Shorty vs Otter.ai
Otter.ai is built to transcribe live meetings. Shorty works on what you bring it: YouTube links, web pages, documents, audio and video files, with summaries, subtitles and file conversion.
What Otter.ai is: An AI meeting notetaker that joins and transcribes Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet calls. Everything in the Otter.ai column below was read from otter.ai on 21 October 2026. A dash (“—”) means we could not verify that detail there — it is not a claim that the feature is missing.
Otter.ai's prices were read from otter.ai/pricing the same day, in US dollars, and can change at any time.
Side by side
The two differ on 8 of the 10 points we checked, marked below: Primary focus, Sources it summarizes, Transcription, Languages stated, Free tier, Paid plans from, Platforms, Public developer API.
| Feature | Shorty | Otter.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focusdiffers | Multi-source summarizer + transcription + file tools | AI meeting notes and transcription |
| Sources it summarizesdiffers | YouTube, Spotify, webpages, articles, PDF, Word, audio, text | Meetings and recordings |
| Transcriptiondiffers | Yes — uploaded audio and video files, and live recording | Yes — live meetings, with speaker identification |
| Subtitle / caption generation | Yes — SRT, VTT, and captions burned into the video | — |
| File conversion / compression | Yes — audio, video, image and PDF | — |
| Languages stateddiffers | 113, with automatic detection | Multi-language support |
| Free tierdiffers | Summarize with no account at all; a free account adds a daily cloud-conversion quota | 300 transcription minutes a month and 3 lifetime file imports |
| Paid plans fromdiffers | Premium and Pro — live prices on the Shorty pricing page | $8.33 per user/month billed yearly ($16.99 monthly) |
| Platformsdiffers | Web, iOS, Android, Windows, Chrome/Edge/Firefox extensions | Web, Mac and Windows desktop, iOS, Android, Chrome extension |
| Public developer APIdiffers | Yes — REST /v1, a TypeScript SDK, and an OAuth 2.1 MCP server | MCP server on every plan; API and webhooks on Enterprise |
Comparing more than one tool? See Shorty next to every AI summarizer we track.