# Astari: AI Note Taker — user reviews > 55 indexed App Store user reviews of Astari by Grifalop Limited, rated 4.50/5 from 531 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astari-ai-note-taker/id6748829893/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/astari-ai-note-taker/id6748829893.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 424 · 4★ 43 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 44 ## Is Astari safe? Astari: AI Note Taker appears safe based on user ratings. The AppsHunter Safety Score for Astari is 89 out of 100. This assessment is based on 531 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5 out of 5. Of 531 App Store ratings, 87.9% point to a safe experience, 1.9% suggest some concerns, and 10.2% point to a risky experience. ## Is Astari legit? Astari: AI Note Taker appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Astari is 70 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Newest reviews (14 of 55) ### 1/5 — Scam - cannot cancel *2026-06-10* DO NOT DOWNLOAD - this company continues to take money from my account and there is no way of cancelling. No website and does not appear in subscription section of IOS ### 1/5 — Do not download/ subscribe! *2026-06-07* This is a scam to take your money. There is no functionality and so far will not even let me cancel **Developer response:** Hi, we're truly sorry for your experience. We are absolutely not a scam — we cancel subscriptions and process refunds for every single request. Please reach out to us directly at support@astari.app and we'll take care of it right away! ### 3/5 — Impossible to cancel *2026-06-04* Joke of an app money sucker. Give me back my money and stop using my card **Developer response:** Hi, we're truly sorry for your experience. We are absolutely not a scam — we cancel subscriptions and process refunds for every single request. Please reach out to us directly at support@astari.app and we'll take care of it right away! ### 4/5 — Great app *2026-05-24* Not so much a review as a question… How do I export these conversations? I can see how to export the text into many different formats, but I would like to export the recordings. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words. We’re really glad we could help and truly appreciate your support! ### 1/5 — Sneaky *2026-05-14* App does not sit in apple app subscriptions. Hard to cancel trial. **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app. ### 1/5 — Rip Off *2026-05-12, version 1.6.6* Cancelled trial, charged the next month, and all of their links for refund don’t work. Slick ### 1/5 — Language issues *2026-05-07* The AI is very poor. I speak my voice notes in english and the written notes are in arabic. And there is nowhere to correct this issue **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app. ### 1/5 — dark pattern subscription model *2026-05-07* Stay away, almost impossible to cancel, terrible customer experience **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app. ### 2/5 — Well that stunk *2026-05-05* Joined a meeting early. Hit pause until the talking started. Restarted recording for an hour meeting. Got an error processing recording, please try again with no option to retry the recording. List a full hour meeting **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app. ### 1/5 — Can not login with email link. Reditect to app and got invalid link *2026-04-30* Pay for test and can not use **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app. ### 1/5 — Não tem testar para saber se funciona *2026-04-24* A idéia é excelente, mas o aplicativo não oferece nenhuma forma de utilizar para teste! Como pagar por algo que não sabe se realmente funciona? **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app. ### 1/5 — Unable to cancel *2026-04-22* There are many purchase direct from app. **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app. ### 1/5 — Yeah don’t bother *2026-04-16* I should have known better but the questionnaire actually sounded promising. The app is lackluster. I tested with a simulated 15 minute meeting in which we discussed quite a number of takeaways. The app failed to transcribe even close to accurately. **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app. ### 1/5 — Recording *2026-04-09, version 1.6.3* I have a recording and am waiting for it to be processed. 5 hours have passed ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Misleading Facebook Ad, Fake reviews *2026-10-08* Update: Every few reviews there's a real one. They say they rip off promising free trials that they don't process, using misleading sales forms to charge twice and they deliver what every AI now gives for free. They even make privacy claims on their review replies that contradict their terms and conditions. Original: The ad promised a lot for an app that simply transcribes and summarizes notes, especially given a privacy policy that essentially warns your data could be processed anywhere in the world, for any purpose, and that it's all your fault. I'm not sure how many successful CEOs this app has actually made **Developer response:** Thank you for leaving a review! Astari is more than just an app for transcribing and summarizing notes. It also offers AI chat to help you organize your notes, recording and review support on Apple Watch and macOS, YouTube summaries, and much more. We’re sorry your experience hasn’t met your expectations, and we’d be happy to offer you a special discount in the app! Your notes and recordings are stored securely and are never shared. ### 1/5 — Gimme my money back *2026-10-01* I subscribed to Astari for a month and canceled. The concept sounded useful, but the actual experience didn’t justify paying for it. I found the app frustrating to use, and getting useful results required more effort than I expected. Instead of simplifying what I was trying to accomplish, it often felt like another layer of work. I gave it a fair try, but I didn’t find enough practical value to continue the subscription. For a paid app, I expect the experience to be intuitive, efficient, and noticeably better than tools I already have access to. Astari didn’t meet that standard for me. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I’m sorry to hear the app felt frustrating and didn’t provide the practical value you were hoping for. We truly appreciate you giving Astari a fair try and sharing your feedback. We’d be happy to offer you an extra month of Premium at no cost. Just contact us at support@astari.app, and we’ll be glad to help arrange it for you 💙 ### 1/5 — Absolutely not *2026-09-26* I have a ChatGPT, which I love. I thought that this will give me more, but it’s not as organized. And you have to pay $12 just for a small sample they tell you you can cancel within 24 hours but it will give you an error message. So you cannot cancel within 24 hours and get your money back. You really have to email them to cancel it then they’re gonna play the same card and say well this past the 24 hours we can’t give a refund😂 what a joke **Developer response:** We’re sorry to hear about your experience with the cancellation process. Refund options may be available, and we’re working to improve our cancellation system. We’d also like to offer you three weeks of Premium benefits at no cost! Please contact us at support@astari.app so we can help you as soon as possible. ### 1/5 — Misleading Facebook Ad *2026-09-19* The ad promised a lot for an app that simply transcribes and summarizes notes, especially given a privacy policy that essentially warns your data could be processed anywhere in the world, for any purpose, and that it's all your fault. I'm not sure how many successful CEOs this app has actually made **Developer response:** Thank you for leaving a review! Astari is more than just an app for transcribing and summarizing notes. It also offers AI chat to help you organize your notes, recording and review support on Apple Watch and macOS, YouTube summaries, and much more. We’re sorry your experience hasn’t met your expectations, and we’d be happy to offer you a special discount in the app! Your notes and recordings are stored securely and are never shared. ### 1/5 — Stealing money *2026-09-17* I downloaded this app and got their subscription to try it but I didn’t like it and tried to cancle my subscription right away. Everytime I click Cancle subscription, a page pops up saying Something went wrong. They are keep deducting money from my account from last 3-4 months. I tries multiple times to cancel the subscription but I think they want to steal more money. **Developer response:** Thank you for leaving a review. We’re sorry to hear you’ve had trouble canceling your subscription and that you’ve been charged unexpectedly. Please contact us immediately at support@astari.app so we can help cancel your subscription and refund the unwanted charges. We will also give you a free month of Premium benefits as compensation 💙 ### 1/5 — Asking for money right away *2026-09-11* As a business owner hoped to try this app to see if it really is benifital for me, as soon as I download the app it asks for payment plan but I don’t even know if it’s good or not yet if I was going to pay for apps before even trying them the amount of money I would have wasted on nonsense apps, quality apps speak for itself so I’m guessing this isn’t it if you won’t let us experience it before we can even decide if we want to pay monthly, had high hopes, great idea but rlly put me off instantly **Developer response:** Thanks for sharing your review. We don’t currently offer Premium trials, but we’d be happy to offer you a discounted subscription for one week. Please contact us at support@astari.app, and we’ll be glad to help 😊 ### 1/5 — Total Scam watch out! *2026-09-05* I saw the advertisement and decided to check it out. Paid one month for 15.99 dollars. Downloaded the app and after a few clicks there comes a second charge to my credit card which I didn’t authorize for 29.99. Then when I dig into the app it says I need to spend a few more to get some basic functionality. Contacted support and they said the second charge was an AI upsell. I didn’t sign up for this extra feature. Bottom line, I was robbed about 46 USD. Immediately canceled the app. Stay away!!! **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We’re sorry to hear that you were charged a second time for a feature you didn't want to use. Please email us at support@astari.app, and we’ll be happy to help you with a refund for your $29.99 AI purchase. You can continue using all the main recording features with the $15.99 plan you already have. Please feel free to reach out - we’re always working to improve. ### 1/5 — Scam cant Cancel *2026-08-03* Bad experience app isnt working and taking my money. Cant even find how this can be canceled. Scam artists. Needs to be reported! **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app ### 1/5 — Not accessible *2026-07-15* I got this app not realizing that it was made without s thought for the disabled community. Sure I can speak into the phone but the new IOS has amazing features that could have been incorporated. Thanks for forgetting a whole segment of the population, but no worries you’re right on schedule with our government. **Developer response:** Thank you for sharing this feedback — you're absolutely right that accessibility matters, and we're sorry the app didn't meet your needs. We genuinely care about making Astari usable for everyone, and your input helps us prioritize what to build next. We're actively exploring how we can better incorporate iOS accessibility features in upcoming updates. If you'd like to share specific features you had in mind, we'd love to hear them — reach out at support@astari.app and we'll make sure it gets to our product team. ### 1/5 — Avoid this trash *2026-06-22* Please don't try to use this trash!!! The speech recognition system is awful, sometimes they miss the sentences, and what's worse, they sometimes miss recognizing important numbers and grades, for example, I say I get A plus, but it recognizing as A) The AI assistant and a summary are also useless, they use some model that seems to be at least two years ago, even have tons of errors when calculating some simple numbers. And they cannot connect with each other components: my AI assistant doesn't even know the existence of my summary and overview in the app. The user interface and user experience is also laggy and awful. This thing is not only useless but might also cost a lot of trouble if you rely on it... **Developer response:** Hi! Sorry to hear you had issues. Please contact our support team so we can help you and look into this right away: support@astari.app ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent app *2026-06-12* Having used other hardware-based note takers, I was looking for something that could do the same without having to carry another device. What a surprise. Astari, working from the watch, captured a great transcription from a large room with about twenty-five people, even those clear across the room. The transcription was excellent. The summaries are really good. Much better than what I'm used to, and I'm very happy with it. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words. We’re really glad we could help and truly appreciate your support! ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-06-04* I'm incredibly impressed with Astari. It is excellent at summarizing my meetings. I work remotely, and all of my meetings are on Microsoft Teams. The transcription can get a little messy as it tries to distinguish different voices, but manually cleaning that has been fairly easy. But the meeting summaries and note capturing are spot on. I’ve recommended the app to several coworkers. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words. We’re really glad we could help and truly appreciate your support! ### 5/5 — Excellent app *2026-05-28* Having used other hardware-based note takers, I was looking for something that could do the same without having to carry another device. What a surprise. Astari, working from the watch, captured a great transcription from a large room with about twenty-five people, even those clear across the room. The transcription was excellent. The summaries are really good. Much better than what I'm used to, and I'm very happy with it. ### 5/5 — Great product *2026-05-01* I’ve been using it for about a month now—an excellent solution for summarizing in-person, offline meetings. Highly recommended. The AI-generated summaries are outstanding and automatically delivered to your email once completed. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words. We’re really glad we could help and truly appreciate your support! ### 5/5 — I am SO happy! *2026-04-29* I have been using Astairi to transcribe my voice notes for a few weeks now and VERY pleased with the results. The transcription is superb and their team was exceptionally responsive to my requests to link my app on my phone with my email automatically. THANK YOU~ **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words. We’re really glad we could help and truly appreciate your support! ### 5/5 — A great, game changing resourcee *2026-04-01* Astari does a great job recording calls, presentations, and events (e.g. panel discussions), with full transcript and summary provided. The Chat function is very helpful in distilling the notes further for Exec Summary and posting purposes. Works nicely on an Apple Watch with the push of the record button. Based on some of my initial outreach, their Customer Service appears to be very responsive too. Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — No Friction. Just Execution. Astari Delivers *2026-03-29* I’ve tested a lot of tools trying to capture ideas, conversations, and action items on the fly, and nothing has been as seamless as using Astari AI Recorder on the Apple Watch. The biggest win is simple. It’s always on me. No extra device. No friction. No thinking. I just raise my wrist, speak, and move on. That alone makes it powerful. What really separates Astari is what happens after the capture. It does not just record. It turns what I say into something usable. Clean summaries. Organized thoughts. Actionable output I can immediately apply to my business. I use it for: • Quick ideas during the day • Notes after calls or meetings • Podcast thoughts on the fly • Reminders that actually turn into execution The speed is what stands out. There is zero delay between thinking something and capturing it. When you operate at a high level, that matters. If you value efficiency, hate carrying extra devices, and want a tool that actually helps you execute, this is it. Bottom line: Astari on the Apple Watch turns your thoughts into action without slowing you down. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words. We’re really glad we could help and truly appreciate your support! ### 5/5 — The Best App for AI Note taking *2026-03-24* I've used this app for many different aspects of running my day-to-day business. I can tell you without doubt this is probably the note taking app on the market today. The template function is essential for being able to create different AI responses with respect to the audience that I'm speaking with. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words. We’re really glad we could help and truly appreciate your support! ### 5/5 — Excellent and affordable *2026-03-21, version 1.6.2* I had a consultation with my doctor this morning. During the 35 minutes, he was typing his findings.  I switched on Astari when I entered his room.  I also switched on Plaud, a competitor of yours to compare.  When I left the doctor I switched off both applications and a few minutes later I had the output.  My doctor had printed his report and handed it to me.  Astari's output was clear, clean and accurate. I like the minimalistic layout and organized structure. The content was comparable to the printed report, but the printed version lacked structure.  Plaud output was equally accurate. For day to day use, at its price point I can only give praise to Astari. I am impressed and I wish I had found this application years sooner.  For professional use you can select many different templates at no additional cost. I use an iPhone but when I suggested Astari to a friend, we realized that it doesn't run on Android yet. Plaud beats Astari on that one.  One extra option I would welcome and is also not available with plaud, is the ability to translate the output.  Both recognize several languages so adding this would save me the time to copy or export the results into Google translate or similar tools, but in that step you lose the neat structure that these applications offer.  There are many similar applications available. Astari doesn't require hardware investment like for instance Plaud and it also offers a one time purchase instead of monthly subscriptions with unlimited use. This is a very compelling reason to consider this application. For good measure, I don't have investments in Astari, nor is there any incentive offered to share this review. ### 5/5 — Great app for notes *2026-03-12* I have used Astari now for several days and it is very accurate and easy to use. I love that I can use my Apple Watch to capture conversations. Their customer care and support is exceptional. **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words. We’re really glad we could help and truly appreciate your support! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-12.*