Kana as an Otter.ai alternative
A meeting transcription service. A bot joins your call, or its desktop app records without one, and you get a searchable transcript with speaker labels and summaries.
What Otter.ai does better
Otter does the meeting job properly: it joins calendar invites, separates speakers, and gives a team a shared searchable archive afterwards. Kana does none of that and is not trying to. If what you need is a record of a call several people were on, Otter is the answer.
Where Kana is different
- Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored on a server, which is the whole reason people who cannot use Otter cannot use it.
- No account, no bot, no calendar access.
- Kana is for writing at speaking speed, not for recording meetings.
Side by side
| Kana | Otter.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Recording leaves your Mac | Never | Always |
| Records meetings | No | Yes, with or without a bot |
| Speaker labels | No | Yes |
| Account required | No | Yes |
Otter.ai pricing: Free for 300 minutes a month, Pro $8.33 to $16.99, Business $19.99 to $30.