AI Actions vs Fathom
Side-by-side comparison · Updated October 2026
| Description | The AI Actions app offers powerful AI-related actions (including GPT-4o, GPT-4, and GPT 3.5) for Apple's Shortcuts app, facilitating interaction with the ChatGPT API. It requires users to supply their own OpenAI API key, which is securely stored in the keychain. The app is optimized for macOS, but requires an Apple silicon Mac for the App Store version, due to Apple's restrictions. A non-App Store version is available for Intel Mac users, although it doesn't receive automatic updates. The app also supports DALL·E and boasts enhanced customizability and longer text handling compared to the official ChatGPT app. | Fathom captures meetings as searchable transcripts, summaries and clips. Its free plan includes unlimited recordings and transcriptions with instant call summaries. You can use a meeting bot or try bot-free capture, currently a beta feature for Mac. Premium adds advanced summaries, AI action items and a conversational meeting assistant. Team plans add shared meeting highlights and collaboration; Business adds CRM field sync and deal views. Choose around the capture method, follow-up work and team controls you need. |
| Category | AI Assistant | Meeting Assistant |
| Rating | No reviews | No reviews |
| Pricing | Pricing unavailable | Freemium |
| Starting Price | N/A | Free |
| Plans | — |
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| Tags | AIChatGPTShortcutsmacOSIntelligent Assistant | Meeting notesTranscriptionMeeting summariesMeeting recordingsTeam collaboration |
| Features | ||
| Supports GPT-4o, GPT-4, and GPT 3.5 | ||
| Integration with ChatGPT API | ||
| Secure API key storage in keychain | ||
| Apple silicon Mac optimized | ||
| Non-App Store version available for Intel Macs | ||
| Supports DALL·E | ||
| Longer text processing | ||
| Customizability options for power users | ||
| Enhanced AI functionalities on macOS | ||
| No automatic updates for non-App Store version | ||
| Unlimited recordings and transcriptions on Free | ||
| Instant AI call summaries | ||
| Bot capture or bot-free capture in beta for Mac | ||
| Clips, playlists and search across calls | ||
| Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams support | ||
| Advanced summaries and AI action items on Premium | ||
| Conversational meeting assistant on Premium | ||
| Comments, folders and shared meeting highlights on Team | ||
| CRM field sync and Deal View on Business | ||
| View AI Actions | View Fathom | |
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