BoardSnap vs Fathom: same meeting, different surface.
Short answer
Fathom records video calls and generates AI-powered meeting summaries from spoken audio. BoardSnap reads physical whiteboards and produces structured action plans from a photo. They target different parts of the same meeting — Fathom captures what was said, BoardSnap captures what was drawn.
## What Fathom does
Fathom is a meeting recorder and note-taker built for video calls — Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams. It joins your call as a bot, records it, transcribes the audio, and surfaces an AI summary after the meeting ends. It's built around the spoken word in a digital call environment.
## What BoardSnap does
BoardSnap is built for physical rooms. Snap a whiteboard with your iPhone, and BoardSnap AI reads the board — diagrams, lists, arrows, rough sketches — and delivers a clean summary plus tri-state action items (open / in-progress / done) with auto-generated subtasks in about ten seconds. No audio involved.
## The gap Fathom can't fill
Fathom is excellent at what it does — but it can't see the room. When your team draws out an architecture diagram, maps a customer journey, or runs a sprint planning session on a physical board, Fathom's transcript captures the words around the board, not the board itself. The board is often more valuable than the discussion.
BoardSnap fills that gap. It's the layer that turns the physical whiteboard artifact into an actionable digital record.
## Overlap and complementarity
If your meeting involves both a video call and a whiteboard — say a hybrid team kickoff — you could use Fathom for the call transcript and BoardSnap for the board output. They don't compete; they cover different inputs.
## Pricing notes
Fathom offers a free tier for personal use. BoardSnap is free for 1 project and 30 boards; Pro is $9.99/mo or $69.99/yr.
When to use what: Remote-first video calls → Fathom. Physical whiteboard sessions → BoardSnap.
Frequently asked
Does BoardSnap work for hybrid meetings?
Yes. BoardSnap doesn't care whether your meeting is in-person or hybrid — it just needs a photo of the whiteboard. Snap the board at the end of any session and you've got the output captured.
Can Fathom read a whiteboard?
No. Fathom's input is audio/video from a digital call. It cannot read a physical whiteboard or parse handwritten content from a photo.
See it work in ten seconds.
BoardSnap is free on the App Store. Snap a board — get a summary and action plan.