Notta or Dalm: which parts of a meeting leave your computer

Notta and Dalm both turn calls and meetings in the room into transcripts and summaries, and both can record a call with nothing joining it. Where they part is what leaves your computer. Notta saves meeting recordings in its cloud to play back later, and offers Privacy Mode in its desktop app, still in beta, which transcribes on the computer and keeps the recording and the transcript in a local folder. Dalm works one way, with no mode to pick: speech is recognised on your Mac and no audio is sent anywhere, while each transcript goes to our servers on its own and an outside language model reads it to write the summary.

Notta and Dalm, one question at a time

	Notta	Dalm
Getting into a call	A bot for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex, or its desktop app, in beta, which records from your computer with no bot in the list	Your Mac takes your microphone and the sound of the call as two streams; no one is added to the call
While people are talking	Text appears in real time	A draft appears as it records, marked as preliminary; the transcript follows
Another language	Translated live during the meeting: two free uses a month on any plan, more as a paid add-on	Speech is not translated
A file you already have	Audio and video files, and YouTube links	Audio or video up to 4 hours, on the Free plan, read where it lies rather than copied
Questions across meetings	Answered across all your meetings	One meeting at a time; asking across all of them is in development
Tools it connects to	Slack, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Drive and Zapier	Google Calendar
When you stop paying	Paid features last to the end of the period; the transcription data stays, but on the Free plan only the first 3 minutes of each transcript can be opened	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
Apps	Web, Chrome extension, iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows	Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later; iPhone app in development

Where the sound and the transcript of a meeting end up, in each of Notta’s modes, is set out further down. What Notta does is taken from its own site, pricing page, security page and Privacy Mode page, checked on 2 October 2026.

Where Notta is better than Dalm

• Words that can stay off any cloud. In Privacy Mode, a mode of its desktop app for Mac and Windows, which is in beta, Notta transcribes on the computer and keeps the recording and the transcript in a local folder, and once it is set up it can transcribe with no internet connection, though signing in and updates may still need one. Its local model covers English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Cantonese, and macOS 26 adds six more languages. Dalm has no mode like that: the audio stays on your Mac, but every transcript goes to our servers on its own, nothing turns that off, and a summary waits until you are online. What Dalm does without a connection.
• Text and translation while people talk. Notta shows the transcript in real time and can translate it live during the meeting: two uses a month come with every plan, and more are a paid add-on. Dalm shows a draft as it records, marked as preliminary, and the full transcript comes after; it does not translate speech.
• A computer, a browser or a phone. Notta runs on the web, as a Chrome extension, on iPhone and Android, and as desktop apps for Mac and Windows; its desktop recorder needs macOS 13 or Windows 10. Dalm needs a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later; its iPhone app is in development.
• A bot for the calls that need one. Notta can send a bot into Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex calls, and its desktop app records without one. Dalm never adds anyone to the call. With the bot, Notta can show a notice that the call is being recorded, and on its free plan that notice cannot be hidden.
• Questions across meetings, and the tools it feeds. Notta answers questions across all your meetings and connects to Slack, Notion, Salesforce, HubSpot, Google Drive and Zapier. Dalm answers questions about one meeting, asking across all of them is in development, and the tool it connects to is Google Calendar.
• Written statements on hosting and audits. Notta’s security page says it runs on Amazon Web Services, encrypts data in transit and at rest, and lists SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Dalm has no certification.
• Less to pay, if the minutes are enough. Billed annually, Notta Pro is $8.17 a month, with 1,800 minutes a month, and Business is $16.67 a month for each user. Billed annually, Dalm Pro is $12 a month and Team is $32 a month for each member (paid plans are not open yet).

Where Dalm is better than Notta

• The same rule in every recording. In Notta, keeping a meeting off its cloud means switching its desktop app, a beta, to Privacy Mode; otherwise recordings are saved in its cloud to play back. Dalm works one way for calls, meetings in the room, dictation and files you bring in: speech is recognised on your Mac and no audio is sent anywhere. Text is what travels — each transcript goes to our servers automatically, and an outside language model reads it to write the summary. What leaves the Mac, item by item.
• No minute count and no three-minute ceiling. Notta’s free plan gives 120 minutes a month and transcribes up to three minutes of each conversation; Pro gives 1,800 minutes a month and up to five hours per recording. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept.
• The whole transcript after you stop paying. Notta’s pricing page says your transcription data is kept when you cancel, but on the free plan you can open only the first three minutes of each transcript, and it suggests exporting before you downgrade. 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 laid out by your notes. Whatever you type during a meeting decides how its summary is arranged, and each point carries the words it rests on. Every quote shows you where it was said — open it and the transcript opens at that place. Tasks and decisions from all your meetings collect in two lists.
• Dictation and meetings in one place. A key types what you say into any app on your Mac. 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.
• Each voice kept apart, on a call and at a table. Dalm separates every voice in a call and around a table, offers a name for each, and a name becomes a name once you confirm it.

What each costs, what the free plans allow, and what is left after cancelling

	Notta	Dalm
Free plan	$0: 120 minutes a month, up to 3 minutes transcribed per conversation	Free: a plan, not a trial
Billed annually, a month	Pro $8.17 ($97.99 a year); Business $16.67 for each user ($199.99 a year)	Pro $12; Team $32 for each member
Billed monthly	—	Pro $16; Team $40 for each member
Minutes and length	Pro: 1,800 minutes a month, up to 5 hours per recording; Business: no cap on minutes, up to 5 hours per recording	See below
After you cancel	The transcription data stays; on Free, the first 3 minutes of each transcript can be opened	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. A meeting’s recording, transcript and summary are all part of Free; what Pro and Team add is on the pricing page, and how a group shares one dictionary and set of tags has a page of its own. Until Dalm is released, the waitlist is the way in. Notta’s prices are its regular ones, from its own pricing page, checked on 2 October 2026.

Notta’s two modes and Dalm: where the sound and the words go

	Notta, usual set-up	Notta, Privacy Mode (beta)	Dalm
The sound	Saved in its cloud, to play back later	Kept in a local folder on your computer	Never sent anywhere; deleted once the text exists, with the one exception below
The transcript	In your Notta workspace	Made on the computer and kept in the same local folder	Made on your Mac, then synced to our servers automatically; no setting stops it
The summary	Written by Notta, with action items	Not found	Written after every meeting by an outside language model from the transcript; no audio goes to it
With no connection	Not found	Transcribes, once set up; signing in and updates may need a connection	The summary waits until you are online
Runs on	Web, Chrome, phones, Mac and Windows	Its desktop app for Mac and Windows, in beta	Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later

The audio is deleted once the text exists. “Not found”: the Notta pages we read do not say, which is not the same as no.

Five meetings, and which app fits each

• A weekly call with a client whose details must not travel. If the transcript itself has to stay on your computer, Notta’s Privacy Mode is made for that, as a beta and in the languages its local model covers; Notta itself points to its cloud transcription when accuracy matters most. If it is the sound that must not leave, and notes you can open on any Mac are welcome, Dalm: speech is recognised on your Mac, and the transcript goes to our servers.
• A call in two languages. Notta, which shows the text and translates it while people are still speaking. Dalm does not translate.
• A workshop that runs all day. Dalm, which puts no cap on length. Notta’s paid plans stop a recording at five hours of transcription per recording, and its free plan at three minutes.
• A team on Windows, in the browser and on phones. Notta, which has an app for each. Dalm is a Mac app, and its iPhone app is in development.
• Rereading a year of meetings after you stopped paying. Dalm: the free plan comes back, and every transcript is still there in full. In Notta’s free plan, each transcript opens at its first three minutes.

More tools to compare before you choose

If you are still choosing, the same questions put to seven transcription tools, with Notta among them, and a Mac app that keeps the words on the Mac unless you choose otherwise, compared with us line by line. Which steps of transcription run on a device and which in the cloud is laid out without names.