Otter.ai vs Sembly: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant that turns spoken conversations into clear, searchable notes. It can join your Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams calls automatically, or record in-person talks through its mobile app.

As you talk, Otter writes a live transcript, tags each speaker, and captures slides shown on screen. Once the meeting ends, it builds a summary with the key topics, decisions, and action items, so you do not have to write anything down yourself.

Otter AI Chat lets you ask questions about one meeting or your full meeting history, and connects with tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Slack to push notes where your team already works.

There is a free plan for light use, along with Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans that add more transcription minutes, team features, and security controls for larger organizations.

Sembly is a meeting intelligence platform built for professional teams who spend a lot of time on calls. It joins your meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or Webex, records and transcribes the conversation, and then turns it into clear notes, summaries, and action items with owners and deadlines.

Beyond basic notes, Sembly uses an AI assistant called Semblian to answer questions about one meeting or many at once. You can ask it to write a follow up email, a status report, a proposal, or a risk log, and it pulls the real details from your meetings to write it.

Teams also use Sembly to track decisions, spot risks, and keep a searchable history of everything discussed, so nothing important gets lost between meetings.