Audionotes Review (2026)AI Voice Notes, Free Caps at 1 Minute
By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
Free voice notes stop at one minute each, so it is a trial for anything longer than a quick thought.
individual professionals, students and journalers who want voice memos, recordings, files and YouTube videos turned into transcripts, summaries and notes they can chat with, on phone, web and Mac.
you need team administration below five users or want to pay monthly without committing to a year; or you mainly need to record calls played through your speakers.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 15 Oct 2026
Three plans on the pricing page. Free is $0 forever with no credit card: unlimited voice notes of up to 1 minute each and unlimited text notes of up to 20,000 characters. Pro is $129.99 a year and lists chat with your notes, custom prompts and Notion, Zapier and webhook integrations. On Pro a recording can run up to 6 hours, a file upload up to 500 MB, a YouTube video up to 6 hours, a text note up to 20,000 characters and an image up to 20 MB.
Enterprise is custom, for teams of 5 or more. The terms add a daily allowance: Personal and Pro accounts may process up to 600 minutes of media transcription a day. The terms and refund policy also mention Personal and Ultra plans that are not on the pricing page. The support page says Audionotes does not refund paid subscriptions, while the refund policy allows cancelling at any time, keeps access until the end of the paid period, and lists legal exceptions and case-by-case refunds. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
The support page says paid subscriptions are not refunded. The app records from the device microphone, not from the speakers, and the terms mention Personal and Ultra plans that the pricing page does not show.
What Audionotes does
AI note-taker that turns voice recordings, audio and video files, YouTube links and text into transcripts, summaries and custom notes you can chat with, on iOS, Android, web and Mac.
One minute decides it
The free plan is generous on count and strict on length: unlimited voice notes, but each one stops at one minute. That works for quick thoughts and reminders and fails for a meeting, a lecture or a long journal entry, so anyone who records more than a sentence or two ends up on Pro. Pro at $129.99 a year raises a single recording to six hours and uploads to 500 MB, and adds chat with notes, custom prompts and the Notion, Zapier and webhook integrations.
The terms cap transcription at 600 minutes a day, which is ten hours and far beyond what one person records. Because paid subscriptions are generally not refunded, use the free plan for a week first and make sure the transcripts are good enough for your recordings before you pay for the year.
How to actually use Audionotes
Start on the free plan, which needs no credit card, and use it the way Audionotes describes: record, write, upload a file or paste a YouTube link, let it transcribe or translate, then ask for a summary or a custom output such as meeting notes. The one-minute cap on free voice notes is enough to judge transcript quality, but not to test a full meeting, so upload a longer recording only once you are on Pro.
One limit to know before you buy: the support page says the app records from the device microphone and does not record audio from other sources such as speakers. For calls on the same device, check that your setup works before you rely on it.
Distilled from Audionotes' own pages: the homepage at audionotes.app, the pricing page audionotes.app/pricing, the terms of service at audionotes.app/tos, the refund policy at audionotes.app/refundpolicy and the support page at audionotes.app/support, read on 15 October 2026. We could not confirm a monthly Pro price, so we do not quote one. Audionotes is an affiliate partner of ours through Lemon Squeezy. We have not used Audionotes ourselves.
Audionotes vs WhisperTranscribe, side by side
Each column shows the vendor’s own published entry price, read on the date shown. Entry prices can cover different services or units, so check what each one buys. We do not average them into a score.
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The natural comparison is WhisperTranscribe — WhisperTranscribe is in our dossiers too and is the closer pick for longer recordings: its Starter plan was $19.99 a month billed yearly for 320 minutes when we read it on 14 October 2026, aimed at podcasters, researchers and small teams. Audionotes is a personal note-taker with a free tier of unlimited one-minute voice notes and Pro at $129.99 a year. For daily voice notes and summaries, Audionotes; for transcribing long audio by the hour, WhisperTranscribe..
Frequently asked questions
How much does Audionotes cost?
Read 15 October 2026: Free is $0 forever, Pro is $129.99 a year, and Enterprise is custom for teams of 5 or more.
What are the limits on the free plan?
Voice notes are capped at 1 minute each and text notes at 20,000 characters. The number of notes is unlimited and no credit card is needed.
Can I get a refund?
Audionotes' support page says it does not refund paid subscriptions. The refund policy says you can cancel at any time, keep access until the end of the paid period, and lists legal exceptions and case-by-case refunds.
Can it record a call played through my speakers?
No. The support page says the app does not record audio from other sources such as speakers; it records through the device microphone.
Is this a hands-on review of Audionotes?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Read 2026-10-15 on audionotes.app/pricing, the terms at audionotes.app/tos and the refund policy; the page shows $ without naming a currency.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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