Comparison

AI Note Taker vs Transcripts

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

AI Note Taker

Features
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You talk. Notu remembers. Turn meetings, lectures and ideas into clear notes—automatically. Notu records your conversations and creates AI summaries, action items and full transcripts, so you can stay present and review the details later. PRESS RECORD. STAY PRESENT. Capture a team discussion, a university lecture or an idea you want to talk through. Let Notu handle the notes while you focus on the moment. GET THE KEY TAKEAWAYS Turn a long conversation into a structured summary. Revisit the important points and decisions without replaying the entire recording. KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT Find the action items in your conversation, with owners and deadlines when they’re mentioned. Leave with clear next steps. REMEMBER WHO SAID WHAT Review full transcripts with speaker identification and timestamps. Find the wording and context behind your notes. ASK YOUR NOTES “What did we decide about the launch?” Use AI search to find answers across your recorded conversations. SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE Record and transcribe in 100+ languages. MADE FOR PEOPLE WHO THINK OUT LOUD • Founders capturing ideas between meetings • Designers and product managers reviewing feedback • Students who want to listen first and review later • Anyone who wants to spend less time writing notes START FREE Get 5 recordings per month for free. Upgrade to Notu Pro for unlimited recordings, unlimited AI summaries and priority processing. Less writing. More thinking. Terms of Use: https://notuapp.framer.website/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://notuapp.framer.website/privay-policy Learn more: https://notu.ai

About

Transcripts

Record and transcribe audio directly on your iPhone or iPad, with optional Mac integration for enhanced note-taking. Enjoy real-time transcription and secure, on-device processing for genuine privacy.

Highlights
  • On-device audio recording
  • Live speech-to-text transcription
  • Optional Mac integration for notes
  • Speaker identification and summaries (Mac)
  • Offline recording and transcription
  • Multiple cloud storage options
  • Open-source and private
Features
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Transcripts records and transcribes on your iPhone or iPad, and works with Transcripts for Mac to turn those recordings into meeting notes. Continue on your Mac Get Transcripts for Mac from the Mac App Store. Point both apps at the same Transcripts folder in iCloud Drive. The Mac processes your finished mobile recordings, adds speaker names and summaries, and saves the results back to the shared folder for you to read on iPhone or iPad. The Mac app also captures your microphone and the other side of a call, shows a live transcript, and files the finished notes where you keep them. Recording and speech processing happen on your devices; iCloud Drive syncs the files you choose to share. Your iPhone and iPad remain complete recorders on their own. A Mac is optional. Read it while you record Words appear on screen as you speak, using on-device speech recognition. No waiting for a file to upload and come back as text. It keeps recording Lock the screen, switch apps, take a call — capture continues, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island shows it is still running. Your files, your folder Recordings are saved as ordinary .m4a audio with a plain-text transcript beside each one. Choose where they go: iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, or just on your device. There is no proprietary library to escape from and nothing to export — the files are already yours. Genuinely private No servers, no accounts, no analytics, no advertising. Transcripts sends your audio nowhere: it requires on-device speech recognition and switches live text off rather than fall back to a server. Your recordings go only where you put them. Open source The app is open source under the MIT licence, so the privacy claims above are checkable rather than promised. Recording laws vary by location, and some places require the consent of everyone in a conversation. Please make sure you may lawfully record before you do.

Screenshots

AI Note Taker4 screens
Transcripts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Transcripts at none against AI Note Taker's 3. Transcripts also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AI Note Taker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Transcripts asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AI Note Taker ships an update every 5 weeks, Transcripts daily. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
AI Note Taker versus Transcripts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAI Note TakerTranscripts
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB4 MB
Age rating+44+
Developerrohe.aiDOUGLAS HATCHER

In-app purchases

3 purchases

AI Note Taker

Subscriptions3
  • Notu Weekly Pro$9.997 Days
  • Pro Notu AI$17.991 Month
  • Notu AI3 Days trial$89.991 Year
None

Transcripts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AI Note Taker free?
AI Note Taker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Transcripts free?
Transcripts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AI Note Taker or Transcripts have ads?
Neither AI Note Taker nor Transcripts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AI Note Taker or Transcripts?
AI Note Taker ships an update every 5 weeks, and Transcripts daily. Most recently, AI Note Taker was updated on November 9, 2026 and Transcripts on October 31, 2026.

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