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Raven vs Jamie
A free, open-source alternative to Jamie - auditable, fully-local privacy plus live in-call help, vs Jamie’s closed, EU-cloud, post-meeting notes.
Jamie is a serious privacy-first, bot-free notetaker built in Germany, with genuine EU data residency and clean compliance credentials. It competes for exactly the buyer Raven does: someone who cares where their meetings go. The difference is the kind of privacy. Jamie asks you to trust a closed product that uploads audio to its EU cloud; Raven is open source and keeps everything on your machine - privacy you can audit, not just be promised - and it also helps you live during the call.
| Raven | Jamie | |
|---|---|---|
| Live in-call assist | Yes | No - post-meeting only |
| Where your meetings live | Local SQLite on your device | Uploaded to Jamie's EU cloud (audio deleted after transcription) |
| Privacy model | Open source - auditable, local | Closed source - trusted, EU-hosted, ISO 27001 / GDPR |
| Bot-free capture | Yes (Mac + Windows) | Yes (Mac + Windows + iOS) |
| Price | Free, open source (your own keys) | Free (10 meetings/mo, 30-min cap); Plus €25/mo; Pro €47/mo; Team €39/user/mo |
| Open source | Yes | No |
Jamie’s free tier is a real evaluation tier - 10 meetings/month, 30-minute cap - with paid plans (in EUR) at Plus €25/mo (20 meetings, 2-hr cap), Pro €47/mo (unlimited, 3-hr cap, integrations), and Team €39/user/mo.
Raven is free and open source; you pay your own AI/transcription usage (a few dollars a month for typical use), with no meeting cap and no seat fee.
Both are bot-free, which already beats the cloud-bot notetakers on privacy. The distinction:
Jamie: audio is captured on your device, then uploaded to Jamie’s EU infrastructure for transcription/summaries (and deleted after). Strong, compliance-grade - but it’s a closed system you have to trust, and your content does leave your machine.
Raven: transcripts, notes, and the Ask index stay in a local SQLite database; audio goes only to the transcription/AI providers you chose with your own keys. Because Raven is open source, “it’s private” is verifiable in the code.
What Jamie does better (honestly)
Managed EU data residency, ISO 27001, GDPR/DORA, DPAs, SSO - turnkey compliance for regulated European teams.
A polished product with structured notes, “Ask Jamie” across meetings, and 100+ languages, including iOS.
If you need a vendor that contractually guarantees EU residency and compliance paperwork, Jamie is purpose-built - Raven’s model is “you hold the data,” which is a different (also strong) answer to privacy.
You want privacy you can audit (open source) and data that never leaves your machine except your own API calls.
You want live help during the call, not just notes after.
You want it free, with no meeting cap or per-seat fee.
Export any notes you want to keep from Jamie.
Download Raven, add your keys.
Run both for a week; cancel Jamie once Raven covers your habit.