Zaasmi vs Cluely — An Honest Comparison

These two products look similar on the surface. Both are AI assistants that run during live calls, show suggestions only you can see, and stay hidden during screen share.

The difference isn't in the pitch. It's in the architecture — specifically, what each one does with your conversation.

At a glance

Where they're genuinely similar

Let's be fair about this first.

Both products solve the same core problem: you're in a live conversation, you need information or a better answer, and you can't pause to look it up. Both show that help on your own screen without the other side knowing. Both run as desktop apps rather than meeting bots.

If you're choosing between them purely on "does it help me during calls," they both do that.

Cluely also has more market visibility and a broader feature surface. It's positioned as a general screen-aware assistant, not just a call tool. If you want something that reads your whole screen across many contexts, that's a real difference in scope.

Where they diverge

Cluely captures screen contents and audio, and stores them. That's what enables its feature set — reviewing past sessions, screenshot-based context, and so on.

Zaasmi doesn't. Audio is processed live to generate the suggestion you see, and then it's gone. No recordings, no transcripts, no stored screenshots. The end-of-call summary is displayed to you and never written to our servers. Documents you upload as custom skills stay in your machine's local app-data folder rather than being uploaded to us.

This is a real design decision with real costs on both sides, which is worth stating plainly.

What Cluely's model gives you: persistent context, review of past sessions, richer screen understanding.

What Zaasmi's model gives you: nothing to breach, nothing to subpoena, nothing retained after you cancel.

The 2025 breach

This is the part most comparisons either sensationalise or skip. Here are the reported facts.

In mid-2025, Cluely exposed the data of more than 83,000 users. The cause was reportedly admin credentials committed to a public GitHub repository, combined with weak GraphQL protections and a client-side paywall bypass. What leaked was not just account details — it included audio transcripts, screenshots, and screen contents from live interviews, sales pitches, and confidential business meetings.

Separately, security researcher Jack Cable disclosed a vulnerability in Cluely's Electron app that allowed any website opened through it to capture screenshots continuously without user knowledge. The reported response was DMCA takedown notices rather than a fix.

Two things are true at once here. First, any company can have a breach, and a past incident doesn't mean a product is permanently unsafe — companies do fix their security. Second, the severity of a breach is determined by what the product stores, and a product built to capture confidential meetings will always have the worst possible material to lose.

That second point is structural. It doesn't get fixed by better security hygiene.

Which should you pick?

Pick Cluely if: you want a broad screen-aware assistant across many contexts, you value the ability to revisit past sessions, and you're comfortable with the storage model and the company's security history.

Pick Zaasmi if: your calls contain things you'd rather never exist as a stored file — client pricing, candidate conversations, deal terms, internal numbers — and you want help in the moment without a copy being kept.

Pick neither if: what you actually want is a searchable archive and post-call analytics. In that case a proper note-taker like Otter, Fireflies, or Fathom is a better fit, and you should accept that they're visible in the meeting and they record.

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Sources: Cluely Review (2026): Pricing, Breach, Honest Verdict, What Is Cluely AI? Data Breach, Pricing, and How It Works