Tactiq or Dalm: where the words of your meeting come from

Both Dalm and Tactiq turn a call into a transcript and a summary with no bot in it. Tactiq is a Chrome and Edge extension for Google Meet, Zoom and Teams calls in the browser, with a Mac app in beta for Zoom’s desktop app; in a browser Zoom call it captures Zoom’s live captions, and it says it does not record or store the audio. Dalm is a Mac app for calls, meetings in the room and dictation: speech is recognised on your Mac and no audio is sent anywhere, while the transcript goes to our servers automatically and a language model reads it to write the summary.

Dalm and Tactiq, line by line

	Tactiq	Dalm
How it hears a call	An extension in the meeting tab; its Mac app captures Zoom’s audio through macOS. No bot either way	Both sides of the call: your microphone and the sound of the call app, recorded as two separate streams
Where the words come from	Zoom in a browser: Zoom’s live captions, which Zoom has to have switched on. Google Meet in Companion mode: Meet’s live captions. Elsewhere, its help does not say	Speech recognised on your Mac, whatever app the call is in; the transcript syncs to our servers automatically
Which meeting apps	Google Meet, Zoom and Teams in Chrome or Edge; Teams as a web app; Zoom’s desktop app through its Mac app, in beta. The Teams desktop app is not supported	Any call your Mac plays; it offers to record when Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack or FaceTime take the microphone, and for Google Meet from your calendar
The audio	Its homepage says it does not record or store the audio from your meetings	Not sent anywhere; deleted once the text exists; no player
A meeting in the room	Record it on another device and upload the file	The Mac’s own microphone, and the voices are told apart
Phone calls	Not found	A phone on speaker, recorded the way a meeting in the room is
Dictation into other apps	Not found	One key, and the words go into whatever field you are typing in
Files you bring	Audio, video or a transcript, up to 2 GB; speakers labelled	Audio or video up to four hours long, on the Free plan too
While the call is on	A live transcript in the tab, and AI you can ask during the meeting	A draft of what has been said so far, marked preliminary
Computers	Chrome or Edge on a desktop or laptop; a Mac app, in beta, for Zoom’s desktop app	Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later; iPhone app in development

The audio is deleted once the text exists. The text is what leaves: the transcript syncs to our servers. “Not found” means Tactiq’s help pages do not describe it, not that it cannot be done. What Tactiq does is taken from its own help pages, homepage, pricing page and privacy policy, checked on 2 October 2026.

Where Tactiq is better than Dalm

• A desktop or laptop with Chrome or Edge. Tactiq runs as an extension in Chrome or Edge on a desktop or laptop, and its Mac app adds Zoom’s desktop app. Dalm needs a Mac with Apple Silicon · macOS 15.0 or later, and its iPhone app is in development.
• Text while the call is on, and AI inside it. Tactiq shows a live transcript in the meeting tab, and its free plan includes AI you can ask during the meeting. Dalm shows a preliminary draft and makes the transcript when you stop.
• A lower price at every step. Tactiq Pro is $12 a month for each user, or $8 billed annually; Tactiq Team is $20, or $16.67 billed annually. Dalm Pro is $16 a month or $12 a month billed annually, and Team is $40 a month for each member (paid plans are not open yet).
• A written line about model training. Tactiq says the provider of the language models it uses does not train on data sent through the API, and that content logging is switched off so the data is not retained. Dalm does not train models of its own, but what the provider of its language model does with the text is not set out on this site.
• Security statements. Tactiq’s homepage lists ISO 27001, a SOC 2 Type II attestation, GDPR and HIPAA. Dalm has no certification.
• Notes that reach your other tools. Tactiq connects to Notion, Confluence, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive.
• Controls for a larger company. Tactiq Business adds SAML SSO and advanced data retention, and Enterprise a data processing agreement. Dalm Team shares a dictionary, templates and tags; who sees which meeting is set out on the team page.

Where Dalm is better than Tactiq

• Words from the sound, not from the meeting app’s captions. In a Zoom call in the browser, Tactiq takes Zoom’s own live captions, which have to be switched on; for its other paths its help does not say where speech becomes text. In Dalm speech is recognised on your Mac, from any call app and from the room, and the audio is not sent anywhere. The text does leave: transcripts and dictations sync to our servers automatically, and a language model reads a meeting’s transcript to write its summary.
• The meetings a browser tab never hears. A meeting in the room, a phone on speaker, and Zoom or Teams in their desktop apps are recorded the same way as any call. For a meeting in the room, Tactiq’s help suggests recording it on another device and uploading the file; the Teams desktop app it does not support.
• Dictation in the same app. One key types your words into any field on your Mac, with the same dictionary of names and terms your meetings use. Tactiq’s help pages do not describe dictation.
• Room for every meeting. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept. Tactiq’s free plan includes 10 transcripts a month.
• The summary is built on your notes. The lines you type during the meeting are the spine of the summary. Every quote shows you where it was said — open it and the transcript opens at that place. Action items and decisions from all your meetings collect in two running lists.
• One place for what you say. Everything you say lands in one archive you can search: meetings, phone calls, conversations in the room, and what you dictate to a model. Asking one question across all of it is still in development.

What each one costs, and what the free plans hold

	Tactiq	Dalm
Free plan	10 transcripts and 5 AI credits a month; at the credit limit, transcription goes on and AI pauses until the monthly credits reset	Free: a plan, not a trial
Billed monthly	Pro $12 a month for each user; Team $20; Business $40	Pro $16 a month; Team $40 for each member
Billed annually, per month	Pro $8; Team $16.67; Business $29.17	Pro $12; Team $32 for each member
Paid plans	Pro: no cap on transcripts, 10 AI credits a month; Team and higher: no cap on AI credits	See below

Dalm’s Free plan is a plan rather than a trial. No plan puts a limit on recording minutes, on the length of a recording, or on how long anything is kept. The recording, the transcript and the summary of a meeting all come with the Free plan; what Pro and Team add on top is on the pricing page. While Dalm is not public, the way in is the waitlist. Tactiq’s figures are its regular prices from its pricing page and help pages, checked on 2 October 2026.

Captions or audio: what each one listens to

Where Tactiq gets the words depends on the meeting app. In a Zoom call in Chrome or Edge it captures Zoom’s live captions, and its help asks you to enable Zoom’s automated captions — in the Zoom web portal, if you host the meeting. In Google Meet’s Companion mode it can capture speech only once Meet’s live captions are on; in an ordinary Meet call, its help says, you do not need to turn captions on. In Teams on the web, its help asks you to turn on a Teams live captions setting. Its Mac app for Zoom’s desktop app captures the audio through macOS, with access to the microphone and to screen and system audio. Where speech becomes text on those last paths, its help does not say.

Dalm listens to every meeting the same way: your microphone and the sound of whatever app the call is in, as two streams, or the people around the table in the room. It works from the sound itself, not from a meeting app’s captions, so there is nothing for the organiser to switch on. Speech is recognised on your Mac; the transcript — the lines, their times and numbered voices — syncs to our servers automatically.

Calls in a browser, or a Mac that hears the room

• Tactiq, if your meetings are Google Meet, Zoom and Teams calls in Chrome or Edge, and you want a live transcript in the tab and a lower price.
• Dalm, if you work on a Mac and your day also has meetings across a table, calls on speaker, Zoom or Teams in their desktop apps and things you dictate, and you want the words to come from the sound recognised on your Mac rather than from a meeting app’s captions; the text still syncs to our servers.
• Neither, if you need the audio of a meeting kept to listen to later: Tactiq says it does not store it, and Dalm deletes it once the text exists.

Other note takers, compared by name

Comparing more than two? Seven note takers side by side, each with where it beats us, the same line-by-line comparison with a note taker that also has a Chrome extension, and another browser extension, one that turns the call’s audio into text in Google’s cloud. How local and cloud transcription differ, step by step.