DoneThat vs Cluely

The short answer

These two products have almost nothing in common, and the useful thing this page can do is explain why rather than manufacture a comparison.

Cluely is a real-time meeting assistant. It listens to your calls, transcribes in 12+ languages at a stated 300ms response time, and surfaces answers and next steps during the conversation. Its stated primary differentiator is that other participants cannot detect it.

DoneThat reconstructs your working day and coaches you on it. It is not a meeting tool.

What Cluely does well

Real-time is the right ambition. A summary after a call is a record; help during a call can change the outcome. For live interviews, sales calls or support escalations, in-the-moment assistance is genuinely more valuable, and Cluely's 300ms response time and 12+ language transcription are serious engineering.

Broad meeting coverage. Zoom, Slack, Webex, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, without joining as a visible participant that clutters the attendee list.

Mobile as well as desktop.

The undetectability question

This has to be addressed directly, because it is Cluely's headline feature rather than a footnote: it does not appear as an attendee, does not show in screen shares, and is invisible to the other people in the call.

Three things worth knowing before you rely on that:

Recording law varies. Many jurisdictions require consent from all parties to record a conversation. Participants who cannot see a tool cannot consent to it. This is not a hypothetical distinction — it is the basis of two-party consent statutes in a number of places.

Policies frequently prohibit it. Employer, client and platform terms often ban undisclosed recording or AI assistance in meetings, independently of local law.

The other participants are in your data. Whatever your own comfort level, a covert transcript contains other people's words, captured without their knowledge.

None of that makes the product illegitimate — plenty of users are on solo calls, or in single-party consent jurisdictions, or using it purely for their own notes with everyone's knowledge. It does mean the feature that distinguishes it is the feature that needs the most checking before use.

DoneThat has audio understanding, and it is not a covert meeting assistant. We are not competing for this use case.

Pricing

Cluely is available from the App Store and as a desktop app. Pricing was not published on the pages reviewed on 11 August 2026, so no figures are quoted here.

DoneThat is subscription-based with a 14-day free trial; current prices are on the DoneThat download page.

Different questions entirely

Cluely's question: what should I say next, and what was agreed?

DoneThat's question: where did this week go, and what should I change?

Cluely does not reconstruct your day, total time by project, set goals, or notice that your stated priority has been quietly starved for three weeks. Don does that, and reaches out during the work — nudging you onto goals, blocking calendar time, flagging low-value work while you can still fix it, checking your mood, reminding you of meetings, suggesting breaks.

On capture, since both see your screen: DoneThat never stores screenshots — processed in real time, immediately deleted, only the derived structured activity persists. Excluded apps are redacted on your machine before anything is sent. With your own Gemini or OpenAI-compatible model, raw activity never reaches our servers. Visibility on summaries is set per person. The desktop app is open source.

Where Cluely is the better choice

• You need help during a live call, not a summary after it.
• You take a lot of calls in several languages. 12+ languages with fast transcription is a real capability.
• Meeting notes and next steps are the deliverable.
• You work across many meeting platforms.
• You need it on mobile.

Where DoneThat is the better choice

• You want to understand your working time, not your meetings.
• You want coaching against goals rather than in-call answers.
• You want AI tools to have your work history through MCP and an API.
• You need something you can disclose. DoneThat is a tool you run on your own work, not one that operates invisibly to other people in a conversation.
• Your team wants shared signal without surveillance. Summary-level dashboards, relative trends rather than per-person hours, visibility set per summary, optional mood tracking.
• You want peer accountability. Follow others, share summaries, Slack and Discord, accountability groups — all opt-in.

How we compared these

Everything stated about Cluely comes from its public site, read on 11 August 2026 and linked below. No pricing is quoted because none was published on the pages reviewed.

Claims about DoneThat are first-hand: we build it. We have described Cluely's undetectability as what the vendor presents it as — its main selling point — and raised the consent and policy questions as things to check, not as accusations. Its real-time capability is better than anything we do in a live call, because we do not attempt that.

Questions people ask about Cluely

What does Cluely actually do?

It listens to your meetings in real time, transcribes in 12+ languages with a stated 300ms response time, and surfaces answers, notes and next steps during the call through a keyboard shortcut. It works with Zoom, Slack, Webex, Teams and Google Meet.

Is Cluely undetectable to other people in the meeting?

That is its stated primary differentiator: it does not join visibly, does not appear in screen shares, and is invisible to other participants. Before relying on that, check your local recording law — many jurisdictions require consent from all parties — and your employer's and client's policies, which often prohibit undisclosed AI assistance.

Is Cluely a time tracker?

No. It is a meeting assistant. It will not reconstruct your day, total time by project, or tell you where your week went. If that is the question, this is a different category of tool.

Cluely vs DoneThat?

They barely overlap. Cluely helps you during a live conversation. DoneThat reconstructs your working day and coaches you against your goals — including audio understanding, but not as a covert in-meeting assistant. If you want meeting help, Cluely or a disclosed notetaker; if you want to understand your work, DoneThat.