Bluedot or Dalm: where the recording of your meeting ends up

Bluedot and Dalm can both record a call or a meeting in the room from your own device, with nothing joining the call, and both turn it into a transcript and a summary. Bluedot keeps the recording itself: you can download it, and once you cancel, its own pages say the recordings are deleted, after one month by its pricing page or three months by its help. Dalm does not keep the meeting as a recording: the speech is recognised on your Mac and the audio goes nowhere, while the transcript is synced to our servers automatically and a language model reads it to write the summary.

Bluedot and Dalm, compared point by point

	Bluedot	Dalm
Getting into a call	Its Chrome extension or desktop app records with nothing joining; a bot can be turned on, and joins meetings from your Google or Outlook calendar or a pasted link	Two streams on your Mac — your microphone and the sound of the call; nothing is added to the call
A meeting across a table	Its phone app, the browser extension or the desktop app, which records audio only there	The Mac’s microphone
Who said what	Depends on how the audio is captured: its table covers Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom from the desktop app, and Google Meet and Teams, not Zoom, from the extension	Every voice kept separate, on a call and around a table; you confirm the names
Video	Meetings with video from Pro up	Sound only: it asks for permission to record system audio, not the screen
The audio afterwards	Kept as a recording you can download as a .webm file, unless a workspace admin turns downloads off	Never sent anywhere, and deleted once the text exists, with the one exception below; nothing to download
Where speech becomes text	Not found; its help says a recording from the phone app starts uploading when you save it, and its security page says data is kept in AWS	Recognised on your Mac; the transcript syncs to our servers automatically
When you stop paying	Its pricing page: you lose access to your recordings, have one month to restore the subscription, and after that they are permanently deleted. Its help on cancelling: once you are on the free plan and stop using Bluedot, the recordings are deleted after three months	Pro keeps working to the end of the period you paid for, then the free plan comes back, and everything recorded stays where it is
A file you already have	Zoom and Google Drive imports from Pro up; a recording uploaded from the phone app	Audio or video up to 4 hours, on the Free plan; the file is read where it lies, not copied
Apps	Chrome extension; desktop apps for Mac and Windows; iPhone, Android and Apple Watch	Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later; iPhone app in development

The audio is deleted once the text exists. Not found means Bluedot’s documentation does not describe it, not that it is not so. What Bluedot does is taken from its help center, pricing page and security page, checked on 2 October 2026.

Where Bluedot is better than Dalm

• A bot, if a call needs one. Besides its extension and desktop app, Bluedot can send a bot to your meetings: you connect a Google or Outlook calendar and choose which meetings it joins, or paste a meeting link, and then admit it. Dalm never adds anyone to the call.
• A recording to watch again. From Pro up, Bluedot records meetings with video, and a recording can be downloaded as a .webm file unless a workspace admin turns that off. Dalm records sound only and has nothing to download.
• A notice for the people in the call. Bluedot’s extension has a recording notification, and its Mac app can post a message in the meeting chat saying the meeting is being transcribed, once you turn that setting on. Dalm posts nothing into the call: telling the others is up to you.
• Written answers on training, audits and region. Bluedot’s security page says customer data is never used to train or improve AI models and is not retained by AI providers after generation, states SOC 2 Type II audited controls, and offers EU data residency. Dalm does not train models of its own, but what the provider of its language model does with the text is not set out on this site, and Dalm has no certification.
• Windows, Android and a watch. Bluedot runs as a Chrome extension, as desktop apps for Mac and Windows, and on iPhone, Android and Apple Watch. Dalm needs a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later; its iPhone app is in development.
• Connected tools. Even the free plan of Bluedot connects to Slack, Notion, Zapier and Make; Basic adds webhooks, and Business adds CRM and ATS integrations. Dalm connects to Google Calendar.
• Less to pay for a group. Bluedot Pro is $20 a month for each user billed annually, or $25 billed monthly, and Bluedot charges only for the people who record. Dalm Team is $32 a month for each member billed annually, or $40 billed monthly (paid plans are not open yet).

Where Dalm is better than Bluedot

• Sound that never leaves your Mac. Bluedot keeps your recordings; from its phone app, a recording starts uploading when you save it. Dalm recognises speech on your Mac and sends no audio anywhere. Text is what travels: every transcript and dictation is synced to our servers on its own, and a language model reads a meeting’s transcript to write the summary. Everything that leaves the Mac, listed.
• Who said what, on a call and at a table. Bluedot’s table of speaker recognition covers Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and not Zoom from its extension. Dalm keeps every voice separate on a call and around a table, and you confirm the names afterwards.
• No hour cap and no meeting count. Bluedot’s free plan covers five meetings for the life of the account, and Basic stops each recording at one hour. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept.
• Stopping payment does not cost you the archive. Once you cancel, Bluedot’s pages say your recordings are deleted: in one month by its pricing page, in three months by its help. When you cancel Dalm Pro, it keeps working to the end of the period you paid for, the free plan comes back, and everything recorded stays where it is.
• A summary shaped by what you typed. Your notes from the meeting decide how the summary is ordered. Every quote shows you where it was said — open it and the transcript opens at that place.
• One archive for all of it. Everything you say lands in one archive you can search: meetings, phone calls, conversations in the room, and what you dictate to a model. Asking one question across all of it is still in development.
• Less to pay on your own. Dalm Pro is $16 a month, or $12 a month billed annually, with no hour cap. Bluedot’s first plan without one, Pro, is $25 a month, or $20 a month billed annually.

Prices, free plans, and what happens when you stop paying

	Bluedot	Dalm
Free plan	5 meetings for the life of the account	Free: a plan, not a trial
Billed annually, per month	Basic $14, Pro $20, Business $32, for each user who records	Pro $12; Team $32 for each member
Billed monthly	Basic $18, Pro $25, Business $39	Pro $16; Team $40 for each member
Longest recording	1 hour on Basic; no cap from Pro up	See below
After you cancel	Deleted: after one month by its pricing page, after three months by its help	The free plan comes back; everything recorded stays where it is

On the Dalm side the Free plan is not a trial and has no end date. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept. Recording a meeting, its transcript and its summary all come with the Free plan; what the paid plans add is on the pricing page, and how a team shares one space covers the common dictionary, templates and tags. Until Dalm is released, the waitlist is the way in. Bluedot’s prices are its regular ones, from its own pricing page, checked on 2 October 2026.

What the people in the call are told, and what is kept afterwards

When Bluedot records from its extension, it has a recording notification, and its help explains how to switch it off; the article does not say who sees it. Its Mac app has a Notify participants setting: turn it on, and Bluedot posts a message in the meeting chat that the meeting is being transcribed. If you add its bot instead, the bot is in the call for everyone to see. After the meeting, the recording stays with Bluedot — you can download it, and its pricing page says recordings are deleted after you cancel. Dalm posts nothing into the call. When Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack or FaceTime takes the microphone, a prompt asks you, not the others, “Record this meeting?”, so the people you record hear it from you. Afterwards there is no recording to keep: the audio is deleted once the text exists, and the transcript, with times and numbered voices, syncs to our servers. You can name the voices, or send it with the macOS Share menu.

A recording to go back to, or the audio kept off any server

• Bluedot, if you want the recording itself, with video, to watch or download later, a bot on some calls, a notice posted for the other people in the call, apps for Windows, Android or your watch, a CRM or ATS that fills itself in, or written statements on training, SOC 2 and an EU region.
• Dalm, if you work on a Mac with calls, client meetings around a table and calls on speaker, want to know who said what in all of them, and want the audio of those meetings never to reach anyone’s server; the text still syncs to ours.
• Neither, if you need a recording you can replay and also want no audio to leave your computer: Bluedot keeps the recording, and Dalm has none to replay.

Other note takers to weigh against these two

If you are still choosing, seven note takers set side by side, each with the place it beats us, and the same comparison with a note taker that records from your computer. How speech recognition on a device differs from recognition on a server is explained step by step.