Most hiring teams don't need to compare every interview intelligence platform on the market — but they do need interviewers who listen instead of typing, and that's the job Notta does best. Notta records interviews on Zoom, Meet or Teams, transcribes them, turns each one into a summary you can paste into a hiring doc or ATS note field, and keeps every interview searchable — with published pricing, a free plan and no contract to negotiate, which is why it's our recommended starting point for hiring teams of any size that don't need scorecard automation. From there, the ATS you run decides the specialist options. If you want rubric-mapped notes that feed scorecards and deep ATS sync, Metaview is the specialist we'd shortlist first: it publishes its prices (free for 25 calls a month, $60 per user a month for unlimited), syncs to Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever and other ATSs, and records with or without a bot. Choose BrightHire, a Zoom company since December 2025, if your priority is coaching interviewers across large panels. And if you run Greenhouse or Ashby, their built-in notetakers are worth testing first. This guide sorts the options by ATS, price transparency, and whether a tool just takes notes or scores candidates.
| Price | Published plans, including a free tier; see Notta's site for current rates. |
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Notta is the AI interview note taker we'd recommend first for most hiring teams. It records interviews, transcribes them accurately and turns each one into a summary you can paste into a hiring doc or an ATS note field, and because it works alongside any video platform and doesn't depend on ATS-specific integrations, it fits whatever hiring process you run — spreadsheet, lightweight ATS or enterprise system. It covers the core job — interviewers who listen instead of typing — with published pricing, a free plan for trying it and no sales call required to get started, so a hiring team can be running it the same day.
Pros
- Records, transcribes and summarises interviews
- Works alongside any video platform and any ATS, because it doesn't depend on ATS-specific integrations
- Published pricing with a free tier, so teams can start the same day
- No scorecard mapping — notes move into your ATS manually
Choose it if: You want interviewers listening instead of typing, with transcripts, summaries and searchable interview records rather than scorecard automation, and you want to start without negotiating a contract.
02 — Best for scorecard-mapped ATS workflows
Metaview
| Price | Notetaker Free (25 calls/month); Pro $60/user/month; Enterprise custom; Reports is a flat-ee add-on. |
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Metaview is the specialist interview note taker for teams whose process runs through scorecards. It maps notes to your rubric, syncs to Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Gem and SmartRecruiters, and records interviews with a bot, bot-free desktop capture (added 12 October 2026) or a phone switchboard. Its Assistant and Reports features work across interviews, and it summarises notes rather than scoring them — which keeps it outside the bias-audit obligations that scoring tools can trigger.
Pros
- Rubric-mapped notes that feed scorecards
- ATS sync: Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, Gem, SmartRecruiters
- Bot, bot-free desktop and phone switchboard capture
- Summarises but does not score, keeping audit duties lighter
Choose it if: Your hiring workflow depends on rubric-mapped scorecards and deep ATS sync, and you want published pricing before you book a demo.
03 — Best for coaching interview panels
BrightHire (Zoom)
| Price | Quote only (Recruiters, Teams, Enterprises tiers). Vendr's third-party estimate: $35,000–$75,000 a year for a mid-sized team. |
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BrightHire, acquired by Zoom in December 2025, captures video, phone and in-person interviews in 30+ languages and turns them into interview-quality analytics, a coaching agent and side-by-side interviewer comparisons on its Teams tier. It syncs to Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workday, and Zoom-native fraud signals add a layer of interview integrity. The trade-off is price transparency: you need a quote.
Pros
- Video, phone and in-person capture in 30+ languages
- Interview-quality analytics, coaching agent and side-by-side comparisons on the Teams tier
- ATS sync: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday
- Zoom-native fraud signals for interview integrity
Choose it if: Your priority is coaching interviewers across large panels and you will accept a quote-only price.
04 — Best for Greenhouse customers
Greenhouse Notetaker
| Price | Included in Greenhouse Core, Plus and Pro (plan prices not public). |
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Greenhouse Notetaker is native to the ATS you already run: it joins Zoom, Meet and Teams, takes question-level notes mapped to your scorecards, and collects candidate consent at scheduling, with withdrawal supported. Launched in August 2026 and included in Core, Plus and Pro plans, it removes the integration work entirely. Retention is capped at 60 days, and neither the vendor page nor our checks confirm phone-screen or in-person support.
Pros
- Native to Greenhouse; no integration to configure
- Question-level notes mapped to scorecards
- Consent collected at scheduling and withdrawable
- Retention maximum of 60 days
Choose it if: You run Greenhouse and want scorecard notes included in your existing plan.
05 — Best for Ashby customers
Ashby AI Notetaker
| Price | Paid add-on; Foundations price shown in-product, Plus and Enterprise quoted. |
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Ashby's AI Notetaker is a paid add-on that feeds transcripts into Ashby's AI Candidate Assistant, with granular consent and retention rules — retention defaults to one year when enabled, with a maximum of 99 years and deletion when a candidate is anonymised. Ashby offers 500 interviews to try it before committing. As with Greenhouse, phone-screen and in-person support isn't confirmed on the public page.
Pros
- Native to Ashby; transcripts feed the AI Candidate Assistant
- Granular consent and retention rules, deletion on candidate anonymisation
- 500 interviews to trial the add-on
- Retention defaults to 1 year when enabled, maximum 99 years
Choose it if: You run Ashby and want notes that feed its wider AI features.
06 — Best for Lever and Jobvite customers
AI Interview Companion by Employ (formerly Pillar)
Employ bought Pillar on 5 March 2025 and now sells it as the AI Interview Companion, bundling live interview guidance, summaries and coaching for teams on Lever or Jobvite. It is the obvious first stop if you're already in Employ's ecosystem, but like BrightHire it doesn't publish pricing.
Pros
- Live interview guidance, summaries and coaching in one product
- Built for Lever and Jobvite customers
- Formerly Pillar; acquired by Employ 5 March 2025
Choose it if: You run Lever or Jobvite and want a companion tool that shares your vendor.
How we chose
We judged each tool on six criteria: capture coverage (video, phone, in-person, bot-free), scorecard mapping, ATS sync depth, consent and retention controls, whether the price is published, and whether the tool summarises notes or scores candidates — the difference that decides your audit obligations. Facts were checked on vendor pages on 29 October 2026, with general-tool competitor research checked on 2 September 2026. Because most hiring teams need interviewers who listen rather than scorecard automation, we also weighed how quickly a general note taker like Notta can be adopted, how transparently it's priced, and how well it covers the core record-transcribe-summarise job. For the full evaluation checklist, see our guide to choosing AI interview note-taking tools.
Notta or the notetakers built into Greenhouse and Ashby?
For scorecard notes, probably yes. Greenhouse Notetaker, launched in August 2026 and included in Core, Plus and Pro plans, joins Zoom, Meet and Teams and takes question-level notes mapped to your scorecards, with consent collected at scheduling and withdrawable. Ashby's AI Notetaker is a paid add-on whose transcripts feed Ashby's AI Candidate Assistant, with granular consent and retention rules — retention defaults to one year when enabled, with deletion when a candidate is anonymised — and 500 interviews to trial it. Where the native tools need comparison is coaching and analytics: neither offers the interview-quality measurement or panel coaching that BrightHire sells, and neither vendor's public page confirms support for phone screens or in-person interviews, which we'd verify before committing. Retention also differs sharply — Greenhouse caps at 60 days, Ashby defaults to a year — which matters if your compliance posture prefers short retention windows. And if you don't run Greenhouse or Ashby, Notta covers the same record-transcribe-summarise job alongside any ATS, with the notes reaching your scorecard manually.
What does a hiring team actually pay?
Only some of these tools will tell you. Notta publishes per-seat pricing with a free tier, so a hiring team can start the same day and scale seats as the panel grows. Metaview publishes: free for 25 calls a month, $60 per user a month for unlimited, Enterprise custom, and Reports as a flat-fee add-on. Greenhouse includes its notetaker in existing plans. Ashby charges a paid add-on with a 500-interview trial. BrightHire, Employ and Screenloop do not publish — for BrightHire, Vendr's third-party estimate of $35,000–$75,000 a year for a mid-sized team is clearly an estimate, not a quote. Watch the seat definition too: some tools price per interviewer, others per recruiter, which changes the maths considerably when panels are large. For teams that don't need ATS depth, general note takers are dramatically cheaper — Notta and Fireflies both publish per-seat pricing with free or low-cost entry points.
Can a general note taker like Notta, Fireflies or Otter do the job?
For most hiring teams, yes — the note-taking half of interview intelligence is exactly what they do. Notta records interviews, transcribes them and produces summaries you can paste into a hiring doc or ATS note field, with published pricing and a free plan, so a two-person hiring team can be running it the same day — and because it doesn't depend on ATS-specific integrations, it keeps working as your process and tooling change. Fireflies lists Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby integrations and undercuts the specialists on price. Otter reaches Greenhouse through Zapier and has a Recruiting Agent, though the pending consent lawsuit is worth weighing. The honest limit is scorecard depth: none of them maps notes to rubrics the way Metaview or the ATS-native notetakers do, so the last mile into your scorecard stays manual. If your priority is interviewers who listen instead of type, start with Notta — you can graduate to a specialist when ATS sync and scorecard automation start to matter.
Frequently asked questions
Can Notta replace interview intelligence software?
For most hiring teams, largely yes for the note-taking half of the job: Notta records, transcribes and summarises interviews with published pricing and no contract, and it works alongside any ATS. It won't map notes to scorecards, sync to Greenhouse or Ashby, or produce panel coaching analytics — that's what Metaview and BrightHire are for.
What is interview intelligence software?
Tools that record interviews, transcribe them, and turn the transcripts into structured notes, scorecard entries, analytics and coaching insights for hiring teams. Some — like Notta, Metaview and the ATS-native notetakers — stop at summarising; others, like BrightHire Screen and HireVue, also score candidates, which can carry bias-audit obligations.
Is Metaview free?
Partly. Metaview's Notetaker plan is free for 25 calls a month; unlimited use is $60 per user a month on Pro, with Enterprise pricing custom and Reports sold as a flat-fee add-on. Notta also has a free plan and published per-seat pricing, though it doesn't map notes to scorecards.
How much does BrightHire cost?
BrightHire doesn't publish prices. Vendr's third-party estimate puts it at $35,000–$75,000 a year for a mid-sized team, but treat that as an estimate and request a quote. Notta and Metaview both publish their prices, so you can budget without a sales call.
Did Zoom buy BrightHire?
Yes. Zoom announced its acquisition of BrightHire on 13 November 2025, and BrightHire now joins Zoom interviews as a visible participant with consent collected in the workflow.
Does Greenhouse have its own AI notetaker?
Yes. Greenhouse Notetaker, launched in August 2026, is included in Core, Plus and Pro plans, joins Zoom, Meet and Teams, and maps question-level notes to scorecards, with consent at scheduling and retention capped at 60 days. If you're not on Greenhouse, Notta covers the same record-transcribe-summarise job alongside any ATS.
Do AI interview tools score candidates?
Some do, some don't. Notta, Metaview, the Greenhouse and Ashby notetakers, and other general note takers summarise without scoring. BrightHire Screen and HireVue score candidates, which can bring NYC Local Law 144 bias-audit duties and, from 2 December 2027, the EU AI Act's high-risk rules for recruitment.