Otter.ai and Dailies both start from the calls you already hold, and stop being alike right there. Otter.ai writes down what was said: a transcript, a summary, action items. Dailies shows it: it records the call in Chrome and cuts captioned vertical shorts from its best passages. If you want notes, Otter.ai is built for that. If you want something to post, it is not, and its own help centre says so.
Checked against Otter.ai’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who want the best passages of their calls as captioned shorts, ready to post, without filming anything.
Otter.ai
For people who want a searchable transcript, a summary and action items of every meeting, mostly in English.
| Feature | Dailies | Otter.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | PartlyThe sound and a transcript; it states it cannot record video itself |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | PartlyIts Notetaker joins as a participant; its desktop app records without it |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | NoIt records no video of its own |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | NoIts help centre states it makes no clips of a meeting’s video |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | No |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | No |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | No |
| Blurs or replaces the room behind you | Yes | No |
| Blurs your guests and disguises their voice | YesOne switch | No |
| Handles calls in French | YesFrench and English, mixed included | YesTranscribes French; its interface is in English only |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | YesTranscript, summary, action items, questions over past meetings |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | PartlyImports audio or video files, to transcribe them |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | No |
Otter.ai is a meeting note-taker. Its Notetaker joins your Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings as a named participant, and a desktop app can record without it. It transcribes live, then writes a summary and action items, captures slides, and answers questions about past meetings in a chat. It transcribes English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese; its interface is in English. Otter.ai does not record video itself: it can attach the recording made by the meeting platform, and its help centre states that it does not create clips from it.
Otter.ai’s help centre says it cannot record video natively and does not support clips or snippets of a meeting’s video. Everything it produces is text. Dailies records the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, so each passage it keeps comes with you on screen, reframed for a phone and captioned.
A summary and action items serve whoever attended the meeting. A short serves everyone else: it has to stand on its own, open on a question, and lose the silences and the false starts. Dailies picks up to eight such passages per call and cuts them clean. Otter.ai is not trying to.
Otter.ai’s Notetaker joins as a participant named after you, unless you use its desktop app. Dailies is a Chrome extension: it records from your browser, on the call you were going to hold anyway.
No. Otter.ai’s help centre states that it does not support creating snippets or clips from a meeting’s video, and that it cannot record video natively. It works on the sound and the transcript.
Not for notes. Dailies writes no summary and no action items: it makes shorts. If you need a written record and content to post, the two do different jobs on the same call.
It transcribes French, and French mixed with English when French is the default language, but its interface exists in English only. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed, and its extension is in French.
No. Dailies records from a Chrome extension on your own computer: the call tab, your microphone and your webcam.
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 Otter.ai 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. Otter.ai is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.