Assistly vs HOL Guard: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of Assistly and HOL Guard — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

Assistly

Freemium

A live meeting assistant for Mac and Windows that reads call audio locally and shows guidance in an overlay excluded from screen shares.

Bot-Free System Audio Capture: Works from your computer's audio rather than joining the meeting, so nothing appears in the participant list and there is nothing to integrate with the call app.
Screen-Capture-Excluded Overlay: The assistant window is excluded from screen capture at the OS level, so it stays visible to you and invisible in shares and recordings.
Auto-Assist Without Prompting: Detects when a question lands or when you think out loud and streams structured talking points into your thread automatically, with no hotkey and no break in eye contact.
Multi-Speaker Language Tracking: Separates your voice from other participants and follows who said what across dozens of auto-detected languages, even when the call switches language mid-sentence.
Two-Way MCP Context: Pulls context from Google Calendar, Notion, Linear or any MCP server during the call, and exposes your meeting history back over MCP so Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor can query it later.
Personas from Your Material: Builds a persona from your CV, docs and notes and switches modes for a sales call, client review or interview so responses match your background and phrasing.
Automatic Recap and Action Items: Turns the transcript into a summary with owners and deadlines the moment the call ends, auto-saved and searchable across sessions.
Per-Client Projects: Files each session to a project based on the calendar, and scopes answers and mid-call lookups to that client's history so context never crosses between accounts.

Live Sales Calls: Surfacing objection handling and product detail the instant a prospect asks, without breaking eye contact to search a doc.
Client Account Reviews: Recalling what was committed to a specific client in a previous session, with the source call cited, while the review is still running.
Non-Native Language Meetings: Following a call that switches language mid-sentence and receiving guidance in clear English.
Customer Success Handoffs: Leaving every call with a written summary and assigned action items instead of reconstructing notes afterwards.
Meetings Where Bots Are Unwelcome: Getting live assistance on calls with clients or legal teams who object to a recording bot joining the room.
Querying Past Meetings from Your Editor: Asking Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor what was agreed in a past session over MCP without opening the app.

HOL

Freemium

HOL Guard sits between AI coding agents and their tools to intercept risky reads, installs, MCP registrations, and config changes before execution.

Pre-execution Interception: Wraps agent launch commands so risky reads, installs, MCP registrations, and config or hook changes are surfaced as a reviewable diff before they run.
Under 50 ms Local Scan: All scanning happens on-device with no outbound network call, keeping agent workflows fast and usable fully offline.
One-keystroke Approval Flow: Each block presents the diff on screen so the developer can allow or deny with a single key, and the decision is written to a local receipt.
Multi-Harness Support: Ships tailored integrations for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Hermes, and OpenClaw so the same policy engine covers every agent.
Guard Cloud Sync: Optional cloud tier syncs decision receipts, alerts, and audit history across machines while never uploading file contents, prompts, or environment variables.
Team Policy Packs: Team plan deploys shared policy packs, team alerts, and investigation routing so multiple developers operate under the same runtime rules.
Plugin Scanner for Maintainers: Companion CLI and GitHub Action verify plugin manifests, MCP transport posture, and skill-level prompt-injection markers before release.

Blocking secret exfiltration: Stop a coding agent from reading .npmrc, .env, or cloud credential files during an automated task.
Guarding MCP installs: Review new MCP server registrations for insecure HTTP endpoints or wildcard binds before they are added to the harness.
Enforcing config approvals: Require an explicit allow on config or hook edits proposed by an agent so surprise supply-chain changes are caught in place.
Team-wide policy control: Roll out a single Guard policy pack across a team so every developer's Cursor or Claude Code session enforces the same runtime rules.
Cross-device continuity: Sync approval history through Guard Cloud so switching laptops does not force a developer to re-approve safe actions from scratch.
Plugin release gating: Use the plugin-scanner action in CI to fail PRs that publish plugins below a minimum trust score or with high-severity issues.