Vauta vs Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap)

Looking for an alternative to Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap) that keeps your meetings on your Mac? Vauta captures any call, transcribes it on your Mac and writes the minutes: decisions, tasks and open questions. No bot, no cloud, no account, and it is free and open source.

Side by side

Recap works only in Teams, in Microsoft’s cloud, with an extra license.

Vauta is ahead on 6 of 9 · level on 2 · behind on 1

Meeting notes cost (Vauta ahead)

Vauta: Free

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): Teams Premium or Copilot license, extra

Open source (Vauta ahead)

Vauta: Yes, Apache-2.0

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): No

Where your call is transcribed (Vauta ahead)

Vauta: On your Mac

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): Microsoft’s cloud

Account (Vauta ahead)

Vauta: None

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): Microsoft 365 work or school account

Run the AI on your own hardware (Vauta ahead)

Vauta: Yes: your Mac or your own server

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): No

Works with (Vauta ahead)

Vauta: Any call app on your Mac

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): Teams only

Your meetings train their AI (Level)

Vauta: Never: nothing leaves your Mac or network

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): No

A bot in your call (Level)

Vauta: Never

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): No bot

Runs on (Rival ahead)

Vauta: Mac with Apple silicon

Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): Windows, Mac, web and mobile

Sources · Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap): Intelligent recap · Privacy

Where Microsoft Teams (intelligent recap) is better

Runs on: Windows, Mac, web and mobile (Vauta: Mac with Apple silicon)

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