Where Otter genuinely wins

If your working language is English and your day is spent in back-to-back video calls, Otter’s meeting bot is a real advantage. It joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls automatically, captures the conversation live, and integrates with the tools an English-speaking corporate team already uses. hearlog does not send a bot into your meetings — it is a recorder and uploader, not a calendar-connected assistant.

Otter also has years of brand trust and a mature product for English meeting notes. For an all-English team, that maturity counts.

Where hearlog wins

Language is the headline. hearlog transcribes Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and more — plus 50+ world languages — and it handles Hinglish the way people actually speak. Otter simply cannot do this today.

Price is the second. hearlog is free with no per-conversation cap and no monthly-minute meter shown to users; you can even record and transcribe without creating an account. Otter’s free plan limits both monthly minutes and per-conversation length, and its richer features sit behind a paid subscription.

Resilience is the third, and it matters a lot on Indian mobile networks. hearlog saves your audio on-device the instant it is captured, keeps recording through network drops, and uploads and transcribes automatically when you are back online — even if you closed the tab. That “never lose a recording” behaviour is core to hearlog, not an add-on.