Pictory is first an AI video generator: give it a script, a URL, a slide deck or images, and it builds a video with AI voices and stock or generated visuals. It also takes recordings, and extracts highlights from the Zoom, Teams, webinar or podcast recordings you upload. Dailies has no generator. It records the calls you hold in Chrome and cuts captioned vertical shorts in which you are the one talking, with the words you said to a client. The two meet on one narrow point, highlights from a recorded call, and reach it from different sides.
Checked against Pictory’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who would rather appear on screen with what they said on a call than write a script, and who want that call recorded and cut for them.
Pictory
For marketers who mostly turn text, blog posts or slides into narrated videos, and who also want highlights from the webinars and recordings they upload.
| Feature | Dailies | Pictory |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | NoIt works from a recording you upload, or from text, a URL or slides |
| 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 | NoIt works on the recording you upload |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | YesFrom the transcript; you confirm or change the highlights it found |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | PartlyResizes for the major platforms; following whoever speaks is not stated |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | YesAutomatic captions, with colours and fonts you can change |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | YesRemoves filler words and silences |
| 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 statedThe languages of its transcripts and captions are not listed on the pages we read |
| 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 | YesVideo or audio recordings; also text, URLs, slides and images |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not stated |
Pictory is an AI video generator. It makes videos from text, scripts, URLs, PowerPoint files and images, with AI voices in 29 languages, AI avatars and stock or generated visuals, and it adds a logo, an intro, an outro and brand styling. It also works on recordings: you upload a video or an audio file, and its site says it can extract highlights from Zoom, Teams, webinar and podcast recordings. The selection is automatic and based on the transcript, in which its AI looks for the most significant soundbites; you can then confirm or change the highlights it found. Another feature edits a video through its text and removes filler words and silences. Captions are automatic, with colours and fonts you can change, and videos are resized for the major platforms and exported in 1080p.
Most of what Pictory makes starts from words on a page: a script, a URL or a slide deck, turned into a video with an AI voice, an avatar or stock visuals. Nobody has to be filmed. Dailies answers the same reluctance to film oneself another way. The footage is the call you were going to hold, with your face and your voice, and the words are the ones you really said to a client. It generates nothing.
Pictory’s site says it extracts highlights from Zoom and Teams recordings. Those are recordings you upload: we found no account integration and no call recording on the pages we read, so the call is recorded by the platform, downloaded, then uploaded. Dailies records the call itself in Chrome, on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom (its web client): the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, with no bot in the call.
Pictory resizes a video for the major platforms. The pages we read do not say whether it follows the active speaker, or how it lays out a call between two people. Dailies records your webcam on a track of its own and crops your guest’s tile on their face, so a short shows whoever speaks, full screen. One switch blurs your guests and disguises their voice; we found no such option on the Pictory pages we read.
Videos from a script, a URL, slides or images, AI voices in 29 languages, AI avatars, stock and generated visuals, brand intros and outros, editing through the text, and any recording as input, audio included. You also confirm or change each highlight it proposes. Dailies does none of that: it handles only the calls it recorded, and delivers finished shorts that you download in Full HD and post yourself.
We found no call recording on the Pictory pages we read. Its site says it extracts highlights from Zoom and Teams recordings, which you upload as files, and we found no account integration either. Dailies records the call itself, from a Chrome extension, with no bot joining.
Yes. You upload the recording, its AI looks through the transcript for the most significant soundbites, and you confirm or change the highlights it found. It can also remove filler words and silences. The pages we read do not state how many clips it returns, or whether it tracks the active speaker.
No. Dailies generates no video from text, and has no AI voice and no avatar: it only makes shorts from the calls it records in Chrome. For a video built from a script, a URL or slides, Pictory is the right kind of tool.
Its site states that its AI voices cover 29 languages. For the recordings you upload, the pages we read do not list the languages of its transcripts and captions, so the table says “not stated”. Dailies handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed, and its extension’s interface is in French.
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 Pictory 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. Pictory is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.