Noty or Dalm: what each one hears, and where it turns into text

Noty is a Chrome extension that writes notes from Google Meet, Zoom and anything else playing in a browser tab, with no bot in the call; Dalm is a Mac app that does the same with no bot either, for calls in any app, meetings in the room and dictation. They part at the step where sound becomes text. Noty’s privacy policy says the meeting audio is streamed to Google’s cloud speech service and discarded once it is transcribed. Dalm recognises speech on your Mac and sends no audio anywhere; the transcript then goes to our servers on its own, and a third-party language model reads it to write the summary.

Noty and Dalm, question by question

	Noty	Dalm
What it is	An extension for Chrome	An app for a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later; iPhone app in development
Which calls it hears	Google Meet and Zoom calls, and any other sound playing in the browser: videos, lectures, webinars	Whatever call your Mac plays, in a tab or in an app such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack or FaceTime; for Google Meet from your calendar it offers to record
A meeting in the room	Not found	The Mac’s microphone, with each voice kept apart
While people are talking	A live transcript that tells the speakers apart	A draft marked as preliminary; the transcript follows
Questions across meetings	An assistant that answers from all your meetings, and search across them	Search across your meetings; the assistant answers about one meeting at a time, and asking across all of them is in development
Google tools	Tasks to Google Tasks, Gmail, Keep and Docs; Google Calendar; export to PDF, TXT or Google Drive	Google Calendar

“Not found”: the Noty pages we read — its Chrome Web Store listing, home page and privacy policy — do not describe it, which is not the same as no. What Noty does is taken from those pages and its pricing page, checked on 2 October 2026.

Where Noty is better than Dalm

• It lives in the browser. Noty is an extension for Chrome, the browser your call may already be open in. Dalm is an app for a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later, and its iPhone app is in development.
• Text while people are still talking. Noty shows the transcript live as people speak and tells the speakers apart. Dalm shows a draft as it records, marked as preliminary, and the full transcript comes after.
• Lectures, webinars and videos in a tab. Noty’s listing names YouTube videos, online lectures, webinars and any audio playing in the browser, not only calls. Dalm is built around meetings and dictation, and it also takes audio and video files you bring, up to four hours each.
• Questions across meetings, and Google’s own tools. Noty answers questions from all your meetings, searches across them, and sends tasks to Google Tasks, Gmail, Google Keep and Docs. Dalm searches your meetings too, but answers questions about one meeting at a time; asking across all of them is in development, and the tool it connects to is Google Calendar.
• A written line on training. Noty’s listing says transcripts are encrypted and never used for AI training. Dalm trains no models of its own; the summary is written by a third-party language model, and what the model provider does with the text is not set out on this site.
• Less to pay. Noty Pro is $10 a month for each user, pay-as-you-go is $1 an hour, and its listing adds a free plan of 10 meetings a month. Dalm Pro is $16 a month, or $12 a month billed annually, and Team is $40 a month for each member (paid plans are not open yet).

Where Dalm is better than Noty

• Speech turned into text on the Mac. Noty’s privacy policy says it streams the meeting audio to Google’s cloud speech service and discards it after processing, so it does not keep the audio either. Dalm recognises speech on your Mac, and no audio is sent anywhere. Text is what travels: each transcript goes to our servers automatically, and a third-party language model reads it to write the summary. What leaves your Mac, and when.
• The room, the phone and the call app, not just the tab. Noty’s listing describes Google Meet, Zoom and sound playing in the browser; a meeting around a table is not described there. Dalm records the room or a phone on speaker through the Mac’s microphone, and any call app, keeping each voice apart; a suggested name becomes a name once you confirm it.
• No hours to count. Noty Pro includes 100 hours a month, and the free plan in its listing counts meetings. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept.
• A summary shaped by your notes. The notes you write during the call decide the shape of the summary, 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.
• 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.
• A plain answer on cancelling. Noty’s terms say fees are non-refundable, and its privacy policy covers deleting your account, but neither says what happens to your meetings when a paid plan ends. 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.

What Noty and Dalm cost, and what each one counts

	Noty	Dalm
Free	A 7-day trial of Pro with no card; its listing also describes a free plan of 10 meetings a month	Free: a plan, not a trial
Billed monthly	Pro $10 a month for each user	Pro $16; Team $40 for each member
Billed annually	—	Pro $12 a month; Team $32 a month for each member
Pay as you go	$1 an hour	—
What is counted	Pro: 100 hours a month	See below
Refunds and cancelling	Fees are non-refundable except where the law requires; what happens to meetings after a paid plan ends is not stated	Pro runs to the end of the period you paid for, then the free plan comes back, and everything recorded stays where it is

On the Dalm side the Free plan 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, transcript and summary all come with Free; the paid plans and what they add are on the pricing page, and what a group gets from Team has a page of its own. Until Dalm is released, the waitlist is the way in. Noty’s prices are its regular ones, from its pricing page and its Chrome Web Store listing, checked on 2 October 2026.

From the sound of a call to text: which step happens where

	Noty	Dalm
What it listens to	Sound playing in Chrome: a Google Meet or Zoom call, or any other tab	The microphone and the sound of your Mac, as two streams, from any call app or a table in the room
Where speech becomes text	Google’s cloud speech service, according to Noty’s privacy policy	On your Mac
The audio afterwards	Discarded after processing; Noty says it does not record or store meeting audio	Deleted once the text exists, with the one exception below
The transcript	Held in your Noty account; its policy places account data in the United States	Synced to our servers automatically; no setting stops it
The summary	Written by Google’s AI model, which Noty’s policy says receives the meeting transcript	Written after every meeting by a third-party language model from the transcript; no audio goes to it

The audio is deleted once the text exists. Noty’s side is taken from its privacy policy and its Chrome Web Store listing, checked on 2 October 2026.

Which one to pick, by the meetings you have

• Google Meet in Chrome, on a computer that is not a Mac. Noty, which lives in the browser. Dalm needs a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later.
• Lectures and webinars you watch in a tab. Noty, whose listing names them alongside calls.
• A meeting at a table, or a client on speakerphone. Dalm, which records with the Mac’s microphone and keeps each voice apart. Noty’s pages do not describe meetings in the room.
• Client calls whose audio should not pass through anyone’s cloud. Dalm: speech is recognised on your Mac and no audio is sent anywhere, while the transcript goes to our servers. With Noty the audio goes to Google’s speech service, even though it is not kept.
• A month of long calls. Dalm, which counts no hours. Noty Pro includes 100 hours a month.

Other comparisons worth a look

If you are still choosing, here is another Chrome extension for Google Meet, compared with us the same way, and seven note takers, each compared on its strong points. Which steps of transcription run on a device and which in the cloud is set out without brand names.