Fellow vs Superhuman

Fellow is a meeting management platform made by a Canadian company headquartered in Ottawa. It covers the whole meeting cycle: collaborative agendas prepared before the call, notes and decisions captured during it, and action items and recaps followed up afterwards, with a strong focus on recurring one-on-ones and team meetings run by managers.

Agendas live in a shared notes document attached to each calendar event, with a template library for one-on-ones, stand-ups, retrospectives and board meetings. Fellow's AI notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls to record, transcribe and summarize, and privacy controls let organizations decide which meetings are recorded and who can see transcripts. Action items sync to tools such as Asana, Jira and Slack. There is a free plan with limits, then per-user Team and Business plans that unlock AI notes, longer history and admin controls, plus an Enterprise tier.

Fellow fits managers and organizations that want to improve meeting habits, not just capture transcripts. Solo users who only need a recorder get more for less from Otter, Fireflies or tl;dv, and teams already standardized on Notion or Confluence may find the agenda features overlap with what they have. Compared with Fathom or Fireflies, Fellow is stronger on pre-meeting preparation, one-on-one workflows and governance, while the pure notetakers are cheaper for transcription alone. Its value depends on the whole team adopting it, so rollout matters.

Superhuman is a premium email client for Gmail and Outlook accounts, founded in 2014 by Rahul Vohra in San Francisco. It is built around speed: nearly every action has a keyboard shortcut, the interface is designed to respond instantly, and a guided onboarding teaches users to process email toward inbox zero.

Key features include split inboxes that separate important senders from newsletters and notifications, snippets for reusable text, reminders that bring back threads when nobody replies, scheduled sending, undo send, read statuses and calendar integration. Its AI features write and edit replies in your tone, summarize long threads, auto-label and triage incoming email, and let you ask questions across your mailbox. Pricing is per user per month with Starter, Business and Enterprise tiers; Business adds team features and CRM integrations, and Enterprise adds SSO and security controls. Grammarly acquired Superhuman in 2025 and has since used the Superhuman name for its wider productivity suite.

Superhuman is worth the cost for founders, investors, executives and salespeople who handle hundreds of emails a day, where saving even a few minutes per hour adds up. Light email users will not notice enough difference to justify the price, and it only supports Gmail and Microsoft accounts. Gmail with Gemini or Outlook with Copilot covers basic AI help, Spark offers a cheaper smart inbox, and Shortwave is the closest AI-first alternative for Gmail users.