AmpUp: AI sales coaching platform with a native notetaker that records and transcribes calls, then delivers prep briefs, debriefs, and practice scenarios. Handy: Handy is a free, open-source, cross-platform push-to-talk app that transcribes your speech to text completely offline and pastes it into any text field. Here's where each one pulls ahead on pricing, features, and the meetings it suits best.
How Hosiqo compares and tests toolsFinal recommendation
Shortlist AmpUp when sales orgs wanting coaching on every call instead of a small reviewed sample matters most, and Handy when privacy-sensitive voice-to-text where audio must stay on-device matters most. Test each on your own meetings; the right choice tends to become obvious quickly.
AI sales coaching platform with a native notetaker that records and transcribes calls, then delivers prep briefs, debriefs, and practice scenarios.
Handy is a free, open-source, cross-platform push-to-talk app that transcribes your speech to text completely offline and pastes it into any text field.
AmpUp is an AI sales coaching and conversation intelligence platform for revenue teams that aims to coach on every call rather than a small sample. Its native notetaker joins meetings automatically across dialer, video, and phone, producing clean structured transcripts, and it can also ingest conversation data from existing platforms such as Gong, Chorus, Fireflies, Fathom, and Granola. The platform organizes coaching around several components: Sales Brain analyzes interaction patterns to identify winning behaviors versus performance gaps; Atlas delivers meeting-prep briefs before calls and coaching debriefs immediately after; Skill Lab generates practice scenarios based on real objections from the current pipeline; and the Notetaker feeds call data back into the coaching loop. AmpUp targets sales coaching at scale, deal execution and pipeline progression, rep onboarding and ramp acceleration, knowledge transfer across teams, and meeting prep with post-call analysis. Because it can sit on top of an existing conversation-intelligence stack or capture calls directly, it can serve as a dedicated coaching layer for teams that already record calls elsewhere. AmpUp is a live, operating product in 2025/2026 and is positioned as a sales/meeting tool rather than a contact-center QA system. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.
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Handy is a free, open-source desktop application that turns your voice into text completely offline, with no audio ever leaving your computer. You press a configurable keyboard shortcut, speak, and release (push-to-talk), or use a toggle mode to start and stop; Handy transcribes what you said and automatically pastes the result into whatever text field is active. Because it runs entirely on-device, it is built for privacy-conscious users who want dictation without cloud uploads or subscriptions. Under the hood it is built with Tauri (a Rust backend with a React/TypeScript frontend) and supports multiple local speech-recognition models, including OpenAI's Whisper variants with GPU acceleration and the CPU-friendly Parakeet V3 model with automatic language detection. Silero Voice Activity Detection filters out silence so only speech is processed. Handy runs on macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux, and is released under the MIT license. It positions itself as an accessible, extensible alternative to paid dictation tools, and is best suited for hands-free typing rather than recording multi-party meetings.
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AmpUp is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium); Handy is open source (open source). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | AmpUp | Handy |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | Native notetaker that auto-joins meetings across dialer, video, and phone | Push-to-talk and toggle dictation modes with a configurable global keyboard shortcut |
| Standout feature | Ingestion of conversation data from Gong, Chorus, Fireflies, Fathom, and Granola | Fully offline, on-device transcription with no cloud uploads |
| Team usage | Clean structured transcripts of every call | Multiple local speech models including Whisper (GPU-accelerated) and Parakeet V3 (CPU, auto language detection) |
| Integrations | Sales Brain analysis of winning behaviors versus performance gaps | Silero Voice Activity Detection to filter silence and process only speech |
| Languages & capture | Atlas pre-call prep briefs and immediate post-call coaching debriefs | Automatically pastes transcribed text into any active application text field |
| Best-fit workflow | Skill Lab practice scenarios generated from real pipeline objections | Cross-platform desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) built with Tauri |
AmpUp
Choose AmpUp if you need sales orgs wanting coaching on every call instead of a small reviewed sample — strengths include coaching layer that can sit on top of an existing conversation-intelligence stack or capture calls directly.
Handy
Choose Handy if you need hands-free dictation into emails, documents, chat apps, and code editors — strengths include completely free, open-source (mit) with no subscription or paywall.
AmpUp
Handy
It depends on your workflow. AmpUp is strong for sales orgs wanting coaching on every call instead of a small reviewed sample, while Handy is strong for hands-free dictation into emails, documents, chat apps, and code editors. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
AmpUp is a free tier with paid upgrades and Handy is open source. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
Often yes: teams combine tools when one handles capture and another handles analysis.
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