Hedy review
A privacy-minded meeting assistant with coaching, summaries, and flexible capture options.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Hedy is an AI conversation coach for meetings, interviews, classes, and other conversations. It combines real-time coaching suggestions with transcription, summaries, detailed notes, highlights, and automatic action-item extraction. Desktop system-audio capture supports virtual meetings on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, and FaceTime, while mobile apps can capture in-person conversations. With web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and API access, Hedy fits individuals and teams that want assistance during conversations as well as searchable records afterward.
Pricing is straightforward across three options. The Free plan costs $0 per month and includes up to 5 hours per month, conversations in 30+ languages, summaries and meeting notes, and real-time AI insights for the first 30 minutes per session. Pro costs $12.99 per month or $99.99 per year and adds unlimited sessions, unlimited meeting length, imports and transcription for past recordings, plus Zapier and API integrations. The $299 Lifetime plan includes everything in Pro, lifetime access to all features, and all future updates. Website purchases have a 14-day refund window; app-store refunds follow Apple or Google policies.
Hedy’s strongest distinction is the combination of live assistance and privacy-oriented processing choices. Optional local AI processing and on-device speech recognition sit alongside real-time and searchable transcription, Google Calendar context, desktop capture, audio and video imports, Topics for cross-session organization, webhooks, MCP, and automation connections through services including n8n, Activepieces, viaSocket, Pabbly Connect, and OMI. Choose Hedy if live coaching, flexible capture, and privacy options matter more than a broad platform ecosystem. Consider an alternative if your priority is a larger integration footprint or a more expansive enterprise feature set.
Hedy pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Real-time coaching suggests responses during meetings and conversations.
- Transcribes, summarizes, and extracts action items across sessions.
- Optional local processing and on-device speech recognition support privacy options.
- Where it doesn't
- The Free plan limits usage to 5 hours per month.
- Advanced integrations such as Zapier and API access require Pro.
- Its integration and feature footprint is narrower than larger platforms.
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