Summary AI vs Transkriptor

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

Transkriptor

• Transcribing uploaded audio and video files as well as live meetings
• Students and researchers turning lectures and interviews into text
• Multilingual work that needs transcripts translated

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.

Transkriptor

• Every plan is metered: 300 minutes a month on Lite, 2,400 on Pro and 3,000 per seat on Team. Unused minutes do not roll over.
• The free account is a trial that includes 90 minutes of transcription.
• AI summaries, AI chat and the knowledge base start on Pro, and the pricing page lists the promise not to train on your data from Pro up.
• Lite is shown with monthly billing only. The annual discounts apply to Pro, Team and the bulk-hour bundles.

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.

Transkriptor

File and link transcription

Upload audio or video such as MP3, MP4 and WAV, or paste a YouTube, Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox link. Transcripts export as TXT, SRT or Word.

Meeting bot or bot-free recorder

A bot can join Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls. The desktop app for Windows and Mac detects a meeting and records from the device, so no bot appears in the call.

AI summaries and templates

From Pro, each recording gets a summary, key takeaways and action items. Summary templates cover sales, marketing and education, or you can create your own format.

AI chat and Ask Transkriptor

Ask questions about a single transcript, or search every meeting in the library and get answers that cite the moment they came from. AI chat starts on the Pro plan.

Translation and speaker labels

Transcribes and translates in more than 100 languages, identifies multiple speakers, and lets you edit both the text and the speaker tags.

Call analysis

The Team plan adds speaker talk time, sentiment detection and AI filters, plus analytics that track how the team uses its minutes.

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.

Transkriptor

• Lite$9.99

  per month, billed monthly

  300 minutes of transcription a month, with file uploads, editing, collaboration, translation, sharing and downloads on web and mobile.

• Pro$8.33

  per month, billed annually ($99.99); $19.99 billed monthly

  2,400 minutes a month, AI summary, custom meeting summary templates, AI chat and knowledge base. Data is not used for training.

• Team$20

  per seat / month, billed annually ($240); $30 billed monthly

  3,000 minutes per seat a month, custom vocabulary, call analysis, usage analytics, central plan management and a custom bot name and avatar.

• Bulk 100 Hours$30

  per month, billed annually ($360); $60 billed monthly

  100 hours of transcription a month. Bundles of 250, 500 and 1,000 hours cost $75, $150 and $300 a month on annual billing.

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.

Transkriptor

• Annual discount

  Up to 60% off with annual billing

  Pro drops from $19.99 a month to $8.33 a month, billed as $99.99 a year and labeled Save 60%. Team drops from $30 to $20 per seat a month, billed as $240, labeled Save 33%.

• Education

  50% off for students and education

  The pricing page advertises Transkriptor for Education at 50% off all plans, and the student plan page promotes the same 50% discount.