WRITER vs. Zoom AI Companion

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
WRITER
Score 8.4 out of 10
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WRITER is an end-to-end platform for building, activating, and supervising AI agents across the enterprise. It empowers IT and business teams to collaboratively build agents that automate work, improve decision making, and drive business outcomes.
$39
per month per user
Zoom AI Companion
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Zoom Custom AI Companion gives admins the ability to customize AI Companion outputs by accessing an organization’s internal data sources, as well as third-party applications within Zoom AI Studio for expanded knowledge, helping users drive decisions, actions, and complete tasks.N/A
Pricing
WRITERZoom AI Companion
Editions & Modules
Starter
$39
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
WRITERZoom AI Companion
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
WRITERZoom AI Companion
Considered Both Products
WRITER
Chose WRITER
I tried to find the learning platforms on your search bar but nothing returned. It's basically a contest on who can implement our company's training point of view in all of their training assets/workflows. None of the 5 companies can match what WRITER did. This is because we …
Chose WRITER
I did not select WRITER, as it was selected by my predecessor. I am not sure they even evaluated the tool against others, as I heard it was used at her previous organization. WRITER would not have been on my tools to evaluate and I most likely would have went with Jasper.
Chose WRITER
Writer is much better at creating user friendly content.
Chose WRITER
I use both. Copilot does a great job of sources content but lacks good outputs. Writer can import that content and make the deliverable understandable and useful.
Chose WRITER
Writer's "recipes" and workflow approach allow me to think through the process of generation better than an open-chat format like ChatGPT or Gemini. It also is more flexible than Jasper (at least when I tested both).
Chose WRITER
Grammarly notoriously falls short on inclusive writing suggestions. Grammarly always missing out on punctuation that Writer's app picks up. The free version of Grammarly doesn't allow you view suggestions at-a-glance.

The Writer Chrome extension provides a helpful side-panel …
Chose WRITER
i find Writer a more comprehensive tool, although ChatGPT's ability to write social media posts is similar to that of Writer. Writer can tackle longer pieces of writing. their summarisation skills are comparable.
Chose WRITER
Writer has the best quality writing I've come across. Writer is also best in class when it comes to applying brand voice in a way that feels human and authentic. I also love the clean interface. I don't get distracted; I just get down to writing. The Learning Center is also a …
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Each other tool has AI capabilities, but Writer is a communication or marketing team's best friend. So much of what we do is driven by the written word and needing to craft a ton of it in short order. Writer helps us sound like we're writing for the company, gets us from blank …
Chose WRITER
I love how Writer's interface is clearly designed as an entire page -- instead of a tiny textbox at the corner of the screen. I also appreciate the emphasis on privacy and security.
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Writer is one of the more affordable AI writing assistant platforms but it doesn't have as much depth as some of the others for SEO analysis and optimization recommendations. Writer's focus is definitely more on copywriting aspects of content creation vs optimization.
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Castmagic is harder to use (its UX leaves much to be desired) but for content creation, its abilities are superior than Writer's. I actually use both programs. I appreciate that Castmagic automatically provides a transcript.
Chose WRITER
I like the way their LLM works, as it feels more tailored to my brand. Plus, the Writer interface is easy to use for the less technically-minded.

Not sure if the other platforms have browser apps, but I like Writer's.
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Writer is best tool among its competitors as it does the automated correction and automated sentence completion very well. Also, it's following the data security guidelines so we know that our data is safe with Writer. Writer makes the sentence with AI and gives a good impact …
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Wordpress is not very clear about the tools that are available with some themes over others. Instead, Write has multiple functions and makes the work complete in its entirety. It's easy to navigate and it also allows me to use multiple accounts. It has database links and at the …
Chose WRITER
Helps my team get material ready for publishing as fast as possible It's very customisable and helpful for purposes beyond simple grammar and spelling checks. We can use it to ensure punctuation/formatting consistency, naming consistency (we use a lot of proprietary …
Chose WRITER
Grammarly is very advanced, but I use Writer as It offers me additional features like word count, a cleaner interface, and a word processor for taking notes.
Zoom AI Companion
Chose Zoom AI Companion
I think Zoom AI Companion works really well with ChatGPT, our teams use both and we need both - Zoom AI for the Zoom Meetings and ChatGPT for searching the web. Azure isn't as smart as Zoom AI, at least in the use cases that we used them for in construction.
Chose Zoom AI Companion
Teams seems to provide better quality overall when it comes to video or calls. Teams being a Microsoft product integrates well with Office 365 as well. We ended up switching from Zoom Workplace to Microsoft Teams due to more features and overall better experience for our …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
In our experience, Cloudcall was horrible. Zoom Workplace phone has been a life saver and better in every way.
Chose Zoom AI Companion
Zoom has better compatibility compared to Teams at our institution. It also supports a wider array of codecs. We like using Zoom despite the fact that both Teams and Zoom are supported at an enterprise level at our academic institution. Zoom also seems to have better video and …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
Zoom Workplace was a great choice to host grand meeting; we were having quarterly grand meeting more than 500 staff in the meeting with the owner of the company. Zoom was able to host these grand meeting perfectly with high quality and stable call all while sharing screen and …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
Compared to Microsoft Teams, Zoom AI Companion is a clear pioneer in this remote and virtual collaboration platform, leading the way. It is possible to have a remote meeting on both Microsoft Teams and Zoom AI Companion. But Zoom AI Companion provides more productivity and time …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
As a videoconferencing tool, Zoom stacks up similarly. There are AI Companion tools we haven't seen with Teams yet, but they may be there now or coming soon with Co-Pilot in play on the Microsoft side. I do like having Teams and Sharepoint connections with being able to share …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
Better screen sharing functionality. Better sound quality and better video quality. Less lagging on Zoom Workplace as well
Chose Zoom AI Companion
My current workplace uses Google Chat, which is sometimes blocked by certain institutions for whatever reason. Zoom Workplace is available and a great solution.

Both Google and Teams have issues with video playback on my current Surface Laptop. Zoom has no issues and the video …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
I think the user experience on Zoom Workplace is better than Microsoft Teams
Chose Zoom AI Companion
We continue to use Slack over Zoom chat. Zoom chat is used for meetings only.
Chose Zoom AI Companion
We chose Zoom Workplace over Slack due to its integrated video conferencing, enhanced collaboration tools, and robust meeting capabilities. Zoom Workplace excels in video-centric communication, virtual events, and room scheduling. Slack is ideal for real-time messaging and file …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
Teams has never worked for our organization, it constantly crashes the computers, freezes up, and is not as easy to navigate for us.
Chose Zoom AI Companion
Zoom Workplace has the most reliable video and audio connectivity, especially for large audiences. No dropped calls or meetings, hi def video streaming, intuitive controls for showing or hiding video, mute/unmute, gestures, a marketplace of apps that are seamlessly integrated. …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
we have not evaluated other vendors
Chose Zoom AI Companion
I think Zoom Workplace Clips is much better than the free versions of Loom and Screencastify.

I like the UI for Teams better, but I have not been able to use the other features in teams to accurately compare.
Chose Zoom AI Companion
You couldn't pay me enough money to use Microsoft Teams on a regular basis. In my opinion, Zoom Workplace is in a class of its own as compared to Teams. I think the Teams experience is clunky, cumbersome and includes too many features. I was glad to see the one feature that I …
Chose Zoom AI Companion
Zoom Workplace has better-quality video and the AI feature is defiantly a plus
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Jasper
Jasper
Score 7.9 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Score 8.8 out of 10

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Enterprises
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IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Score 8.8 out of 10
Oracle Digital Assistant
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Score 7.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
WRITERZoom AI Companion
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
WRITERZoom AI Companion
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Writer is perfect for marketing professionals who need to draft copy about dense topics and subject matter, such as within tech and product companies. It bridges the gap of knowledge between marketer and engineer and saves the former countless minutes to bring what the latter develops to the marketplace
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I think Zoom Workplace is great for work calls. One bug or thing that I don't like about Zoom is I can't actually share the software application while screen sharing. For example, I can't show a whiteboard when I'm screen sharing when I'm using it from the desktop application, so it forces me to have to use the browser, which I don't love
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Pros
  • Rewrite tool is incredibly helpful; both in the Writer environment and the Google Chrome extension. Not buggy or laggy like other extensions I've tried.
  • Ask Writer allows me to engage with documents in a conversational manner, instead of spending time crafting and sharpening my prompts.
  • Quality responses from Ask Writer. Unlike other GPTs that are riddled with mistakes and hallucinations, I can use Writer confidently without being paranoid about triple-checking my work. I've used Writer for one year now and only found one error in that time.
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  • Large meeting rooms that our marcomms team is able to navigate and problem solve with quickly and easily.
  • Ability to schedule meetings with internal and external team members for workshops. Provides us with several tools to communicate and share ideas without having to even turn your mic on.
  • AI companion to remember points that were made and provide a summary to those who were unable to attend after the meeting.
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Cons
  • i do find the organisation a bit confusing, like the functions available in 'ask Writer' being separate to the main window. there were lots of functions i wasn't able to find intuitively that we needed a support call for
  • asking for a summary of key points doesn't always pick up the main points
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  • Displaying the name of the meeting in an accessible place so users know whether they've clicked into the wrong meeting or not
  • Making it easier to edit permissions for meetings from the app instead of logging into the browser to change from passcode to require authentication
  • Enhancing some of the functionality for breakout rooms like timers other than when the rooms are going to close
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Usability
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It's really easy to use - the AI icon is everywhere all over the place in the Zoom client so it's easy to be able to leverage AI whenever you need it, and similarly in the meeting it's easy to find and to use. I don't have complaints here that I can think of
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Alternatives Considered
I tried to find the learning platforms on your search bar but nothing returned. It's basically a contest on who can implement our company's training point of view in all of their training assets/workflows. None of the 5 companies can match what WRITER did. This is because we would be needing a blank canvass to paint our vision of what a perfect training looks like; the other platforms may or may not be open to some of the suggestions that we might IMMEDIATELY need; since WRITER is just a regular Full-Stack AI platform and we already pay for it; we did not need to find another solution for this and potentially saved hundred thousand dollars
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Compared to Microsoft Teams, Zoom AI Companion is a clear pioneer in this remote and virtual collaboration platform, leading the way. It is possible to have a remote meeting on both Microsoft Teams and Zoom AI Companion. But Zoom AI Companion provides
more productivity and time savings to users. Zoom AI Companion continues to enhance its features to provide value to the product.
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Return on Investment
  • For its part Writer has built-in drawing tools, facilitating my work on new basic technological creations.
  • It also has a complete equation editor when quantifying any report.
  • But it has a limited group of Fonts and at the same time has a slow processing speed
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  • It has allowed us to work seamlessly with hybrid work environments
  • It has allowed us to have clients or vendors share seamlessly when they are in office. Makes it look like we have our [...] together, thanks!
  • Other options we were looking at (barco) would have been such a large chunk of money to get even half the rooms we have done. You are top notch!
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ScreenShots

WRITER Screenshots

Screenshot of the shared development environment where IT tackles technical complexity and business defines logic.Screenshot of an example high-impact agent, used to accelerate adoption and minimizing change management.Screenshot of the centralized command center designed to offer everything IT needs to govern a secure, healthy ecosystem of high-performing agents.

Zoom AI Companion Screenshots

Screenshot of Zoom AI Companion for Zoom Workplace, here used to analyze a document. It gets information about documents connected to Zoom Workplace, including email attachments, documents from chat, and Zoom Docs. With Zoom AI Companion for Zoom Meetings, Meeting Summary can take notes and share important action items. Summaries are shared in 36 supported languages, automatically detected by the main language spoken during the meeting.Screenshot of Zoom AI Companion for Zoom Team Chat, Zoom Mail and Calendar, and Zoom Docs, used to get a summary of the chat channel, email, and documents. Instead of reading a long email, users can get a quick summary.Screenshot of Zoom AI Companion for Zoom Phone, which offers a post-call summary during a recorded conversation.