The Transkriptor Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Transkriptor in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Transkriptor
The Insider’s Guide
AI transcription for files, recordings and meetings
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among AI meeting note takers, read from Transkriptor’s own pages.
Made by Textintel FZE · checked Oct 5, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Transkriptor’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Transkriptor’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 5, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
3.0
GPA, above 38 of the 48 other AI meeting note takers we grade
Transkriptor converts audio and video to text in more than 100 languages, from uploaded files, YouTube links, live recordings and online meetings. A meeting bot joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls, and a desktop app for Mac and Windows records them without a bot. Transcripts come with speaker labels and translation, and Pro adds AI summaries and a chat assistant. Usage is metered in monthly minutes.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Transkriptor, taken from its own pages and our grades.
Upload a file or paste a link and the transcript comes back, and the desktop app spots a meeting and records it without being asked.
- 1
Best for turning audio and video files into text
Transkriptor is a transcription service first and a meeting notetaker second: feed it a file, a YouTube link or a live call and you get text in more than 100 languages with speakers labeled.
- 2
Paid plans start at $8.33 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $8.33 per month, billed annually ($99.99 per year).
- 3
You can try it first
Free account with 90 minutes of transcription to try the service
- 4
It runs on 5 platforms
Web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, with a browser extension too.
- 5
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.
- 6
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.
- 7
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.
- 8
A 3.0 GPA, above 38 of 48
That is against the other AI meeting note takers we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
Keep it
To replace Transkriptor you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
Transkriptor at a glance
- Pricing
- Free trial, from $8.33 per month, billed annually ($99.99 per year)
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- Free account with 90 minutes of transcription to try the service
- Runs on
- Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Browser extension
- Made by
- Textintel FZE
- Category
- AI Meeting Notes
- Our grade
- 3.0 GPA, very good
- Store rating
- 4.7 on the App Store, 1,085 ratings
The report card
Best for turning audio and video files into text
Transkriptor is a transcription service first and a meeting notetaker second: feed it a file, a YouTube link or a live call and you get text in more than 100 languages with speakers labeled. There's no free plan, only 90 trial minutes, every plan is metered with no rollover, and summaries and AI chat don't start until Pro. Pro is $8.33 a month on the yearly plan but $19.99 if you pay monthly.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C | Pro is $8.33 a month billed yearly ($99.99) for 2,400 minutes, just past the low end of this category and in its middle. Pay monthly and it's $19.99. Lite is $9.99 for 300 minutes with no AI summaries. Every plan is metered and unused minutes don't roll over. |
| Free plan and trial | C | There's no free plan to settle on. A free account hands you 90 minutes of transcription to try the service — an hour and a half, so two or three meetings — and that's the whole of it. A cap you'll hit in the first week. |
| Features | B | It covers the job end to end: files, YouTube and Drive links, a bot for Zoom, Meet and Teams, or the Mac and Windows app recording with no bot in the call. Over 100 languages, speaker labels, translation, and from Pro summaries, templates and AI chat that cites its source. Nothing its rivals don't also do, though. |
| Ease of use | A | 4.7 from about 1,100 App Store ratings, which is enough people for the number to mean something. Upload a file or paste a link and the transcript comes back, and the desktop app spots a meeting and records it without being asked. |
| Platforms and integrations | A | Web, Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android and a browser extension — the lot. It also hooks into Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Google Drive, Dropbox, Slack, HubSpot and Notion. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Transkriptor is for
- Fits if you have a pile of audio and video files to turn into text, not only live meetings
- Works for students and researchers, since education plans are 50% off
Who it is not for
- Not for you if you want a free plan to stay on, as the free account is 90 minutes and done
- Pricey if you pay monthly, at $19.99 for Pro against $8.33 a month on the yearly plan
- Skip it if you want summaries or AI chat on Lite, because both start on Pro
- Tight if you transcribe a lot: 300 minutes on Lite, 2,400 on Pro, 3,000 a seat on Team, and unused minutes don't roll over
- Watch out: the promise not to train on your data is listed only from Pro up, and Lite is billed monthly only
Good to know
Good for
- 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
Worth knowing
- 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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$8.33
A month to start
Transkriptor is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $8.33 per month, billed annually ($99.99 per year).
Every plan is metered and unused minutes don't roll over.
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.
Trying it first
Free account with 90 minutes of transcription to try the service
Read from transkriptor.com on Oct 5, 2026.
Ways to pay less
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%.
Stated on transkriptor.comEducation
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.
Stated on transkriptor.com
What the app costs elsewhere
Each country’s App Store price for “300 Minutes (Monthly)”, against $11.99 in the United States, in dollars at the day’s rate. The four cheapest and the four dearest of 11.
| Country | Price there | In dollars | Against the US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turkey | ₺499,99 | $10.17 | 15% less |
| Canada | $14.99 | $10.54 | 12% less |
| Philippines | ₱ 699.00 | $11.13 | 7% less |
| Indonesia | Rp 199ribu | $11.13 | 7% less |
| Australia | $19.99 | $13.96 | 16% more |
| Germany | 12,99 € | $14.56 | 21% more |
| South Africa | R249.99 | $15.12 | 26% more |
| United Kingdom | £11.99 | $15.85 | 32% more |
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
6
Places it runs: Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Browser extension
AI transcription for files, recordings and meetings. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, meeting notes, transcription, chat assistant, templates, screen recording.
Nothing its rivals don't also do, though.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
- macOS
- Windows
- iOS
- Android
- Browser extension
What it works with
- Zoom
- Google Meet
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Drive
- Slack
- HubSpot
- Notion
- Dropbox
Transkriptor is made by Textintel FZE.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
38/48
Other AI meeting note takers it is graded above
Transkriptor's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 38 of the 48 other AI meeting note takers we grade, and level with 7.
It stands best on ease of use (A, above 40 of 48) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 5).
Its paid plans start at $8.33 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 14 of the 47 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.7 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 49 AI meeting note takers we grade, cut by the letter each got. Transkriptor’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 13 of 48
- CFree plan and trialAbove 5 of 48
- BFeaturesAbove 10 of 48
- AEase of useAbove 40 of 48
- APlatforms and integrationsAbove 30 of 48
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 48 AI meeting note takers. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Transkriptor is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
Keep it
To replace Transkriptor you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 38 of the 48 other AI meeting note takers we grade. It costs $99.96 a year.
What you could make
- Templates: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- A bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes.
- An AI model, which you can rent by the request but not make.
- Speech turned into text you can trust.
- Recording the screen with its sound, and somewhere to keep the video.
- Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other.
- It plugs into other products, Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Transkriptor’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Notta, HappyScribe, Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai and tl;dv
The 5 tools Transkriptor is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.6GPA
Notta
Free plan · from $8.17/mo
AI notetaker and transcription for meetings, files and recordings.
- Notta has a free plan. Transkriptor does not, though it has a free trial.
- Transkriptor also covers templates.
- 2.4GPA
HappyScribe
Free plan · from $8.50/mo
AI transcription, subtitles and meeting notes in 150+ languages.
- HappyScribe has a free plan. Transkriptor does not, though it has a free trial.
- Only Transkriptor lists macOS and Windows apps.
- Only Transkriptor lists a browser extension.
- 3.0GPA
Otter.ai
Free plan · from $8.33/mo
Live meeting transcription with summaries and AI chat.
- Otter.ai has a free plan. Transkriptor does not, though it has a free trial.
- Transkriptor also covers templates and screen recording.
- 3.2GPA
Fireflies.ai
Free plan · from $10/mo
Meeting notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes calls.
- Fireflies.ai has a free plan. Transkriptor does not, though it has a free trial.
- Transkriptor also covers templates and screen recording.
- Fireflies.ai also covers dictation.
- 2.4GPA
tl;dv
Free plan · from $18/mo
Meeting recorder and AI notetaker for Zoom, Meet and Teams.
- tl;dv has a free plan. Transkriptor does not, though it has a free trial.
- Transkriptor also covers screen recording.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
15
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Transkriptor free?
No, Transkriptor is a paid product, but you can try it first. Free account with 90 minutes of transcription to try the service.
How much does Transkriptor cost?
Transkriptor lists 4 plans. Lite: $9.99 per month, billed monthly.
What platforms does Transkriptor work on?
Transkriptor is available on Web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. It also has a browser extension.
Does Transkriptor offer any discounts?
Transkriptor publicly lists the following: Up to 60% off with annual billing; 50% off for students and education.
How is Transkriptor rated?
Transkriptor's iPhone and iPad app averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1,085 ratings on the App Store in the United States, as read on Oct 5, 2026.
Does Transkriptor have a Linux app?
No Linux app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 5, 2026. Transkriptor is listed for Web, macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.
Is Transkriptor open source?
Transkriptor is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 5, 2026.
Does Transkriptor have an API?
Yes. Transkriptor offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does Transkriptor integrate with?
Transkriptor's listing names Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, Slack, HubSpot, Notion and Dropbox.
Does Transkriptor have a student discount?
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.
Who makes Transkriptor?
Transkriptor is made by Textintel FZE.
What are the alternatives to Transkriptor?
The closest alternatives to Transkriptor in our directory are Notta, HappyScribe, Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai and tl;dv.
How does Transkriptor compare with other AI meeting note takers?
Transkriptor's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 38 of the 48 other AI meeting note takers we grade, and level with 7.
Is Transkriptor good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Transkriptor C for value for money. Its paid plans start at $8.33 a month, against a middle price of $10 for the category: 14 of the 47 others that charge start lower.
Could I make my own version of Transkriptor?
To replace Transkriptor you would be making a bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Transkriptor’s own pages on Oct 5, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 10, 2026. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Transkriptor's own pages on 5 October 2026, and its App Store rating. Also tested with a demo account on 2026-03-06.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Textintel FZE. Prices change, so check transkriptor.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
3,189
tools graded
94
categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Transkriptor, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/transkriptor
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Transkriptor’s pages, its app-store listings and public reviews said on the dates shown. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Transkriptor is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by Textintel FZE. Prices and plans change: check transkriptor.com before you buy.