Voicenotes
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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.
iOS / Android voice-first note-taking app with AI summaries.
Best for mobile knowledge workers who want voice-first notes (commutes, walks, gym) with AI summaries. Pricing: from $10/mo.
What it is
Voicenotes is a voice-first note-taking app for iOS and Android by indie maker Bharat Kilaru. The user holds a button, talks, and Voicenotes transcribes, summarizes, and organizes the recording into a structured knowledge base. The product supports daily-journal flows, idea-capture, and one-tap conversion into outlines and blog drafts. Voicenotes is bootstrapped, has grown a strong following among writers and operators, and prices a flat single-tier subscription with all AI features included. The product is not a meeting-bot. 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: Voice-only capture; not a meeting bot; English-leaning.
Install / use
voicenotes.com — $10/mo or $80/yr
What people actually do with Voicenotes-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 |
Voicenotes vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Voicenotes | 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 | iOS, Android, Web | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Voicenotes
Frequently asked about Voicenotes
How much does Voicenotes cost?
Voicenotes is a paid product — published pricing: from $10/mo. Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.
Does Voicenotes work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Voicenotes runs on iOS, Android and Web.
How do I get started with Voicenotes?
There is nothing to install — Voicenotes is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Voicenotes?
Voice-only capture; not a meeting bot; English-leaning.
Who is Voicenotes best for?
Mobile knowledge workers who want voice-first notes (commutes, walks, gym) with AI summaries.
Is Voicenotes open source?
No. Voicenotes 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 Voicenotes?
In this directory Voicenotes is filed under meetings, notetaker, voice notes as a product.
What are the alternatives to Voicenotes?
There is a side-by-side page at /tools/voice-notes-app-alternatives comparing Voicenotes with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.
Can I automate Voicenotes-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 Voicenotes?
Voicenotes 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 Voicenotes?
$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 Voicenotes 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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