Cluely Alternative: Meetings or Interviews?

What Cluely is

Cluely's home page (August 2026) calls the product the “#1 Undetectable AI for Meetings” and says it takes perfect meeting notes and gives real-time answers, all while completely undetectable.

Cluely is a meeting assistant. Its home page (August 2026) describes an AI that listens to a call as it happens, takes the notes without being asked, answers on a Cmd or Ctrl + Enter shortcut, and produces a recap and follow-up questions when the call ends. The same page publishes three numbers most vendors in this category do not: 300ms response time, 95% transcription accuracy and 12+ languages.

The named integrations are meeting software — Zoom, Slack, Webex, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. Its undetectability page (August 2026) says Cluely “never joins your meetings, so there are no bots and no extra people on the guest list,” and that it “never shows up in shared screens, recordings, or external meeting tools.” It ships as a desktop app for macOS 10.15 or later on Apple Silicon or Intel and for Windows 11, per its download page, alongside an iPhone app the App Store lists as “Cluely: AI Notetaker” by Cluely Inc, filed under Productivity and requiring iOS 17.0 or later.

Where interviews appear, they appear as one more conversation worth notes. Its mobile page (August 2026) is headed “AI meeting notes on the go” and names Interview first in a list of eighteen occasions that also includes Coffee chat, Lecture, Therapy Session, Doctor Visit, Client Call, Dinner and Note to Self. Its own sitemap (August 2026) lists 24 pages, none of them an interview page or a coding page, and the comparison posts on its blog are written against Granola and Otter.

Everything in this section was read on Cluely's own site in August 2026. If their site did not say something, we left it out.

How the two are built

The binary is not the interesting part here. Both products are native desktop applications for macOS and Windows, both draw a movable window of their own, and both are built so that window stays out of what a meeting client captures. Cluely adds a genuinely distinct architectural choice on top: its undetectability page says it never joins the meeting, so unlike a bot-based notetaker there is no extra participant on the guest list.

The difference is what each pipeline is pointed at. Cluely's starts with the conversation — transcribe the room, follow it, answer on a keystroke, then emit notes, a recap and follow-up questions. That is a coherent design for a call whose value is spread evenly across forty minutes of talking, and it is why the output is a document.

Stealth Interview starts with pixels and ends with something you can compile. You capture the problem statement, and the model works from the text, the constraints and the examples exactly as the assessment platform rendered them; what comes back is a solution, an explanation of why it works, and the complexity you will be asked to defend. Interviewer audio is transcribed as a second input alongside it, so a follow-up asked out loud is answered against the code already on your screen rather than in isolation. A transcript of someone reading a problem title aloud carries none of the constraints that decide which algorithm is correct.

The last structural difference is where each company puts the price. Cluely's pricing page separates the assistant from the hiding: $19.99 for Pro, $149.99 for Pro + Undetectability. Ours does not separate them, because for a candidate sharing a screen the two are the same product. Nothing in this section claims what any platform can or cannot observe when either product runs — we have not tested Cluely and would not publish a guess.

What the platforms actually document

Cluely is unusually precise about its own scope, and that precision is worth reading closely before you buy either product. Its highest tier is described on its pricing page (August 2026) as “Completely hidden to meeting screen sharing software,” and the platforms named across its pages are Zoom, Slack, Webex, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. Meeting software and proctoring software are different categories of program, and no page we read on either company's site makes a claim about the second.

Proctored assessments are where documented enforcement actually lives, and the platforms publish it themselves. HackerRank's knowledge base (August 2026) documents Secure Mode as a controlled browser environment: full screen enforced, copy and paste blocked, multiple monitors prevented, tab switches flagged. Proctor Mode keeps all of that and adds screenshot analysis, plagiarism detection and webcam anomaly detection.

Desktop App Mode is a different regime entirely. HackerRank documents it as a lightweight desktop application the candidate installs on Windows or macOS, which blocks other applications for the duration of the test — its documentation names video conferencing, messaging and LLM applications — detects and closes programs opened during the test, prevents screen sharing and screenshots, checks continuously for multiple monitors and screen mirroring, refuses to run on a virtual machine, and blocks remote access. If an employer sends you that, the honest answer is not a different overlay: it is to sit the assessment on your own merits and put your preparation into the patterns it will actually ask about. Any vendor that tells you otherwise, including this one, would be selling something it cannot deliver.

If that last point is where you have landed, start with the breadth-first search pattern: one technique, a template, and the LeetCode problems that use it.

When Cluely makes more sense

We are not right for everyone. These are the cases where they win — and we would rather tell you now than take your money.

The call is a meeting, not a coding round

This is the honest headline of the whole page. Cluely is built for client calls, standups and pitches, and its own pages say so from the tagline down. If your week is conversations rather than algorithm problems, Stealth Interview is the wrong purchase at any price: it reads a coding question off a screen and returns code, and it does nothing else.

You want something to keep afterwards

Notes taken without typing, a recap, and follow-up questions when the call ends, per its home page (August 2026). Stealth Interview produces nothing once the interview is over — when the call ends, it is done. If you sit ten calls a week and cannot remember which one raised the pricing objection, that artefact is worth more than anything on our side of this table.

Price is the deciding factor and you are not screen-sharing

Pro is $19.99 a month, the cheapest month-to-month amount in this comparison, and Starter is free. Our plans start at $49. If you want AI answers in a call and nobody is watching your screen, their Pro tier is the better deal and we are not going to talk you out of it.

You need it on an iPhone

The App Store lists Cluely: AI Notetaker for iPhone on iOS 17.0 or later, with in-app purchases at $7.99 weekly and $139.99 annual. Stealth Interview is a desktop application for macOS and Windows: no iPhone build, no iPad build, no browser build. On a phone we are not an option at any price.

Why Stealth Interview wins

Six things it does today. Not a waitlist, not a roadmap.

• Built for the round, not the calendar

  Stealth Interview does one thing: the live technical interview. A coding problem appears on your screen, you capture it, and a working solution comes back. There is no notetaking, no recap and no meeting summary, because none of those win a coding round.

• Screenshot in, working solution out

  The part of a coding problem that decides the answer is written, not spoken: the input bounds that rule out an O(n squared) approach, the return type, the worked example on an empty array. We read that off the screen as the platform rendered it.

• Complexity comes with the answer

  Every solution arrives with a step-by-step explanation and its time and space complexity, because the next question in a coding round is almost always why it is O(n log n) and not O(n).

• The hidden window is not a $130 upgrade

  Staying out of screen-sharing capture is included on every Stealth Interview plan, starting at $49 a month. Per Cluely's pricing page (August 2026), the same capability is the difference between Pro at $19.99 and Pro + Undetectability at $149.99.

• You pick the model

  Starter includes GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra. Premium and Hunter add GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Opus 5. The plan you buy tells you exactly which models you get, by name.

• The platforms interviewers actually use

  The app stays hidden on CoderPad, HackerRank, CodeSignal and LeetCode, alongside Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex — the assessment tools a coding round runs in, not only the meeting client it is scheduled in.

What the round is worth

Every subscription on this page — ours included — is noise next to the difference one offer makes. That is the number to optimise for.

Pricing

Cluely alternative: common questions

Is Stealth Interview a Cluely alternative?

For interviews, yes — and they are less alike than the category suggests. Stealth Interview is a macOS and Windows desktop app built only for live technical rounds: it reads the coding problem on your screen, returns a working solution with a step-by-step explanation and its time and space complexity, transcribes interviewer audio, and is not captured by screen-sharing software. Cluely's own pages (August 2026) describe a meeting assistant that takes notes and answers in real time.

Is Cluely built for coding interviews?

Its own pages describe a meetings product. The words interview, coding and assessment do not appear on its pricing page; its mobile page names Interview first among eighteen occasions that also include Therapy Session, Doctor Visit and Dinner; its manifesto names sales calls, meetings and negotiations; and no coding assessment platform is named anywhere we read in August 2026. We are reporting what they publish, not testing what their product does.

What do the two products cost?

Stealth Interview is $49 a month for Starter, $150 for six months for Premium and $250 for a year for Hunter, with unlimited usage on all three. Cluely's pricing page listed Starter at $0, Pro at $19.99 a month and Pro + Undetectability at $149.99 a month when we read it in August 2026.

Do I have to pay extra to stay hidden during a screen share?

Not with us. Every Stealth Interview plan includes it, starting at $49 a month — the app draws its own window and that window is not captured by screen-sharing or meeting software. On Cluely's published tiers it is the difference between Pro at $19.99 and Pro + Undetectability at $149.99.

Which platforms and models does Stealth Interview cover?

It stays hidden on CoderPad, HackerRank, CodeSignal and LeetCode, alongside Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex. Starter includes GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra; Premium and Hunter add GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Opus 5.

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