For knowledge workers
Meeting notes that never touch a SaaS dashboard.
Consultants, PMs, lawyers, journalists — the meetings worth recording are usually the ones you cannot send to a cloud transcription service. Cove Voice records, transcribes, and organizes on your phone. NDA-safe. No per-seat fee. Uninstalling deletes everything.
The three most common professional scenarios
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Client discovery call (consultant / PM)
You signed an NDA before the call. The client casually mentions a product roadmap they have not announced. Otter.ai's privacy policy permits training on free-tier content; Otter for Teams costs $30/seat/month. Either way, the call is now in someone else's database.
Cove: recording stays on your phone. Action items, decisions, and open questions ready by the time you close the call window. NDA boundary == device boundary.
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Attorney-client memo (lawyer)
Attorney-client privilege depends on the conversation not being shared. Cloud transcription services have been the subject of bar association ethics opinions warning against use without explicit client consent. Each cloud upload is a privilege risk.
Cove: the recording, transcript, and AI summary all live on your phone. The privilege boundary is preserved by the same boundary that protects every other file in app-private storage.
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Source interview (journalist)
A whistleblower talks to you on background. You record on consent. The cloud transcription company gets a subpoena six months later and has to comply. The shield law in your jurisdiction does not extend to a third-party processor.
Cove: there is no third-party processor to subpoena. The recording lives on your phone — the only disclosure path is you choosing to disclose. That is the source-protection model your shield law assumes.
Cove Voice vs Otter for Teams vs Granola (enterprise transcription)
| Dimension | Cove Voice | Otter for Teams | Granola |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price (5 seats / year) | $2.99 ×5 once = $14.95 | $30/seat ×12 ×5 = $1800 | $25/seat ×12 ×5 = $1500 |
| Fully offline | ✓ | × | × |
| No upload | ✓ | × | × |
| NDA-safe by default | ✓ By default | ○ Enterprise + DPA only | ○ Same |
| Speaker diarization | × Not yet | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team sharing | × Single-device | ✓ | ✓ |
Honest version: Otter for Teams and Granola are stronger at diarization, collaboration, and cross-device sync; if you need "10-person meeting with speaker tags and team search," cloud is better. Cove wins on "confidential single-user recording + not in any database + one-time purchase." Different tools, different pricing.
Starting next meeting
$2.99 once. No per-seat billing, no SaaS account, no DPA to sign. Next client call you make, the summary is on your phone the moment you hang up.