Letterly vs Snow

Letterly turns speech into text for messages, emails, notes, meeting summaries, journal entries, social posts, and other writing. Users can dictate inside apps such as Gmail, Slack, and Notion, or upload audio and video for transcription. Recordings can run up to 90 minutes, and speech is automatically detected across more than 90 languages, including when languages change mid-sentence. Users can select ready-made rewrite styles or create their own. Letterly can record offline, and Zapier and webhooks can send notes to other apps. Its MCP connects notes with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity, Gemini CLI, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, and Claude Code. Letterly says user words are not used to train AI; its DPA specifies encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, and regular security testing. Users can delete recordings and transcriptions through the app. It is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. In-app PRO prices include $19.99 a month, $89.99 a year, and $249.99, paid once.

Snow turns spoken words into structured, searchable notes. It transcribes and cleans up voice captures, extracts key points, and adds tags and context. Notes can be searched by text or voice, and the plan includes AI summaries and connections between notes. A capture can be started with the ⌘+⇧+S shortcut. Snow provides native desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus a web version that works in a phone browser and can be added to the home screen. The maker describes workflows for designers, product managers, developers, and founders. Snow says it is not a meeting bot and does not claim to identify everyone in a group conversation. A seven-day trial is available; Pro costs $8 a month. After the trial, existing notes remain in limited free mode, but creating new notes requires a subscription. Data can be exported at any time. Snow says it does not sell notes or recordings or use them to train AI models, and that notes and recordings are encrypted on its servers. Its desktop apps are not code-signed yet and may prompt an operating-system warning during installation.