OLVA
Real-time meeting help without a bot in the room
- Category
- Productivity & Automation
- Pricing
- Free Basic plan covers 2 hours/month; Plus is $12.50/mo ($150/yr) for 15 hours with document and calendar features; Pro is $19.99/mo ($239.88/yr) for unlimited meeting time plus Slack, Drive, and Notion integrations; Teams/Enterprise pricing is custom.
- Best for
- Best suited to individual sales professionals, customer success and support reps, and small teams who want live, in-call support — translation, answers, coaching — rather than a purely retrospective meeting recorder.
- Official site
- olva.ai
- Last updated
- August 2026
OLVA is a meeting-intelligence tool built around a simple pitch: help during the call, not just after it. Instead of the now-familiar bot that joins a Zoom or Google Meet as a visible participant to record and transcribe, OLVA installs as a desktop (and mobile) companion that captures audio directly from the device the user is on. Because it never appears in the participant list, it works across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Slack Huddles without needing host permission to add a bot, and it can even follow in-person conversations through a laptop or phone mic. From that audio stream it produces a live transcript, flags questions as they're asked, and pulls answers from any documents or context the user has connected, alongside prompts meant to nudge the speaker toward stronger framing in the moment.
Where OLVA differs from note-taking incumbents like Otter.ai and Fathom, and from enterprise revenue-intelligence platforms like Gong, is timing. Otter and Fathom are built primarily for capture-then-review: a bot joins, records, and hands back a transcript and summary once the call ends. Gong goes further into post-call analytics and deal intelligence but is squarely an after-the-fact, enterprise-priced tool. OLVA instead pushes transcription, coaching, and translation into the live moment, positioning itself less as a note-taker and more as a real-time copilot for people who need to think and respond well while still on the call — sales reps fielding objections, support agents answering technical questions, or anyone working across languages. The tradeoff is that it depends on the local device's audio setup rather than a cloud bot, and as a newer product it has a much thinner independent track record than its established competitors.
Best suited to individual sales professionals, customer success and support reps, and small teams who want live, in-call support — translation, answers, coaching — rather than a purely retrospective meeting recorder.
Key features
Live Transcription
Real-time speech-to-text covering 87 languages with automatic multilingual detection, so mixed-language meetings get transcribed without manual setup.
Question Detection & Instant Answers
OLVA listens for questions as they're asked and answers using connected documents and prior meeting context, surfacing the response on-screen during the call.
Live AI Coach
Provides in-the-moment prompts on framing, tone, or missed talking points while the conversation is still happening.
Live Translation
Translates the transcript automatically or on demand, aimed at multilingual sales and customer conversations.
Bot-Free Capture
Captures audio locally from the device rather than joining as a visible meeting participant, working across Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, Slack Huddles, and in-person talks.
Post-Meeting Intelligence
After the call, generates summaries, action items, a searchable meeting archive, and can produce a slide-deck recap of the conversation.
Pricing breakdown
Basic
- 2 hours of meeting time per month
- Live transcription & real-time insights
- Automatic question detection
- AI coaching prompts
- Limited meeting history
- No document attachments or calendar integration
Plus
- 15 hours of meeting time per month
- Unlimited meeting history
- Document attachments for context-aware answers
- Calendar integration
- Live translation & multilingual support
- Post-meeting summaries and action items
Pro
- Unlimited meeting time
- Slack, Google Drive, and Notion integrations
- Outbound webhooks for developers
- Slide-deck generation from meetings
- Everything in Plus
Teams / Enterprise
- Volume/team-wide deployment
- Compliance reviews
- Dedicated support
- Custom contract terms
Pros and cons
Pros
- Skips the bot-in-the-call model entirely, so it doesn't add a visible participant or trigger notifications some organizations restrict or ban outright.
- Delivers help while the meeting is still happening — live answers, coaching, and translation — rather than only a post-call summary.
- Free tier and sub-$20/month paid plans undercut enterprise conversation-intelligence tools like Gong on price.
- Covers a wide range of meeting surfaces (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, Slack Huddles) plus in-person conversations through the same desktop app.
- 87-language transcription and live translation are a genuine differentiator for teams doing multilingual sales or support calls.
Cons
- Because capture happens locally on the user's device, it can't record or assist in meetings where the app isn't installed and running, unlike cloud-based bots that can be added to any invite.
- Public, high-volume review data is thin — app store and review-aggregator listings currently reflect only a handful of ratings, so broad claims about accuracy or reliability at scale aren't yet independently verifiable.
- Live in-meeting answers depend on the documents and context a user has connected beforehand; without that setup, the 'answers' feature has less to draw on.
- The bot-free design doesn't remove consent obligations — OLVA's own FAQ tells users to give notice and obtain whatever recording consent their meeting requires, so it doesn't sidestep two-party-consent laws.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does OLVA cost?
OLVA has a free Basic plan (2 hours/month), a Plus plan at $12.50/month ($150 billed annually) with 15 hours plus document and calendar features, a Pro plan at $19.99/month ($239.88 billed annually) with unlimited meeting time and Slack/Drive/Notion integrations, and custom Teams/Enterprise pricing.
Is it legal to use OLVA without telling other meeting participants?
OLVA doesn't add a visible bot to the call, but that doesn't remove consent requirements — its own FAQ instructs users to give clear notice and get whatever consent their jurisdiction or company policy requires before using it, since many regions mandate all-party consent to record.
Which meeting platforms does OLVA support?
It works across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Slack Huddles, and Webex, plus in-person conversations, by capturing audio from the user's own device rather than joining as a participant.
Does OLVA store meeting audio or video?
According to OLVA's FAQ, it does not store meeting audio or video on its systems; audio is processed for transcription and AI features, and the resulting transcripts and data are handled under its privacy policy.
How is OLVA different from Otter.ai, Fathom, or Gong?
Otter and Fathom are primarily post-call note-takers that join as a bot and hand back a transcript and summary afterward. Gong is an enterprise revenue-intelligence platform focused on post-call deal analytics. OLVA's focus is the live moment itself — real-time transcription, question answering, coaching, and translation while the meeting is still happening, without a bot in the call.
How do I get started with OLVA?
Sign up at olva.ai and install the desktop or mobile app; the free Basic plan includes 2 hours of meeting time per month, enough to try live transcription and coaching before deciding whether to upgrade.
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Head to the official site to explore pricing and start a free trial where available.
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