Tactiq Alternative? Clozo vs Tactiq for Google Meet

How Clozo and Tactiq work in Google Meet

Tactiq is a browser extension. Its Chrome Web Store listing calls it an AI note taker for Google Meet, Zoom and MS Teams, with real-time transcription, AI summaries and action items, and says it runs in your browser on your meeting tabs (Chrome Web Store listing, checked 2026-10-30). The install guide covers Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, and during setup you choose the meeting platforms you use (Tactiq install guide, checked 2026-10-30). Tactiq says it is bot-free: no bot joins the call (tactiq.io, checked 2026-10-30).

Clozo is a Chrome extension for Google Meet only. It does not listen to audio. Google Meet can show live captions for everyone, free of charge, and Clozo reads those captions in the browser and has the text translated by AI. Original and translation appear one under the other, with the speaker's name, about a second after each sentence ends. No bot joins the call, and only you see Clozo and the translation.

One difference in how the text is obtained: Clozo states that it reads Meet's captions. Tactiq's pages I checked don't say whether its text comes from the platform's captions or from its own speech recognition, so I won't guess.

Tactiq translation vs Google Meet live translation with Clozo

Both tools can show translated captions, but their pages describe the experience differently.

Tactiq translation. Tactiq's translator page says you can enable translated captions in the Tactiq widget during a meeting and see live translations, and that you can save the transcript in that language (Tactiq transcript translator, checked 2026-10-30). Another Tactiq page describes real-time transcription plus translating the transcript into multiple languages after the meeting ends (Tactiq on live meeting translation, checked 2026-10-30).

Languages. Tactiq's help center says it supports “30+” transcription languages, listed per platform (Tactiq languages, checked 2026-10-30). Its pages quote different language counts for translation and transcription, so I'm not giving a single number; check the current list for your language pair. Clozo translates into 76 target languages and works with every language Google Meet can caption. You only pick the language you want to read; the spoken language is detected from the caption text.

One spoken language at a time. Tactiq says it does not support multiple languages within a single meeting: you pick one language (same help article). Clozo has a similar boundary, because Meet captions one spoken language at a time, the one set in Meet's caption settings. If people speak Spanish but Meet's captions are set to English, the captions and the translation make no sense. In a meeting that switches languages, change Meet's caption language. Clozo's menu in the call (“Captions in the wrong language?”) explains how.

Limits of Clozo's translation. Clozo translates text captions only. It doesn't speak, and Meet's chat is not translated. Caption quality (accents, crosstalk, background noise, names, jargon) and machine translation set the limits, so translations can contain mistakes. While a sentence is still being spoken, a lighter preliminary translation updates about every second; the final one replaces it a second or two after the sentence ends.

Clozo vs Tactiq side by side

Facts only. Tactiq entries come from the sources linked in the sections of this article, checked 2026-10-30; “not stated” means I found no statement in those sources.

Transcripts, pricing model and account

Transcripts. Tactiq's listing says transcripts have speaker labels and timestamps on every line, and that it can save chat messages, links and comments from the call and take screenshots. You can export to Google Docs, Notion, Word or PDF and send summaries to Slack or MS Teams (Chrome Web Store listing, checked 2026-10-30). With the Google Drive integration on, transcripts are saved as Google Docs in a “Tactiq Transcription” folder when the meeting ends (Tactiq Drive setup, checked 2026-10-30). You can also upload audio or video files for a transcript afterwards (Tactiq article, checked 2026-10-30).

Clozo's transcript is lighter. “Open live transcript” in the pill menu opens it in Chrome's side panel with speaker, time, original and translation. You can search and copy it. It is kept only in the browser's memory and is gone when Chrome closes; the last call's transcript stays until the next call or until Chrome closes. TXT and PDF export is part of Pro. Clozo does not record calls or write summaries or meeting notes.

Pricing model. Tactiq's help center lists Free, Pro, Team, Business and Enterprise plans. Pro is $8 per user per month on annual billing or $12 monthly; Team is $16.67 per user per month on annual billing or $20 monthly. Annual plans are billed upfront for the full year, and each team member needs their own license. Pro is for individuals only (Tactiq plan guide, checked 2026-10-30). I found no official per-minute limits and no official Business or Enterprise prices, so I can't compare those.

Clozo is priced by translation time. Free gives 15 minutes every day (renewed at midnight UTC), with all languages and the live transcript; only minutes in which something is translated count. Pro is €6.99 a month or €59 a year, with 50 hours of translation a month on up to 3 browsers with one license key. When the free minutes run out, translation stops mid-call while Meet's captions stay visible in the original language. You can cancel any time, and within 14 days of buying you get your money back without giving a reason. The two price lists use different currencies and different units, so a direct price comparison would mislead you.

Account. Tactiq asks you to sign up or log in after installing, and your transcripts are saved in its dashboard. Clozo needs no account: you can use it as a guest in other people's meetings with a free Google account, and Pro buyers get a license key by email.

Privacy and platforms: what to check before you install

Tactiq. Its listing says Tactiq is SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant, does not train models on your content, and that the AI providers it uses do not train on data sent through their APIs. It says transcripts are stored securely, private to you by default, and you choose what to share (Chrome Web Store listing, checked 2026-10-30). Tactiq also says it doesn't record or store audio; the transcript is created in real time and saved as text, shown only to you, and you can notify everyone that you're transcribing (Tactiq speech-to-text, checked 2026-10-30). The Chrome Web Store privacy section says Tactiq handles personally identifiable information (listing, privacy section, checked 2026-10-30). The listing points to a privacy center at tactiq.io/privacy-center, which I did not review.

Clozo. It can access only meet.google.com. Nothing leaves the browser until you agree in the call (“Agree and translate”), and you can withdraw that in the settings. Only the caption text (with the previous sentence or two as context) is sent: no audio, video, participant names or meeting links. Clozo's server forwards it to Google Cloud (Vertex AI), processed in the EU, and keeps no recordings, captions, translations or meeting data. The text is not used to train AI. Clozo asks you to tell other participants that their captions are translated and not to use it in confidential meetings. Details: privacy in short.

Platforms. Clozo works only in Google Meet in Chrome on a computer, not in Zoom, Teams or Webex, not in Meet's mobile apps, and not in Firefox or Safari. Tactiq covers Google Meet, Zoom and MS Teams, in Chrome and Edge. It also says it works in the ChatGPT Atlas browser because Atlas is Chromium-based (Tactiq on Atlas, checked 2026-10-30).

When Tactiq is the better choice, and when Clozo fits

Tactiq may be the better choice if you:

• meet on Zoom or Microsoft Teams as well as Google Meet, or use Edge;
• want AI summaries and action items;
• want transcripts stored in an account, sent to Google Docs, Notion, Word or Slack, or saved automatically to Drive;
• want chat messages, links and screenshots captured with the transcript;
• need to turn uploaded audio or video files into transcripts.

Clozo does none of these.

Clozo may fit better if you:

• mainly want to follow a Google Meet call in your own language while it happens, as with a job interview, a class, a client call or a guest seat in another company's meeting;
• want original and translation together on screen, with the speaker's name;
• prefer no account and a free daily allowance (15 minutes) to try it;
• want your transcript kept only in browser memory.

If you're unsure, try both on a short call. Clozo's free minutes make that easy: add Clozo from the Chrome Web Store or see how Clozo works. If a call has more than one spoken language, remember to set Meet's caption language to the one people actually speak.

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