Tactiq

You've probably been here: back-to-back calls, a half-written doc of bullet points, and a nagging feeling you missed the one thing a customer actually asked for. Worse, if you use most AI note takers, there's a bot sitting in the participant list that everyone has to notice, question, or politely ignore. Tactiq goes after both problems. It's a Chrome extension that transcribes Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls live, and its headline promise is simple: no bot joins the call.

The pitch on tactiq.io is that "the meeting ended. The notes were already written." Because transcription happens in real time, you can use Ask AI mid-meeting to pull insights, generate action items as the call runs, and leave with a summary before you've closed your laptop. After the call, one-click AI summaries, follow-up email drafts and custom prompts you can save and reuse handle the busywork. The workflow side is where it gets more interesting for teams: Tactiq can create Linear issues from meeting insights, sync updates to HubSpot, and push key moments to Slack or Notion. It also advertises speaker identification and support for 60+ languages, and reviewers specifically praise it in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

The traction numbers are real enough to take seriously: 1,000,000+ installs, 1m+ meetings transcribed weekly, and a 4.8 rating from 3,000+ Chrome Web Store reviews. There's a free tier to start, with paid plans from $8/mo. The trade-off is the flip side of the bot-free design. Everything runs through a Chrome extension, so it's built for people who take calls in the browser. If that's you, it's one of the lowest-friction ways to stop typing notes during meetings.