You already record your Zoom meetings. So what would Dailies add? The answer is in what comes out. Zoom’s recording keeps the meeting: a video in the layout of the call and, on cloud recordings, a transcript, a summary, chapters and highlights. It is made to rewatch a meeting, or to catch up on one. Dailies is made to post from it. It records the call in Chrome, in Zoom’s web client, and a few minutes after you hang up it delivers up to eight vertical shorts, captioned and cut from the best passages. Nothing here is against Zoom: Dailies works on Zoom calls. The question is what you do with the call once it is over.
Checked against Zoom Cloud Recording’s own site on October 1, 2026.
Dailies
For people who want the best passages of their calls as captioned vertical shorts, ready to post, whether the call is on Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams.
Zoom Cloud Recording
For people who need the whole Zoom meeting on file, with a transcript, a summary and chapters, to rewatch it or pass it on to those who missed it.
| Feature | Dailies | Zoom Cloud Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Records Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom calls itself | YesIn Chrome, on the call you were going to hold anyway | PartlyZoom meetings only; cloud recording is for licensed users on Pro, Business or Enterprise accounts |
| Records without a bot joining the call | YesFrom your browser | YesIt is Zoom’s own recording, built into the meeting |
| Records your webcam on a track of its own | YesYour camera and microphone, apart from the call’s picture | PartlyA separate audio file per participant as an option; the video follows the meeting’s layout |
| Picks the passages worth posting by itself | YesUp to eight per call | PartlySmart Recording highlights the most important parts of a cloud recording and can save them as a new clip |
| Makes vertical 9:16 shorts, reframed on whoever speaks | Yes | Not statedIts recording layouts are active speaker, gallery view and shared screen; we found no vertical format |
| Burns in animated captions | YesFifteen styles | Not statedCloud recordings can have an audio transcript; we found no burned-in captions |
| Cuts silences, filler words and false starts | Yes | Not statedSaving highlights cuts the rest of the recording; filler word usage is reported in the host’s analytics |
| 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 statedZoom announced meeting summaries in 36 languages in 2024; we did not check the current list |
| Writes meeting notes, summaries and action items | NoDailies makes shorts, not minutes | YesAI Companion summaries; smart chapters and next steps on cloud recordings |
| Works on any video file you upload | NoOnly the calls it records | NoIt records Zoom meetings; Zoom Clips records new videos |
| Posts or schedules to social networks for you | NoYou download each short in Full HD and post it yourself | Not statedRecordings download as files |
Zoom’s recording is built into Zoom meetings. Cloud recording, for licensed users on Pro, Business or Enterprise accounts, saves the meeting in the layout you choose: the active speaker with the shared screen, the gallery view with the shared screen, or each view apart. It can add an audio transcript and a separate audio file for each participant. Recording to your computer is available to free and paid subscribers, in Zoom’s desktop app, and saves the meeting as the person recording sees it. On cloud recordings, Smart Recording adds smart chapters, next steps and recording highlights: AI marks the most important parts, which can be saved as a new clip without the rest. It also gives the host analytics such as talk speed and filler word usage. Recordings download as files, with an option that optimises them for video editors. Zoom Clips, despite its name, is a separate product: a screen and webcam recorder for short video messages, with annotations and trimming.
Zoom’s recording is the meeting as it happened, in the layout you chose: active speaker, gallery view, shared screen. Its highlights keep the most important parts of that recording and can be saved as a new clip, with the rest cut. Zoom’s article about them mentions no vertical format and no burned-in captions. Dailies makes something else from the same call: up to eight separate shorts in 9:16, each reframed on whoever speaks, with animated captions, a line above it, and its silences, filler words and false starts removed.
Zoom’s recording covers the meetings held on Zoom. If some of your calls are on Google Meet and others on Microsoft Teams, each platform has its own recording, its own conditions and its own files. Dailies records the three from the same place, your Chrome browser, and delivers the same shorts whichever platform the call was on. One limit to know: for Zoom, Dailies records the web client in Chrome, not Zoom’s desktop app.
Zoom can save a separate audio file for each participant, but its video follows the layout of the meeting: the active speaker, the gallery, the shared screen. Dailies records your webcam and your microphone on tracks of their own, apart from the call tab. That is what lets a short show you full screen when you speak, and your guest, cropped out of their tile, when it is their turn.
Zoom keeps the whole meeting and writes about it: an audio transcript, AI Companion summaries, smart chapters, next steps, analytics for the host. Dailies writes no notes, no summary and no action items, and it does not work on a recording you already have: it only makes shorts from the calls it recorded itself. If you need a record of the meeting, Zoom’s recording is the tool for it. The two do different jobs.
We found no vertical short on the pages we read. Zoom’s cloud recording saves the meeting in the active speaker or gallery layout, and Smart Recording can save its most important parts as a new clip; Zoom’s article mentions no 9:16 format and no burned-in captions. Dailies delivers up to eight captioned vertical shorts per call, each reframed on whoever speaks.
Zoom presents Zoom Clips as something else: a screen and webcam recorder for short video messages, with annotations and trimming. You record a new video with it. What works on a meeting is Smart Recording, which highlights the most important parts of a cloud recording and can save them as a new clip.
No. Zoom’s recording keeps the whole meeting, with a transcript, summaries and chapters. Dailies makes shorts and writes no notes, no summary and no action items. If you need the meeting on file, keep recording it with Zoom: the two tools do different jobs.
Yes, in Chrome. Dailies is a Chrome extension that records the calls you hold in the browser: Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom’s web client. It captures the call tab, your microphone and your webcam, with no bot joining the call.
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 Zoom Cloud Recording 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. Zoom Cloud Recording is a trademark of its owner, which has no link with Dailies.