Allego: Conversation intelligence within a broader sales enablement platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes sales calls for coaching and deal insights. Shadow: A bot-free, Mac-based AI meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls locally without joining as a participant. This comparison weighs them on pricing, features, and everyday workflow fit.
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Shortlist Allego when coaching reps using insights and showreels drawn from real calls matters most, and Shadow when privacy-conscious teams that prefer on-device transcription matters most. Try them side by side on real calls before deciding — needs vary by team.
Conversation intelligence within a broader sales enablement platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes sales calls for coaching and deal insights.
A bot-free, Mac-based AI meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes calls locally without joining as a participant.
Allego provides conversation intelligence as part of its broader sales enablement and revenue-enablement platform. The conversation intelligence module automatically records and transcribes sales calls and meetings across common dialers and video platforms, supporting multiple languages, then analyzes those conversations to surface key topics, buyer sentiment, objections, competitor mentions, and successful selling behaviors. Transcripts are searchable, and the system generates summaries and action items from each call. Because it sits inside Allego's enablement suite, the analysis connects directly to coaching and learning workflows: managers can build showreels from top-performing calls, apply consistent scoring to identify coaching opportunities, and link reps to relevant training and practice modules. On the deal side, Allego ties conversation data to CRM context, providing early warning signals when deals lose momentum and visibility into buyer engagement across calls, email, content, and digital sales rooms. Allego is aimed at mid-market and enterprise revenue organizations that want conversation intelligence unified with onboarding, content, and coaching rather than as a standalone tool. It was recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Revenue Enablement Platforms. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.
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Shadow is a bot-free AI meeting assistant for macOS that captures meetings by listening to your computer's audio in the background rather than joining the call as a visible participant. Because transcription runs locally on the Mac, the audio does not need to leave the device for that core processing step, which the company positions as a privacy advantage. Shadow can automatically detect when a meeting starts, transcribe the conversation with speaker identification, and turn the discussion into structured notes, summaries, and follow-up items. It also captures on-screen content alongside the spoken audio, so material shared during a call (slides, dashboards, or shared windows) can be reflected in the output. The tool works across common conferencing platforms including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Slack, and Discord. Users can configure customizable prompts (described as Skills) to generate notes, summaries, or drafted emails, and connect outputs to other tools via webhooks. It is aimed at professionals and teams who want meeting capture without adding another bot to the call. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.
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Allego is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium); Shadow is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | Allego | Shadow |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | Automated call recording and multilingual transcription | Bot-free capture that records system audio without joining the meeting as a participant |
| Standout feature | Searchable transcripts surfacing pricing, competitor, and objection mentions | On-device (local) transcription on macOS |
| Team usage | Call scoring and creation of showreels from top-performing calls | Speaker identification during transcription |
| Integrations | Integration with coaching, learning, and practice modules | Captures on-screen content in addition to spoken audio |
| Languages & capture | Deal intelligence with CRM context and momentum warning signals | Customizable prompts/Skills to generate notes, summaries, and emails |
| Best-fit workflow | Automated call recording and multilingual transcription | Webhook integration to connect outputs to other tools |
Allego
Choose Allego if you need coaching reps using insights and showreels drawn from real calls — strengths include conversation intelligence is unified with coaching and enablement workflows.
Shadow
Choose Shadow if you need capturing notes and summaries across multiple conferencing platforms without a bot joining — strengths include does not add a visible bot to meetings.
Allego
Shadow
It depends on your workflow. Allego is strong for coaching reps using insights and showreels drawn from real calls, while Shadow is strong for capturing notes and summaries across multiple conferencing platforms without a bot joining. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
Allego is a free tier with paid upgrades and Shadow is a free tier with paid upgrades. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
Yes. Many teams run more than one meeting assistant when the workflows are complementary.
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