Dailies vs BufferThe Buffer alternative for people who have nothing to schedule yet: shorts cut from your calls

Buffer and Dailies sit at opposite ends of the same job. Buffer is a social media scheduler: you bring your posts, pictures and videos, and it plans and publishes them across twelve channels from one calendar. Dailies comes before that. It is a Chrome extension that records the calls you hold on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom and cuts up to eight captioned vertical shorts from their best passages. Buffer publishes what you have and makes no video; Dailies makes the video and does not publish it. So the real question is less which one to pick than which half you are missing.

Checked against Buffer’s own site on October 1, 2026.

Dailies

Choose Dailies if

For people who have nothing filmed yet, and want shorts cut from the calls in which they advise clients, ready to download.

You have nothing to schedule yet: your best material is said in client calls and never filmed.
You want shorts that arrive cut, reframed and captioned, with no editor to open.
Your calls are in French, in English, or in both at once.

Buffer

Choose Buffer if

For people who already have their posts and videos and want to plan, publish and analyse them across many networks from one dashboard.

Your posts and videos already exist, and you want them planned across many networks from one calendar.
You want analytics, a content library and approvals for a team.
You want help wording a post for each platform.

Dailies and Buffer, feature by feature

Feature	Dailies	Buffer
Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself	YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway	NoIt schedules the media you bring; it records no 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	NoIt records no video
Picks the passages worth posting by itself	YesUp to eight per call	NoIts AI Assistant generates ideas and rewrites post text; it cuts no clips
Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks	Yes	NoIt schedules the Reels and YouTube Shorts you supply; it does not make them
Burns in animated captions	YesFifteen styles	NoIts AI Assistant writes the text of a post, not captions on the video
Cuts silences, filler words and false starts	Yes	No
Blurs or replaces the room behind you	Yes	No
Blurs your guests and disguises their voice	YesOne switch	No
Handles calls in French	YesFrench and English, mixed included	Not statedThe languages of its AI Assistant are not stated on the pages we read
Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items	NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes	NoIts AI Assistant can summarise long text into short posts
Works on any video file you upload	NoOnly the calls it records	PartlyIt publishes the video you add as it is; media can come from Google, Dropbox or Canva
Posts or schedules to social networks for you	NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself	YesTwelve channels, among them LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube Shorts

What Buffer does

Buffer is a social media management tool for creators and small businesses. From one dashboard, you plan, publish and analyse posts on twelve channels: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, YouTube Shorts, Pinterest, Google Business Profile, Mastodon, Substack Notes and X. It handles video posts, Reels, carousels and stories, and you bring the media yourself: its site says photos and video can be added from Google, Dropbox, Canva and other places. Around the calendar, it has a content library with tags, a link-in-bio page called Start Page, community engagement, analytics, collaboration with approvals and an API. Its AI Assistant works on text: it generates ideas, rewrites a post, adapts it to each platform and summarises long content into short posts. Its AI page states that Buffer is not an AI tool, and that its core features, posting, scheduling and planning, are not AI-powered. We found no video editing on the pages we read: a video is published as you supplied it.

Where Dailies and Buffer differ

Before the calendar, there has to be something to put in it

Buffer starts when the content exists. Its calendar and its channels need a post or a video to work on, and the media comes from you. Dailies produces that media. It records the call tab, your microphone and your webcam while you talk, picks the best passages itself and delivers them as shorts a few minutes after the call. No bot joins the call.

What happens to the video itself

Buffer publishes a video as it is: we found no cutting, reframing or captioning on the pages we read, and its AI Assistant writes the text of a post, not what appears on the picture. Dailies does the editing and nothing but: silences, filler words and false starts removed, the frame set on whoever speaks, animated captions burned in, in fifteen styles, and a line above each short, the question it answers.

Where the short goes afterwards

Dailies stops at the download: each short comes out in Full HD, and it does not post for you. Buffer picks up from there. TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube Shorts are all among its channels, and Reels and video posts among the formats it schedules, so the same short can be planned on each from one place, with a text its AI Assistant can adapt to each platform.

What Buffer does that Dailies does not

Twelve channels from one dashboard, a calendar, a content library, analytics, approvals for a team, a link-in-bio page, community engagement. Dailies has none of it. It only handles the calls it records in Chrome: it does not edit a video you upload and it does not post for you.

Questions people ask

Can Buffer create or edit videos?

Not on the pages we read. Buffer schedules and publishes the media you bring, which its site says can be added from Google, Dropbox, Canva and other places, and a video goes out as supplied. Its AI Assistant writes and adapts the text of posts. We found no video editing there. Dailies makes the video: it records your call and cuts captioned vertical shorts from it.

Can Buffer schedule shorts on TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts?

Yes. TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts are among the twelve channels Buffer publishes to, along with LinkedIn, and video posts and Reels are among the formats it handles. The short has to be made first: Buffer publishes the file you give it.

Is Dailies a Buffer alternative?

Only for the half Buffer does not do. Dailies makes shorts from the calls it records and does not post for you; Buffer posts and schedules, and makes no video. If you are looking for a scheduler, Dailies is not one. If you are looking for something to schedule, that is what it produces.

Can I use Buffer and Dailies together?

Yes, one after the other. You hold your call in Chrome while Dailies records, download the shorts it delivers in Full HD, then add them to Buffer yourself and plan them on the channels you use.

Your next call already holds your next shorts.

Add Dailies to Chrome, record the call you were going to have anyway, and watch its shorts a few minutes after you hang up.

Create my shortsAdd to Chrome

Sources

What this page says of Buffer 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. Buffer is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.