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nchova vs Otter
An Otter alternative that never joins the call.
Otter’s Notetaker joins your Zoom, Meet and Teams calls as a guest, and every recording, with or without the bot, is transcribed and kept in Otter’s cloud. nchova transcribes the same calls from your Mac: nobody joins, the audio is never uploaded, and the notes are written when you hang up.
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In short
- No guest
- Otter’s Notetaker joins as a participant everyone sees. nchova listens from your Mac, the way you do.
- No upload
- Otter keeps the audio and may train on it, de-identified. nchova keeps no audio, and there is nowhere to send it.
- No minutes
- Otter Basic stops at 300 minutes a month, and shows only the first 30 minutes of each call. nchova has no limit, and Pro is €29.99 once.
A guest in the call, or none
With Otter, a Notetaker joins the meeting in your name, and can join on its own from your calendar. With nchova, the call has the people who were invited, and nobody else.
Side by side
| Otter | nchova | |
|---|---|---|
| How it hears the call | Otter Notetaker joins Zoom, Meet and Teams as a guest; the desktop app can also record without it | From your Mac: your microphone and the call’s audio, no guest |
| Where it transcribes | In Otter’s cloud, in the US | On your Mac |
| The audio | Kept with the conversation, exportable as mp3 | Never kept: only the text |
| Training | Its privacy policy allows training on de-identified audio and transcripts | Nothing reaches us to train on |
| Who is speaking | Named from voiceprints stored by Otter, shared in a workspace | With Pro, Voice 1, Voice 2…, named by voiceprints kept on your Mac; free, “Me” and “Others” |
| Languages | 6, one per conversation (French can switch to English) | 29, 10 of them free; up to three at once, sentence by sentence |
| Dictation | None | Hold Fn, in any app |
| Without internet | Records, and transcribes after uploading | Transcribes as usual |
| AI assistants (MCP) | A server in Otter’s cloud | A local server, on your Mac |
| Free plan | 300 minutes a month; the first 30 minutes of each conversation; the latest 25 conversations | No limit, with Apple’s models |
| Paid plan | Pro: $16.99 a month, or $8.33 a month billed yearly | Pro: €29.99 once, up to 3 Macs |
| Runs on | Web, Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android | Mac, with Apple silicon and macOS 26 |
The transcript, live, on your screen
The call shows up, nchova asks once, and the transcript writes itself in a card only you can see: your microphone is “Me”, the call is everyone else.
Three years of each
Otter Pro at its US prices, billed yearly or monthly, next to nchova Pro.
Notes, when the call ends
Written around what you jotted down, by the model you choose: Apple’s or Qwen on the Mac, or your own Claude Code or Codex. Then ask the meeting what was decided.
When Otter is the better choice
If your team works in Otter together, shares conversations in channels and sends them to Salesforce or HubSpot, Otter is built for that. nchova keeps each person’s meetings on their own Mac, and in their own iCloud if they choose.
If you need to record on a phone, in a browser on any computer, or on Windows, Otter is everywhere. nchova is a Mac app.
If you want to play the recording back, Otter keeps the audio; nchova never keeps it, only the words.
Questions, out loud
- 00:00:04 You Does anyone in the call know nchova is transcribing?
- 00:00:09 nchova Nothing appears in the call, because nchova is not in it. Where the law asks you to, tell the people you are talking to that you are transcribing.
- 00:00:27 You Can nchova import my Otter conversations?
- 00:00:32 nchova No. nchova starts from your next meeting; your Otter exports stay yours.
- 00:00:50 You Does it work with Zoom, Meet and Teams?
- 00:00:55 nchova With all of them, and with Slack, FaceTime, Webex and calls in the browser: nchova notices when one of them takes the microphone, and any other call starts from the menu bar. See Zoom, Google Meet and Teams.
- 00:01:13 You Can I ask Claude or ChatGPT about my meetings?
- 00:01:18 nchova Yes: nchova’s MCP server runs on your Mac and connects with one click. See meetings in your assistant.
Checked on 8 October 2026: Otter pricing · Otter Notetaker · Otter desktop app · Privacy policy · Speaker identification · Supported languages