Most alternatives lists mix three different kinds of product together. This page separates them, gives you the questions that actually decide the choice, and shows where Unblank fits.
Download freeCluely got famous fast, and a lot of that fame came from the "Cheat on Everything" positioning it launched with. That origin is the most common reason people start shopping around: the tool works, but the story attached to it is one they would rather not explain to a manager, a recruiter, or a compliance team.
The practical complaints are more mundane. It is a screen-reading overlay rather than a call tool, so you press a key to ask for an answer instead of the answer arriving when the other person stops talking. Its answers come from general web knowledge, not from your pricing sheet or your own work history. And the plans are shaped for teams, which is awkward if you are one person on your own calls.
Almost every comparison article lumps these together, which is why the lists feel so inconsistent. They solve different problems, and only one of them helps you while you are still on the call.
Record, transcribe and summarise after the fact. Excellent for CRM notes and coaching reviews. They do nothing for you in the moment you blank.
Read your screen and your audio, then answer when you trigger them. Broad and flexible, but you have to remember to ask, mid-conversation.
Follow the conversation and surface the next thing to say without a trigger, grounded in material you loaded in advance. This is the category Unblank is in.
These separate a tool that helps on a live call from one that only looks good in a demo.
If you have to press a shortcut to request a suggestion, you have to remember to press it while someone is talking to you. That is the exact moment your attention is most expensive. A copilot that surfaces the next line the moment the other person stops is doing a different job from one that waits to be asked.
Latency is the whole product. A suggestion that lands five seconds after you needed it is worse than nothing, because you spent those five seconds reading a blank panel instead of talking.
Generic answers are fine for generic questions. They are useless for "what is our price for 40 seats" or "tell me about a time you led a migration". A copilot worth paying for reads a brief you wrote: your pricing, your objection answers, your own background.
Ask whether the tool stores recordings or transcripts, and for how long. On a customer call this is not a preference, it is a policy question someone will eventually ask you.
A live call is an expensive place to discover how a tool behaves. A practice or role-play mode lets you find that out on a call that costs nothing.
A lot of real-time guidance software is contact-centre software wearing a new landing page, sold per seat with a minimum. If you are an individual rep, a freelancer, or a job seeker, that is the wrong shape entirely.
Unblank is a live call copilot for Windows, built around one premise: you are on a call right now and you need the next line, in your own words, drawn from what you actually know. It listens to your computer's audio, so it works with Zoom, Teams, Meet and phone bridges alike, and it never joins the call or announces itself.
| What you need mid-call | Post-call recorder | Meeting overlay | Unblank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Help while you are still talking | No | On request | Automatic |
| Grounded in your own brief | No | No | Yes |
| Practice mode before the real call | No | No | Yes |
| Call recordings stored | Yes, by design | Varies | None |
| Works with any call app | Varies | Yes | Yes |
| Priced for one person | Varies | Varies | From $29/month |
| Platform | Varies | Varies | Windows now, macOS soon |
The right copilot depends less on the brand and more on the conversation. Each of these pages walks through how the live suggestions work for that specific kind of call.
Two longer write-ups go feature by feature, including what Cluely does well and who should still pick it.
It listens to a live conversation and puts suggested wording on your screen while you are still talking. That is a different category from a post-call recorder, which works after the fact, and from a general overlay, which answers when you press a key.
Not yet. Windows 10 and 11 today, macOS coming soon.
No. It runs on your screen only, never joins the call, and never injects audio.
No. Audio is transcribed live to generate suggestions, then discarded. Live-call transcripts are never saved. Practice sessions are stored only when you choose to save them.
Yes. 15 live minutes and 5 practice minutes, valid for 7 days from first login, no card required. Full pricing is here.