HappyScribe and Dailies both put words on a video, and they start from different ends. HappyScribe starts from a file: you upload audio or video and get a transcript, subtitles or a translation, checked by a person if you order it. It now also has a notetaker that joins your meetings and summarises them. Dailies starts from the call itself: a Chrome extension records it, and a few minutes later you have up to eight vertical shorts with animated captions burned in. HappyScribe subtitles the video you bring. Dailies makes the video, from a call you were going to hold anyway.
Checked against HappyScribe’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people with no finished video at all, only client calls, who want shorts cut, reframed and captioned for them.
HappyScribe
For people who need transcripts or subtitle files for finished videos, in many languages, with human proofreading on order, or meeting notes.
| Feature | Dailies | HappyScribe |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | YesIts notetaker joins from your calendar; recordings download as MP3 or MP4 |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | PartlyIts notetaker joins the call; a desktop app that records without a bot is marked as available soon |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | Not stated |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | Not statedNo clip feature on the pages we read; a video trimmer is among its free tools |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | Not stated |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | PartlyBurns subtitles into an MP4, with fonts, colours, backgrounds and position; no animated style found |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | Not stated |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | YesFrench among more than 150 languages; its site exists in French |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | YesTranscripts, summaries with key decisions and action items |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | YesTranscribes, subtitles and translates the audio and video files you upload |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not stated |
HappyScribe is a transcription, subtitling and translation service. Its original product works on the audio and video files you upload: its site announces more than 150 languages for AI transcription and subtitles, French among them, human-made subtitles in more than 60 languages and human proofreading on order. Subtitles export as files (SRT, VTT and others) or burned into an MP4, and their look can be set: fonts, colours, backgrounds, position. Its site now leads with meetings. An AI notetaker connects to Google Calendar or Outlook, joins Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls, transcribes them live and writes summaries with key decisions and action items; meeting recordings can be downloaded as MP3 or MP4. The homepage also presents recording with no bot joining, from a Mac or a phone, and marks the desktop app for it as available soon. We found no clip or short-video feature on the pages we read.
HappyScribe’s subtitling begins once a video exists: you upload it, and it comes back subtitled. We found no clip feature and no reframing on the pages we read, so for a short the passage would be cut in another tool before it is subtitled. Dailies does the three steps on its own: it records the call in Chrome, picks the passages and cuts them, and the captions are already burned in.
HappyScribe lets you set the fonts, colours, backgrounds and position of subtitles, then burns them into an MP4; we found no animated or word-by-word style on the pages we read. Dailies burns in animated captions in one of fifteen styles and adds a line above each short, the question it answers. HappyScribe has what Dailies lacks here: subtitle files in standard formats, translation, and people who proofread the text.
HappyScribe’s notetaker joins the call from your calendar. Its homepage also presents recording with no bot joining the meeting, from a Mac or a phone, and marks the desktop app that does it as available soon. Dailies records from a Chrome extension: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, with no bot in the call.
It transcribes and subtitles any audio or video file you upload, in more than 150 languages, translates between them, offers human proofreading, and writes meeting summaries with decisions and action items. Dailies does none of that: it does not edit a video you upload, writes no meeting notes, and handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed.
We found no clip, highlight or short-video feature on the HappyScribe pages we read. A video trimmer appears among its free online tools; we did not read its page. Its subtitling works on the whole file you upload. Dailies picks up to eight passages per call and delivers them as vertical shorts.
Yes. Its site lists MP4 with burned-in subtitles among its export formats, next to SRT and VTT files, and a tool that merges a video with a subtitle file. Fonts, colours, backgrounds and position can be set. We found no animated caption style on the pages we read.
Yes, through its AI notetaker, which connects to Google Calendar or Outlook and joins the meeting. Recordings can be downloaded as MP3 or MP4. Its homepage also presents recording with no bot joining the meeting and marks the desktop app that does it as available soon.
No. Dailies does not work on a file you upload and writes no meeting notes. It only makes shorts from the calls it records in Chrome. For subtitles on a finished video, or a transcript proofread by a person, HappyScribe 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 HappyScribe 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. HappyScribe is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.