Otter is built for teams and everything said in their meetings. Smart Jelly is built for one person and everything they read, write and hear, kept on their Mac.
A meeting notetaker turned “conversational knowledge engine” for teams. Built for sales, education, recruiting and enterprise teams.
Smart Jelly goes furtherA memory for your working life: formed on your Mac, kept on your Mac, handed back the moment you need it.
| Smart Jelly | Otter | |
|---|---|---|
| Joins your call as a bot | Never. It listens on your Mac | OtterPilot joins by default; a bot-free desktop app since October 2025 |
| What it remembers | Chats, mail and calls in the apps you choose, read from the screen. No accounts to connect | Your meetings; Gmail, Drive and others can be pulled into AI Chat through connectors |
| During the call | Recall from your memory, answers from general knowledge or the web, suggestions for your own choices, ⌥Space for help now | Live transcript; “Hey Otter” voice agent answers from your meetings; live sales coaching |
| Before the call | From your whole history with that person: chats, mail and past calls | Ask AI Chat for a brief yourself |
| What you owe people | One list across every app. Each closes itself when the reply, file or meeting happens, with the proof attached | My Action Items across meetings, ticked by hand, with a weekly digest |
| Where your history lives | On your Mac, encrypted | US cloud (AWS) |
| Model training | What is sent to answer a question is never used to train any model, and never stored by Smart Jelly | Trains its own AI on de-identified recordings and transcripts, per its privacy policy |
| Platforms | Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 14+) | Mac, Windows, web, iPhone, Android, Chrome |
| Teams | Personal: built for one person’s memory | Shared channels, admin, SSO/SCIM, HIPAA, CRM sync |
A tick marks the side that does more on that row. Where Otter’s documentation says nothing, we say “not documented” rather than guess.
No. It never joins a call. It listens on your Mac, so nothing announces itself to the people you talk to.
Quiet cards: what your memory knows about what was just asked, answers from general knowledge or the web, and suggestions when you’re asked to decide something. ⌥Space gives the most useful thing to say right now.
No. It’s a personal memory for one person. If your team needs shared channels and admin controls, Otter is built for that.
Compiled from Otter’s publicly documented behaviour, 5 October 2026. These products ship fast — check their own site before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.