Compare talat and Google Meet notes
Google Meet can take notes for you through Gemini: a summary and action items generated automatically and dropped into a Google Doc after the call. If you live in Google Workspace and meet on Meet, it’s right there in the tools you already use, with nothing extra to install.
It comes with the same two strings attached as the other built-ins: it needs a qualifying paid Workspace tier (Business or Enterprise), and it only works for Meet calls, summarised in Google’s cloud. talat records any meeting your computer plays and transcribes it on your own machine, so nothing is sent to Google to make the notes.
Feature comparison.
| talat | Google Meet + Gemini | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio processing | On-device | Cloud |
| Audio leaves your device | Never | Yes |
| Meeting bot | No | No (built into Meet) |
| Models trained on your data | No; nothing leaves your device | No (per Workspace policy) |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Account required | No | Yes (Google Workspace) |
| Pricing | From $9/mo, or $189 once | Paid Workspace tier (Business+) |
| AI summaries | On-device LLM or your own cloud API key | Cloud |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows | Google Meet only |
| Integrations | Webhooks, MCP, folder export | Google Workspace |
| Import existing recordings | Yes (audio & video, on-device) | No |
| Dictate into any app | Yes | No |
| Data residency | Your machine only | Cloud servers (Google) |
| Cross-device sync | Planned | Yes |
| Search across meetings | Yes (full-text search, all local) | Yes (in Workspace) |
| Chat with your meetings | Planned | Yes (Gemini) |
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 If you spot anything that’s wrong, outdated, or missing, please let us know.
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Great inside Workspace, absent outside it.
Gemini’s notes only cover Google Meet. A call on Zoom, Teams, a webinar platform, or a phone dial-in doesn’t get them. And the feature only comes with the paid Workspace tiers, so it isn’t there on the free version or the entry plans.
talat is platform-agnostic by design: it captures the audio your speakers play, so every call is recorded the same way. And it keeps the whole pipeline local. Google states it doesn’t use Workspace content to train its models, which is a fair commitment; talat simply never sends the audio to Google in the first place, so there’s nothing to commit about.
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 Google Meet notes if...
- Your meetings are almost entirely on Google Meet
- You’re already on a paid Workspace tier that includes Gemini
- Cloud processing inside Google Workspace isn’t a concern
Choose talat if...
- You meet across more than one platform and want them all captured
- You’d rather your audio never left your machine
- You want one purchase, not another per-seat subscription
- Your meetings involve sensitive, confidential, or regulated material
10 hours free, no account.
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