An Otter alternative that doesn't join your meetings.
Enzo is your own AI assistant for Mac. Unlimited voice typing is free. Pro adds meetings, local AI for documents, recordings and your screen, and full retained Recall history for $39 once.
Unlimited free voice typing · 10-day Pro trial · No account or card.
Otter is built for the cloud. That's the trade.
Otter is built around the cloud, and for some teams that's exactly right: live shared notes, a workspace everyone can read, transcripts on any device. But the way it gets there is a bot that joins your call, audio that's processed on their servers, and a subscription with minute caps. The free plan stops at 300 minutes a month, Pro at 1,200.
Enzo is your own AI assistant for Mac. Unlimited voice typing is free. Pro adds meetings, local AI for documents, recordings and your screen, and full retained Recall history for $39 once.
What recording on your own Mac changes
Unlimited free voice typing
Speak into the Mac apps you already use. Starter has no word limit or expiry, and keeps your recordings, transcripts, playback, search, and tags.
Help throughout your day
Ask a question, attach a document, use your current screen, or draft a follow-up. Local AI is included in Pro.
Meetings you can revisit
Pro records meeting audio on your Mac without a bot. Keep the transcript with separate speaker labels, ask about it, or create a summary.
Recall is your choice
Opt in to keep permitted work context. Today’s timeline and earlier-day overviews are free. Pro adds full retained context, search, and daily briefs.
Local by default
Transcription and Recall collection run on your Mac. Local AI works offline after setup. Optional cloud answers send selected text to the provider you enable.
Pro for $39 once
Meetings and local AI for one active Mac, transferable, with future updates included. Try Pro for 10 days with intentional Pro use. Optional cloud provider charges are separate.
This is what you get, with no bot on the call.
A live call becomes a speaker-separated transcript. Save or link a person when you want Enzo to recognize that voice next time.
FaceTime100% on-device · Speaker profiles never leave your Mac
Side by side
As of June 2026. Check otter.ai for their current plans.
What Otter does better
Live collaboration
Otter's shared workspaces, comments, and highlights are real strengths. If your team works inside the transcript together during the call, that's Otter's home turf.
Any device, any platform
Otter runs in a browser and on phones. Enzo is a Mac app, and the transcript lives on your Mac unless you copy it out.
Calendar automation
Otter can auto-join scheduled meetings from your calendar. Enzo can start recording automatically when it detects a meeting on your Mac, but the deep calendar integrations are theirs.
If your whole team lives in shared meeting notes, Otter earns its subscription. If what you actually want is a private, accurate transcript of every call on your Mac, that's the job Enzo was built for.
Questions
What stays free in Enzo?
Unlimited voice typing, saved recordings and transcripts, playback, search, and tags across all saved days. Live Solo text is free with its optional component. Recall is opt-in and includes today’s full timeline and earlier-day overviews. Starter has no word limit or expiry.
What does Pro add?
Pro includes meetings with speaker identification, local AI for recordings, documents, your current screen, and Recall, plus summaries, rewritten notes, email drafts, and daily briefs. It adds full retained Recall history and context search. Pro is $39 once for one active Mac, transferable, with future updates included. Optional cloud provider billing is separate.
When does the Pro trial start?
The 10-day trial starts with intentional use of a Pro feature. Setup and model downloads do not count. No card or account is needed. Voice typing stays free afterward, and saved recordings and generated results remain readable.
What stays on my Mac, and what can use the internet?
Transcription, speaker recognition, and Recall collection run on your Mac. Ask uses Local by default. If you choose DeepSeek Flash with your own API key, your question, recent conversation, and selected text context go directly to DeepSeek. That text can include excerpts from recordings, Recall, documents, and your screen. Raw audio, files, screenshots, and images are not uploaded by that request. Optional web research sends a public query directly to a search provider and retrieves selected sources. License checks, downloads, updates, and optional analytics also use the internet.
How is recording history different from Recall?
Saved recordings stay accessible in Speak across all saved days, including on Starter. Recall is a separate, optional timeline of permitted work context. Starter shows today’s full timeline and earlier-day overviews; Pro adds detailed retained history, context search, and AI. Recall retention is adjustable on every plan and defaults to 30 days.
Record your next meeting without a bot.
Unlimited free voice typing · 10-day Pro trial · No account or card.
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