BoardBreeze vs Boardable 2026: Which Is Right for Your Board?

Last updated: June 2026

If you're evaluating board management software, BoardBreeze and Boardable serve different primary needs — and understanding that difference upfront will save you time.

The short version: BoardBreeze automates the production of meeting minutes from audio recordings. Boardable is a board portal: it manages documents, agendas and governance workflows, and on its Professional+ tier it adds AI minutes drafted from transcripts of meetings its assistant joins.

If your primary problem is: "My clerk spends 3-6 hours writing minutes after every meeting", and your board records meetings in person or on another platform, BoardBreeze drafts from that recording directly. Boardable's AI minutes are on Professional+ only and work from its own AI transcripts.

If your primary problem is: "Our board needs a secure portal to share documents and vote remotely" — Boardable is built for that. BoardBreeze is not.

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Quick Comparison

Feature	BoardBreeze	Boardable
Primary focus	AI minutes automation	Board portal + governance
Audio → Minutes	Yes, from any uploaded recording or pasted meeting link	AI draft from its own AI transcripts (Professional+ only)
Minutes production time	20-30 min review	Review of AI draft on Professional+; 3-6 hrs manual on lower tiers
Board portal	No	Yes
Document sharing	Export only	Full portal
Agenda builder	No	Yes
Voting tools	No	Yes
Compliance awareness	Brown Act, Robert's Rules	General governance
Starting price	$29.99/month for the account	$20.99 per user per month, billed annually (Professional+ from $35.99)
Free trial	15 days, no credit card	Free trial of Professional features
Self-serve setup	Yes (2 min)	Free trial; per-user seats

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What BoardBreeze Does

BoardBreeze is an AI meeting minutes platform built specifically for governing bodies: school boards, nonprofits, HOAs, community colleges, city councils, and hospital boards.

The workflow:

1. Upload your meeting recording (or record live in your browser)
2. BoardBreeze transcribes the audio using AWS Transcribe
3. AI identifies motions, seconds, votes, and action items
4. Outputs a formatted minutes document — not a transcript, a proper minutes document
5. You review and edit (typically 20-30 minutes), then export to Word (.docx) or Google Drive

What BoardBreeze is good at:

• Automating the most time-consuming part of board governance: producing the minutes draft
• Parliamentary procedure tracking (motions, seconds, votes, abstentions)
• Brown Act and Robert's Rules compliance awareness
• Long meetings (up to 12 hours tested in production)
• Self-serve — sign up and start using immediately

What BoardBreeze doesn't do:

• Board portals (secure document distribution to directors)
• Agenda building and distribution
• Remote voting or consent agenda management
• D&O questionnaires or director onboarding

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What Boardable Does

Boardable is an independent, nonprofit-focused board management platform (separate from OnBoard, which is a different company's product). It provides a comprehensive board portal:

What Boardable is good at:

• Secure board packet distribution
• Agenda creation and tracking
• Digital meeting books
• Remote voting and polling
• Task management and action item tracking
• Director onboarding and engagement tools
• Meeting scheduling and calendar management

Boardable's AI minutes (checked October 20, 2026):

• Available on Professional+ only ($35.99 per user per month, billed annually)
• Turns "AI-generated transcripts and summaries into a draft of your minutes," with an AI assistant that joins your meetings
• Boardable does not say it drafts from an audio file you upload

On Essentials and Professional, the minutes are still written by your clerk in the platform's editor.

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Head-to-Head: Meeting Minutes Production

This is where the comparison matters most for clerks and executive assistants.

BoardBreeze workflow:

• Upload a 2-hour recording
• Wait 8-10 minutes for AI processing
• Review AI-generated draft (20-30 minutes)
• Export and distribute
• Total clerk time: ~30 minutes

Boardable workflow:

• Transcribe or listen back to recording (optional)
• Write minutes manually in the platform's editor
• Review and edit
• Distribute for board approval
• Total clerk time: 3-6 hours

BoardBreeze doesn't just assist with minutes — it produces the first draft automatically. That's a qualitative difference, not a feature advantage.

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Pricing

BoardBreeze (public pricing):

• Essential: $29.99/month
• Pro: $99/month
• Enterprise: $499/month
• Free trial: 15 days, no credit card

Boardable (published per-user pricing, billed annually, checked October 20, 2026):

• Essentials from $20.99, Professional from $29.99, Professional+ from $35.99 per user per month
• AI Meeting Minutes & Transcripts on Professional+ only
• Free trial of Professional features

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When to Choose BoardBreeze

Choose BoardBreeze if:

• Your organization's biggest governance pain point is the time spent producing meeting minutes
• You need compliance-aware output (Brown Act, Robert's Rules, FOIA-ready)
• You want to start in minutes, not weeks (self-serve, no sales process)
• Your budget is under $500/month
• You're a school board, nonprofit, HOA, hospital board, or community college

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When to Choose Boardable

Choose Boardable if:

• You need a full board portal — secure document distribution, director portals, agenda management
• Your primary issue is board engagement and governance infrastructure, not minutes production
• You have a budget for a comprehensive governance platform
• You're evaluating a suite of governance tools, not just minutes

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The Case for Using Both

Some organizations use BoardBreeze for minutes automation and a portal for document distribution and director management. They're not direct competitors in practice — they solve different parts of the governance problem.

If you need both minutes automation and a board portal, consider:

• BoardBreeze + Google Drive or SharePoint (for document distribution)
• BoardBreeze + a board portal such as Boardable or OnBoard (minutes from BoardBreeze, portal from the other)
• Diligent (enterprise-level platform that handles both, at enterprise pricing)

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My Recommendation

I'm biased — I built BoardBreeze. But here's the honest framing:

If a board clerk is evaluating these two products, they're almost certainly doing it because they're spending too much time writing minutes. That's a BoardBreeze problem to solve, not a Boardable problem.

If a governance director or IT buyer is evaluating these two products for board infrastructure — document security, director portals, voting tools — that's a board-portal evaluation (Boardable, OnBoard, or similar), and BoardBreeze won't compete on those features.

Try BoardBreeze free for 15 days (no credit card required). Upload a recording from your last board meeting and see if the AI-generated output meets your standard. If it does, you've just reclaimed 3-5 hours per meeting cycle.

Start your free trial →

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Further Reading

• Best Board Meeting Minutes Software (2026) — Honest Comparison
• Best Alternatives to Boardable 2026
• Best OnBoard Alternatives 2026
• BoardBreeze vs Diligent 2026
• The Complete Guide to Board Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Minutes Software: Complete Buyer's Guide 2026

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Questions about whether BoardBreeze is right for your organization? Email help@appboardbreeze.com — I respond personally.