Read AI
by Read AI
Getting-started guide
An AI note-taker that joins your Zoom, Teams and Google Meet calls, writes up summaries and action items, and can search across your meetings, email and chat.
Current prices: Free, from $15 · See all plans
Last reviewed 2026-10-24 · for Read AI
You sign in and connect your calendar. Read's note-taker then joins your video meetings as a participant (on Google Meet it can also record without joining) and produces a report: a summary, topics, action items, key questions and a transcript. You can also ask Ask Read questions across your meetings and, if you connect them, your email and chat.
Read AI is a meeting assistant. Its help centre says it supports Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet: it joins Zoom and Teams as a participant named "read.ai meeting notes" by default, and on Meet it can join or use botless recording. For other platforms, or in-person meetings, there are desktop and iPhone apps that record locally.
Each meeting gets a report with a summary, topics, action items, key questions and a transcript. Read also measures how a meeting went: its Read Score combines sentiment and engagement, which its help centre says is measured from facial and verbal cues outside the EU and UK. You also get private speaker coaching on things like pace and filler words.
Ask Read is its search assistant. Its help centre says it can search your meetings, the web, and — if you connect them — Gmail or Outlook, your calendar, and Slack or Teams. Connecting email and chat also powers Readouts, summaries of your inbox and messages.
Sign-up sets up auto-join. You can sign in with Google, Microsoft, Zoom, Slack or email. Read's step-by-step setup guide says the default is to join all meetings on your calendar and to send recaps to everyone with access — its own help centre warns people skim this step and are surprised when Read starts joining every meeting.
Free is small. Read's free plan caps how many meeting transcripts you get each month and how long a meeting can run. Its help centre adds that reports other people share with you count toward that allowance, and that Readouts on Free last only 14 days. New users start on a free trial of a paid plan, then drop to Free.
Paid plans are per user. Pro is $15/user/month billed annually, more if you pay month to month, and the two Enterprise plans cost more per user. The pricing page also says Read doesn't offer refunds.
Official source: Sign up at read.ai. If you use Zoom, connect the Zoom integration from inside Read — its help centre says Read can now only join Zoom meetings when you're there, signed in with that connected account.
Change auto-join during setup. Choose "only meetings you host" or "only meetings you invite it to" instead of all meetings. You can change it later under Account Settings → Meeting Recording → Auto-Join Preferences.
Send recaps only to yourself at first. Read's help centre says report sharing goes to everyone on the calendar invite, whether or not they attended. Change it under Account Settings → Report Sharing.
Using a Gmail address? Read decides who's internal by email domain, so with a personal address everyone counts as external and the "internal only" options won't work.
Confirm it works. From the Calendar page, turn on "Add Read?" for one upcoming meeting and check that a report appears afterwards.
Read records other people, and recording-consent laws vary by place, so tell participants. In a meeting, anyone can type "Opt Out" in the chat: Read's help centre says it then leaves and deletes everything, with no report created. When you record locally with the desktop or phone app there's no bot, and getting consent is entirely your responsibility.
Set auto-join to meetings you host and recaps to "Only you", then enable Read for one meeting from the Calendar page.
Why this one: Read's defaults join everything and share widely. Starting with one meeting lets you see exactly what a report contains before anyone else does.
What issues came up in my meeting yesterday?
Why this one: This is the example Read's own docs give for Ask Read. It's the quickest way to see whether searching your meetings saves you time.
After a meeting where you spoke a lot, open your speaker coaching and look at pace and filler words.
Why this one: Read's help centre says coaching is always private to you, so it's a low-stakes way to get value from the meeting metrics.
In a test meeting, type "Opt Out" in the chat and confirm Read leaves and no report is created.
Why this one: Knowing the exact words — and that anyone on the call can use them — makes it easier to tell others how to decline.
Want the full picture first? See the Read AI overview for pricing, the free tier and related tools.
