Seduta · Comparison
Seduta vs Jamie
Berlin-based, bot-free meeting notes app for Mac, Windows and iPhone with EU-hosted storage. Here is how the two compare, as of 1 October 2026.
| Feature | Seduta | Jamie |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy | ||
| Transcribed on the device | ✓Mac, iPhone and iPad | ✗Audio uploaded and transcribed on Modal serverless GPUssource |
| Where your meetings live | On your devicesSynced through your own iCloud; summaries on the device, or on EU servers with Plus | Audio and transcripts stored in Frankfurt, Germany; AI processing location not statedAudio uploaded to Frankfurt and processed on Modal (no data stored at Modal; location not stated); notes generated via Anthropic or OpenAI APIs (location not stated); audio deleted after processingsource |
| No bot joins the call | ✓ | ✓source |
| No account needed | ✓ | ✗Sign up with Google, Microsoft, Apple or emailsource |
| Never records without you pressing Record | ✓Recording starts only when you click Record, also from a notification | ✗Optional auto-start recording (off by default, with a cancel countdown); otherwise a reminder you confirmsource |
| Recording | ||
| Records calls from any app | ✓Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and other browser calls, Webex, Slack, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Signal, Proton Meet; add any other app | PartlyDetects calls in Zoom, Meet, Teams and other video apps; app list and system-audio capture scope not statedsource |
| Start by hand, also in person | ✓On the Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch | ✓Start Jamie by hand; mobile app records in-person meetingssource |
| Notices calls and asks to record | ✓On the Mac: a notification when a calendar meeting starts, with Join & Record for call links; asks when a call app opens the microphone. Recording starts only after you click | ✓Gives a mic-based reminder when you join an online meeting; start with one clicksource |
| In the Mac menu bar | ✓Start, pause, stop and the status, one click away | ✓Menu bar shows next meeting and timer; join or record from itsource |
| Ready after install | ✓Asks for the microphone, call audio and notifications; calendar is optional. The speech model downloads by itself on first use | ✓Download, sign up, allow audio; no models, keys or CLIsource |
| No time limits on any plan | ✓No recording or transcription limit on any plan; Seduta Plus summaries are fair use | ✗Free: 10 AI notes/month and 30-minute meetings; Plus: 20 notes and 2 hours; Pro: 5 hourssource |
| Notes | ||
| Languages | 25European languages, mixed in one meeting; Swiss German on the Mac | 99+source |
| Transcribe again | ✓Transcribe Again, for example in another language | Not statedNo re-transcribe or audio upload found in the docssource |
| Recognises returning voices | ✓Name a speaker once and Seduta knows the voice next time. Voice prints stay in your own Seduta folder, on your devices and your iCloud; never sent to us, a summary service or an AI agent | ✓Speaker Memory (toggle) remembers voices you identified and recognises them in later meetings; voice claim is on Jamie's blog, changelog says it remembers participantssource |
| Your own summary templates | ✓Write your own, next to the built-in ones | ✓Create templates from scratch or from a default, with your own sections and instructionssource |
| AI agents and CLI tools (MCP) | ✓Local MCP connector on your Mac: Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cowork; read-only, paired apps only | ✓Official MCP server, cloud (mcp.meetjamie.ai/mcp); Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and others; OAuth, read-only; Pro, Team and Enterprise plans onlysource |
| Devices | ||
| Mac | ✓ | ✓macOS 14.4 or latersource |
| iPhone | ✓ | ✓In-person recording with the phone microphonesource |
| iPad | ✓ | ✗Listing says iPhone only; quickstart says iPad is not supportedsource |
| Apple Watch | ✓ | ✗Quickstart lists Mac and Windows only; listing is iPhone onlysource |
| Syncs between your Apple devices | ✓Your own iCloud Drive | PartlySyncs across iPhone, macOS and Windows through the Jamie cloud accountsource |
| Windows | ✗ | ✓source |
| Price | ||
| Free | Everything on the device, unlimited | EUR 0: 10 AI notes/month, 30-minute meetingssource |
| Cheapest subscription | $5.99/month or $39.99/yearSeduta Plus, 1 week free | EUR 21/month, billed yearly (Plus); monthly EUR price not shown. App Store US: $22/month or $229/yearsource |
| One-off purchase or your own key | ✓$34.99 once, with your own key (Seduta BYOK) | ✗source |
Where Seduta is different
- Transcribed on the device
- No account needed
- Never records without you pressing Record
- No time limits on any plan
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- One-off purchase or your own key
- AI agents read your notes on your Mac, not through a cloud server
Where Jamie is stronger
- Windows support
- 99+ languages
- Integrations such as Salesforce and HubSpot on Pro, shared workspaces on Team
- ISO 27001 certification and SAML SSO on Enterprise
Record on your Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. No bot, no account.
Join the waitlistCompared on 1 October 2026 from each company's own website, pricing page and App Store listing; the sources are linked in the table. Prices in US dollars, or in euros where a company only lists euros; taxes may apply. Products change: if something here is out of date, write to seduta@spert.ai and we correct it. Jamie is a trademark of its owner; Seduta is not affiliated with it.
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