Google Meet can already record your calls, so the question is fair: why Dailies? Because a recording and a short are two different things. Meet saves one video of the meeting, showing the active speaker and anything presented, in the organiser’s Google Drive, and Gemini can write the notes in Google Docs. That is an archive, and a good one. On Google’s recording pages we found nothing that picks a passage, cuts it and reframes it for posting: that work would be done in another tool. Dailies takes care of it: it records the Meet call in Chrome and, a few minutes after you hang up, delivers up to eight captioned vertical shorts. It works on Google Meet, so this page is not Meet against Dailies. It is about what becomes of the call afterwards.
Checked against Google Meet Recording’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who want the best passages of their Meet calls, and of their Zoom and Teams calls, as captioned vertical shorts ready to post.
Google Meet Recording
For people who need an archive of a Meet call in Google Drive and notes in Google Docs, with a Google Workspace edition that includes recording.
| Feature | Dailies | Google Meet Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | PartlyGoogle Meet meetings only, with the Workspace editions and Google One subscriptions Google lists |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | YesBuilt into Meet; participants are notified when the recording starts or stops |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | Not statedOne video of the active speaker and anything presented; separate tracks are not mentioned |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | Not statedIts help page describes one video of the meeting, and no clip or highlight feature |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | Not statedWe found no vertical format on Google’s recording pages |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | PartlyCaptions can be recorded in a chosen language and show as subtitles on playback |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | YesDuring the call: background blur, or a static, immersive, custom or AI-generated background |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | YesGemini’s notes are available in French, one language at a time |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | Yes“Take notes for me” (Gemini) writes a summary, decisions and action items in Google Docs |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | NoIt records the Meet call it is started in |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not statedThe video is saved in the organiser’s Google Drive |
Recording is built into Google Meet. It requires one of the Google Workspace editions Google lists (Business Standard, Business Plus, Essentials, Education Plus and others) or a Google One subscription with 2 TB or more, and an administrator who allows it. The video includes the active speaker and anything presented, and lands as one file in the Google Meet folder of the organiser’s Google Drive. Participants get a notification when the recording starts or stops. With a shared screen the resolution goes up to 1080p, and a recording stops after 8 hours. Captions can be recorded in a chosen language and then show as subtitles on playback. Alongside, “Take notes for me” has Gemini write the meeting’s notes in Google Docs, a short summary with action items and fuller notes with decisions, in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese or Spanish, with an eligible Workspace edition or Google AI plan. During the call, Meet can blur your background or replace it.
Google’s help page describes the recording as one video of the meeting: the active speaker and anything presented, saved to Drive. It describes no clip or highlight feature, and we found no vertical format on it. Dailies starts from the same call and delivers up to eight separate shorts in 9:16, each on a passage it picked itself, reframed on whoever speaks, with a line above it that says which question it answers.
An archive should keep everything, hesitations included. A short should not. Dailies removes the silences, the filler words and the false starts, burns in animated captions in one of fifteen styles, and can blur or replace the room behind you. We found no cleanup of that kind on Google’s recording pages; captions, when recorded, show as subtitles on playback. Meet’s own background blur applies during the call.
Meet’s recording covers Google Meet, on the editions that include it, and the file lands in the organiser’s Drive. Calls held on Zoom or Microsoft Teams are recorded by those platforms, each on its own conditions. Dailies is a Chrome extension: it records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom’s web client the same way, from the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, with no bot joining.
Meet keeps the entire meeting as a file in Google Drive, and Gemini writes its notes: a summary, decisions, action items. Dailies does none of that. It writes no notes and no summary, and it only makes shorts from the calls it recorded itself. If you need a record of what was decided, Meet’s recording and notes are built for it.
We found no clip or highlight feature on Google’s recording help page. It describes one video of the meeting, showing the active speaker and anything presented, saved in the organiser’s Google Drive. Shorts would have to be cut from that file in another tool. Dailies records the Meet call itself and delivers up to eight captioned vertical shorts.
To the meeting organiser’s Google Drive, in the Google Meet folder, according to Google’s help page. The recording is one video file. Dailies, for its part, delivers shorts, which you download in Full HD to post them on LinkedIn, TikTok, Reels or Shorts.
No, and it does not try to. Meet’s recording is an archive of the meeting, and Gemini’s notes are its written record. Dailies writes no notes, no summary and no action items: it makes shorts from the best passages of the call. These are two different needs.
No. Dailies records from a Chrome extension: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam. Meet’s own recording is built into the call too, and notifies participants when it starts or stops.
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 Google Meet Recording 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. Google Meet Recording is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.