HeyGen and Dailies answer the same wish: to publish videos of yourself without filming them one by one. They take opposite roads. HeyGen generates the video: you write a script, and a stock avatar or a digital twin of you says it, in the language you choose. Dailies records the calls you hold in Chrome on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom and cuts captioned vertical shorts from their best passages. An avatar needs a script and no call. Dailies needs calls and no script. Which one fits depends on where your words come from.
Checked against HeyGen’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who already say it every week to clients on calls, and want those passages as captioned shorts with nothing to write.
HeyGen
For people who know what they want to say, would rather write it than say it on camera, and want the same video in many languages.
| Feature | Dailies | HeyGen |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | NoIts videos are generated from a script; Instant Highlights works on a file or a URL |
| 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 | NoYour webcam films the short recording a twin is made from, not a call |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | YesIts Instant Highlights app picks the moments of a video you upload |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | PartlyHighlights and avatar videos in 9:16; reframing on whoever speaks is not stated |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | YesAuto captions; a library of caption presets in Instant Highlights |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not statedNot stated for Instant Highlights; an avatar’s speech is generated from a script |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | YesIts Avatar V page says a twin can be generated in any setting |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not stated |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | YesFrench among more than 175 languages and dialects; its site exists in French |
| 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 | YesInstant Highlights takes a file of up to 10 GB and two hours, or a URL |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not statedIts pages say a video is downloaded and shared to any platform; a scheduler is not stated |
HeyGen is an AI video platform. From a script or a prompt, an image, an audio file, a PPT or a PDF, it generates a video presented by a stock avatar or by a digital twin of you. A twin is built from a short video of yourself: its Avatar V page speaks of a 15-second webcam recording, its help centre of a 30-second recording in one continuous take; a single photo is enough for a photo avatar. Before a video-based twin is created, the person on screen records a short consent video, reading a text HeyGen provides, and its homepage states that every custom avatar requires on-camera identity verification from the person depicted. HeyGen also clones voices, adds auto captions, and translates videos with lip-sync in more than 175 languages and dialects, French among them. A separate app, Instant Highlights, takes a video you upload (up to 10 GB and two hours) or a URL, picks the moments itself and returns highlight reels in 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1, with caption presets.
A HeyGen video starts from text: a script you write or a prompt you give, which the avatar then says. That suits anything you can prepare in advance, and it means each video begins with something you write. Dailies starts from the other end: you hold the call you were going to hold anyway, and the words of each short are the ones you said to a client. There is nothing to write, and nothing to cut until the call has taken place.
In a HeyGen video, the person on screen is generated: a stock avatar, or a twin built from a short recording of you, which its Avatar V page says can then appear in any setting, any outfit and any look. In a Dailies short, the picture is the recording of the call: your webcam, captured on a track of its own, or your guest’s tile cropped on their face. Dailies can blur or replace the room behind you, and one switch blurs your guests and disguises their voice.
HeyGen has an app for recordings that already exist. Instant Highlights takes a video file or a URL, picks the moments itself and returns highlight reels, in 9:16 if you choose, with caption presets. For a call, the recording has to be made elsewhere first, then uploaded. On the pages we read, we found no recording of Meet, Teams or Zoom calls, no reframing on whoever speaks and no removal of silences or filler words. Dailies records the call itself in Chrome, with no bot in the call, then cuts and reframes the shorts.
A video with no camera and no call at all, from a script. The same video translated and lip-synced in more than 175 languages and dialects. Voice cloning, B-roll, slides or a PDF turned into a video, and highlights from a file you upload. Dailies stays on one job: the calls it recorded, in French and in English, turned into shorts that you download in Full HD and post yourself.
We found no call recording on the HeyGen pages we read. Its videos are generated from a script, a prompt, an image, an audio file or a document, and its Instant Highlights app works on a video you upload or a URL. A call would have to be recorded elsewhere first. Dailies records the call itself, from a Chrome extension.
A short video of you and a consent video. Its Avatar V page speaks of a 15-second webcam recording; its help centre describes a 30-second recording in one continuous take, filmed live or imported. Before a video-based twin is created, the person on screen reads on camera a consent text that HeyGen provides, and its homepage states that every custom avatar requires on-camera identity verification from the person depicted.
Yes, with its Instant Highlights app. You upload a video of up to 10 GB and two hours, or paste a URL; it picks the moments itself and returns highlight reels in 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1, with caption presets. We found no mention of reframing on whoever speaks, nor of removing silences and filler words, on the pages we read.
It depends on what you have. An avatar needs a script and no call: it suits prepared messages, and videos in several languages. Dailies needs calls and no script: it suits people who advise clients on Meet, Teams or Zoom every week and never find the time to write or film. Nothing prevents you from using both.
No, they do different jobs. Dailies generates no presenter and translates nothing: it records the calls you hold in Chrome and cuts up to eight captioned vertical shorts from each. It does not work on a file you upload, and it has nothing to show until you have held a call.
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 HeyGen 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. HeyGen is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.