Sonix and Dailies can both hand you a vertical video with the words burned in. The road there differs at every step. Sonix works on a recording that already exists: you upload it, or connect Zoom so that meetings are transcribed once they finish, and it gives back a transcript, translated subtitles, or a new video with styled subtitles on a canvas you choose, 9:16 included. We found no tool for cutting clips on the pages we read. Dailies records the call itself, in Chrome, picks the passages, cuts them, reframes them on whoever speaks and captions them. Sonix is a transcription tool with a subtitled export. Dailies is a recorder whose result is a short.
Checked against Sonix’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who have no recording yet: client calls, and the wish to receive their shorts cut, reframed and captioned.
Sonix
For editors, journalists, researchers and legal teams who already have recordings and want transcripts, translated subtitles or a subtitled export of a finished video.
| Feature | Dailies | Sonix |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | NoIt transcribes files you upload and recordings imported from Zoom, Teams or Meet |
| 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 recordings made elsewhere |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | Not statedWe found no clipping tool on the pages we read |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | PartlyA 9:16 canvas for its subtitled export; how the picture is fitted to it is not stated |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | PartlyBurns subtitles into an MP4, with font, colour, size, background and position; no animated style found |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | 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 | YesEuropean, Canadian and African French; its site exists in French |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | YesTranscripts with speakers, summaries, chapters, action items |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | YesAny common audio or video format: MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, MP3, WAV |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not statedYou upload the subtitled MP4 to the networks yourself; a YouTube integration is listed |
Sonix is AI transcription software for the audio and video files you upload. It can also import the recordings your meeting platform made: once a Zoom account is connected, meetings are transcribed when they finish, and its site covers Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Webex recordings too. It produces timestamped transcripts with speakers, summaries, chapters and action items, and translates transcripts and subtitles into more than 54 languages; French is listed in European, Canadian and African variants, and its site exists in French. Subtitles export as files (SRT, VTT, TTML, FCPXML, Avid markers). Sonix can also render a new MP4 with the subtitles burned in, on a canvas chosen for the destination, the 9:16 story frame included, with the font, text colour, size, background and position of your choice. No bot, extension or desktop recorder is described on the pages we read.
What Sonix receives is a file, or a recording your meeting platform has already made and that an integration imports once the meeting is over. No recorder of its own is described on the pages we read. Dailies is the recorder: a Chrome extension that captures the call tab, your microphone and your webcam on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Zoom. There is nothing to export from the platform, and nothing to upload.
Sonix renders a video with burned-in subtitles and lets you choose its canvas, 9:16 included. Its pages do not say how the picture is fitted to that canvas, or whether it follows whoever speaks, and we found no tool on them for choosing or cutting passages. Dailies picks up to eight passages per call itself, cuts them, and reframes each on the person speaking: your webcam, or your guest’s tile cropped on their face.
Sonix lets you set the font, text colour, size, background and position of burned-in subtitles; we found no animated or word-by-word template on the pages we read. Dailies burns in animated captions in one of fifteen styles and removes silences, filler words and false starts. We found no mention of that kind of clean-up on Sonix’s pages.
Sonix takes any common audio or video file, transcribes more than 54 languages and translates between them, exports subtitle files for Premiere, Final Cut Pro and Avid, writes summaries, chapters and action items, and answers questions across a folder of transcripts. Dailies does none of that. It does not edit a video you upload, writes no meeting notes, and handles calls in French, in English and in both mixed.
No recorder is described on the Sonix pages we read. Sonix transcribes the recording the platform made: once a Zoom account is connected, meetings are transcribed when they finish, and its site covers Teams, Google Meet and Webex recordings as well. Dailies records the call itself, from a Chrome extension.
Yes for the format. Sonix renders a new MP4 with the subtitles burned in, on a canvas you choose, the 9:16 story frame included, and lets you set font, colour, size, background and position. Its pages do not say how the picture is fitted to that canvas, or whether it follows whoever speaks.
We found no tool for it on the pages we read. Its Zoom page mentions turning webinars into social clips, without describing a clipping tool, and we did not inspect the app itself. Dailies picks up to eight passages per call and makes shorts of them.
No. Dailies does not edit a video you upload and writes no meeting notes. It records the calls you hold in Chrome and makes shorts from them. For recordings you already have, a transcription tool such as Sonix is the right kind of tool.
Yes. Sonix lists French among its transcription languages, in European, Canadian and African variants, and its site exists in French. 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 Sonix 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. Sonix is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.