AudioPen
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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.
Voice-to-clean-text app for capturing rambling thoughts.
Best for writers and operators who think aloud and want AI to turn rambling voice into clean prose. Pricing: free / $99/yr.
What it is
AudioPen is a single-purpose voice-to-text app built by indie maker Louis Pereira. Users tap record, speak — including stutters, restarts, and digressions — and AudioPen produces a clean structured note that reads as if written rather than spoken. The product supports custom output styles (bullet list, blog draft, summary, action items) and syncs notes across devices. AudioPen has built a strong following among writers, consultants, and operators. Pricing is a flat annual subscription with a free tier capped at three notes per day.
Watch out for: Not a meeting bot; English-first; mobile/web-only.
Install / use
audiopen.ai — Free 3 notes/day, Prime $99/yr
What people actually do with AudioPen-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
AudioPen vs Whipscribe
| Feature | AudioPen | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to AudioPen
Frequently asked about AudioPen
Is AudioPen free?
Partly. AudioPen has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: free / $99/yr. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.
Does AudioPen work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
AudioPen runs on Web, iOS and Android.
How do I get started with AudioPen?
There is nothing to install — AudioPen is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of AudioPen?
Not a meeting bot; English-first; mobile/web-only.
Who is AudioPen best for?
Writers and operators who think aloud and want AI to turn rambling voice into clean prose.
Is AudioPen open source?
No. AudioPen is a proprietary product. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
What kind of tool is AudioPen?
In this directory AudioPen is filed under meetings, voice notes as a product.
What are the alternatives to AudioPen?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/audiopen-ai-alternatives comparing AudioPen with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate AudioPen-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from AudioPen?
AudioPen is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of AudioPen?
$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the AudioPen category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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