Download All Your Fathom Transcripts Before You Cancel
The short answer: export everything while your account is still active. Your transcripts live on Fathom's servers, and once you cancel, your access to that history is governed by whatever Fathom's policy happens to be for ex-customers. Maybe you can still see old meetings, maybe you can't, and the policy can change after you're gone. The only version of your meeting history you actually control is the one sitting on your own disk.
The catch: Fathom has no bulk export. The interface makes you open each meeting and copy the transcript by hand. For an account with hundreds of meetings, that's days of clicking, which is exactly why most people cancel without their data and regret it the first time they need an old conversation.
The 15-minute exit checklist
Export everything, in every format
Install the TranscriptExporter Chrome extension, connect your Fathom account, and run Export All with .txt, .md, .json, and .csv all checked. One ZIP, your complete history. Storage is cheap; do not make yourself choose a format today.
Check the Teams tab
If you recorded Microsoft Teams calls through Fathom, those exports live under the extension's Teams tab. Run that export too.
Verify the archive before you cancel
Unzip, spot-check a few files, confirm the meeting count looks right. Do this BEFORE hitting cancel, while you can still re-run the export.
Store it somewhere durable
Copy the archive to cloud storage (Drive, Dropbox) plus one local backup. Now cancel with a clear conscience.
Why this matters more than it feels like today
Meeting transcripts age like contracts, not like chat logs. The conversation you'll need in eight months is the one where a client agreed to scope, a partner made a commitment, or a candidate described their experience. People switch note-takers, companies churn tools, and the old account is always the one nobody can log into anymore.
There's also the AI angle: your exported transcripts are immediately useful in NotebookLM, ChatGPT, or Claude. Leaving Fathom doesn't mean losing the knowledge, as long as you take the files with you.
Common questions
I already canceled. Am I out of luck?
Maybe not. If you can still log into Fathom and see your meetings, the extension can still export them. Run it now before access tightens further.
Is $29 worth it for a one-time export?
Compare it to the alternative: hand-copying hundreds of meetings at 2-3 minutes each. A 300-meeting account is 10+ hours of clipboard work versus 10 minutes with the extension. The license is also lifetime, so it works again if you return to Fathom.
Does it export video recordings too?
The extension exports transcripts and AI summaries, not video files. Transcripts are what you'll actually search and reference later, and they're a fraction of the storage.
Take your meeting history with you
$29 one time. Your complete Fathom history in one ZIP, in minutes.
Get TranscriptExporter for $29