Meet2Notes vs Otter.ai

Meet2Notes records, transcribes, and analyzes conversations on a computer, with desktop capture for microphone or system audio and imports for common media files. It provides real-time transcription, a rule-driven Live AI Assistant for provisional transcript segments, and structured notes containing decisions and action items. Speaker separation, saved voice profiles, and recognition across meeting history support attribution. Questions across past meetings return answers with timestamped sources. Transcription, diarization, summarization, and embedding engines can be selected independently. Plugins, pipeline hooks, signed webhooks, and a local MCP server provide integration options, including connections to Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, and compatible clients. Audio, transcripts, embeddings, and local models remain in the workspace by default, with no telemetry by default. Meet2Notes is free, open source under the MIT license, and available on Linux, macOS, Windows, and the web.

Otter.ai transcribes meetings into searchable text and provides summaries and action items. Its meeting bot can capture calls on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams; the Mac and Windows desktop apps can record conversations without a bot joining. Other listed features include live transcription, speaker labels, note templates, calendar integrations and a searchable archive. It supports six languages and is available through Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Chrome apps or extensions. Basic is free forever and includes 300 transcription minutes per user each month, three lifetime imported files per user, and a 30-minute maximum per conversation. Pro Annual costs $8.33/user/month, billed annually; Pro Monthly costs $16.99/user/month. Business Annual costs $19.99/user/month, billed annually, while Business Monthly costs $30/user/month. Business includes a seven-day free trial and allows conversations up to four hours. Otter lists TLS encryption and AES-256 encryption for real-time content. Payment options include credit and debit cards and Apple App Store or Google Play purchases.