If Clova Note's 300-minute cap or cloud-upload consent gave you pause, Quietly fits. It transcribes and cleans up on your Mac — local quality that matches the cloud — saves Markdown to your own folder, and costs $49 once, yours forever.
Plain .md. Title, date, and duration land in front-matter automatically; the body is clean, LLM-polished Whisper output.
300 minutes/month free (600 with data-sharing consent). One week of lectures or one busy hiring loop and you’re over the line.
Every recording goes to Naver's cloud. NDA calls, unpublished research, candidate debriefs — environments where cloud upload simply isn’t an option.
Up to 24-hour processing delay. Server queues mean transcripts can land the next day instead of right after the call.
No direct line into Cursor, Codex, or Claude. You end up copy-pasting transcripts every single time.
| Quietly | Clova Note | |
|---|---|---|
| Recording cap | Unlimited | 300 min/mo (600 w/ data consent) |
| Where notes live | Your Mac, plain Markdown | Naver cloud |
| Transcription | On-device Whisper + LLM cleanup | Server-side, up to 24h delay |
| Notes in your own folder | Folder-native | Manual copy-paste |
| Claude / ChatGPT integration | Markdown today · MCP next | |
| Works offline (after install) | ||
| System audio capture on Mac | Zoom · Meet · Teams | Mobile + upload only |
| Price | $49 once | Free / Premium ~₩9,900/mo |
Be clear-eyed before you switch. These are the spots Clova still beats us.
Clova Note's iOS and Android apps are the main surface. Quietly is macOS-only — weak if your phone is your only recorder.
Clova reliably labels several Korean speakers. Quietly splits the transcript into speaker turns today; full per-speaker diarization is coming soon.
Naver's in-house model handles legal / medical Korean jargon better than a multilingual Whisper.
Whisper runs on your Mac, so an 8-hour deep-work session, a 9-hour seminar, all of it transcribes. No “you’ve hit this month’s quota” alerts.
Audio is captured to a temp file, transcribed in the same process, and the file is deleted unless you keep it. NDA calls, closed research sessions, hiring debriefs — Quietly is safe by construction.
Clova Premium ~₩9,900/mo × 12 ≈ ₩119,000/year. Quietly is ₩68,000 once, then nothing. The recurring-bill anxiety disappears.
Because notes are Markdown files, you can paste them anywhere. Claude Desktop's filesystem MCP, Cursor, and Codex CLI read the files directly today; a first-class Quietly MCP server is shipping next — “summarize week-3 lectures” just works.
Clova Note can queue your file until the next day. Quietly only waits as long as your Mac takes — typically 5–15 minutes per hour of audio.
iCloud · Dropbox · any folder — point Quietly at it. Title, date, and duration land in front-matter automatically.
Export text from Clova Note. Note → menu → export as text.
Drop the files into a folder Quietly watches. iCloud, Dropbox, any folder — anywhere on disk.
Cursor, Codex, and Claude index them automatically. A one-click import tool is in the works.
Need bulk import sooner? Email support@meetquietly.com.
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