Compare talat and Zoom AI Companion
Zoom AI Companion is the meeting summary built right into Zoom. If your calls are already on a paid Zoom plan, it’s included at no extra cost, there’s no separate bot to add, and the recap shows up next to the meeting afterwards. For a Zoom-first team, that’s convenient.
The catch is in the name: it only works in Zoom, and the processing happens in Zoom’s cloud. talat comes at it from the other side. It captures the system audio your computer is already playing, so it records any call on any platform, and it transcribes on your machine with nothing sent anywhere.
Feature comparison.
| talat | Zoom AI Companion | |
|---|---|---|
| Audio processing | On-device | Cloud |
| Audio leaves your device | Never | Yes |
| Meeting bot | No | No (built into Zoom) |
| Models trained on your data | No; nothing leaves your device | No (per Zoom's policy) |
| Works offline | Yes | No |
| Account required | No | Yes (Zoom account) |
| Pricing | From $9/mo, or $189 once | Included with paid Zoom plans |
| AI summaries | On-device LLM or your own cloud API key | Cloud |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows | Zoom only |
| Integrations | Webhooks, MCP, folder export | Zoom ecosystem |
| 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 (in Zoom) |
| 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 If you spot anything that’s wrong, outdated, or missing, please let us know.
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Where each one works.
AI Companion only summarises Zoom meetings. The moment a call moves to Google Meet, Teams, a Slack huddle, a browser-based platform, or a plain phone call on speaker, it’s not there. Most people don’t meet on a single platform, so “built in” quietly means “only some of your meetings”.
talat records whatever your speakers play, so every call is captured the same way regardless of the app. And because the transcription runs on your machine, your conversations aren’t handed to Zoom’s cloud to be processed. Zoom says it doesn’t use your content to train its models, which is reassuring; talat removes the question by never sending the audio off your device.
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 Zoom AI Companion if...
- Essentially all of your meetings are on Zoom
- You want summaries with zero setup, included in your plan
- Cloud processing inside Zoom isn’t a concern for you
Choose talat if...
- You meet across more than one platform and want them all captured
- You’d rather your audio never left your machine
- Your meetings involve sensitive, confidential, or regulated material
- 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.