Audionotes

Audionotes turns voice, audio, video, and text into structured notes with AI. Users can record or upload audio and video, add text or images, or submit a YouTube link. Transcription supports 99+ languages and speaker recognition. The service creates summaries and custom outputs, supports chat with notes, and offers more than 100 output prompts. Integrations include Notion, Zapier, webhooks, and a WhatsApp bot; Notion sync, Zapier triggers, and webhooks are Pro features. Webhooks can send note data to a custom endpoint, while a public REST API is listed as planned. The company says notes are encrypted in transit and at rest and are not used to train AI models. Its privacy policy names OpenAI, Google Gemini, Deepgram, and Assembly AI among providers that may process data for AI features. The free plan includes unlimited voice notes, each limited to one minute, plus unlimited text notes, transcripts, and summaries. Pro costs $29.99 a month and allows recordings up to six hours. Recording uses the device microphone and does not capture audio from other sources such as speakers.

Audionotes supports several input types and offers transcription, summaries, and note chat, with a free tier and a paid Pro plan. Check the free recording cap and microphone-only recording limitation against your workflow.

It may suit people turning meetings, lectures, journaling, or other listed use cases into searchable notes. It also fits users who want to submit audio, video, text, images, or YouTube links.

Overview

Audionotes turns voice, recordings, and written material into structured notes, with transcription and AI tools for revisiting or reshaping what you capture. It is best suited to people who want one place for varied inputs and generated notes, rather than a recorder alone. Its broad capture options are useful, but the free plan’s one-minute recording cap makes it a poor fit for longer sessions.

Key features

Capture and transcription

You can record through the device microphone, upload audio or video, submit YouTube links, or add text and images. Transcription supports 99+ languages and speaker recognition, a useful combination for multilingual material and recordings with multiple speakers. The recording tool only captures the device microphone; it cannot record audio directly from another source such as speakers. If your workflow depends on capturing computer playback or other routed audio, you will need to upload a recording instead.

Turning material into notes

Audionotes generates summaries and custom outputs, with more than 100 prompts, and lets users chat with and search notes using AI. These tools make it more useful for finding or reworking information than a transcript archive alone. They may suit lecture review, meeting follow-up, journaling, sales notes, drafting email, and content creation. The service also identifies medical and legal notes as use cases, but its encryption and model-training assurances do not remove the need to assess whether the named processing providers fit your privacy requirements.

Integrations, privacy, and support

Integrations include Notion, Zapier, webhooks, and a WhatsApp bot; Notion sync, Zapier triggers, and webhooks are Pro features. A public REST API is on the roadmap, while webhooks currently send note data to a custom endpoint. Audionotes says notes are encrypted in transit and at rest and are not used to train AI models. Its privacy policy names OpenAI, Google Gemini, Deepgram, and Assembly AI among providers that may process data for AI features. Support is by email, with a stated weekday response target of within 24 hours; paid subscriptions are non-refundable.

Pricing

Audionotes is freemium, with no free trial. The free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited voice notes capped at 1 minute per note, unlimited text notes, transcripts, summaries, and 99+ languages. It is a reasonable way to capture brief thoughts or try the note workflow, but the per-recording cap rules it out for longer meetings or lectures unless you split them into short recordings.

Pro costs $29.99 a month, billed monthly. It raises the limits to 6 hours per audio recording, 500 MB per file upload, 6 hours per YouTube video, and 20 MB per image, and adds Notion sync, Zapier triggers, and webhooks. That is the practical choice for sustained capture and integrations, but the monthly price is a significant step up from a free plan that already includes transcripts and summaries. Enterprise has custom pricing and requires at least 5 users, making it relevant to teams that need a multi-user plan rather than an individual subscription.

Platforms

Audionotes supports web, iOS, Android, and a browser extension; Mac is in beta. Offline access is supported. The platform range makes it usable across mobile and desktop workflows, though Mac’s beta status is worth considering if that is your primary environment.

Who it's for

Choose Audionotes if you move between recordings, uploads, text, images, and YouTube material and want summaries, custom outputs, or AI search and chat in the same workflow. Free is best for short voice notes and text-based use; Pro is the better fit when recording length, upload size, or integrations matter. It is less suited to users who need long recordings on a free plan or direct capture of audio playing through another device source.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Accepts audio, video, YouTube links, text, and images, so notes need not begin as a microphone recording.
• Pros: Transcription covers 99+ languages and speaker recognition; summaries, custom outputs, over 100 prompts, AI note chat, and search support several ways to use the captured material.
• Pros: Free includes unlimited text notes, transcripts, and summaries, alongside unlimited voice notes for short recordings.
• Cons: Free voice recordings stop at 1 minute each, a sharp limit for classes, interviews, and meetings.
• Cons: Recording is microphone-only, so audio from other sources must be captured separately and uploaded.
• Cons: Pro costs $29.99 a month, and paid subscriptions are non-refundable.
• Cons: AI features may involve third-party processing by named providers, which may not suit every sensitive-data workflow.

Alternatives

AI Voice Note Apps, AI Note-Taking Apps, and Meeting Notes Software are broader starting points if you want to compare options by category.

AudioPen is worth considering if a 3-minute free recording limit and transcription with rewriting suit your needs better than Audionotes’ 1-minute cap. Cleft is an alternative for iOS and macOS users who want 5-minute recordings, on-device transcription, tags, search, and export, with a listed Cleft Plus monthly plan at $6.99. Memex is a free option for Android and iOS, though its AI features require a configured model service that may incur provider charges. Memoth is another freemium option for extension, iOS, and macOS. VoiceJournal offers a 10-note free plan with 2-minute recordings and basic AI transcription, and is available on Android, iOS, and web. Dayheld is an iOS alternative. Memonium offers a one-time $4.99 purchase for unlimited memos and no ads, for iOS and macOS. Murble is an Android, iOS, and macOS alternative.

Verdict

Audionotes is a strong fit for people who need to turn varied source material into searchable, summarized notes, especially when multilingual transcription and flexible outputs matter. Its free tier is useful for short captures and text notes, but the one-minute recording cap and microphone-only recording are meaningful constraints. Look elsewhere if long free recordings or direct capture from another audio source is essential; choose Pro when its higher limits and integrations justify the monthly cost.