Colibri AI suits Zoom teams and sales reps who want live captions, agenda checklists and prompts during the call. Dalm is for Mac users: speech is recognised on the Mac and no audio is sent, while the text syncs to our servers.
Dalm and Colibri AI at a glance
| Colibri AI | Dalm | |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | An app inside Zoom; recording from Chrome | Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later |
| How a meeting is recorded | In Zoom, or from the Chrome browser for other call apps | Your microphone and what your Mac plays, on a call or across a table |
| Where speech becomes text | Live, by its own engine; third-party services for languages other than English; processed in the United States and other countries | On your Mac; the audio is deleted once the text exists |
| What is kept | Audio with no time limit; video for 2 months to 3 years by plan | The text of each meeting, which syncs to our servers automatically |
| During the meeting | Live transcript, agenda items checked off; prompts for salespeople with Sales Copilot, from Growth | A draft of what has been said, marked as preliminary, and a field for your notes; the full transcript after the meeting |
| After the meeting | Summaries, next steps and key points on Pro; a searchable shared library | A summary written by a language model from the transcript and your notes |
| Languages | Live transcription in English on Free; other languages not named, handled by third-party services | Over a hundred, with the wider language coverage chosen once |
| Limits | 5 hours a month and 40 minutes a recording on Free; 20 hours and 90 minutes on Starter; 4 hours a recording on Pro; no limit on recording length on Scale | None on minutes, length or how long anything is kept |
| Price | For each member a month: Starter $20, Pro $50, Growth $60, Scale $80; $16, $40, $50 and $70 billed annually | Pro $16 a month, or $12 a month billed annually (paid plans are not open yet) |
What Colibri AI does is taken from its home, pricing and note taker and privacy policy pages, checked on .
When Colibri AI is the better choice
- You sell on calls and want help while you talk. Colibri AI’s Sales Copilot shows a rep what to say when a customer raises a question, a concern or a competitor, and a dashboard sums up calls across a team. Sales Copilot comes with the Growth plan and above. Dalm gives no prompts during a call.
- Your meetings run on agendas. Colibri AI keeps agenda templates and checks items off when they come up in the meeting.
- You want the recording itself. Colibri AI keeps audio with no time limit and video for up to 3 years, in a library you share with teammates. Dalm keeps no audio or video.
- You work in Zoom or in Chrome. Colibri AI runs inside Zoom and records meetings in any app from the Chrome browser, with nothing to install, by its site. Dalm is a Mac app for Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later.
- You need a legal transcript. Colibri Legal transcribes depositions live and delivers a final transcript by professional transcriptionists within 24 hours.
When Dalm is the better choice
- The speech is recognised on your Mac. Dalm turns speech into text on the Mac you are using, sends no audio anywhere and deletes the audio once the text exists. The text does leave: each transcript syncs to our servers automatically, a language model reads it to write the summary, and no setting turns that off. How local and cloud recognition differ.
- Long meetings and many of them. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept. On Colibri AI’s Free plan a recording stops at 40 minutes.
- Quotes that lead back. Every point of a summary keeps a word-for-word quote. Every quote shows you where it was said — open it and the transcript opens at that place.
- Dictation in the same app. Hold a key in any app, speak, and the words go where the cursor is. Everything you say lands in one archive you can search: meetings, phone calls, conversations in the room, and what you dictate to a model.
Looking for a Colibri AI alternative?
If you want summaries of all your meetings without counting hours or keeping a recording, Dalm works that way on your Mac: speech is recognised there and the audio is deleted. The text still syncs to our servers, where a language model writes the summary, so it is not an app that keeps everything on one machine. If you need prompts during sales calls or legal transcripts, Colibri AI is built for that. A page for the minutes themselves is the meeting minutes template, and seven note takers are compared by name. Paid plans are on the pricing page.
Questions
- Is there a Colibri AI alternative for Mac?
- Dalm is one, if you work on a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later. It records your microphone and what your Mac plays, so any call app or a meeting across a table works the same way. Speech is recognised on the Mac and no audio is sent; the text of each meeting syncs to our servers automatically, where a language model writes the summary.
- How much does Colibri AI cost?
- Colibri AI is free for 5 hours of transcription a month, with recordings up to 40 minutes. Starter is $20 a month, or $16 billed annually, and Pro is $50, or $40 billed annually; AI meeting summaries come with Pro; Sales Copilot's prompts during calls start with Growth, $60 a month for each member, or $50 billed annually. Dalm's Free plan covers meetings and dictation, and Pro is $16 a month, or $12 a month billed annually.
- Does Colibri AI keep my recordings?
- Yes. Its pricing page lists audio kept with no time limit, and video for 2 months on Free, 2 years on Starter, Pro and Growth, and 3 years on Scale. Dalm keeps no recording: the speech is recognised on your Mac and the audio is deleted once the text exists, while the transcript syncs to our servers.
- Does Dalm help during a sales call like Colibri AI?
- No. While Dalm records, it shows a draft of what has been said, marked as preliminary, and a field for your notes; the full transcript and the summary come afterwards, and it gives no prompts during the call. Colibri AI's Sales Copilot shows salespeople what to say when a customer raises a question or a concern.
- What happens when a meeting runs long?
- On Colibri AI, a recording stops at 40 minutes on Free, 90 minutes on Starter, 4 hours on Pro and Growth, with no limit on Scale. In Dalm, no plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept.