Best Cluely Alternatives for Sales Calls and Meetings (2026)

Cluely's real-time answers arrive 4-7 seconds late in real-world tests. Here are the best Cluely alternatives for sales calls and meetings and what each does.

The rest of the capability list matches Cluely's, then goes further.

It knows your playbook, and it learns. Upload your pricing sheets and product docs, and Convo pulls the answer from them the second a prospect asks. This is the knowledge base Cluely does not have. Sales playbooks like BANT, SPICED, and MEDDPICC ship built in and fill themselves in as the prospect talks, and Save-as-Cue turns the answers that win into live prompts. When one rep finds the line that beats your toughest competitor, every rep sees it the next time that competitor comes up. New hires carry your best answers into real calls from day one, so they stop learning by losing deals.

It remembers the account. Convo briefs you before the call on what was discussed last time and what is still open, and pulls the exact quote mid-call when the buyer circles back to a concern from three weeks ago. Cluely starts every call cold. On a four-to-eight-call B2B cycle, that memory is what keeps a deal moving between conversations.

A team can run on it. Managers get a team view with per-rep talk ratios and shared cues, so coaching reaches every call. Cluely has no team plan at all, and you cannot roll out a secret to a sales floor anyway.

The notes half is covered. Summaries, action items, CRM sync, and a drafted follow-up waiting when you hang up. The admin work you would normally do at 7pm is already done.

The overlay only you can see, Cluely's headline feature, is a footnote here. It works the same on every Convo plan: nothing joins the meeting, audio is processed locally on your device, and the overlay stays out of screen sharing by default. Cluely charges $149.99 a month for that. On a tool your manager rolled out in the open, it is simply how the product works.

Pricing is published, which in this category is rarer than it should be. Starter is $22.49 per user per month and Professional is $52.49. The right buy if you sell your own product, run a small or growing team, and win or lose in the conversation itself. Skip Convo if you want an interview whisperer, that is not what we build, or if you need scripted compliance prompts across a 300-seat call floor, which is Balto's job below. The full side-by-side with Cluely is on our Cluely alternatives page.

Clari Copilot: Live Battlecards Inside an Enterprise Stack

Clari Copilot is real in-call help, battlecards that fire when a competitor or objection comes up, inherited from the Wingman acquisition. The cards are written in advance and fired by keyword, so they help when the objection is one you scripted and stay quiet when the buyer surprises you. The other catch is the wrapper. The battlecards come bundled with Clari's forecasting platform, reportedly around $120 per user per month, so the live layer arrives inside an enterprise system you may not have wanted. The right buy when your company already pays for Clari, or when forecasting matters more to you than coaching. Skip it if you just want help on calls, since Convo does that on its own at a fraction of the seat price.

Balto: Live Prompts for Contact Centers

Balto coaches agents live on high-volume phone floors, with checklists, scripts, and compliance prompts that update as the call moves. It is built and priced for contact centers, quote-based and sold top-down, and in that world it is the established choice. The right buy for support or inside-sales floors with dozens to hundreds of agents on rails. Skip it for consultative B2B selling over Zoom or Meet, where calls follow no script and the coaching has to read the actual conversation.

Attention and Winn.ai: The CRM-First Options

Both sit near the real-time category with a different center of gravity. Attention pairs call intelligence with heavy CRM automation, filling Salesforce and drafting follow-ups from what was said. Winn.ai tracks your playbook live during the meeting and captures CRM fields as the answers come up, with a free tier to try. Fine tools if your real pain is data hygiene. Neither is built around coaching you through the hard moment mid-call, which is the specific thing people came to Cluely for, and the job Convo does.

Notes After the Call: If That's the Half You Wanted

Plenty of people typing "Cluely alternative" mean something simpler. They want good meeting notes without the Cluely baggage, and that is the easier problem to solve. One honest warning first. A notetaker replaces Cluely's notes, not Cluely's help. If the live coaching is what you came for, none of these four will give it to you, and you want the section above.

Fathom: The Best Free Way In

Unlimited free recording and transcription with no meeting caps, and AI summaries capped at five a month until you pay. Premium at $16 per user per month lifts the cap, Business at $25 adds CRM sync. The right buy if you want to stop taking notes by hand and pay nothing. A visible bot does join your calls. More in our Fathom alternatives breakdown.

Otter: Transcripts at Scale

Otter is the oldest name in the category, with real-time transcription, team workspaces, and a free tier, and Pro at $16.99 per user per month. It is transcription-first rather than sales-first, and its bot joins meetings visibly. The right buy for teams that live in transcripts, interviews, and internal meetings. Skip it for client-facing sales work, where the notetaker-in-the-room dynamic changes how prospects talk.

Granola: Bot-Free Notes on Mac

Granola pioneered the bot-free capture approach and built a well-loved Mac notetaker around it. It enhances the notes you type yourself, works from local audio with nothing joining the call, and runs $14 to $35 a month after the trial. It shares Convo's capture model but none of the live layer: no coaching, no memory across accounts, and no Windows version. The full comparison is on our Granola alternatives page, and Mac-specific picks are in our Mac meeting assistants guide.

Krisp: Notes From the Audio Layer

Krisp started as noise cancellation and grew device-level meeting notes on top, from $8 a month with a free tier. Because it sits in the audio path, there is no bot either. The right buy if call quality is half your problem and you want basic notes thrown in. Skip it if you need sales-specific summaries or CRM depth. See our Krisp alternatives page for the field.

Most people who read this far realize the live half is what they actually wanted. The notes were never the hard part of a sales call, and that gap is where Convo starts.

Free and Open-Source Cluely Alternatives

The free demand around Cluely is real, and there are two honest answers. Fathom is the free option that works out of the box, a capable notetaker with unlimited recording that costs nothing until you want more summaries. Pluely is the free option you build, an open-source overlay in the Cluely mold that you run yourself with your own API keys, no subscription and no company behind it. The trade is full control and zero dollars in exchange for setup, maintenance, and whatever the model APIs bill you directly. The right buy for developers who enjoy that sentence.

If You're Actually Here for Interviews

Some of you searched "Cluely alternative" because of job interviews. That is a different category with different tools, Interview Sidekick and Final Round AI being the visible names, and an ethics line each person draws for themselves. We build for client conversations, where the person across the table is your customer and the help works because the relationship is honest. So no rankings from me here, other than pointing out that a tool you have to hide in an interview creates the same problems it does on a sales call.

Which One Fits You

Your deals stall on hard questions, or slip away between calls. Convo. Automatic help while the objection is being raised, your playbook and the account's whole history behind every answer, and a manager layer to spread what works. In our own customer base, this is where close rates react first.

Your company already runs Clari, or forecasting is the bigger problem. Clari Copilot gets you live battlecards inside the platform you are paying for anyway.

You manage a contact center. Balto, and nothing else on this list is really a candidate.

Your real pain is the CRM, not the conversation. Attention or Winn.ai, depending on whether intelligence or data capture matters more.

You wanted the notes. Fathom for free, Otter for transcripts at scale, Granola for bot-free notes on a Mac, Krisp if background noise is half your problem.

You want free and you can build. Pluely, with your own API keys and your own weekends.

The Bottom Line

Cluely got one thing right that most of this market still misses: the help has to arrive during the conversation. What it got wrong is the rest. The suggestions take 4 to 7 seconds, every account starts from zero, and there is no team plan a manager could roll out even if the brand allowed it.

For sales calls and client meetings, the honest pick is Convo. It is built for the same moment, gets there in time to be used, and the more you use it, the more it knows about every account. If you mainly wanted the notes, Fathom is the free pick and Granola the Mac one. If you would rather build than subscribe, Pluely. Match the tool to the job you actually hired Cluely for.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best Cluely alternative for sales calls? Convo, for the specific job of winning the live call. It surfaces objection responses while the prospect is still talking, remembers what each buyer said in past conversations, and briefs you before every meeting. The private overlay comes with every plan instead of being a paid tier like Cluely's.

What does Cluely actually do? Cluely is a desktop overlay that listens to your call and reads your screen. You press Cmd+Enter and it suggests what to say. It also transcribes in 12+ languages, takes meeting notes, and has a chat you can ask about past meetings. It advertises a 300ms response, though in real-world tests suggestions take 4 to 7 seconds, and its $149.99/month tier keeps the overlay invisible during screen sharing. What it does not have: a knowledge base for your playbook and pricing, live help that carries context from previous calls, or a team plan. Those gaps are where alternatives like Convo pick up.

How much does Cluely cost in 2026? Checked in July 2026 on Cluely's pricing page: the free Starter plan has limited AI responses, Pro is $19.99 per month, and "Pro + Undetectability," the tier that stays hidden from screen-sharing software, is $149.99 per month. That means staying invisible costs $130 a month over the standard product. Convo's published pricing is $22.49 per user per month with no hidden tiers.

Is there a free Cluely alternative? Three honest options. Fathom records and transcribes without limits on its free plan, with AI summaries capped at five a month. Pluely is an open-source overlay you self-host with your own API keys, free forever but yours to maintain. And Convo gives you the full real-time coaching product free for the first week, which is the fastest way to find out whether live help changes your calls.

Did Cluely have a data breach? A security researcher's writeup reports that 83,000 user accounts were exposed in 2025, with an admin password left in a public GitHub repository. Cluely has never publicly acknowledged it, and no major outlet has covered it, so weigh the sourcing yourself. What is documented is how the company treats researchers: when Jack Cable demonstrated flaws in the app, Cluely answered with a DMCA takedown rather than a fix. If client conversations run through your tools, that record matters. Convo processes audio locally on your device, so your calls are not sitting on someone else's server.

Is Convo like Cluely? Both put real-time AI help on your screen during a conversation. Cluely helps only when you ask: you press Cmd+Enter and wait, 4 to 7 seconds in real-world tests. Convo works both ways: it surfaces the response on its own when an objection comes up, in a second or two, and its Ask Anything answers questions from the live transcript, your documents, and past calls. Convo also has the knowledge base Cluely lacks, remembers every past call with the account, ships self-filling playbooks like BANT and MEDDPICC, and adds a team layer with talk ratios and shared cues. The private overlay Cluely sells for $149.99 a month is included on every Convo plan, with nothing joining the call and audio staying on your device.

Does Cluely have a free trial? Not exactly. Cluely's Starter plan is free with limited AI responses and limited notetaking, and that is how you test it before paying $19.99 for Pro. The caps sit on the AI responses themselves, so you get a handful of live answers to judge the product on. Convo takes the other route: the first seven days are the full product.