BoardPro vs Recal

BoardPro is a board management platform for organizing agendas, board packs, minutes, actions, decisions, and governance documents across the meeting cycle. It is built for boards at nonprofits, SMEs, and schools. Meeting tools cover agenda building, pack compilation, live minute-taking, voting, action assignment, and searchable registers. AI Assistant answers questions about board packs and meeting history with responses linked to BoardPro documents. AI Minutes drafts minutes from an uploaded meeting transcript against the agenda for review and approval. The iPhone, iPad, and Android apps support offline board pack reading, private annotations, and action updates. BoardPro provides multi-factor authentication, board-oriented permission levels, and administrator controls for adding or revoking users. The company says data is hosted in Microsoft Azure facilities in New South Wales, with Victoria used for backup, and encrypted in transit and at rest. Every plan includes unlimited users, unlimited document storage, agenda builder, and chat support; subcommittees cost US$82.50 separately. Essentials costs $165 a month per board, Premium $275 a month per board, and Ultimate $440 a month per board. A 30-day trial does not require a credit card.

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.