Earkeep vs Jamie

If "no bot in the meeting" is all you need, Jamie is a real, GDPR-friendly option built for exactly that. If you want bot-free and zero-interaction and local, Earkeep is the only one of the two that does all three.

Earkeep runs continuously in the background: mic and system audio are always being listened to, and you mark which stretch of the day was the meeting after the fact, or let a connected calendar (Google, Apple, Outlook, or any ICS URL) mark it for you. There's no button to remember to press before a call starts.

Jamie, like every other tool in this category, is a per-meeting notetaker. You still have to open it and start it for each conversation you want captured; the bot-free pitch is about how it listens once it's running, not about whether it's always running. If a meeting starts before you remember to hit go, or happens spontaneously in a hallway, Jamie doesn't have it. Earkeep does, because it was already listening.

This is Jamie's strongest and most genuine overlap with Earkeep. Jamie listens through your device's mic and system audio rather than joining the call as a visible bot participant, which is exactly the architecture Earkeep uses. On r/AI_Agents, a user recommending Jamie for this reason wrote: "it doesn't join the meeting at all, so nobody sees anything." That's a legitimate advantage over bot-based tools like Otter, Fireflies, or Fathom.

Where they diverge is what happens to the audio next.

Jamie's device-level capture still ships your audio off the machine: transcription and summarization happen on Jamie's servers, which is why Jamie can offer cloud AI summaries and CRM integrations that a fully local tool can't. That's a real trade-off, not a flaw, but it means "your data never leaves your device" doesn't apply to Jamie the way it does to Earkeep.

Earkeep transcribes with Whisper or Parakeet models on-device, hardware-accelerated on Apple Silicon. Audio is processed only in memory and is never written to disk, never uploaded, never sent to an API. For anyone whose reason for avoiding a bot is also a reason to avoid sending audio to someone else's server, Earkeep removes the cloud step entirely rather than just removing the bot. See private by design.

Jamie has no concept of retroactive capture: every meeting is a discrete recording you started or scheduled to start. If a conversation runs long, spills into a hallway follow-up, or simply wasn't planned as a meeting when it started, Jamie has nothing.

Earkeep records continuously and lets you select any span of the day's timeline afterward and keep it as a saved meeting. A conversation only becomes a meeting in retrospect, when you decide it mattered, or your calendar decides for you.

Jamie's pricing is free for 5 meetings a month with basic summaries, Standard at €24/month (unlimited meetings, 20+ languages, task detection), Pro at €48/month (advanced AI, speaker labels, CRM integrations), and Enterprise at €99/month. A Reddit user testing note-taking apps for in-person meetings called Jamie "really expensive once the free tier is done."

Earkeep is €39, once, for one device, with a 14-day full-featured free trial (no email, no account) and a 14-day money-back refund after purchase. Over two years, Jamie's Standard plan alone runs €576; its Pro plan runs €1,152. Earkeep costs less than two months of Jamie Standard and keeps working after that, including through offline stretches, since license checks use an offline grace period rather than a live cloud connection.

Earkeep ships in-app support for coding and knowledge agents: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, Hermes, Kimi CLI, OpenClaw, opencode, Pi, Qwen Code, or any ACP-compatible agent, run directly against your meeting history, plus an MCP server so external tools like Claude Desktop or Cursor can read your meetings too. The research behind this page found no documented MCP server or agent integration for Jamie, so we don't claim one either way.

• You want cloud AI summaries and CRM integrations out of the box. Jamie's Pro and Enterprise tiers include both, and Earkeep doesn't do AI summaries today.
• You only need a handful of meetings a month and want to pay nothing. Jamie's free tier covers 5 meetings a month; if that's genuinely enough volume, it costs less than Earkeep's €39 up front.
• You're fine with per-meeting recording. If you reliably remember to start Jamie before every meeting, its lack of always-on capture isn't a gap for you.
• You want an established EU-focused reputation. Jamie has more market history and third-party review coverage than a newer local-first tool.

Product managers, product owners, and engineering leads who already run their own coding or knowledge agents at work lose that connection with Jamie: there's no documented way to feed Jamie's cloud transcripts into an MCP-capable agent or ACP-compatible tool. Earkeep's meeting history sits in plain local files, and both the in-app agents and the MCP server can query it directly, so the transcript that captured a stakeholder commitment can be handed straight to the agent already doing the rest of your work. See Earkeep for product owners.