AfterTheCall vs Recal

AfterTheCall records client meetings through a browser extension and produces AI-generated summaries, action items with owners, and searchable transcripts. It also drafts follow-up emails covering recaps, decisions, next steps, owners, and deadlines. Meeting capture does not add a bot or participant to the call. Supported services include Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and WhatsApp, but the extension requires Chrome or another Chromium-based browser. Integrations include HubSpot, Notion, Jira, Confluence, and Google Docs. The service supports more than 100 languages and regional variants, including meetings that switch between languages. Users can share selected audio, summaries, action items, notes, and transcripts through links. Meeting audio is encrypted in transit and at rest, held with access controls, and can be deleted on demand. The maker says private meeting content is not used to train public models. The Free plan includes three client calls, one follow-up email per call, and manual recording. Pro is $9 a month, billed monthly.

Recal turns Slack messages, meetings, and other supplied material into structured recaps, decisions, and tasks. It can capture meetings or create recaps from pasted text, voice memos, file uploads, and URL links. For meetings, its AI analyzes video frames so screen shares and presentations can inform the recap alongside audio transcription. Recal lists Slack, Notion, and Linear integrations; Google Calendar sync is included on Pro and Premium. It says it reads Slack messages only in channels where users invoke /recal, not private DMs, and does not retain full message history. The FAQ says data is encrypted in transit and at rest, meeting content is not used to train AI models, and users can delete their data. Uploaded originals are deleted after processing; transcripts and summaries are kept. Uploads can be up to 2GB, while text-to-tasks accepts up to 50,000 characters. The Starter plan has no listed price. Pro is $14 a month and Premium is $29 a month; both include specified monthly recap allowances and retention periods. Recal describes its audience as distributed teams working across time zones and communicating asynchronously.