Glimpse vs Highlight AI

Highlight watches your work and records your meetings, then turns them into briefs and drafts. Glimpse reads only when you press the key, never records a call, and stops every outgoing write at a review card.

How it opens
Glimpse⌃ Space from any app. Lives in the menu bar with no Dock icon.
Highlight AIA desktop app that captures activity across your tools in the background.
Reading the screen
GlimpseOpt-in. Lifts the focused document through the Accessibility API, including text scrolled out of view, with a screenshot as the fallback. Credentials are redacted before anything leaves the Mac.
Highlight AICaptures what you work on in the background. Passwords, sign-ins and health, financial and government content are left out.
Your tools
GlimpseMail (read locally from Apple Mail), Google Calendar, to-dos, Slack, Linear, Notion, Obsidian, Granola and GitHub. Read at the same time, with each source named under the answer.
Highlight AIGmail, Google Docs, Slack, GitHub, Notion, Linear, Granola and others.
Before it sends something
GlimpseEmails, Slack posts, issues, pull requests and deletions stop at a review card. What it carried out is kept in a ledger with its link.
Highlight AIStages drafts and tickets for your approval before sending.
Meetings
GlimpseNever records or listens. Reads your Granola notes and, after a call, plans the follow-up.
Highlight AIRecords and transcribes meetings: 20, 50 or 80 hours a month by plan.
Models
GlimpseGPT-5.6 Luna with no key, your own provider key, or frontier Claude, GPT and Gemini on Pro.
Highlight AICredit-metered models from several providers.
Runs on
GlimpsemacOS 15+, Apple silicon. Windows has a waitlist.
Highlight AIMac and Windows.
Free to start
GlimpseYes, no card. 10 requests a day with no key, uncapped with your own.
Highlight AIPaid plans listed on its pricing page.
Paid plan
GlimpsePro, $9.99/month introductory (rising to $16.99).
Highlight AILite $35, Pro $60, Max $200 a month.

Pick Highlight AI if

  • You want meeting recording and transcription built in.
  • You want an assistant that builds context in the background without being asked.
  • You work on Windows today.

Pick Glimpse if

  • You want nothing read until you press ⌃ Space, and no call ever recorded.
  • You want to start free, or pay $9.99 a month instead of $35 to $200.
  • You want /pr to commit, push and open a pull request from your working tree.

Highlight AI details checked in October 2026 against highlightai.com and Highlight pricing. Prices and features change; check their site before deciding.

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Ask your screen. And everything behind it.

Press ⌃Space anywhere in macOS. Glimpse reads the window you are in, searches the tools you already use, and stops at a review card before it writes anything.

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  • macOS 15+ · Apple silicon
  • Signed & notarized .dmg
  • Free to start, no card