Question 1

What is the Shadow app and what does it do?

Accepted Answer

Shadow (shadow.do) is a Mac meeting assistant that runs silently in the background, captures audio and screen context during calls without joining as a bot, transcribes everything locally, and then autonomously delivers structured summaries, action items, and follow-up drafts via its Skills system. Shadow 2.0 launched May 2026. It is $8/month on the Plus plan and has a generous free tier. It is Mac-only.

Question 2

Is Jarvis a good Shadow app alternative for Windows?

Accepted Answer

Yes — and it is the only answer if you are on Windows, because Shadow has no Windows version at all. Jarvis gives you ctrl+/ from any app, screen context that is not gated to a meeting, 30+ connectors (Microsoft 365, Outlook, Gmail, Slack, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Figma), persistent memory across sessions, and the ability to act in your apps. It does not do autonomous post-meeting transcription like Shadow, but it covers everything Shadow ignores: the six hours of work that are not a meeting.

Question 3

Can Jarvis replace Shadow for meeting notes and follow-ups?

Accepted Answer

Not directly — Shadow specialises in something Jarvis does not do: local audio transcription and autonomous post-meeting Skills. If you want the automated transcript and action-item delivery, Shadow at $8/month is excellent and cheap. Most people use Jarvis as the assistant for the rest of the workday and keep a dedicated meeting tool like Shadow or Granola for the call itself. The question is what handles the six hours around the meeting.

Question 4

Does Jarvis join meetings like a bot?

Accepted Answer

No. Jarvis does not join your calls, does not transcribe audio, and does not appear to other participants. You summon it with a hotkey — from any app, including a browser tab with a video call open — and ask it a question or give it a task. It reads the active window if you share your screen, drafts a follow-up email in Gmail, updates a Linear ticket, and then gets out of the way.

Question 5

How does Jarvis memory compare to Shadow?

Accepted Answer

Shadow's memory is scoped to your meetings — it knows what was said in the call. Jarvis has two memory layers: short-term (decays naturally after events pass) and long-term (your preferences, projects, key people, ongoing threads). It learns from your screen and connectors across the whole day, not just the hour you were in a video call. Jarvis remembers the week; Shadow remembers the meetings.

Question 6

I am on a Mac. Should I use Shadow or Jarvis?

Accepted Answer

Both, if meetings are a pain point. Shadow is superb at the meeting layer — silent recording, no bot, local transcription, autonomous follow-ups at $8/month. Jarvis covers the rest of your day: the research before the meeting, the quick Slack message after, the Notion page that needs updating, the GitHub issue that came up. They do not compete. Shadow owns the call; Jarvis owns everything else.

Question 7

What makes Jarvis different from meeting AI tools like Shadow or Granola?

Accepted Answer

Scope and platform. Shadow and Granola are meeting-specific tools — they kick in when a call starts and stop when it ends. Jarvis is the assistant for the rest of the workday: screen-aware across any window, 30+ connectors so it can act in your tools, persistent memory across sessions, and available on Mac, Windows, and Linux. The mental model is a meeting tool versus a desktop co-pilot.

Feature	Jarvis	Shadow (Plus)
Works on Windows	Yes	No — Mac only — no Windows or Linux
Works on Linux	Yes	No — Mac only
Useful outside of meetings	Yes — Screen-aware across every app, all day	No — Meetings-only scope
Summon from any app via hotkey	Yes — cmd+/ on Mac, ctrl+/ on Windows	No — Activates when a meeting is detected
Third-party app connectors	Yes — 30+ connectors across email, docs, code, and project tools	No — No connectors outside meeting context
Persistent cross-session memory	Yes — Short-term (decays) + long-term (preferences, projects, people)	No — Memory is scoped to individual meeting transcripts
Screen awareness across any window	Yes — Any app, any window, on demand	Partial — Captures meeting slides and shared screens only
Acts in your apps — draft email, open ticket, update doc	Yes	No — Post-meeting summaries, not actions in apps
Autonomous post-meeting action items and follow-ups	Partial — Via memory + connectors after the call	Yes — Shadow 2.0 Skills — auto-delivered without user input
Local audio transcription (no bot in call)	No — Jarvis does not transcribe meetings	Yes — Transcription is fully local on Mac
Hands-free voice mode across every app	Yes — Same memory and connectors, spoken	No — No general voice mode
Price	info — Free 40 requests/week · Pro $16/mo · Unlimited $32/mo	info — Free tier (unlimited transcription) · Plus $8/mo

Jarvis versus Shadow for desktop assistance.

A meeting recorder and a desktop assistant are not the same product.

With Shadow alone

With Jarvis