Update: Otter AI Review: Is It Worth It in 2025?

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Title: Otter AI Review: Is It Worth It in 2025?
Author: Harshika
File: apps/web/content/articles/otter-ai-review.mdx

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Grammar Check Results

Reviewed 1 article.

Otter AI Review: Is It Worth It in 2026?

📄 apps/web/content/articles/otter-ai-review.mdx

The article is well-structured and comprehensive, with mostly strong writing. However, there are several style violations regarding em dash usage (the major rule requiring replacement with dashes or rewriting) and a few grammar issues including comma splices, sentence fragments, and inconsistent punctuation. Most issues are concentrated around punctuation at the beginning of bullet points and section transitions. The content is clear and informative overall, with specific examples and data supporting claims. Consider addressing the em dash replacements and grammar issues for consistency with the stated style rules.

Found 14 issues:

🔹 Punctuation Placement

Line 14

Is Otter AI free? Sort of. Is Otter AI safe? That's complicated. This hands-on review covers everything: Otter's pricing (including hidden costs), features that actually work, Otter AI's privacy concerns (including the 2025 lawsuit), its transcription accuracy, and the top alternatives I've personally tested. Check it out!

Replace colon with em dash or rewrite. The colon works here, but for consistency with the style guide flagging em dashes, consider using a dash for parallel structure with the opening questions.

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Is Otter AI free? Sort of. Is Otter AI safe? That's complicated. This hands-on review covers everything - Otter's pricing (including hidden costs), features that actually work, Otter AI's privacy concerns (including the 2025 lawsuit), its transcription accuracy, and the top alternatives I've personally tested. Check it out!

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How Costs Add Up?

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### How Costs Add Up

📝 Grammar

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Personally, I find bots intrusive, and I've noticed people become more guarded, speak less candidly, and the natural flow of conversation suffers.

The sentence is a comma splice joining two independent clauses. Split into two sentences for clarity.

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Personally, I find bots intrusive. I've noticed people become more guarded, speak less candidly, and the natural flow of conversation suffers.

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The AI assistant handles basic questions like "What were the main action items?" reasonably well. But it struggled with technical terminology

Incomplete sentence - add period and continue with next thought or combine with following content.

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The AI assistant handles basic questions like "What were the main action items?" reasonably well. But it struggled with technical terminology.

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One feature Otter.ai truly nails. Detected 98% of scheduled meetings, joined automatically without manual intervention, and updated meeting details if the calendar changed. Truly set-it-and-forget-it functionality.

First sentence is a fragment. Connect with em dash or restructure.

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One feature Otter.ai truly nails - it detected 98% of scheduled meetings, joined automatically without manual intervention, and updated meeting details if the calendar changed. Truly set-it-and-forget-it functionality.

🔸 Em Dashes

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The catch: Otter AI requires constant internet connectivity. During a venue walkthrough with spotty WiFi, it captured 12 minutes of a 45-minute conversation. No offline mode exists.

Replace colon with em dash (following the style rule to flag and replace all em dashes).

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The catch - Otter AI requires constant internet connectivity. During a venue walkthrough with spotty WiFi, it captured 12 minutes of a 45-minute conversation. No offline mode exists.

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The frustration: Generic summaries for technical discussions. "The team discussed system architecture" instead of actual details. Missed nuanced decisions in complex strategy calls, and there's no way to customize summary format or depth.

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**The frustration:** Generic summaries for technical discussions - "The team discussed system architecture" instead of actual details. Missed nuanced decisions in complex strategy calls, and there's no way to customize summary format or depth.

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One caution: It captures everything on screen, including private Slack messages or emails if you forget to pause screen sharing. Almost leaked internal metrics to a client once.

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One caution - It captures *everything* on screen, including private Slack messages or emails if you forget to pause screen sharing. Almost leaked internal metrics to a client once.

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Minor issue: occasionally joined recurring meetings I'd removed from the series.

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**Minor issue** - occasionally joined recurring meetings I'd removed from the series.

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The catch: After three weeks of daily meetings, I hit the 300-minute limit. Had to choose which meetings to transcribe for the rest of the month. The 30-minute per-conversation cap is particularly painful, long strategy sessions required restarting the recording, breaking the transcript into chunks.

Replace colon with em dash. Also, use semicolon before 'long strategy sessions' to connect related independent clauses.

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**The catch** - After three weeks of daily meetings, I hit the 300-minute limit. Had to choose which meetings to transcribe for the rest of the month. The 30-minute per-conversation cap is particularly painful; long strategy sessions required restarting the recording, breaking the transcript into chunks.

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For regular users, you'll need paid plans: Pro at $16.99/month ($8.33/month annually, based on annual commitment) with 1,200 minutes, or Business at $30/month ($19.99/month annually, based on annual commitment) with 6,000 minutes.

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For regular users, you'll need paid plans - Pro at $16.99/month ($8.33/month annually, based on annual commitment) with 1,200 minutes, or Business at $30/month ($19.99/month annually, based on annual commitment) with 6,000 minutes.

💡 Clarity

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Live transcription appears within 2-3 seconds of speech, which is helpful for following fast-paced discussions. However, accuracy drops to 60-70% with background noise, technical terms are consistently wrong ("Kubernetes" → "communitas"), and it completely fails with heavy accents.

Replace arrow notation with em dashes for clarity, or rewrite to avoid the arrow symbol which is unclear in prose context.

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Live transcription appears within 2-3 seconds of speech, which is helpful for following fast-paced discussions. However, accuracy drops to 60-70% with background noise, technical terms are consistently wrong - "Kubernetes" becomes "communitas" - and it completely fails with heavy accents.

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Price: Contact sales for quote (However, to give you an idea, for about 50 seats, you can expect to pay around 25k annually)

Change parenthetical to new sentence for clarity; add dollar sign before 25k for consistency.

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**Price:** Contact sales for quote. However, to give you an idea, for about 50 seats, you can expect to pay around $25k annually.

📋 Other

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Otter.ai generates automated summaries broken into chapters with timestamps. Email summaries arrive within 2 hours (usually 45 minutes in my experience), and the chapter breakdown makes long meetings navigable. Action item extraction catches about 70-80% of commitments.

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Otter.ai generates automated summaries broken into chapters with timestamps. Email summaries arrive within 2 hours (usually 45 minutes in my experience), and the chapter breakdown makes long meetings navigable. Action item extraction catches about 70-80% of commitments.

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Devin Review found 3 potential issues.

View 6 additional findings in Devin Review.

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🔴 Broken link: missing https:// protocol in [Char](Char.com) causes relative URL resolution

The link [Char](Char.com) on line 315 is missing the https:// protocol prefix. The MDXLink component at apps/web/src/components/mdx/link.tsx:43 checks if the href starts with / or . for internal paths, and falls through to the external link handler at line 51 which renders <a href="Char.com">. Without a protocol, the browser interprets Char.com as a relative path, navigating users to something like https://hyprnote.com/blog/Char.com instead of https://char.com.

Root Cause

In standard HTML/browser behavior, an href value without a protocol scheme (like Char.com) is treated as a relative URL. The MDXLink component doesn't normalize URLs that lack a protocol, so the rendered <a href="Char.com"> will resolve relative to the current page path.

Impact: Clicking the "Char" link in the alternatives comparison table takes users to a 404 page instead of the intended external website.

Suggested change

	| [Char](Char.com) | Data ownership and AI flexibility | Free forever. Pro from $8/month | Local storage. Choose your AI provider. |
	| [Char](https://char.com) | Data ownership and AI flexibility | Free forever. Pro from $8/month | Local storage. Choose your AI provider. |

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🟡 Unsupported ++ markdown syntax renders as literal text around links

Lines 198 and 331 use ++[link text](url)++ syntax, which is not supported by the MDX pipeline. The site uses remarkGfm, mdxMermaid, rehypeSlug, and rehypeAutolinkHeadings — none of which handle ++ (CriticMarkup insertion syntax). As a result, the ++ characters render literally on the page.

Root Cause

The ++text++ syntax is a CriticMarkup/extended markdown convention for underline/insertion, but it requires a specific remark plugin (like remark-ins) to be processed. No such plugin is configured in apps/web/content-collections.ts:109-123. No other article in the repository uses this syntax (confirmed by searching all .mdx files).

Line 198 renders as: ...comprehensive breakdown: ++Is Otter AI Safe: What You Need to Know++.
Line 331 renders as: ++Read detailed reviews of all Otter AI competitors++

Impact: Literal ++ characters appear before and after the link text on the published page, making it look unprofessional.

Suggested change

	For a more detailed analysis of these security concerns and documented incidents, you can read our comprehensive breakdown: ++[Is Otter AI Safe: What You Need to Know](https://hyprnote.com/blog/is-otter-ai-safe/)++.
	For a more detailed analysis of these security concerns and documented incidents, you can read our comprehensive breakdown: [Is Otter AI Safe: What You Need to Know](https://hyprnote.com/blog/is-otter-ai-safe/).

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🟡 Unsupported ++ markdown syntax renders as literal text around link (second instance)

Line 331 uses ++[Read detailed reviews...](url)++ which has the same issue as BUG-0002 — the ++ characters will render literally on the page since no remark plugin handles this syntax.

Root Cause

Same root cause as BUG-0002. The ++ CriticMarkup syntax is not processed by the configured MDX pipeline at apps/web/content-collections.ts:109-123.

Impact: Literal ++ characters appear around the link text on the published page.

Suggested change

	++[Read detailed reviews of all Otter AI competitors](https://hyprnote.com/blog/otter-ai-alternatives/)++
	[Read detailed reviews of all Otter AI competitors](https://hyprnote.com/blog/otter-ai-alternatives/)

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