Confab vs Recal

Confab has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

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.