Compare talat and Fellow
Fellow wraps an AI notetaker around a whole meeting-management practice: shared agendas, action items, feedback, and recaps that keep a team’s meetings organised over time. If the meeting workflow is what you’re trying to fix, not just the notes, Fellow is built with that in mind.
talat is scoped tighter and more privately. It captures and transcribes on your machine, produces notes and summaries locally, and keeps everything on your disk. No bot joins the call and nothing is stored in a cloud. It’s a recorder you own, not a workspace you log into.
Feature comparison.
| talat | Fellow | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio processing | On-device | Cloud |
| Audio leaves your device | Never | Yes |
| Meeting bot | No | Optional (bot or botless) |
| Models trained on your data | No; nothing leaves your device | No (per their policy) |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Pricing | From $9/mo, or $189 once | Free tier, then paid per user |
| AI summaries | On-device LLM or your own cloud API key | Cloud |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows | Zoom, Google Meet, Teams |
| Integrations | Webhooks, MCP, folder export | Lots |
| Import existing recordings | Yes (audio & video, on-device) | No |
| Dictate into any app | Yes | No |
| Data residency | Your machine only | Cloud servers |
| Cross-device sync | Planned | Yes |
| Search across meetings | Yes (full-text search, all local) | Yes (cloud search) |
| Chat with your meetings | Planned | Yes |
We’ve done our best to make this comparison accurate and thorough, but we can’t exhaustively test every aspect of every product we compare against. If you spot anything that’s wrong, outdated, or missing, please let us know.
Missing something you love from Fellow?
If there’s a feature you really like and wish talat had, tell us about it. We can’t promise we’ll build everything, but we take every request seriously.
A workspace, or a private recorder.
Most of what makes Fellow valuable is collaborative: shared notes, assigned action items, recaps that flow to everyone who was in the room. That needs a cloud account per person, and for a team that runs on Fellow, it’s worth it.
talat is a personal meeting recorder rather than a team workspace. What it gives you instead is that nothing about your meetings ever leaves your machine. If a shared workspace is the point, Fellow is the better fit; if privacy is, that’s the trade talat is built around.
talat is a full app, not just a recorder.
Privacy is the headline, but it isn’t the whole story. talat does the things you actually reach for day to day, all on your own machine.
Full audio playback
Play the original recording back in sync with the transcript, kept locally on your machine.
Dictation in any app
System-wide voice-to-text, straight into whatever you're typing in.
Import past recordings
Bring in existing audio and video files and transcribe them on-device.
In-meeting screenshots
Grab slides and shared screens while you record, saved with the meeting.
Search every meeting
Full-text search across your whole local history, no cloud index.
Yours to keep
A one-time purchase that works fully offline, with no account.
Which one's right for you?
Choose Fellow if...
- You want a shared team workflow: collaborative agendas and action items assigned across the team
- Your team collaborates on shared meeting records
- Cloud processing isn’t a concern for you
Choose talat if...
- You’d prefer no bot joining your calls
- You want a personal recorder rather than a shared workspace
- Your meetings involve things you’d hesitate to send to a third-party server
- You’d like the option of a one-time licence, not just a subscription
10 hours free, no account.
Download talat and use every feature with 10 hours of free recording time; no account or payment needed.