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Meeting tools, compared honestly
We build a meeting recorder, so we are not neutral and we are not going to pretend to be. What we can do is get the facts right, tell you plainly when a competitor is the better choice for you, and write the how-to guides we wanted when we started. Every comparison here ends with where the other tool wins.
Comparisons
Head to head against the tools people actually leave. Each one ends with where the other tool still wins.
A Granola alternative that keeps the audio on your Mac
Granola is the best-designed meeting notes app of the last two years, and it got one big thing right: no bot joins your call.
ComparisonAn Otter.ai alternative with no bot and no minute limits
Otter.ai is the tool most people meet first, which means it is also the tool most people are looking to leave.
ComparisonA Fireflies.ai alternative with no bot and no AI credits
Fireflies.ai is built for revenue teams: a bot joins every call, everything lands in a searchable team database, and it syncs to your CRM.
ComparisonA tl;dv alternative for people who want notes, not video
tl;dv is a video product with a transcript attached.
ComparisonOffline transcription on a Mac: which app is for which job
Search for offline transcription on a Mac and you get a dozen apps that all describe themselves the same way: Whisper, on-device, private, fast.
How-to
Concrete recording and transcription problems on a Mac, solved without a subscription.
Guides
The wider picture: how the categories differ and which one you are actually shopping in.
Try it on your next meeting
Records and transcribes on your Mac. No bot in the call, no cloud, no subscription for transcription. Free while the beta runs.