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Otter

App : A product you use directly

Real-time transcription and meeting notes.

Good for live captions but class action lawsuit ongoing.

Official site Docs
Overall score
7.4 /10
Security: one caveat, see the card
Utility
8.0
Reliability
6.0
Security
One caveat
Ease
1 click · Beginner

Security reflects where data goes, requested permissions and incidents on record at the verification date. It is not a guarantee of zero risk: check the deployment mode and the connections you enable.

What it does, concretely

Taking notes during a meeting while staying focused on the conversation is challenging. Otter solves this by automatically transcribing exchanges in real time, whether from video calls or recordings made directly on a device.

The tool sends an AI agent into your Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams meetings, or records directly from the Mac or Windows desktop app without a visible bot. It produces a transcript with speaker recognition, a structured summary, decisions, and automatically assigned action items.

Otter is aimed at sales teams, recruiters, journalists, and educators who want to easily retrieve the content of their conversations. It connects to tools such as Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Drive, Notion, and Jira to push information where it is needed.

It is less suitable for people handling sensitive or confidential data, given the ongoing privacy litigation and the access granted to the microphone and meetings.

What it offers

  • ·Real-time transcription with automatic speaker identification.
  • ·Automatically generated meeting summaries with decisions and assigned action items.
  • ·AI agent that joins your Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings on your behalf.
  • ·Bot-free recording directly from the Mac or Windows desktop app.
  • ·AI chat to query past meeting content and generate follow-ups.
  • ·Automatic sync of notes to Salesforce, HubSpot, and other CRMs. (paid)
  • ·Import and transcription of existing audio or video files. (paid)
  • ·Organization of meetings by team or project in shared spaces called Channels. (paid)

In practice

Price
Freemium · from 10 €
Commercial use
Commercial use: yes
Available on
web, chrome, ios, android
FR interface
Yes

Security and data

Rating
Security: one caveat, see the card
Your data
Data with the vendor
Known incidents
Recours collectif In re Otter.AI Privacy Litigation (5:25-cv-06911-EKL); plainte consolidée 5/12/2025 (ECPA, CFAA, CIPA).
Maintenance
Active

Links and repository checked on 25 October 2026 · added on 1 January 2016

How to install Otter

1. Go to otter.ai and create a free account. 2. Download the desktop app for Mac or Windows, or install the Chrome extension depending on your use case. 3. Connect your Google Calendar or Microsoft Calendar to allow the agent to join your meetings automatically. 4. During your first meeting, grant microphone access only if you are recording locally; otherwise, the agent joins the meeting without direct access to your microphone. 5. Check your transcript sharing settings to ensure they are not accessible to unintended parties.

Official documentation ↗

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