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No meeting bots. No cloud uploads. Just memory.

Otter.ai sends a visible bot into your meetings and uploads transcripts to the cloud. Maple captures meeting context silently from system audio or active apps, combining it with screen awareness for a true workspace assistant.

Side-by-side comparison

Otter

  • Sends intrusive recording bots into virtual calls
  • Saves raw transcripts to their cloud platform
  • Trains AI models on transcripts by default

Maple

  • Zero-bot silent background transcription
  • AES-256 encrypted database stored entirely locally
  • Zero data training model keeping IP safe

Key differences

Meeting Presence

Otter

Sends a visible recording bot to calls, which can cause privacy discomfort or requires host admission approval.

Maple

Captures meeting audio silently at the system level. No external bots appear in your participant list.

Workspace Context

Otter

Limited strictly to spoken dialogue during meetings. Blind to documents, Figma designs, and code editor windows.

Maple

Stitches spoken call transcripts together with on-screen activity, open files, and Slack chats in a unified memory graph.

Data Governance

Otter

Saves transcripts to cloud databases, using user records for pipeline training unless explicitly disabled.

Maple

A zero-training policy. Text embeddings remain local, ensuring enterprise source code and private keys are never leaked.

Retrieval & Interaction

Otter

Requires opening a web dashboard or mobile app to read transcripts and copy-paste action items manually.

Maple

Enables querying the context engine directly from your current editor using the ⌥ Space hotkey in sub-100ms.

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