Assistly vs Sensei AI: which interview copilot fits you? (2026)

Sensei AI (Sensei Copilot) is a real-time interview copilot known for two real strengths: near-instant latency and strong multilingual support for non-native English speakers. But it is browser-based, and that architecture is also its biggest weakness on screen share. Here is how it compares to Assistly.

At a glance

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What Sensei AI does well

Testers consistently praise its sub-second latency. Answers feel instantaneous, which avoids the tell-tale pause. It personalizes answers from your résumé and personal stories, structures them with the STAR method, includes a coding copilot, and supports 30+ languages, which makes it a favorite among international candidates. It also has an "AI Playground" to tune behavior. If you interview in a non-native language and live in the browser, those are real advantages.

Where users run into trouble

• The extension shows on screen share. Reviewers report the Chrome extension is "visibly active during screen sharing, making it unusable," and one tester got caught in 2 of 5 test meetings after switching tabs. Since it's browser-based, you must join the call in a browser tab. It can't use a native desktop app's audio.
• Refund and support complaints. Reviewers report a promised refund never arriving, no refunds for prior charges, and slow or absent support (Trustpilot ~3.2/5).
• Answers can read as AI-generated and need manual editing, with occasional crashes.
• Interviews only. No meetings or sales-call use.

How Assistly is different

• Make it yours, and harder to flag. Rename the app and swap its icon so it doesn't appear as a recognizable assistant in the process list or Activity Monitor, set custom knowledge modes for your own context, and bind your own hotkeys.
• Native, OS-level invisibility. Assistly's overlay is excluded from screen capture at the OS level on macOS and Windows. There is no browser extension to appear in the toolbar, and you don't have to route your call through a browser tab.
• It captures the call's own audio. So it works with headphones and with native desktop conferencing apps as well as browser tabs.
• Speaker-level context. It tracks who said what across the conversation, beyond interviewer Q&A.
• Automatic multilingual understanding. Assistly detects the spoken language (no manual setup) and understands dozens of languages, everything its transcription engine supports, building context as the conversation unfolds and giving you guidance in English. Handy when you're a non-native speaker in an English interview, or on a mixed-language call.
• Beyond interviews. Meetings, discovery calls, and sales calls too, with notes and action items after every session.
• Flat pricing and control. $14.99/month unlimited, a usable free plan, and configurable hotkeys to drive the overlay.

Which should you choose?

If you need the copilot to answer in a non-English language and you're comfortable working entirely in the browser, Sensei AI's speed and in-language output are real. If you interview in English (even as a non-native speaker) and want native, OS-level invisibility that doesn't show up on screen share, across interviews, meetings, and sales calls, with guidance that understands dozens of spoken languages, Assistly is the more robust and versatile copilot.

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