Ecamm and Dailies both record you talking with someone, and ask for very different amounts of work. Ecamm is a production studio on your Mac: you set up cameras, scenes and overlays, bring in your guests, and direct the session live, like a broadcast. Dailies asks for no direction at all. It is a Chrome extension that records the call you were going to hold on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom, then picks the best passages and delivers them as captioned vertical shorts a few minutes later. If you want to run a show, Ecamm is made for it. If you want content out of ordinary client calls, that is what Dailies does.
Checked against Ecamm’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who do not want to produce anything: they hold their client calls as usual and get captioned vertical shorts afterwards.
Ecamm
For Mac users who produce live shows or recorded programmes with several cameras, scenes and overlays, and want to direct them like a broadcast.
| Feature | Dailies | Ecamm |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | PartlyZoom participants as camera sources, a Pro feature; we found nothing for Google Meet or Teams |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | Not statedA Mac app; how it connects to a Zoom meeting is not stated on the pages we read |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | YesIsolated audio and video recordings, on the Pro plan with an Apple Silicon Mac |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | Not stated |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | PartlyDual Mode lets you design and record horizontal and vertical video at the same time |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | Not stated |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | YesGreen-screen backdrops |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | Not statedWe found no transcription or captions 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 | Not stated |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | PartlyIt streams live, to up to 10 destinations |
Ecamm is a live-streaming and video-production studio for Mac. It switches between cameras live, with scenes, overlays and green-screen backdrops, streams to up to 10 destinations and records every stream to your Mac automatically, in up to 4K. It can also act as a virtual camera and microphone. With Interview Mode, on its Pro plan, guests join from a link in their web browser, without the Ecamm app or a subscription: up to 10 guests on Apple Silicon Macs, 4 on Intel Macs. Ecamm for Zoom, also a Pro feature, adds Zoom participants as camera sources and automatically creates an audio and a video recording for each participant; isolated recording requires the Pro plan and an Apple Silicon Mac. Dual Mode lets you design, stream and record horizontal and vertical video at the same time.
Ecamm puts you in the director’s seat: camera switching, scenes and overlays are decided live, during the session. That is its point, for people who enjoy production. Dailies has nothing to direct. You hold the call, and the choices are made afterwards, for you: which passages to keep, where to cut, who to show, what the captions say.
Ecamm’s work ends with the recording: files on your Mac, in up to 4K, with a recording per participant if you use isolated recording. On the pages we read, we found no clip selection, no captions, no transcription and no removal of silences: turning those files into shorts would happen in another tool. Dailies’ work starts there: up to eight shorts per call, in 9:16, reframed on whoever speaks, captioned, with their silences, filler words and false starts removed.
Ecamm brings in guests through Interview Mode, by a browser link, or Zoom participants through Ecamm for Zoom; we found nothing on its pages about Google Meet or Microsoft Teams. It runs on a Mac. Dailies runs in Chrome and records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom’s web client: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam. No bot joins the call.
Live streaming to up to 10 destinations, several cameras, scenes, overlays, green-screen backdrops, recordings in up to 4K, and a vertical and a horizontal video designed at once with Dual Mode. Dailies does none of it. It does not post for you, and its shorts, cut from the calls it recorded, are downloaded in Full HD.
Yes. Ecamm for Zoom, a feature of its Pro plan, adds Zoom participants as camera sources and automatically creates an audio and a video recording for each of them; isolated recording also requires an Apple Silicon Mac. We found nothing equivalent for Google Meet or Microsoft Teams on Ecamm’s pages. Dailies records all three from Chrome.
We found no clip selection, captions or transcription on the Ecamm pages we read. Its Dual Mode lets you design and record a vertical video at the same time as the horizontal one. Dailies picks the passages, reframes them on whoever speaks and burns in animated captions.
Not for Interview Mode: Ecamm says a guest clicks a link and joins from a web browser, without the Ecamm app or a subscription. For Zoom participants, its pages do not say what they must do. With Dailies, your guests join the Meet, Teams or Zoom call as usual.
No. Dailies only makes shorts from the calls it records in Chrome, which you download in Full HD and post yourself. For a live show with cameras, scenes and overlays, Ecamm is the right kind of tool.
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 Ecamm 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. Ecamm is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.