An honest side-by-side comparison of Speak-Y and Notta, updated July 2026.
Notta is a cloud platform: transcripts live in its cloud, team sharing is not end-to-end encrypted and MCP is absent from its official docs.
Notta 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.