Comparison

A Fireflies.ai alternative for Arabic meetings

Many meeting assistants list Arabic among dozens of languages. A language on a list does not tell you how a tool handles Egyptian slang, a Gulf accent or a sentence that switches to English halfway through.

Where general-purpose tools struggle

• Arageek reported that founders “struggle with tools that handle English beautifully but stumble the moment a Gulf dialect is introduced.” ^[1]
• In July 2026 Cohere released an open-source Arabic transcription model aimed at “dialect variety, bilingual Arabic-English conversations, code-switching”. ^[2]

Questions to ask any Arabic notetaker

• Does the transcript keep the dialect, or rewrite it into formal Arabic?
• Do English terms stay in Latin script?
• Are action items tied to a named person, and does the tool admit when it is unsure who spoke?
• Can you start from a recording you already have?

How Qarar answers them

• The transcript is verbatim, in the dialect spoken; the notes are in Modern Standard Arabic.
• English words such as deadline and budget stay as spoken.
• Qarar assigns a task to an attendee’s name when it can confirm who spoke, and otherwise to a speaker label such as SPEAKER_02.
• You upload the meeting file or record in Chrome. No bot joins the call.