Akool and Dailies both spare you a shoot, by opposite roads. Akool is a suite of AI video tools: you write a script, pick or make an avatar, and it generates the video; it also swaps faces and characters and translates videos. Dailies generates nothing: it records the calls you hold in Chrome on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom and cuts up to eight captioned vertical shorts from their best passages. So the question is less which tool than which raw material you have: a script to write, or calls in which you already explain your work to clients.
Checked against Akool’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who advise clients on calls every week and want those words, said by them on camera, as captioned shorts with no script to write.
Akool
For marketers and creators who want a talking avatar from a photo and a script, face or character swaps, translated videos, or an avatar in place of their camera during a live call.
| Feature | Dailies | Akool |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | NoVideos come from a script, a photo or an uploaded video; its Live Camera shows an avatar during a live call |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | NoIt records no call |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | NoThe webcam is used to make an Instant Avatar or to drive the live avatar |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | Not statedIts videos are generated; clipping a recording is not described on the pages we read |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | Not stated |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | PartlySubtitles on translated videos, SRT and ASS files accepted; animated styles are not stated |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | YesBackground change is among its tools |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | Not statedIts site states avatars in over 150 languages; French is not named on the pages we read |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | No |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | PartlyPhotos and videos are uploaded for swaps, translation and avatars; clipping one is not stated |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not stated |
Akool is a suite of AI video tools. Its Talking Avatar turns text into a video: you pick an avatar from its library or make one from text, an image or a video, choose a stock or cloned voice, and give it a script. Its site says avatars speak in over 150 languages. An Instant Avatar is made with a webcam, and its FAQ describes making one from a clear, front-facing photo or from a description, reminding users to hold the rights to the images they use. Its trust and safety page says you decide how your likeness, voice and data are used and can withdraw consent at any time. Around the avatars come face, head, hair, clothing, character and motion swaps, a voice changer, text to speech, video translation with lip-sync and subtitles, background change, a hub of third-party video and image models, and an API. Akool Live Camera, a desktop app, shows you as an AI avatar in place of your camera feed on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams.
An Akool avatar says what you typed. That gives you control: every sentence is chosen, and the same script can be said in other languages. It also means writing a script, video after video. Dailies works from what was said on a call: the answer you gave a client who asked a real question. It picks the passages itself, removes silences, filler words and false starts, and puts the question each short answers on a line above it.
Akool Live Camera works during the call: it puts an AI avatar in place of your camera feed on Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, and that avatar is what appears on screen. We found no recording of the call, and no clips made from one, on the Akool pages we read. Dailies changes nothing in the call. Its Chrome extension records the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, with no bot joining; the shorts are made afterwards, from that recording.
To make an avatar of yourself, Akool’s site describes an Instant Avatar made with a webcam, or a clear, front-facing photo; each video then needs a script. Its trust and safety page says you decide how your likeness and voice are used and can withdraw consent; how that consent is collected is not described on the pages we read. Dailies asks for no avatar and no script: it needs calls held in Chrome.
Avatars from a photo or a description, speech in over 150 languages according to its site, video translation with lip-sync, face and character swaps, a voice changer, generated images and video, an API. Dailies does none of that. It only handles the calls it recorded, in French, in English or in both mixed, and you download each short in Full HD to post it yourself.
We found no call recording on the Akool pages we read. Its Live Camera app works during a call on Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, where it shows an AI avatar in place of your camera feed, and its other tools start from a script, a photo or an uploaded video. Dailies records the call itself, from Chrome, and cuts shorts from it.
Its site describes an Instant Avatar made with a webcam, and its FAQ says you can upload a clear, front-facing photo or describe the avatar in words, provided you hold the rights to the images. You then give the avatar a voice, stock or cloned, and a script to say.
No. Dailies generates no avatar, no voice and no translation: it only makes shorts from the calls it recorded in Chrome, showing whoever spoke. If you have no calls to record, or want a presenter who is not you, an avatar tool such as Akool is the right kind of tool.
No. Dailies works from what you said on the call. It picks up to eight passages itself, cuts silences, filler words and false starts, reframes on whoever speaks and burns in animated captions, a few minutes after the call ends.
Add Dailies to Chrome, record the call you were going to have anyway, and watch its shorts a few minutes after you hang up.
Add to ChromeWhat this page says of Akool comes from the pages below, published by its maker and read on October 1, 2026. Where its site says nothing, the table says “not stated” rather than “no”. Products change: write to hello@berenger.dev if something here is out of date. Akool is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.