Cruely vs Proto-Mind: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

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

Cruely

Cluely

Freemium

Live meeting assistant that provides real-time notes, instant answers, and actionable insights during calls to help participants in the moment.

Live Meeting Notes: Captures spoken content during calls and generates live, continuously updating meeting notes so participants can follow and reference discussion in real time.
Instant Answers: Responds to on-demand questions during a meeting, allowing participants to request clarifications or facts without leaving the call or waiting for post-meeting follow-up.
Real-Time Insights: Analyzes meeting content as it occurs to surface highlights, key topics, or suggested actions that help guide the conversation and support decision-making.
In-Meeting Assistance: Provides support during the meeting (not just after) by offering contextual suggestions, reminders, or summaries aligned to the ongoing discussion.
Live meeting notes capture during calls
Instant answers during meetings (in-call Q&A)
Real-time insights surfaced while the meeting is ongoing
Designed to assist during meetings rather than only produce post-meeting summaries
No API, integration, platform, or system requirement details specified in provided content

Live meeting note-taking: Automatically produce up-to-date notes during remote team meetings so attendees can stay engaged rather than manually capturing minutes.
On-the-spot Q&A during sales calls: Provide instant factual answers or product details while sales reps are on customer calls, reducing follow-up delays.
Facilitating decision meetings: Surface key points and action suggestions live to help steering committees or product teams reach decisions faster.
Support for distributed teams: Give remote participants a persistent, real-time reference of meeting content and context to reduce miscommunication.
Taking live notes during remote or in-person meetings
Getting instant answers to questions while a call is in progress
Surfacing actionable insights and highlights during discussions
Improving meeting productivity and reducing follow-up work

VIRENCORE

Free

A native macOS floating workspace that keeps AI conversations, project memory, files and live voice together on your Mac.

Floating Cube Workspace: Hover the cube to reveal the workspace and click to pin it, or move away to hide it while tasks keep running in the background.
Per-Conversation Model Routing: Each chat picks its own model and account — ChatGPT with Codex access, supported model APIs, or a local Ollama model.
Editable Project Memory: Notes, decisions and preferences stay attached to a project and carry into later conversations, and you can review, change or remove any of them.
Live Voice Control: Speak to open a project, steer a running task or send new work, and add a correction while the task is still going.
Detachable Companion Windows: Pull out and resize a browser, a file or a second conversation so reference material sits beside the work.
Explicit Mac Access: Codex can work with files and run commands only after you turn Mac access on; screen control additionally requires Codex Desktop's signed Computer Use helper.
Local Data Storage: Conversation history and saved memory live on your Mac, and cloud processing happens only when you choose a cloud model or voice.
Open Source Beta: The macOS installer and the Apache 2.0 source are both published, so the workspace can be inspected and built from source.

Long-Running Project Work: Keep a website or client project's decisions in project memory so each session resumes instead of re-explaining the brief.
Brief to Deliverable: Have the agent read a client brief and save a proposal document, then open it in a companion window next to the conversation.
Parallel Task Execution: Start several tasks across different models at once and check back on them without blocking the conversation you are in.
Hands-Free Steering: Dictate a correction or open a project by voice while your hands are busy elsewhere on the Mac.
Privacy-Sensitive Drafting: Run a local Ollama model so conversation content never leaves the machine.
Model Comparison: Put the same question to a Codex route and a local model in adjacent windows to compare the answers side by side.