AI Note Takers · October 2026
Otter.ai vs ClickUp: a dedicated note taker or notes inside your tasks
Otter.ai
ClickUp
Otter.ai is a dedicated AI meeting assistant. Its agent joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet calls to transcribe live with speaker recognition, then produces a summary with decisions and action items. Otter AI Chat answers questions across all your past meetings and connected apps, and you can also record straight from the desktop, mobile apps or a Chrome extension without a bot in the call.
ClickUp is a project management workspace with an AI Notetaker built in. It joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams meetings, saves searchable transcripts and summaries as ClickUp Docs, and turns action items into assigned tasks automatically. The difference is where the notes live: Otter is a standalone record of your conversations, ClickUp puts them next to the work they create.
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| Score | 9.6/10 · Outstanding | 9.4/10 · Great |
| Rank | #1 in AI Note Takers | #2 in AI Note Takers |
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Our verdict
Otter.ai leads for most readers because transcription is its whole job. It records in more ways, including in-person conversations on a phone, its live transcript is available during the call, and AI Chat makes months of meetings searchable by question. It also connects to tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack and Notion, so it works whatever project tool your team uses.
ClickUp is the better pick if your team already runs its work in ClickUp. Having a meeting end with tasks already created and assigned, in the same place as the project docs, removes the copy and paste step where follow-ups usually get lost. It makes less sense as a reason to adopt ClickUp on its own, since you would be taking on a full project management tool to get a note taker.
Whichever you use, tell participants when a meeting is being recorded and check your organisation's policy on recording calls.
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