Dailies vs CanvaThe Canva alternative for people whose video is a client call, not a design project
Canva is a design suite, and this page is about one part of it: its video editor and the AI helpers around it. There you upload a video, let Highlights look for its key moments, then caption, resize and schedule the result next to your other visuals. Dailies is not an editor. It is a Chrome extension that records the call you hold on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, then delivers up to eight captioned vertical shorts a few minutes after you hang up. In Canva you make the short; with Dailies it arrives made.
Checked against Canva’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
Choose Dailies if
For people who would rather not open an editor, and whose best material is the advice they give clients on calls.
You do not want to edit: the shorts should arrive cut, reframed and captioned.
Your footage is the calls you hold on Meet, Teams or Zoom.
Your guests must stay unrecognisable in what you post.
Canva
Choose Canva if
For people and teams who already design in Canva and want to cut, caption and schedule a video in the same place as their other visuals.
You already design in Canva and want your videos made in the same tool.
You want to build each video yourself, with templates and a stock library.
You want to publish and schedule to LinkedIn, Instagram or TikTok from the editor.
Dailies and Canva, feature by feature
Feature
Dailies
Canva
Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself
YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway
PartlyIt records your webcam in the editor and your screen from its desktop app; call recording is not described on the pages we read
Records without a bot joining the call
YesFrom your browser
YesNo bot is involved: recording happens in its editor or its desktop app
Records your webcam on a track of its own
YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture
PartlyIt records your webcam on its own; recording it alongside a call is not described
Picks the passages worth posting by itself
YesUp to eight per call
YesHighlights scans a long video for its key moments, on its Pro plan
Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks
Yes
PartlyMagic Resize changes the aspect ratio; reframing on whoever speaks is not stated
Burns in animated captions
YesFifteen styles
YesMore than 20 caption style packs, with font, colours and animations
Cuts silences, filler words and false starts
Yes
Not statedEnhance Voice removes background noise; silence or filler removal is not stated on the pages we read
Blurs or replaces the room behind you
Yes
YesA video background remover, on its Pro plan
Blurs your guests and disguises their voice
YesOne switch
PartlyIt has a voice changer; a blur of a call’s guests is not stated on the pages we read
Handles calls in French
YesFrench and English, mixed included
YesCaption style packs exist in French, and so does its website
Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items
NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes
NoA Video to Text tool transcribes a video
Works on any video file you upload
NoOnly the calls it records
YesAny video you upload, or bring from a connected cloud storage
Posts or schedules to social networks for you
NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself
YesPublishes to social platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok; its Content Planner schedules posts
What Canva does
Canva is a general design suite; its video editor is one tool among many. It works on a video you upload or bring from a connected cloud storage, on a webcam recording made in the editor, on a screen recording made from its desktop app, or on clips generated by AI. On its Pro plan, Highlights scans a long video for its key moments, Auto-trim splits it into shorter cuts and Magic Resize changes the aspect ratio. Captions are generated automatically, the spoken language being detected, and come in more than 20 style packs that bundle a font, colours and animations; the packs exist in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indonesian and German, and captions can be translated. Enhance Voice removes background noise. Canva also has a video background remover on its Pro plan, AI dubbing, a voice generator, a voice changer, templates and a stock library. It publishes directly to Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Tumblr, and its Content Planner schedules posts.
Where Dailies and Canva differ
An editor to work in, or shorts already cut
Canva gives you the tools and the canvas. Highlights points to the key moments of a long video, on its Pro plan; putting each short together, resizing it and styling its captions then happens in the editor, by your hand. Dailies does the whole run by itself: it picks up to eight passages per call, cuts silences, filler words and false starts, reframes on whoever speaks, burns in animated captions and puts a line above each short, the question it answers.
Where the footage comes from
Canva’s editor starts from a video you upload, from a webcam recording made in the editor or from a screen recording made in its desktop app. We found no recording of Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom calls on the pages we read, so a call would be recorded with something else and uploaded. Dailies is the recorder: from Chrome, it captures the call tab, your microphone and your webcam while you talk. No bot joins the call.
Who the short shows, and what it leaves out
Magic Resize changes a video’s aspect ratio; the pages we read do not say whether Canva reframes on whoever speaks, and we found no removal of silences or filler words there, though Enhance Voice removes background noise. Dailies records your webcam on a track of its own and crops your guest’s tile on their face, so each short shows whoever speaks. Canva has a voice changer; we found no blur of a call’s guests on its pages. Dailies has one switch that blurs your guests and disguises their voice.
What Canva does that Dailies does not
Canva edits any video you upload, next to your other visuals, with templates, a stock library, dubbing and caption translation. It publishes to social platforms such as LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok, and schedules posts in its Content Planner. Dailies does none of that: it does not edit a video you upload and does not post for you. It makes shorts from the calls it records, and you download each one in Full HD.
Questions people ask
Can Canva turn a long video into shorts?
Yes, with you doing the editing. On its Pro plan, Highlights scans a long video for its key moments and Auto-trim splits it into shorter cuts; Magic Resize changes the aspect ratio and caption style packs dress the text. Dailies picks up to eight passages per call itself and delivers them already cut, reframed on whoever speaks and captioned.
Can Canva record a Google Meet, Teams or Zoom call?
Not that we found. Canva records your webcam in its editor and your screen from its desktop app; the pages we read describe no recording of a Meet, Teams or Zoom call. Dailies records those calls itself, from a Chrome extension: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, with no bot in the call.
Does Canva caption videos in French?
Yes. Canva detects the spoken language and generates captions automatically, and French is one of the six languages in which its caption style packs exist. Its website exists in French too. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed, and burns in animated captions in one of fifteen styles.
Is Dailies a Canva alternative for designing videos?
No. Dailies is not an editor and does not edit a video you upload: it only makes shorts from the calls it records in Chrome. For a video you build yourself, with templates and stock, Canva is the kind of tool you need.
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.
What this page says of Canva 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. Canva is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.