Compare talat and Microsoft Teams Copilot
If your organisation runs on Microsoft 365, Teams can summarise your meetings for you through Copilot and the intelligent recap in Teams Premium: notes, action items, and who-said-what, all inside the app your IT team already manages. For a Teams-first company, that integration is convenient.
Two things to weigh, though. It’s a paid add-on on top of your licences, and it only covers Teams meetings, processed in Microsoft’s cloud. talat records any call your computer plays, transcribes it on your own machine, and keeps everything local, no add-on and no tenant required.
Feature comparison.
| talat | Teams Copilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio processing | On-device | Cloud |
| Audio leaves your device | Never | Yes |
| Meeting bot | No | No (built into Teams) |
| Models trained on your data | No; nothing leaves your device | No (per Microsoft's policy) |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Account required | No | Yes (Microsoft 365) |
| Pricing | From $9/mo, or $189 once | Paid add-on (Teams Premium or Copilot) |
| AI summaries | On-device LLM or your own cloud API key | Cloud |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows | Microsoft Teams only |
| Integrations | Webhooks, MCP, folder export | Microsoft 365 |
| Import existing recordings | Yes (audio & video, on-device) | No |
| Dictate into any app | Yes | No |
| Data residency | Your machine only | Cloud servers (Microsoft 365) |
| Cross-device sync | Planned | Yes |
| Search across meetings | Yes (full-text search, all local) | Yes (in Teams) |
| 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 If you spot anything that’s wrong, outdated, or missing, please let us know.
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One platform, and a licence.
The Teams recap only covers Teams calls. External meetings on Zoom or Google Meet, a client dial-in, a browser call: none of those are captured. And the AI features sit behind a paid tier, so the true cost is per user on top of what you already pay for Microsoft 365.
talat doesn’t care which app the meeting is in, because it listens to system audio. It’s one purchase, not a per-seat add-on, and your meeting content stays on your machine rather than being processed in your Microsoft tenant. For regulated or confidential conversations, keeping the audio off the cloud entirely is a cleaner answer than trusting how it’s handled once it’s there.
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 Teams Copilot if...
- Your meetings are almost entirely on Microsoft Teams
- You already pay for Copilot or Teams Premium
- Cloud processing inside your Microsoft tenant 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.
Download talat and use every feature with 10 hours of free recording time; no account or payment needed.