Notta AI Review: Web, Phone App and What the Free Plan Includes

Marco downloads the Notta app on his iPhone in a client's parking lot. He opens it for a 25-minute meeting with a facilities manager, sets the phone on the table, and taps record. Back in the truck, he finds the free plan has transcribed three minutes of it. (Marco is a composite, but the limit is real.)

That three-minute cap is the single most useful fact in any Notta AI review, and most reviews bury it under a feature tour. This one starts with it.

Notta transcription works in more places than most: in a browser, on iPhone and Android, as a bot-free desktop app for Mac and Windows, as a Chrome extension and as a bot that joins your calls. The question is which of those you'll actually use, and whether the free plan covers it.

How this review was built: from Notta's pricing page, its limits guide, its product pages, the App Store and Google Play listings, and public user reports, all read on November 13, 2026. It isn't a hands-on test, and we don't score accuracy. ParrotNotes publishes this blog, and our app comes up once, near the end, for people whose meetings happen in person. If that's you, try ParrotNotes free and come back for the Notta facts.

Notta AI review in short

Notta suits you if most of your meetings are Zoom, Google Meet or Teams calls, you want a transcript in one of 58 languages, and you're happy to pay for Pro once you've tested it. Pro is $97.99 a year, and Business removes the minute cap.

Look elsewhere if you want a free plan that covers a full meeting, your important conversations happen in a room, or you need translation without buying an add-on.

What is Notta AI?

Notta is an AI transcription and meeting notes service made by Mind Cruiser Limited, the seller named on its App Store listing. It turns speech into text live or from a file, writes AI summaries, and translates transcripts. Notta's homepage advertises "58 Languages Supported" and "10M+ users", and says it is "SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant". Those are Notta's own claims.

One account covers everything. The pricing page says: "One account for seamless access to Notta Web and Mobile apps." Your plan limits follow you from your phone to your laptop.

Where Notta runs: web, iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows

Notta isn't one app. It's six ways in, and they don't all do the same job.

Sources: Notta homepage, Notta Desktop page, Notta limits guide, the App Store and Google Play listings, all read November 13, 2026.

The Notta app on iPhone and Android

The Notta app is the part most phone users meet first, and Notta describes the iPhone and Android versions together on one mobile page. Notta's mobile page says it "can record audio and generate the transcript simultaneously". You can also import audio and video files, bookmark moments, play back at up to 3x, search the text and translate it.

Everything syncs. Notta says it "automatically backs up all your recordings and transcripts and syncs on all platforms", so a recording made on your phone shows up on the web.

A few details from the App Store listing are worth knowing. Recent versions added Lock Screen widgets, Control Center and Action Button support, and there's an Apple Watch app.

If a phone call or alarm interrupts you, recording pauses and resumes afterward. So the app is not a way to record the call itself.

On iPhone the app is listed as "Notta Transcribe Voice to Text", rated 4.1 from 1.5K ratings. On Google Play it holds 4.2 stars from 21.7K reviews.

Notta on the web, Chrome and the meeting bot

The web app is where Notta's longer work happens: uploads up to 1 GB for audio and 10 GB for video, in 16 formats including MP3, M4A, WAV, MP4 and MOV. It's also where you read, edit and export transcripts.

For calls, you can send the Notta bot into Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex or Slack. The limits guide says the bot records only when "access and host or organization settings allow it". Everyone in the call sees it join.

Notta Desktop for Mac and Windows

If you don't want a bot in the room, Notta Desktop records from your computer's system audio instead. The Desktop page says it "works with 40+ meeting applications", including Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Webex, Discord and WhatsApp Desktop.

It's labelled beta and is "available to all Notta users at no additional cost". On macOS 14.4 or later it needs only audio capture permission, not screen recording. Some older reviews say Notta has no desktop app; that's no longer true.

Notta Desktop is for online meetings. For in-person conversations, Notta points to Notta Memo, a separate recorder device you stick on your phone, with its own plan.

What the Notta AI free plan includes

Here is the Notta free plan as Notta's pricing page listed it on November 13, 2026:

• $0, no credit card, 1 seat
• 120 transcription minutes a month, with no carryover
• "Up to 3 minutes per conversation"
• 50 file uploads a month
• 10 AI summaries a month
• Transcribe web meetings and speaker identification
• 5 custom AI templates and 1,000 Notta Brain AI credits
• 4 uses a month of bilingual transcription and translation, 2 of real-time translation

Export, transcript translation and custom vocabulary are listed as Pro features, not Free ones.

What that means in practice

The 3-minute cap shapes everything else. The App Store listing puts it plainly: real-time transcription is "3 minutes per recording", and for imported files you can "view the first 3 minutes".

Do the math on the minutes too. At 3 minutes a recording, 120 minutes a month is 40 short clips. And 10 AI summaries means only 10 of those clips get a summary.

So the free plan is a trial of the accuracy, not a way to run your week. That's not hidden: Notta's pricing FAQ even says that if you cancel a paid plan, you "can only view the first 3 minutes of the transcript as a Free user".

Priya's week shows the gap. She's a consultant who runs four 45-minute client calls a week on Zoom. (Priya is a composite.) On Free, each call returns three minutes of text. Her first week on Notta was a test; her second was a decision about Pro. If your meetings run longer than a coffee order, plan for the same.

Notta pricing: Pro, Business and add-ons

Prices below are from Notta's pricing page, as of November 2026. The page shows annual billing with an "Annual 40% OFF" badge.

Pro adds transcript export, transcript translation and custom vocabulary. Business adds web meeting video recording, a usage report, and CRM and Zapier integrations. A 7-day Business trial is offered, and students with an education email get 50% off Pro.

The pricing page we read didn't show a monthly-billed price for Pro. The App Store does: its in-app purchase list includes a "Notta Pro Monthly Plan" at $14.99.

The add-ons

Translation beyond the free uses is sold separately, on Pro and above:

• Monolingual Translation: $6 a month billed annually ($72 a year), or $10 on a monthly plan, up to 100 uses a month
• Bilingual Transcription & Translation: $9 a month billed annually ($108 a year), or $15 monthly, up to 200 uses a month
• Notta Brain: $93.59 a year for 8,000 AI credits a month (Pro)

If you work across languages, our Notta alternative guide works through what Pro plus the bilingual add-on costs in a year and compares five tools on language support.

What users report about the Notta app

We didn't test Notta, so here's what public sources show, as of November 13, 2026.

App stores are positive. The iPhone app holds 4.1 stars from 1.5K ratings and the Android app 4.2 from 21.7K reviews, with more than 1 million Play downloads. Both apps were updated within the past week.

Trustpilot is not. Notta's Trustpilot page shows no score. It reads: "This company's rating is unavailable due to a breach of our guidelines", and Trustpilot says it removed fake reviews. Of the 170 reviews listed, 87% are one star.

The recurring complaints there are about money and support, not features: charges after a free trial or after cancelling, refused refunds, and slow replies. Some also report garbled or partial transcripts. These are individual reports we can't verify, but the pattern is consistent.

What to take from it: if you start a paid trial, put the renewal date in your calendar the same day, and export anything you want to keep before you downgrade.

Where Notta's own pages disagree

Building this Notta review meant reading several Notta pages side by side. Most facts line up. A few don't:

None of these is a trap. But they're a good reason to read the pricing page on the day you buy, and to confirm a language you need inside the app before you pay.

Notta alternatives, and where ParrotNotes fits

If Notta fits your calendar, stop here. If you came for a wider list, our Notta alternative guide compares five tools by language and price, and the best free transcription app roundup compares free plans. For other meeting tools, see our Otter.ai review, Fireflies AI review and MeetGeek review.

For readers like Marco, whose meetings happen across a table, here's our app, from ParrotNotes pricing on November 13, 2026.

ParrotNotes records the room. Open the app on your iPhone or Android, tap record with everyone's OK, and set the phone down; it keeps recording with the screen locked. When you stop, you get a transcript, an AI summary, action items and a drafted follow-up email.

Be fair about what it doesn't do: ParrotNotes has no meeting bot and doesn't join Zoom, Meet or Teams calls. If most of your meetings are online, Notta's bot or Desktop app covers that and ParrotNotes doesn't.

Notta facts from notta.ai and its app store listings; ParrotNotes facts from parrotnotes.app/pricing. Both checked November 13, 2026.

ParrotNotes Free is $0 with 100 minutes a month. Pro is $19.99 a month, or $14.99 a month billed annually, with 3,000 minutes a month and recordings up to 3 hours.

Marco's Thursday on it: three site visits recorded in full, each summary read before he starts the truck, and one follow-up email sent from the parking lot. Got a recording already? Our free audio to text converter handles a short file.

One rule applies to every app here: ask before you record. Some US states require every party's consent; see our overview of one-party consent states. This isn't legal advice.

Want to try it on your next client meeting? Download ParrotNotes free and get the summary before you've left the building.

The verdict of this Notta AI review

Notta covers more ground than most transcription services: web, iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, a Chrome extension, a meeting bot and a bot-free desktop app, all on one account. Pro is inexpensive for 1,800 minutes a month.

The free plan is the weak spot. A 3-minute cap per recording makes it a test, not a tool, and translation costs extra once the free uses run out. Read Trustpilot's notice before a trial, and set a renewal reminder.

If you use one part of this review, make it the free-plan table: hold your own last week of meetings up against it.

If your most important conversations happen in person, download ParrotNotes free. You get 100 minutes a month, recordings up to 30 minutes on Free, and an AI summary on every one.