Spinach AI suits teams that run standups and planning on Zoom, Meet or Teams and want tickets and CRM updates made from them. 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 Spinach AI at a glance
| Spinach AI | Dalm | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Teams: product, engineering, sales and others, on one company-wide account | One person’s meetings, files and dictation |
| Meetings it records | Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack Huddles (beta), in person | Your microphone and what your Mac plays, on a call or across a table |
| Platforms | Not named on its home, pricing or security pages | Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later |
| Where speech becomes text | Not stated on its pages | On your Mac; the audio is deleted once the text exists |
| Recordings kept | 7 days on Starter, a year on Pro and Business | None; the text of each meeting goes to our servers automatically |
| After the meeting | Summaries, AI chat, tickets, CRM updates and documents in other tools on paid plans | A summary written by a language model from the transcript and your notes |
| Languages | 100 on its home page and in its plan table; 100+ on its Starter plan card | Over a hundred, with the wider language coverage chosen once |
| Price | Pro $2.90 a meeting hour; Business $19 a month for each member, from 50 seats | Pro $16 a month, or $12 a month billed annually (paid plans are not open yet) |
What Spinach AI does is taken from its home, pricing and security pages, checked on .
When Spinach AI is the better choice
- Meetings turn into tickets. On paid plans Spinach AI creates tickets in Jira, Monday, Asana, Linear, ClickUp and Trello, updates HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio and Zoho, and writes to Confluence, Google Docs and Notion. Dalm does none of this.
- A whole company uses one account. Starter is a company-wide account, and Pro has no seat minimum and bills by the meeting hour.
- You need paperwork for a review. Spinach AI states SOC 2 Type II, GDPR and HIPAA compliance. Dalm holds no certification.
- Not everyone who records is on a Mac. Spinach AI records the meeting platforms it lists — Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex and Slack Huddles — and in-person meetings; its pages do not name the computers it needs. Dalm is a Mac app for Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later.
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 goes 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.
- Nothing ages out. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept. Spinach AI’s free plan keeps recordings for 7 days.
- 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 Spinach AI alternative?
If you want a record of your own meetings rather than a team’s meeting pipeline, Dalm works that way on your Mac: speech is recognised there and the audio is deleted. The text still goes to our servers, where a language model writes the summary, so it is not an app that keeps everything on one machine. If your standups have to land in a tracker, Spinach 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 Spinach AI alternative for Mac?
- Dalm is one, if you work on a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later and want a record of your own meetings. It records your microphone and what your Mac plays, recognises the speech on the Mac and sends no audio anywhere. The text of each meeting goes to our servers automatically, where a language model writes the summary.
- How much does Spinach AI cost?
- Spinach AI's Starter plan is free, with recordings kept for 7 days. Pro is $2.90 a meeting hour with no seat minimum, and Business is $19 a month for each member, with a 50-seat minimum and a saving on annual billing. Dalm's Free plan covers meetings and dictation, and Pro is $16 a month, or $12 a month billed annually.
- How long does Spinach AI keep recordings?
- 7 days on Starter and a year on Pro and Business, with custom retention on Enterprise. Dalm keeps no recording at all: the audio is deleted once the text exists, and no plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept.
- Does Dalm create tickets from standups like Spinach AI?
- No. Dalm records the meeting and writes a summary from the transcript and your notes; turning it into tickets is your step. Spinach AI creates tickets in Jira, Asana, Linear and other tools on its paid plans.
- Does Spinach AI join the call as a bot?
- Its home, pricing and security pages do not say how it joins a call; they list Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Slack Huddles and in-person meetings. Dalm records your microphone and what your Mac plays, on a call or across a table.