June vs Otter.ai

• You need a live transcript scrolling during the meeting, with speakers identified by name. June does not do that, and it is the one thing Otter does that June does not.
• Your team is spread across Windows, web, and mobile, or you need concurrent meeting coverage for a sales or support org, and cloud storage plus model training is a tradeoff you accept.
• You need CRM integrations or a HIPAA BAA on an enterprise plan.

• You do not want a bot in your meetings, invited or otherwise. June has no bot to configure, silence, or apologize for.
• You want your conversations stored on your Mac, not retained on a transcription company's servers.
• You do not want your meetings used to train models. Otter's own privacy pages say it trains its models on de-identified conversations. June never trains on your data.
• You want dictation and a local agent in the same private workspace, not just transcription.

Otter works primarily through a notetaker bot that joins your calls via calendar sync, and it is famous for showing up uninvited when default settings are left on. A no-bot desktop capture mode exists, but the bot is the product's center of gravity, and either way your conversations end up on Otter's servers.

June never has a bot. It detects supported meetings on your Mac, asks if you want notes, and captures from your device's audio. Nothing joins the call, and nothing appears in the participant list.

Everything Otter transcribes is processed and stored on its US cloud servers, and its privacy pages state that it uses de-identified recordings and transcripts to train its models, automatically. You are trusting both the de-identification method and the retention policy.

June stores recordings, transcripts, and notes on your Mac. Audio goes out for note transcription through zero-retention model routing by default, so nothing is stored and nothing is trained on. OpenSoftware keeps only account, login, and billing records, and the backend is open source and TEE-attested so you can verify that instead of trusting it.

One concession: if you need a transcript scrolling in real time with named speakers, Otter does that and June does not. June writes its notes when the meeting ends, and it segments the transcript by turns rather than naming speakers.

Weigh that against everything else on this page: where a decade of your conversations lives, whether they train someone's models, and what you get around the meeting. June gives you dictation into any app, private chat, and an agent on your Mac that can use your notes as context, all without your meetings leaving your device.