MeetingNotes by SmartKit vs Otter.ai

MeetingNotes by SmartKit helps teams prepare agendas, capture minutes, record decisions, assign action items, and share meeting summaries. Agendas can use time-boxed topics with owners, while discussion notes attach to those agenda items during the meeting. A decision register records who made each decision and when. Action items include an owner and due date, and unfinished items can carry forward automatically to the next meeting. Attendance tracking covers invitees, attendees, and apologies. Arabic and Urdu text are supported with right-to-left layouts and Unicode-safe rendering. Teams can share professional summaries and create printable PDFs. SmartKit presents MeetingNotes for teams, boards, committees, schools, standups, and recurring reviews. The product is described as mobile-first and available through SmartKit; its page does not identify a separate downloadable app. SmartKit says content stays in the creator’s workspace and is shared through selected access controls. The Free plan costs nothing, with no specific usage limits stated.

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.