Horch vs Soundraw

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

	Horch Audio	Soundraw Audio
Tagline	Privacy-first, on-device meeting assistant for macOS	AI music generator that spits out royalty-free, customizable tracks by genre and mood.
Category	Audio	Audio
Pricing	Paid· One-time purchase: €49 once	Freemium· Creator: €5.83/mo · Artist Starter: €10.75/mo · Artist Pro: €12.42/mo · Artist Unlimited: €17.42/mo · Enterprise: Ask
Model	Whisper (local) for transcription; optional Ollama / MLX local LLMs for summarization	Proprietary in-house model
Editorial score	—	8.2 / 10
Use cases	Confidential client meeting transcriptionAutomatic action-item extractionPer-contact relationship historyPre-meeting briefings from prior callsLocal Whisper transcription without cloud uploadFeeding meeting context into Claude or Cursor via MCPPersonal second-brain in MarkdownLegal, medical, or NDA-bound conversation notes	background musicvideo soundtrackspodcast introsstem exportroyalty-free beats
Pros	Fully on-device by default — audio and transcripts never leave the Mac unless the user opts in One-time €49 purchase instead of a recurring per-seat SaaS bill Records at OS level so no bot appears in the meeting and any app (Zoom, Meet, Teams, in-person) works Notes stored as plain Markdown in ~/Meetings — portable, greppable, Obsidian-friendly Auto-generates action items, topic summaries, and per-person profiles from spoken content MCP server exposes meeting history to Claude, Cursor, and other agent clients Local Whisper transcription plus optional Ollama/MLX means you pick the summarizer	Trained on in-house music, avoiding the copyright cloud over scrape-trained rivals Cheap entry tier ($5.99/mo) with unlimited MP3 downloads Bar-level editing and stem export for real DAW work Perpetual commercial license with creator royalty retention Public API for embedding generation in other apps
Cons	macOS only — no Windows, Linux, iOS, or web client Local Whisper and summarization need a reasonably modern Apple Silicon Mac to feel fast No cloud sync or team workspace, so sharing across a team requires bring-your-own storage Small independent product without the integrations catalog of Fireflies, Otter, or Fathom OS-level capture depends on macOS screen/audio permissions, which some corporate MDM setups block	Instrumental only; no vocals or lyric generation Output is polished but generic, more library music than artistic Stems and WAV gated behind higher tiers Closed source, proprietary model with no model details
Website	horch.app	soundraw.io

Pick Horch if

✅ Fully on-device by default — audio and transcripts never leave the Mac unless the user opts in
✅ One-time €49 purchase instead of a recurring per-seat SaaS bill
✅ Records at OS level so no bot appears in the meeting and any app (Zoom, Meet, Teams, in-person) works
✅ Notes stored as plain Markdown in ~/Meetings — portable, greppable, Obsidian-friendly

Pick Soundraw if

✅ Trained on in-house music, avoiding the copyright cloud over scrape-trained rivals
✅ Cheap entry tier ($5.99/mo) with unlimited MP3 downloads
✅ Bar-level editing and stem export for real DAW work
✅ Perpetual commercial license with creator royalty retention

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