# Votars review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Multilingual transcription and meeting notes with live translation Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Votars records and transcribes speech in real time from a microphone, uploaded audio or video files, or web meetings on Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. It produces summaries and action items and can translate transcripts. The vendor says it supports 74 languages. - **Category:** AI Meeting Notes - **Made by:** Votars - **Website:** https://votars.ai - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 30 minutes per recording, 300 minutes a month and 20 summaries. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Votars has a free plan, and paid plans start at $8 per month, billed annually ($11.99 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 300 minutes of recording a month, up to 30 minutes per recording, 50 transcribed files and 20 AI summaries. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 300 recording minutes a month, 30 minutes per recording, speaker identification and Zoom, Teams and Meet recording. | | Personal | $8 per month, billed annually ($11.99 billed monthly) | 1,800 minutes a month, 90 minutes per recording, 100 files, 100 AI summaries, translation and downloadable transcripts. | | Business | $14.67 per seat / month, billed annually ($21.99 billed monthly) | Unlimited minutes, 300 minutes per recording, 200 files, 500 AI summaries, workspace sharing; teams of up to 99 people. | | Enterprise | Custom | For more than 99 seats: unlimited AI summaries, custom prompts and templates, security and compliance management. | Read from https://votars.ai/en/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Votars before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 33% with annual billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page shows Personal at $8 and Business at $14.67 a month when billed annually, marked 33% off the monthly price. Source: https://votars.ai/en/pricing/ ## Key features - **Real-time transcription:** Transcribes a live microphone, web meetings, uploaded audio or video, and webpage audio, with speaker identification on every plan. - **Translation:** Transcript translation and real-time translation are available from the Personal plan; the site lists 74 languages. - **Summaries and action items:** AI summaries are capped per month: 20 on Free, 100 on Personal, 500 on Business and unlimited on Enterprise. - **Meeting recording:** Records and transcribes in Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, including on the free plan. - **Document and mind-map output:** The homepage lists Word, Excel, PowerPoint and mind-map output, plus one-click sharing of results. - **Workspace sharing:** Business adds shared workspaces with permission management for teams of up to 99 people. ## Good for - Multilingual meetings that need live translation - Students and interviewers transcribing recorded audio files - Small teams that want a shared transcript workspace ## Worth knowing - The free plan caps recordings at 30 minutes and 300 minutes a month. - Translation and downloadable transcripts need Personal or higher. - Business is priced per seat and the page shows a seat selector for adding people. - AI summaries are counted per month on every plan below Enterprise. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Votars transcribes and translates meetings across web, desktop and phones. The free plan caps each recording at 30 minutes and 300 minutes a month, and translation and downloadable transcripts need a paid plan. Personal is $8 a month on yearly billing. - **Value for money: B.** Personal is $8 a month on yearly billing, a little under the $8.33 that starts the cheaper quarter of meeting-note tools. Monthly billing is $11.99. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 300 minutes a month, 30 minutes per recording, 50 transcribed files and 20 AI summaries. A few meetings and you are at the edge. - **Features: C.** Live transcription, translation, summaries, action items, recording and mind maps. Translation and downloads need Personal, and summaries are counted each month on every plan below Enterprise. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect Zoom, Teams or Meet and set up a workspace. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android, with Zoom, Teams and Meet. Only three integrations are listed and no API. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Votars's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. The pricing page would not load when we checked, so the grades rest on the listing. ## Where it stands among AI meeting note takers - Votars's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 48 of the 89 other AI meeting note takers we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 79 of 89) and worst on features (C, above 1). - Its paid plans start at $8 a month, against a middle price of $12 for the category: 7 of the 76 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 7 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-meeting-notes ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Votars 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 costs $96 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A bot that joins your calls and turns the talk into notes. - You could not: Speech turned into text you can trust. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet **Tags:** Meeting notes, Transcription, AI features, Reports ## Alternatives - [Otter.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/otter): Live meeting transcription with summaries and AI chat. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/otter-vs-votars) - [Notta](https://toolgpa.com/tools/notta): AI notetaker and transcription for meetings, files and recordings. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/notta-vs-votars) - [Fireflies.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fireflies): Meeting notetaker that records, transcribes and summarizes calls. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fireflies-vs-votars) - [Transkriptor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/transkriptor): AI transcription for files, recordings and meetings. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/transkriptor-vs-votars) - [Sembly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sembly): AI meeting agent that records, summarizes and drafts follow-ups. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sembly-vs-votars) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://votars.ai/en/pricing/ - https://votars.ai/en/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/votars Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).