Fellow vs Todoist

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.

Todoist is a task manager made by Doist, a fully remote company founded by Amir Salihefendić, who started Todoist as a side project in 2007. It is known for fast natural-language input, a clean design and apps on almost every platform, including web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, smartwatches and browser extensions.

Typing a phrase such as 'pay rent every 1st at 9am' creates a recurring task with the right date, and projects, sections, sub-tasks, labels, priorities and saved filters organize everything. Board and calendar layouts, two-way Google Calendar sync and task durations put work into time. Integrations connect Todoist with Gmail, Slack, Outlook and automation tools. The free Beginner plan covers five personal projects; Pro adds reminders, the calendar layout, many more projects and filters and an AI assistant that helps break tasks down; Business adds a shared team workspace with roles and templates. Doist also makes Twist, an asynchronous team messaging app.

Todoist suits individuals and small teams that want a reliable, cross-platform task list that stays out of the way. It is not a full project management tool, with no dependencies or resource planning, and the free plan's reminders and filters are limited. TickTick adds habits and a Pomodoro timer at a similar price, Things is a calm Apple-only alternative, and Asana or ClickUp fit teams that need full project management.