SessionKeeper vs Recap Raven: recording at your table or on Discord

SessionKeeper offers recording through its iOS and Android apps, browser and Discord bot, plus audio uploads. That makes it a useful option for groups that alternate between online games and meeting in person.

Recap Raven records through its Discord bot, accepts Craig recordings and pasted transcripts, and can create recaps from your written session notes. If you already play in a Discord voice channel, the recap can arrive where your group is already talking. For a phone-recording workflow, SessionKeeper is the more suitable choice.

Our Discord recording guide walks through setup and the session commands. Ask everyone before recording, whichever tool you choose.

SessionKeeper’s cheapest subscription and its Discord subscription are different plans. Its Free app listing describes joining campaigns created by others; we could not verify a recurring free recording allowance.

Recap Raven includes 5 free Standard recordings in the first 30 days, then 2 every 30 days, each up to 3 hours. New accounts also receive an 8-hour Premium + Memory welcome session and can unlock another within 10 days.

SessionKeeper builds session summaries and an updating campaign wiki. Its character portraits, achievements and podcast-style session analysis give players other ways to revisit the adventure.

Recap Raven produces a player-safe recap, with private GM material kept separate. You can add your own GM notes on Free. Premium adds GM feedback and session analytics, including participation and the split between combat, exploration and social play.

SessionKeeper also offers DM and Player Assistant emails. GM advice is a feature of both products; compare the advice with the prep you actually need for next week.

Read real Recap Raven recaps in Showcase, or see how the GM prep advice can help you turn the last session into a plan for the next one.

An NPC’s offer can be easy to remember roughly and surprisingly hard to remember correctly. SessionKeeper’s Hero plan includes 100 Campaign Assistant messages per month, giving you room to ask about your campaign while you prepare.

The number of questions matters, but so does confidence in the answers. Before you build next week’s adventure around an NPC’s promise or an unresolved quest, you want to know whether the answer matches what happened at the table. We have not tested SessionKeeper’s answer quality, but its website does not show transcript-level citations at the time of our evaluation.

Recap Raven’s Searchable Memory answers include transcript quotes and source links from eligible sessions. You can read the evidence and open the surrounding conversation to check the answer for yourself. Citations do not make AI infallible, but they give you something concrete to check before treating an answer as campaign canon.

Memory sessions with Recap Raven also update Campaign World, quest progress and hooks. You can use Ask privately to plan the next game around that history, with the original session record there when you need to check a detail.

With Memory and player chat enabled, your players can also use /ask directly in Discord with the Recap Raven bot. They get player-safe campaign answers with transcript quotes and source links, so they can check a detail or plan their next move together without leaving the group chat.

Our campaign-memory guide shows the sort of questions you can bring back to your recorded sessions.

SessionKeeper describes shared campaign information as available to invited campaign members. Its privacy policy says campaign content is not used for AI training and describes opt-in voice identification.

Recap Raven keeps private GM material separate from player-safe recaps. Public Campaign Showcase is optional: choose what to publish, then readers can follow that shared story without an account. Before publishing, check the recap and ask your group what they are comfortable sharing.

Choose Recap Raven for Discord recaps, private GM review and campaign answers you can check against the transcript. Its ongoing free recording allowance gives you a way to keep using it between paid sessions. SessionKeeper is the stronger fit when you need to record on a phone or switch regularly between online and in-person games.