These products use artificial intelligence, such as natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and more, to create transcripts and meeting notes from audio recordings, provide real-time conversation coaching, and analyze meeting records to highlight opportunities for future action.
2023 Update: With the release of several new LLMs, this space has exploded. We're not even trying to keep up until things shake out a bit. To see many of these emergent products, search for Meetings on There's an AI for That.
2024 Update: Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other platforms now include AI-driven transcripts, translations, automated note-taking, and analytics.
- Acrossio KnowLedger
- Acta
- ALO.ai (exists, but not focused on meetings)
- Assembly.ai
- Balto
- Ciara
- Cogito
- Dive
- EasySub
- Equaltime.io
- Fathom
- Fireflies.ai
- Grain.com
- Gong.io
- Hendrix
- jamie
- Otter.ai
- MeetGeek
- Meeting Quality
- Poised
- Read.ai
- Riff Analytics
- Scriptix
- Sembly.ai
- Tariy.ai
- tl;dv
- Veed.io
- Wordcab
These products collect data about meeting quality and provide reports that leaders can use to predict team performance and improve meetings going forward.
- Gender Tally App
- Inspirometer
- Meeting Magpie
- Meeting Science (acquired by Logitech)
- Rate My Meeting
- ROTI.express
Note: When a company no longer exists, we remove the link but leave the name listed.
These products work to keep team members up-to-date without having to meet in real-time. Team members are asked to provide updates, which these products then send to the rest of the team via email or through workstream applications.
These products make it easy to engage large audiences through quick polls, social media, and quick interactions. Most work well on participant cell phones or mobile devices and make it easy for presenters to quickly share audience replies.
- Aha Slides
- Beekast
- Conferences i/o
- DirectPoll
- Kahoot!
- Mentimeter
- Meeting Pulse
- Mighty Meeting
- Moodlight Team
- Piccles
- Poll Everywhere
- PollUnit
- Quizizz
- slideasy
- Sli.do
- Spark Up
- StreamAlive
- TrainLot
- Vevox
- Wooclap
These products enhance online conferences by altering the audio or video content.
- Bwamp.me
- ChromaCam
- Hello Backgrounds
- Inclusion Meeting Cards (virtual backgrounds)
- Krisp
- Motionbox
- SnapCamera
- Switchfab
- VirtualOffice
These products help formal governing groups securely manage meeting content, track the agenda and minutes approval process, and record votes. Many of these products include special features for groups that hold meetings subject to regulatory oversight or public meeting laws.
- Aprio
- Boardable
- BoardEffect
- Boardmaps
- BoardPAC
- Boardtrac
- BoardVantage
- Convene
- CUBoardMembers
- Ebikko Meeting Manager
- eScribe
- iBabs
- iCompass Meeting Manager
- Loomion
- Novus Agenda
- OnBoard
- OurMeeting
These technologies all help leaders, teams, and facilitators work through multi-step collaborative activities online. Most support some version of online sticky note creation, anonymous contributions, idea ranking, and the visual organization of content. Some focus primarily on visual collaboration, making it easier for groups to see relationships between ideas. Others include support for sophisticated multi-step decision-making frameworks.
- 1000 minds
- Candor
- Cardboard
- Cardsmith
- Cloverpop
- Concept Board
- Consider.it
- Definitive Pro
- Deskle
- Draft
- Excelway
- GoWall
- GroupMap
- IdeaBoardz
- IdeaFlip
- iObeya
- lino
- Loomio
- Lucidspark
- Milanote
- Miro
- Mural
- NoteApp
- note.ly
- padlet
- PinUP
- Powernoodle
- SAFe® Collaborate
- Scrumblr
- Shuffleboard
- Spilter
- Stormboard
- Stormz
- TelloMind
- That 1 Idea
- Thinktank
- Thought Exchange
- XLeap (formerly MeetingSphere)
Note: Teams also use collaborative document editors, general purpose whiteboard software, and multi-function software for brainstorming and making decisions together online. Read this article to learn more about the different kinds of software available for online brainstorming and decision support.
These tools suggest questions or short activities teams can use in meetings.
- Daresay's Check-in Generator
- check-in success
- Flexos A.I. Icebreaker Generator
- Hypercontext's Meeting Question Bot
- Gomada
- Question Generator
- Range's Ice Breakers
- Remote friendly Icebreakers
- tscheck
These products are not designed specifically for meetings but may be used by teams to collaborate during meetings. Most collaborative editing tools include templates for creating meeting agendas or capturing meeting notes in addition to templates for tracking many other business activities.
Note: Teams also use technology designed for task management, project management, strategic execution, and product development to support their meetings. The list below only includes use-case agnostic tools we've seen facilitators and meeting leaders use with cross-functional groups.
- Coda.io
- Dropbox Paper
- Etherpad
- Google Docs, Slides, etc.
- Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office Online)
- Notion
- Quip
- Smartsheet
- WriteUrl
- Xtensio
These products help teams organize meeting agendas, capture meeting notes, track action items, and search past meeting records. Some include templates and instructions for running specific types of meetings, analytics and reporting, and support for running facilitated in-meeting activities.
- Adjourn
- Agendaworx
- Beenote
- Circl.es
- DocketHQcom
- ecuria
- FacilitatePro
- Fellow
- Hugo
- Hypercontext
- Lucid Meetings
- Magic Minutes
- Meeting Decisions
- Meet Notes
- Meeting King
- Meeting Result
- Meeting Sense
- Meeting Sift
- Meetings by Spruce
- Minute It
- Pinstriped
- Remeet
- SEMYOU minutes
- Sesh
- Sherpany
- Stratys Meetings
- Symm
- Teeming
- WeDo Meetings
- Yabbu
These products offer collaborative whiteboards, hardware, and related services.
Not all useful technologies come in digital form. This list includes tools and props designed specifically to support facilitated group processes.
- Climer Cards
- Collaboration Superpower's Video Meeting Super Cards
- Feedback Frames
- Group Works Card Deck
- Inclusion Meeting Cards
- Meeting Spicer Cards and Game
- ToP Sticky Wall®
- Wondercards
Note: this list could get crazy long, as there are all kinds of props you can use in meetings. Markers, sticky notes, pipe cleaners, bells, timers, and many other awesome general purpose supplies could go here. Instead, we're limiting the list to products solely designed to support collaborative group processes and meetings .
These products help managers run one-on-ones with team members.
- 15Five
- Hypercontext (was Soapbox)
- Know Your Team
- Leadhonestly
- Lighthouse
These products support processes where groups of people create the agenda they want to discuss during the session.
These products support agile retrospective meetings online.
These products help people find a time to meet and schedule those meetings.
- AppointmentCore
- Calendly
- Clara Labs
- Clockwise
- Doodle
- Meet-o-matic
- Every Time Zone
- FreeBusy
- Jifflenow
- Meeting Planner
- Pick
- Remeet
- ScheduleOnce
- TeamCal AI
- timeanddate.com
- World Time Buddy
This compilation of meeting technologies focuses primarily on software products. There are also hundreds of hardware products available for meetings. Here are a few that our contributors felt would be most interesting to share.
Interactive Displays
- Avocor
- Barco
- Cisco Webex Board
- Google Jamboard Interactive Display
- Microsoft Surface Hub
- NEC Infinity Board
- Samsung Flip
- Smart Board
- Vibe
Smart Cameras and Audio Equipment
- Double Robotics
- Huddly
- Jabra
- Kubi
- Logitech Web Cameras
- Owl
- Revolve Robotics
These products help event planners and organizers host online events. Most include features for advertising the event, collecting registrations, hosting online sessions, and supporting attendee networking. Some build virtual reality event experiences. Others focus on attendee engagement.
- Airmeet
- Attendease
- Backstage Networks Virtual Events
- Brand.live
- Brazen
- CrowdComms
- Digitell Inc.
- Gatherly
- Glisser
- Hop.in
- Hubb (acquired by Notified)
- Fourwaves
- INXPO
- Invite People
- iVent
- Moot
- Notified
- Party.Space
- Pathable
- Pine Tool
- Remo
- Run The World
- Socio (acquired by Cisco)
- Steamforce One
- Swapcard
- vFairs
- Veertly
- VirBELA
- VirtWay Events
- Welcome
- Whova
These products provide an online world or virtual reality meeting space for team collaboration, meetings, and events. Some use immersive virtual reality technology. Others place video avatars into a customized landscape.
March 2022: Several companies in this category have added support for event design an guided activities, increasing feature overlap with products listed in the Workshop Design & Hosting and Brainstorming etc. categories.
- Around
- Berst
- BlueJeans Virtual Workspace
- Bramble
- flat.social
- Filo
- Gather
- Gatheround
- Glue
- Horizon Worlds
- InSpace
- Kino
- Kumospace
- meetingRoom.io
- MeetingVR
- Mibo
- ohyay
- oVice
- Party.Space
- Remotion
- Spatial.chat
- Spatial.io
- thing
- Topia.io
- Welo
- Wonder.me
- Work Adventure
- Zoi Meeting
These technologies provide digital whiteboards where teams can add virtual sticky notes, draw, post files, and more. Note: Many web conferencing and mutli-function tools also include virtual whiteboard features.
These products provide the foundational communication support for people meeting online. Core features include support for audio or video conferencing, screen sharing, chat, and session recording. Some conferencing companies focus on serving teams, some focus on large scale broadcasts, and some support a range of use cases.
- Adobe Connect
- BlueJeans
- Demio: Webinar and webinar marketing platform
- Discord
- Click Meeting
- eWebinar (also Asynchronous Meetings)
- eyeson
- ezTalks
- Fuze
- Google Meet
- GoTo Meeting
- Highfive
- Intermedia AnyMeeting
- Jami
- jitsi
- Join.me
- Lifesize
- MaestroConference
- MegaMeeting
- Microsoft Teams
- Mikogo
- MyRoom HPE
- Onstream Meetings
- Pexip
- PGi GlobalMeet
- PGI Webcasting
- Ready Talk
- Room.sh
- Talky
- TheraPlatform
- Vidyo
- WebEx
- WebinarJam
- Whereby
- Wire
- Zoom
These products help workshop facilitators design workshops. Most include a library of workshop activities with detailed instructions and example timing that facilitators can add to their designs.
- Axis (closed 1/2022)
- Butter
- Howspace
- Luma Workplace
- Seshboard
- SessionLab
- Talk Social
- Toasty.ai