Otter is the right call if your workflow is meetings-only, you live inside Zoom/Meet/Teams calendars, you need team-shared transcripts with comments, or you are fine with everything in the cloud. Typilot wins when meeting privacy is non-negotiable (legal, medical, M&A, journalism, therapy), when you want the summary itself to stay local, when you need Linux, or when meetings are one piece of a broader local-AI workflow.
For meeting recap with privacy, yes. Typilot keeps the whole pipeline (audio, transcript, summary, chat) on your machine. Otter wins if you need calendar auto-join and shared team transcripts with browser-based collaboration.
No. Mic and system audio are captured locally, transcribed by on-device Whisper, summarised by a local Ollama model. Nothing reaches our servers - we do not have any inference servers.
Not currently - you press a key to start recording. Otter wins on calendar auto-join. Typilot trades that convenience for not having a third party in every meeting.
On modern hardware (M-series Mac, decent GPU), yes - no upload round-trip. The summary appears as soon as the recording stops. On older machines Otter may feel faster because their servers do the heavy lifting.