Lumen5 is a video maker for marketing and communication teams. It turns text into video: a blog post, a URL or a PDF becomes a branded video with stock media and an AI voice. It now also clips long recordings and edits talking-head videos by their transcript. Dailies starts from neither a text nor a file: it records the call you hold in Chrome on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom and delivers up to eight captioned vertical shorts a few minutes later, cut from what you really said to a client.
Checked against Lumen5’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people whose material is the advice they give on calls, and who want it recorded, cut and captioned without a production step.
Lumen5
For marketing and communication teams that turn articles, webinars and announcements into on-brand videos, with templates, brand kits and approval workflows.
| Feature | Dailies | Lumen5 |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | PartlyIt records your webcam and your screen in its platform; recording a call is not described on the pages we read |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | YesNo bot is involved: recording happens inside its platform |
| 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, with a teleprompter; alongside a call is not described |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | YesIts AI Video Clip Maker finds highlight moments; a prompt can steer it |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | Partly9:16 among three formats, reframed in one click; tracking of the active speaker is not described |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | YesAnimated captions that highlight each word as it is spoken |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | PartlyYou select words to trim in the transcript; automatic silence or filler removal is 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 | Not statedVideos in more than 35 languages, French not named on the pages we read; interface in English |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | NoIts transcripts serve the editing |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | YesLong videos as MP4 or MOV: webinars, podcasts, interviews, demos |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not statedIts page describes batch export, then handing the clips to your scheduler |
Lumen5 is an AI video maker for marketing and communication teams. It turns text, a blog URL or a PDF into a video built from stock media and an AI voice, with more than 40 voices, brand kits and templates. It also takes a long video you upload, as MP4 or MOV (webinars, podcasts, interviews, demos, customer stories, screen recordings): its AI Video Clip Maker finds highlight moments and creates short videos in 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9 with captions and your brand styles. The AI detects speaker turns and scene changes, a prompt can steer it, and a clip is reframed in one click. Captions are animated and highlight each word as it is spoken, with adjustable fonts, colours and placement. Talking-head videos are edited by their transcript: you select words to trim. You can record your webcam inside the platform, with a teleprompter, and it has a screen recorder. Lumen5 states that its interface operates in English and that videos can be created in more than 35 languages. For output, its page describes batch-exporting the clips, then handing them to your scheduler.
Much of Lumen5 starts from something written: a blog post, a URL or a PDF, dressed with stock media and read by an AI voice. That fits a team with articles and announcements to turn into video. Dailies starts from something said: the answer you gave a client on a call. Its shorts show you saying it, reframed for a phone and captioned, with a line above each one, the question it answers.
Lumen5’s clip maker works on a long video you upload, and its platform records your webcam, with a teleprompter, or your screen. We found no recording of a Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom call on the pages we read. Dailies records that call itself, from Chrome: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, the webcam on a track of its own. No bot joins the call.
Lumen5 reframes a clip in one click and its AI detects speaker turns; the pages we read do not describe tracking of the active speaker. Its transcript editor lets you select words to trim; we found no automatic removal of silences or filler words there. Dailies crops on whoever speaks, your webcam or your guest’s tile, and cuts silences, filler words and false starts by itself. It also has one switch that blurs your guests and disguises their voice; we found no such option on the Lumen5 pages we read.
Lumen5 makes video from text, with stock media, AI voiceovers, cutaways, callouts and lower thirds, in your brand kit and templates, and translates automatically. It clips a long video you upload. Dailies does none of that: it does not edit a video you upload and generates no video from a text. It makes shorts from the calls it records, and you download each one in Full HD.
Not that we found. Lumen5 records your webcam inside its platform, with a teleprompter, and has a screen recorder; the pages we read describe no recording of a call. Long recordings come in as uploaded MP4 or MOV files. Dailies records the call itself in Chrome: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam.
Yes. Its AI Video Clip Maker finds highlight moments in a video you upload and creates short videos in 9:16, 1:1 or 16:9, with captions and your brand styles; a prompt can steer it. Dailies also picks by itself, up to eight passages per call, from the calls it records.
We could not confirm it for French. Lumen5 states that videos can be created in more than 35 languages, without naming French on the pages we read, and that its interface and media search operate in English. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed, and its extension’s interface is in French.
No. Dailies generates no video from a text: it only makes shorts from the calls it records in Chrome. For an article, a URL or a PDF to turn into a branded video, Lumen5 is made for that.
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 Lumen5 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. Lumen5 is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.