VoiceToNotes
Turn speech into smart notes with real-time AI transcription
About VoiceToNotes
VoiceToNotes is an AI voice note app that transcribes speech to text in real time and turns it into organized notes, summaries, and action items. It also includes OCR scanning for paper documents, a daily voice journal, and cross-device sync across web, mobile, and tablet. The paid Pro plan is one of the cheapest unlimited transcription subscriptions available, at $1.49/month or $12.99/year.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Very low price: unlimited transcription for $1.49/month or $12.99/year
- Transcribes live as you speak instead of requiring an upload step
- Summaries, action items, rewriting, and translation are built into the same app
- OCR scanning lets you keep typed, handwritten, and spoken notes in one place
- Free plan with no credit card required
Cons
- Free plan is limited to 120 seconds of transcription per day
- Very few independent reviews; the handful on G2 report lost recordings
- Bundles an unrelated novel-reading section (VTN Reads) into a note-taking app
- Little public information about the company behind it
- Audio file upload is listed as a future feature, so it focuses on live dictation
Key Features
Real-time speech to text
Transcribes your voice live as you speak, with automatic punctuation and speaker-aware formatting, without recording and uploading audio files first.
AI summaries and action items
Generates summaries, key points, and a to-do list of action items from a transcript as soon as you stop recording.
AI writing actions
Grammar correction, sentence rewriting, translation, and idea generation applied to your notes and transcripts.
OCR scan
Extracts text from handwritten notes, printed pages, receipts, whiteboards, books, and PDFs and stores it alongside your notes.
20+ languages
Transcription and translation work in more than 20 languages.
Daily journal
A private voice journal that organizes entries by date on a searchable timeline.
Folders and collections
Organize notes into folders and collections and search across everything you have captured.
Cross-device sync and PDF export
Notes sync across web, mobile, and tablet apps, and paid plans export notes to PDF.
Pricing
- 120 seconds of real-time transcription per day
- 6 AI actions per day
- 3 OCR scans per day
- 5 folders
- Works in 20+ languages
- Sync across web, mobile, and tablet
- Unlimited voice transcription
- Unlimited AI actions
- Unlimited OCR scans
- 100 folders and collections
- Export to PDF
- Priority email support
- $12.99/year on annual billing
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited folders
- Priority support
- Billed annually ($1.49/seat/month on monthly billing)
- Everything in Pro
- Custom user seats and roles
- Advanced admin controls and SSO
- Data retention and compliance options
- Dedicated support and onboarding
Best For
Lecture and study notes
Students dictate or record lectures and get organized notes and summaries to review later.
Meeting notes
Capture a meeting live and get a summary plus a list of action items as soon as it ends.
Hands-free drafting
Writers and creators speak drafts and ideas instead of typing on a phone, then clean them up with AI rewriting.
Digitizing paper notes
Scan whiteboards, receipts, and printed pages with OCR and store the text next to your voice notes.
Voice journaling
Keep a private daily journal by speaking, organized automatically by date.
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