If Clova Note’s 300-minute cap or its cloud-upload consent gave you pause, Quietly fits. It transcribes and cleans up on your Mac at quality that matches the cloud, saves Markdown to your own folder, and costs $49 once.
Plain .md. Title, date, and duration land in the front-matter; the body is clean, LLM-polished Whisper output.
300 free minutes a month (600 with data-sharing consent). One week of lectures or one busy hiring loop puts you over the line.
Each recording goes to Naver's cloud. NDA calls, unpublished research, and candidate debriefs can't go there.
Up to a 24-hour processing delay. Server queues can push your transcript to the next day instead of right after the call.
No direct line into Cursor, Codex, or Claude. You copy and paste transcripts by hand each 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 |
Check these before you switch. Clova still beats Quietly here.
Clova Note's iOS and Android apps are its main surface. Quietly is macOS-only, which won't work if your phone is your only recorder.
Clova labels several Korean speakers well. Quietly splits the transcript into speaker turns today, and full per-speaker diarization is coming soon.
Naver's in-house model handles legal and medical Korean jargon better than multilingual Whisper does.
Whisper runs on your Mac, so an 8-hour workshop or a 9-hour seminar transcribes in full. No “you’ve hit this month’s quota” alerts.
Quietly captures audio to a temp file, transcribes it in the same process, and deletes the file unless you keep it. NDA calls, closed research sessions, and hiring debriefs never leave the machine.
Clova Premium costs about ₩9,900 a month, or around ₩119,000 a year. Quietly costs about ₩68,000 once, then nothing.
Notes are Markdown files, so you can paste them anywhere. Claude Desktop’s filesystem MCP, Cursor, and Codex CLI read the files today, and a first-class Quietly MCP server ships next. “Summarize the week-3 lectures” becomes one prompt.
Clova Note can queue your file until the next day. Quietly takes as long as your Mac needs, usually 5 to 15 minutes per hour of audio.
Point Quietly at iCloud, Dropbox, or any folder. Title, date, and duration land in the front-matter on their own.
Export text from Clova Note. Note → menu → export as text.
Drop the files into your Quietly folder. iCloud, Dropbox, any folder on disk.
Cursor, Codex, and Claude read them as files. A one-click import tool is in the works.
For bulk import sooner, email support@meetquietly.com.
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