Vellum Assistant vs Kurn

vellum is your personal AI for work and life. It learns how you think, remembers what matters, and helps with the things you care about. With vellum, you're always in control: • Choose where your data lives: vellum Cloud or your own self-hosted vellum • Use any model, bring your own API key, or use vellum-optimized models • Decide what your assistant can access and remember Talk, text, or show vellum what you see with your camera, then use it to: • Catch up on email, Slack, and meetings • Remember follow-ups, tasks, and important details • Plan your day, trips, meals, or workouts • Find old notes, files, and saved links • Think through work and personal decisions • Get help with whatever is in front of you One assistant across iPhone, Mac, and web. Always caught up on what matters to you.

Kurn is a local-first app for recording meetings, transcribing audio, identifying speakers, and generating structured AI summaries — built so your recordings stay on your device by default. RECORD AND TRANSCRIBE - Record meetings in one or more segments, with pause, resume, and stop controls from the app, the Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, or your Apple Watch. - Transcribe on device with Apple's Speech framework or an on-device multilingual model, or optionally use a cloud Whisper-compatible API for longer recordings. - Automatic speaker diarization tells you who said what, with editable speaker names. - An opt-in live transcription preview shows a rolling draft while you record. - Long transcriptions resume automatically if the app is backgrounded or interrupted, continuing from where they left off instead of starting over. UNDERSTAND YOUR MEETINGS - Structured, template-driven AI summaries — general, standup, or interview formats, or your own custom template. - Search meetings and filter by date, tags, status, or duration. - Organize meetings into folders, Smart Folders, favorites, and an archive. - Tag meetings manually or with optional AI-suggested tags. - Ask questions about a single meeting or across your whole library, with cited, tappable timestamps that jump straight to that moment in the transcript. ACCESSIBLE BY DESIGN - Full VoiceOver support throughout the app, the Watch companion, and the Lock Screen / Dynamic Island Live Activity. - Dynamic Type: text scales with your preferred reading size. - Respects Reduce Motion, and never relies on color alone to show status. PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Recordings and meeting data are stored on your device, encrypted at rest, and gated behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode. - Network requests only happen if you choose cloud transcription or an AI summary provider — everything else runs entirely on device. - No tracking, no analytics, no accounts required. Kurn's UI is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Simplified Chinese. Transcription supports every language Whisper recognizes.