags:** Meeting notes, Transcription, Screen recording, AI features, Chat assistant, Public API ## Alternatives - [Fathom](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fathom): AI notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bubbles-vs-fathom) - [tl;dv](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tldv): Meeting recorder and AI notetaker for Zoom, Meet and Teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bubbles-vs-tldv) - [Granola](https://toolgpa.com/tools/granola): AI notepad that transcribes meetings from device audio, no bot. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bubbles-vs-granola) - [Fireflies.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fireflies): Meeting notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bubbles-vs-fireflies) - [Otter.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otter): Live meeting transcription with summaries and AI chat. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bubbles-vs-otter) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.usebubbles.com/pricing - https://www.usebubbles.com - https://www.usebubbles.com/ai-notetaker - https://www.usebubbles.com/security Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/bubbles Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).