Category: Productivity
Meeting notes with the better consent handling of the two.
Otter records, transcribes and summarises meetings across the main video platforms, producing action items and a searchable archive, with a line of agents for sales and recruiting added during 2026. It ships an MCP server with OAuth available on every plan including the free tier, exposing three tools covering user information, search and fetch, and it is listed in Claude's connector directory, though the full API and webhooks remain enterprise-only. For UK buyers the consent handling is the thing worth comparing: it sends pre-recording emails to all guests which an administrator can enforce organisation-wide, joins as a named visible participant, announces itself in the meeting chat, and through its Outlook extension can present a genuine blocking consent gate with a customisable disclaimer, though that requires enterprise plus a Microsoft licence.
The better of the two main notetakers on the question that actually matters legally. Recording a call in the UK requires the other party to know, and Otter does more to ensure that than its competitor: pre-recording emails that an administrator can enforce across the organisation, a named visible participant, an in-meeting announcement and, on the right configuration, a blocking consent gate. None of that removes your responsibility, but it gives you a process you could defend. The MCP server being on every plan including free is generous, and the searchable archive across months of calls is genuinely useful research. Two limits. The three MCP tools are read-only and narrow, with the full API restricted to enterprise. And there is no audio announcement and no documented EU or UK data residency, so the transfer question remains open.
Best for: Teams recording external meetings in the UK who need the consent process to be defensible.
Pricing: Free, then from $8.33/user/mo billed yearly (Freemium)
Rating: 4.5/5