An honest side-by-side comparison of Speak-Y and Jamie, updated July 2026.
Jamie is bot-free like Speak-Y, but transcripts live in its EU cloud, team sharing is not end-to-end encrypted and MCP requires a paid tier.
Jamie also has no system-wide dictation — Speak-Y works in any text field on macOS, Windows and iOS.
Speak-Y combines system-wide dictation, bot-free meeting notes, an end-to-end encrypted team knowledge base and a free local MCP server in one subscription, with a free plan to start on.