Notta vs Summary AI

Notta

• People who transcribe uploaded files and YouTube links as well as live meetings
• Multilingual teams that need transcripts translated
• Recording in-person conversations on a phone alongside online calls

Summary AI

• Recording in-person meetings, lectures and interviews on a phone
• Individuals who want unlimited transcription at one flat price
• Students and journalists who also need to transcribe uploaded files

Notta

• The Free plan transcribes only the first 3 minutes of each conversation, within 120 minutes a month.
• Pro is a single-seat plan capped at 1,800 minutes a month. Unlimited transcription, meeting video and CRM or Zapier integrations need Business.
• Real-time translation is limited to 2 to 4 free uses a month. More needs an add-on from $6 a month, billed annually, sold only with paid plans.
• Notta Desktop, the bot-free recorder for Mac and Windows, is labeled a beta.

Summary AI

• There is no ongoing free plan: after 1 free recording, new summaries need a subscription. Existing summaries stay viewable.
• Subscriptions are sold only through the App Store or Google Play, and the pricing page lists no monthly plan.
• Paying $8.99 every week adds up to several times the $79.99 yearly plan over a full year.
• The US App Store listing shows other in-app price points too, including $17.99 and $29.99 monthly, so the in-app offer may differ.

Notta

Bot or bot-free meeting recording

A bot can join Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex calls. Notta Desktop, a beta app for Mac and Windows, records from the device instead, so nothing joins the call.

Live transcription in 58 languages

Transcribes speech as it happens and labels speakers. Notta lists 58 languages for transcription and translation, with a bilingual mode for two languages at once.

AI Notes

Generates a summary and action items for each recording. The monthly quota is 10 summaries on Free, 100 on Pro and 200 on Business.

Notta Brain

Answers questions across past meetings and builds slides, documents and infographics from them. It runs on AI credits: every plan includes 1,000 a month, and a paid add-on provides 8,000 a month.

File and link transcription

Upload audio or video files, or paste a YouTube link, and get a transcript. Uploads are capped at 50 a month on Free, 100 on Pro and 200 on Business.

Screen recording

Records the screen with audio and camera, and a Chrome extension captures audio from a browser tab. Recording online meetings with video needs the Business plan.

Summary AI

One-tap recording

Starts recording with a single tap and keeps going in the background or with the screen locked. The App Store listing covers iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.

Transcripts with speaker labels

Produces a punctuated transcript that labels each speaker and can be searched by keyword, jumping to that moment in the recording. Help docs cite more than 120 languages.

AI summaries

Condenses a recording into key points, decisions and action items laid out as meeting minutes. Summaries can be customized, translated and exported to PDF.

Meeting Assistant

Syncs with Google or Outlook Calendar and joins scheduled Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings to record them, then emails the notes.

Ask AI Chat

Answers questions about a recording, such as who was given a task or which decisions were made. Paid plans include unlimited chat messages.

File uploads

Upload existing audio, video or PDF files to transcribe and summarize. Paid plans put no limit on the number or length of uploads.

Notta

• Free$0

  1 seat, 120 transcription minutes a month, up to 3 minutes per conversation, 50 file uploads and 10 AI summaries.

• Pro$8.17

  per month, billed annually ($97.99); $13.49 billed monthly

  1 seat, 1,800 minutes a month, recordings up to 5 hours, 100 file uploads and 100 AI summaries, plus export, translation and custom vocabulary.

• Business$16.67

  per seat / month, billed annually ($199.99); $27.99 monthly

  Unlimited transcription, 200 file uploads and 200 AI summaries a month, video recording of web meetings, usage reports, and CRM and Zapier integrations.

• EnterpriseCustom

  From 51 seats: customized transcription quota, unlimited file uploads and AI summaries, SAML SSO, audit logs and priority support.

Summary AI

• Weekly Plan$8.99

  per week, billed weekly through the app

  Unlimited audio transcriptions, recordings of any length, 120+ languages, and uploads of audio, PDFs and other files.

• Yearly Plan$79.99

  per year, billed once a year through the app

  The same features as the weekly plan, billed once a year. The vendor marks it as its most popular plan.

Notta

• Annual discount

  40% off with annual billing

  Notta's pricing page labels annual billing 40% off. Pro costs $97.99 a year instead of $13.49 a month, and Business $199.99 per seat a year instead of $27.99 a month.

• Education

  50% education discount on Pro

  The pricing page links a 50% education discount. Students and educators who sign up with an educational email can apply it to the Pro plan at purchase.

Summary AI

• Annual discount

  Yearly plan costs far less than paying weekly

  The pricing page lists $79.99 for a year against $8.99 a week, and describes the yearly plan as the best value compared with the weekly one.