Reflect Notes
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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.
Encrypted personal notes app with built-in OpenAI-powered AI features.
Best for privacy-leaning solo knowledge workers who want a Roam-style backlinked note system with AI. Pricing: $10/mo or $100/yr.
What it is
Reflect is a notes app built around bi-directional links, end-to-end encryption, and AI features that run on the user's own OpenAI key. The product supports voice notes with transcription, AI summarization, AI cleanup of raw transcripts, and Q&A across the personal corpus. Reflect is targeted at solo knowledge workers — writers, researchers, consultants — who want a privacy-respecting alternative to cloud notes platforms that train models on user data. Pricing is a flat single-tier subscription with all features included. Pricing and product details listed here were last reviewed by Neugence on 2026-05-12; check the vendor site for current values before quoting.
Watch out for: Solo product — not team-oriented; meeting transcription is not a primary feature.
Install / use
reflect.app — $10/mo or $100/yr
What people actually do with Reflect Notes-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 |
Reflect Notes vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Reflect Notes | 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 | macOS, Windows, Web, iOS | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Reflect Notes
Frequently asked about Reflect Notes
How much does Reflect Notes cost?
Reflect Notes is a paid product — published pricing: $10/mo or $100/yr. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Reflect Notes work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Reflect Notes runs on macOS, Windows, Web and iOS.
How do I get started with Reflect Notes?
There is nothing to install — Reflect Notes is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Reflect Notes?
Solo product — not team-oriented; meeting transcription is not a primary feature.
Who is Reflect Notes best for?
Privacy-leaning solo knowledge workers who want a Roam-style backlinked note system with AI.
Is Reflect Notes open source?
No. Reflect Notes is a proprietary product from Reflect Notes Inc.. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes Reflect Notes?
Reflect Notes is made by Reflect Notes Inc..
What kind of tool is Reflect Notes?
In this directory Reflect Notes is filed under meetings, productivity, personal ai as a product.
What are the alternatives to Reflect Notes?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/reflect-ai-alternatives comparing Reflect Notes with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Reflect Notes-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 Reflect Notes?
Reflect Notes 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 Reflect Notes?
$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 Reflect Notes 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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