OBS Studio and Dailies both record what happens on your computer, and that is about all they share. OBS Studio is free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming: you build scenes from sources, route the audio, press record, and get one long file to edit somewhere else. Dailies is a Chrome extension that records the call you hold on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom and, a few minutes after it ends, delivers up to eight captioned vertical shorts cut from its best passages. OBS Studio gives you control over the recording. Dailies gives you the finished shorts.
Checked against OBS Studio’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who want shorts from their client calls with no scene to set up before the call and nothing to edit after it.
OBS Studio
For technically comfortable people who want configurable recording or live streaming of anything on their screen, on Windows, macOS or Linux, and who edit elsewhere.
| Feature | Dailies | OBS Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | PartlyAs a window or screen source you set up; its knowledge base has no guide to recording a call |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | YesThe software runs on your computer |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | PartlyAudio sources can go on separate tracks; a separate video file for the webcam is not described |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | NoIts knowledge base says recordings are edited in other software |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | PartlyIts guide recommends 16:9 and allows other ratios; it records one long file, not shorts |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | Not statedNone among the sources and filters we read; third-party plugins were not checked |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | NoAudio filters only: noise suppression, noise gate, gain, limiter |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | PartlyA chroma key replaces a green screen; blur without one is not in the filter list we read |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | Not statedFace blur and voice change are not in the filter list we read |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | Not statedWe found no transcription or captions in its knowledge base |
| 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 | NoA media file can be played as a source in a scene; it is not an editor |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | PartlyIt streams live to streaming services; recordings are local files |
OBS Studio is free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming, on Windows, macOS and Linux. You compose scenes from sources: a display, a window, a webcam or a capture card, a browser page, images, text, and audio sources such as microphones, desktop audio and application audio. Filters add a chroma key for a green screen, colour correction, an image mask and audio treatments (noise suppression, noise gate, gain, limiter). It streams live to streaming services and records to local files; its guide recommends the MKV format, and a remux function converts a recording to MP4, to make it easier to upload to social media. Audio sources can be assigned to separate recording tracks, for work in an editor afterwards. A virtual camera, a studio mode, hotkeys, plugins and Lua or Python scripts extend it. Its knowledge base says recordings are edited in other software and lists third-party editors. Its video call tutorial covers sending OBS’s picture and sound into Zoom, Teams or Discord.
With OBS Studio, everything is yours to configure: the scene, its sources, the audio routing, and pressing record before each call. A call is captured as a window or a screen source you add yourself; its knowledge base has no guide to recording a call, and its video call tutorial covers the opposite, sending OBS’s output into Zoom, Teams or Discord. Dailies has nothing to compose. It records the tab of your Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom call in Chrome, with your microphone and your webcam. Neither sends a bot into the call.
OBS Studio’s work ends when you stop recording: you have one long file. Its knowledge base says editing happens in other software and lists third-party editors for it. Picking the passages, cutting silences and filler words, framing for a phone and adding captions are done there, by you. Dailies’ work starts where OBS Studio stops: it picks up to eight passages per call, removes silences, filler words and false starts, reframes each on whoever speaks and burns in animated captions.
An OBS Studio recording holds one picture, the scene you composed. Audio sources can go on separate tracks; the articles we read describe no separate video file for the webcam. Dailies records your webcam on a track of its own, apart from the call’s picture, and crops your guest’s tile on their face. A short can then show you full screen when you speak, and your guest when they do.
Live streaming, scenes built from many sources, capture of any window, screen, camera or capture card, a chroma key, a virtual camera, plugins and scripts, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Dailies does none of that: it does not stream, records only the calls you hold in Chrome, and has no scene to compose. Its shorts are downloaded in Full HD.
It can capture one as a window or a screen source that you set up, with audio sources such as desktop audio and your microphone. Its knowledge base has no guide to recording a call; its video call tutorial explains the opposite, how to send OBS’s picture and sound into Zoom, Teams or Discord. Dailies records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom’s web client from Chrome, with no scene to compose.
OBS Studio makes no clips: its knowledge base says recordings are edited in other software and lists third-party editors. We found no captions among the sources and filters it describes; third-party plugins, which we did not check, can add features. Dailies picks the passages, cuts them and burns in animated captions by itself.
Other ratios than 16:9 are possible: its aspect-ratio guide recommends 16:9 and notes that other ratios are valid when you target a platform optimised for them. The framing is the scene you compose, and the articles we read describe no reframing on whoever speaks. Dailies delivers 9:16 shorts reframed on the speaker: your webcam, or your guest’s tile cropped on their face.
No. Dailies does not stream and records nothing but the calls you hold in Chrome on Meet, Teams or Zoom. For live streaming, or for recording anything else on your screen with full control, OBS Studio 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 OBS Studio 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. OBS Studio is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.