Quill Meetings vs Slipbox

Quill Meetings

• Professionals whose conversations cannot be sent to a cloud notetaker
• People who want free, unlimited local transcription
• Teams that want to choose which AI model reads their transcripts

Slipbox

• Mac users who want transcription kept on their own machine
• Unlimited transcription without paying
• Obsidian users who want meetings exported as Markdown

Quill Meetings

• Without Pro, Quill does not auto-generate AI notes, and encrypted sync and backup and the mobile app are unavailable.
• Lite includes 16 hours of pro meetings a month. Unlimited hours need the Unlimited or Teams plan, and Teams has a 5-seat minimum.
• The iPhone and Android apps are companions that need a paid plan and the desktop app. There is no iPad app and no recording from a browser.
• The Mac app needs Apple Silicon and macOS 12 or later, and cloud sync covers transcripts and notes but not audio recordings.

Slipbox

• The desktop app runs on Apple Silicon Macs only; the FAQ says Windows support is being tested with select users.
• The free plan limits AI use to 10 Ask Slipbox messages and 5 summaries every 2 weeks.
• Transcripts and chat messages are sent through Slipbox's servers to AI models for summaries and answers; the vendor says they are not stored there.
• Notes are stored on the Mac with no cloud backup yet, and speaker identification is an Early Access feature that has to be switched on.

Quill Meetings

Bot-free local recording

Captures your microphone and the computer's audio, so it works with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack huddles, Webex, FaceTime and in-person meetings. It records audio only, not video.

On-device transcription

Transcribes 29 languages with auto-detection on your computer and identifies speakers, learning who is who across meetings. Recording and transcription work without internet.

Live Minutes and AI notes

Pro builds minutes while the meeting is under way, then lists decisions, action items, owners and follow-up drafts. Templates can be set per meeting type.

Your choice of LLM

Notes can run on Anthropic, OpenAI or Google models, AWS Bedrock, OpenRouter, or local models through Ollama or LM Studio. Pro also includes a quota on Quill's hosted model.

AI chat and MCP server

Ask questions across past conversations in the app, or connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and other MCP clients to a server that runs locally.

Automations and integrations

After a meeting Quill can create notes, draft an email or send notes to Slack, Notion, a CRM or a folder. To-dos sent to Todoist become separate tasks.

Slipbox

Local transcription, no bot

Slipbox captures the Mac's system audio and microphone and transcribes on the device, so Zoom, Meet, Teams and iPhone calls routed through the Mac are covered without a meeting bot.

Automatic meeting detection

The app recognizes when a meeting starts and ends and begins or stops transcribing on its own, on every plan including the free one.

Ask Slipbox during a meeting

A chat can catch you up, summarize on the fly or suggest questions to ask while the conversation continues. The free plan allows 10 messages every 2 weeks.

Summaries from templates

Slipbox picks a template such as 1:1, customer meeting, podcast or presentation for each summary, and custom templates can be added. Pro writes summaries automatically when meetings end.

Bring your own key

AI features can run on your own OpenAI API key or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including local models served through Ollama or LM Studio.

Import, search and export

MP4, MOV, MP3 and WAV files can be imported for transcription. Meetings are searchable in natural language and export automatically to PDF, Markdown or Obsidian.

Quill Meetings

• Quill Free$0

  Unlimited recordings and transcripts kept on your device, with speaker identification and a local MCP server.

• Lite$6.99

  per month, billed annually; $7.99 billed monthly

  Pro features with 16 hours of pro meetings a month: live minutes, action items and to-dos, custom workflows and templates, weekly summaries and the companion app.

• Teams$12

  per seat / month, billed annually; $15 billed monthly

  Pro features with unlimited hours of pro meetings and team setup. 5-seat minimum.

• Unlimited$16.99

  per month, billed annually; $19.99 billed monthly

  Pro features with unlimited hours of pro meetings, for one person.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Cloud, bring-your-own-LLM or air-gapped deployment, an admin console with policy controls, SSO/SAML, and priority support with SLAs.

Slipbox

• Hobby$0

  Unlimited transcripts, speaker identification, audio and video import, custom LLM endpoints and auto export, with 10 Ask Slipbox messages and 5 AI summaries per 2 weeks.

• Pro$99

  per year; $10 per month billed monthly

  Everything in the free plan, plus unlimited summaries and Ask Slipbox prompts, enhanced memory, automatic summaries when meetings end and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Everything in Pro, plus SAML, SCIM and audit logs, on-premises deployment options, consolidated billing, admin controls and local data retention policies.

Quill Meetings

• Annual discount

  Lower monthly rate with annual billing

  On annual billing Lite is $6.99 a month instead of $7.99, Unlimited $16.99 instead of $19.99 and Teams $12 per seat instead of $15. The page labels the savings $12, $36 and $180.

Slipbox

• Annual discount

  Save 17% with yearly billing

  Pro costs $99 a year or $10 a month, and the pricing page marks the yearly option as a 17% saving.