Fireflies Writes the Recap. Runway Makes the Highlight. Different Posts, Same Week.

I had a deadline and zero patience, so I just threw both at the same job. I ran Fireflies and Runway on the same daily work task.

About Fireflies: Fireflies is a meeting bot that joins calls and writes the notes. it captures action items without anyone remembering to hit record. Fireflies posted the summary before I'd closed the tab; I only rewrote the three items that mattered.

About Runway: Runway is the video toolkit pros reach for first. its effects and motion tools do things the one-click apps can't. Runway turned a bland screen recording into something a client would actually watch; the credits cost more than the time.

the summaries are generic and you end up rewriting the important parts. the learning curve is real and renders eat credits fast. Neither is magic, and the gap between the demo and your actual workflow is where most of these comparisons fall apart.

Fireflies for the internal recap nobody watches the recording for; Runway for the external cut that has to look made. Pick Fireflies when the value is the written record and the action items. Pick Runway when the value is motion and you need effects a phone can't shoot.