AI Note Taker vs Transcripts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AI Note Taker
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You talk. Notu remembers. Notu records your conversations and turns them into structured notes — summaries, action items, and full transcripts. No templates. No manual entry. Just press record and talk. What Notu does: Records meetings, calls, voice memos, and conversations Generates AI summaries with key takeaways in under 30 seconds Extracts action items with owners and deadlines Produces full transcripts with speaker identification and timestamps Lets you search across every conversation with AI Supports 100+ languages Built for people who think out loud: Founders capturing ideas between meetings Designers and PMs documenting feedback Students who want to listen first, review later Anyone tired of taking notes instead of being present How it works: Whisper-powered transcription for accuracy Speaker diarization — knows who said what On-device recording, cloud processing Ask your notes anything with AI search Notu is free with 5 recordings per month. Upgrade to Notu Pro for unlimited recordings, unlimited AI summaries, and priority processing. Less writing. More thinking. Promotional Text: Record any conversation. Get summaries, action items, and full transcripts — automatically. Now in 100+ languages. What's New (v1.0): Hello. This is Notu. Record conversations with one tap AI summaries ready in 30 seconds Full transcripts with speaker identification Action items extracted automatically 100+ languages supported Terms of use: https://notuapp.framer.website/terms-of-service Privacy Policy : https://notuapp.framer.website/privay-policy More info: https://notu.ai
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Transcripts at none against AI Note Taker's 2. Transcripts also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). AI Note Taker's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. AI Note Taker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Transcripts asks for nothing beyond the download.
AI Note Taker ships an update every 3 weeks, Transcripts daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AI Note Taker | Transcripts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | rohe.ai | DOUGLAS HATCHER |
In-app purchases
AI Note Taker
- Pro Notu AI$17.991 Month
- Notu AI$89.991 Year
Transcripts
No in-app purchases









