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30.08.2026

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5 Best Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking [2026]

By Sanduni

Growth Content Editor

5 Best Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking [2026]

I compared five Plaud alternatives for note taking; Jamie, Notta Memo, Granola, Pocket, and HiDock P1.

These alternative AI note takers to Plaud were compared on data security, transcription, speaker identification, hardware, free plans, and price.

Jamie was previously evaluated against four other famous AI note takers using two metrics that measure an AI note taker's performance during a meeting and Jamie scored, 98 out of 100 for speaker identification, and 90 for transcription.

Jamie performed better than Granola, Otter, Fireflies, and Fathom. You can see the receipts and proof to the test over at our AI note taker article.

Now before read this article, I need to give a quick reminder of how Plaud truly works.

Plaud has a desktop application called Plaud Desktop, and it does not work without the recorder. The Plaud Desktop app needs the recorder to work.

This requires carrying both devices in order to capture the same set of notes. This means the app won't work if you forget to bring the recorder that you left at home and vice versa.

Whether you already own a Plaud device or are still deciding, the question is the same: what is the best Plaud alternative for note-taking? In this article, we are going to show you 5 of them.

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TL;DR: the 5 best Plaud alternatives for note taking

Jamie, best overall AI note taker: consent first, bot free notes from in-person and online meetings in 100+ languages, on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, with Scratchpad, live transcription, meeting data in Europe and permanent audio deletion. Jamie is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified, with speaker identification and memory. Pro runs unlimited meetings at 5 hours each, with unlimited history, storage and unlimited Ask AI. Free covers ten meetings, Plus is 25 euros monthly.
Notta Memo, best for translation across 58 languages on a card-sized recorder. The Notta Memo 28g recorder is priced at $149 and can capture thirty (30) hours of recording time. The free web plan includes 120 minutes of transcription each month. For customers who purchase the recorder, Notta includes 300 minutes of transcription each month.
Granola, best for a bot free notepad on a Mac or a phone. Granola captures and transcribes on the user's computer and retains the transcript while deleting the recorded audio. The free plan costs nothing, and Granola's pricing page calls its meeting history limited. Granola holds SOC 2 Type II certification and complies with GDPR and UK GDPR, and Granola Chat drafts follow-up emails and sends Slack messages.
Pocket, best for people whose recording happens on the phone. The Pocket 52g recorder costs $129 and includes a MagSafe mount and a contact microphone for capturing phone conversations. There is a free plan, which does not charge anything but keeps summaries for thirty (30) days and limits Ask Pocket to two (2) messages per day.
HiDock P1, best for calls taken on Bluetooth earphones. The HiDock aluminium P1 recorder weighs seventy-two (72) grams and has three (3) different recording modes. HiDock states that owners of the P1 receive free transcription for the life of the product, in seventy-five (75) languages. HiDock complies with GDPR, and the P1 holds 64GB of recordings and turns speeches of up to four hours into structured paragraphs.

What Are the Best Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking?

The top 5 Plaud alternatives to use for note-taking are Jamie, Notta Memo, Granola, Pocket, and HiDock P1. All of these AI note takers will capture a conversation and produce both a written summary and an actual transcript of what was said during the conversation. Jamie can capture either in-person or online meetings using a device that you already have, on every plan including our free plan. All meeting data is stored and processed in Europe.

Once the transcription has been completed, Jamie then deletes the recording of the meeting. Granola can also capture recordings without having to have a bot as part of the process, and Granola states that it does not store any audio. Notta is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified.

Here is how Jamie, Notta Memo, Granola, Pocket and HiDock P1 compare on the things your team checks before a client call. Every cell opens up for the fuller answer.

	Jamie	Notta Memo	Granola	Pocket	HiDock P1
Bot-free capture	Yes Jamie records from the laptop or phone you already carry, on every plan including our free plan. You obtain verbal consent in your own words, the optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out before the meeting, and the meeting chat notice posts in the call once you switch that on.	Yes Notta Desktop records the audio on your own computer, and their help centre calls the app Bot-Free. Their separate Notta Bot joins a call as a participant instead, which leaves you to choose between the two routes before a client meeting.	Yes Granola runs only on your computer and uses your system audio and microphone, and their own docs say there is no meeting bot. If you are clicked into an upcoming meeting note, Granola starts transcribing at the scheduled start time.	Yes Pocket is a card sized recorder that captures a room through its own microphones, which keeps the meeting software untouched. You do still bring the recorder into the room, because the card is where the audio comes from.	Yes HiDock records on the P1 itself, and their product page says BlueCatch captures clear audio through your Bluetooth earphones without adding a bot to your meeting. The recorder has to be with you and paired with your earphones first.
Ships a meeting bot	No Jamie ships no bot on any plan, which leaves your host nobody to admit or block. You obtain verbal consent in your own words, the optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out beforehand, and the meeting chat notice posts in the call once you switch that on.	Yes Notta Bot joins your meeting as a participant and appears in the attendee list, and their help centre gives a joining time of 10 to 30 seconds. Notta Bot is optional, because Notta Desktop is their bot-free route.	No There is no meeting bot, in the words of their own docs, and Granola runs only on your computer using your system audio and microphone. Granola does not transcribe a meeting you have not clicked into.	No Pocket ships no bot into the call. The recording happens on the card in your pocket rather than inside the meeting software your client is running, which leaves their call exactly as they set it up.	No HiDock ships no bot into the call either. Their product page says BlueCatch works through your Bluetooth earphones, which keeps the meeting your host is running exactly as they set it up, with nothing to admit.
Records without buying a separate device	Yes Jamie records from the laptop, phone or tablet you already own, on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, and on every plan including our free plan. There is nothing to buy, charge or carry before your first client meeting.	No Notta Memo is the hardware, and their shop lists a regular price of 149 US dollars. Notta also makes Notta Desktop, which records on your computer with no device at all, leaving the recorder as a choice rather than a requirement.	Yes Granola is software only, with no hardware to buy first. Their security page says Granola is an app for Desktop and Mobile, covering iPhone and Android, and the recording runs through the computer or phone you already own.	No Pocket is the hardware you buy first. Their pricing page lists the recorder at 129 US dollars against 199 dollars, and the app then works from the recordings the card has made for you.	No HiDock P1 is the hardware you buy first, and their product page lists the P1 at 169 US dollars. Transcription is included for the life of the recorder, and the audio still starts on the device rather than your laptop.
In-person meetings	Yes Jamie records in-person meetings on every plan including our free plan, from macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. Your meetings then sync across all of those devices from one account, which means a client visit is on your laptop when you get home.	Yes Notta Memo records a room through its own microphones, and their shop page names 30 hours of recording and 32GB of storage. The same page describes that storage as roughly 144 hours of audio held on the card.	Yes Granola for Mobile is built for in-person meetings, in their own words, and the mobile app runs on iPhone and Android. On macOS and Windows the desktop app covers the room in front of you as well.	Yes Pocket records a room through two studio microphones and one contact microphone, and their site names a recording range of up to 15 metres. The same page names four days of active battery life on one charge.	Yes HiDock has a Room Mode for meetings and interviews, in their own words, sitting alongside Call Mode and Whisper Mode. Their product page names dual studio level microphones and 64GB of storage on the recorder.
Records online meeting platforms	Yes Jamie captures the audio on your own device, which covers every online meeting platform running on that device. Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet are all included, on every plan including our free plan, with nothing to switch on first.	Yes Notta transcribes web meetings on the free plan, in their own words. Their help centre says Notta Desktop records any meeting software in any browser, and that Notta Bot covers a call joined from a machine without the app installed.	Yes Granola for Desktop works with any meeting platform, in their own words, and they name Zoom, Meet and Teams. That sentence describes the desktop app on macOS and Windows rather than the mobile app for in-person meetings.	Yes The Pocket desktop app records the audio from Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet calls on macOS and Windows, in the words of their own docs. It captures your microphone and the meeting audio playing through your computer, and adds no recording bot.	Yes P1 is compatible with all major meeting platforms, including Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and Webex, in the words of their own product FAQ. BlueCatch carries the audio through your Bluetooth earphones rather than through the meeting software.
Live transcript during the meeting	Yes Jamie displays a Live Transcript on your screen while the meeting is still running, and the Scratchpad sits in the same panel for the notes you type yourself. You read back what was said without stopping anybody or waiting for an upload.	Yes Notta Memo does real-time transcription, in the words of their own shop page, and the same page names real-time translation across 58 languages. That is the transcription arriving while the recording is still going.	Yes Granola transcribes in real time on macOS and Windows, in the words of their security page. On the mobile app the transcription happens after your meeting instead, from audio their page describes as temporarily cached.	No Pocket's own page names no live transcript, and the raw page carries no mention of one either. You work from the recording after the conversation has finished rather than reading it while somebody is talking.	Pro HiDock's product page says a Pro Membership adds live transcription, alongside speaker identification and 39 or more summary templates. On the free transcription included with the recorder you read the text afterwards instead.
Speaker names on the transcript	Yes Jamie identifies each speaker through speaker diarisation and puts a name against each voice, on every plan including our free plan. In our own accuracy test Jamie scored 98 out of 100 for speaker identification, and Jamie has the ability to remember voices between meetings.	Yes Notta lists speaker identification on the free plan, in the words of their own pricing page. The Notta Memo shop page adds smart summaries built from the same transcription, with over 30 summary templates to choose from.	Partial Granola transcripts default to Me and Them, and speaker tags add each participant's name once you set the tags up. Their page names Google Meet and Zoom only, and Google Meet also needs the free Granola browser extension on macOS or Windows.	Pro Pocket auto-detects speaker names on the Pro plan, in their own words, and their site describes two studio microphones plus one contact microphone for speaker separated audio in a room full of people.	Pro HiDock Speaker Identification distinguishes up to 10 voices in a meeting with colour markers, in the words of their HiNotes page. Their own plan table gives speaker identification to Pro and marks it unavailable on the free Member tier.
Voice memory across meetings	Yes Speaker Memory means Jamie has the ability to remember voices between meetings, and Speaker Memory is on every plan including our free plan. You name a voice once, and the same name comes back on the next call with that person.	No Notta pages name speaker identification inside a single recording, and they name no memory of a voice carried from one recording to the next. A second call with the same client starts the naming again.	No Granola speaker tags read the names from the participant list of that one call, in the words of their own docs. Their pages name no memory of a voice held between one meeting and another.	Yes Once you have named a speaker, Pocket will recognize them across your other recordings, in the words of their own docs. Voice Print also trains on your own voice and stays active for all future recordings, and duplicate profiles can be merged.	Partial HiNotes may display Speaker Suggestions, names drawn from people who appeared in previous meetings and from your saved contacts, in the words of their own guide. You still choose the name from that list rather than having it applied for you.
Meeting audio deleted after transcription	Yes Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcription is finished, on every plan. Your notes and your transcript stay, which means a confidential conversation leaves nothing behind to be forwarded, subpoenaed or found in an account a year later.	No Notta security page names TLS 1.2 in transit and AES-256 at rest, with user data regularly backed up on Amazon Web Services. That page names no deletion of the meeting audio once the transcription is made.	Yes Granola does not store the audio from meetings, in the words of their security page. They keep the transcript and any notes you write yourself, and on the mobile app the audio is only temporarily cached.	No Pocket privacy page says recordings are kept only for as long as necessary, and names no deletion once the transcript exists. The card itself also holds 64GB of audio until somebody clears the device.	No HiDock security page names GDPR compliance and no AI training on customer data, and names no deletion of the audio after transcription. The P1 also holds 64GB of recordings locally on the device.
Meeting data in Europe	Yes Jamie stores and processes all meeting data in Europe, on every plan, and Jamie is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified alongside it. Your compliance officer answers the where is our data question straight from our own security page.	No Notta use Amazon Web Services as their data center and your data is stored in a data center located in Tokyo, in the words of their own help centre. Their security page and pricing page name no European region.	No All data is stored on Amazon Web Services servers located in the United States, in the words of their own help centre. The same page says Granola does not offer EU, UK or other regional data residency at this time.	No Transcription and summarisation run on US based cloud infrastructure, in the words of their own trust page, which prints Processed in the United States. Nothing on that page names a European region.	No HiDock operates its software HiNotes in Microsoft Azure data centres located in the USA, in the words of their own security page. Nothing on that page names a European region for your recordings.
GDPR compliant	Yes Jamie is fully compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, in the words of our own security page, and Jamie is ISO 27001 certified alongside that. Jamie is also DORA-ready, which means a bank or fund under DORA can use Jamie.	Yes Notta is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation, in the words of their own security page. Their help centre adds that Notta have obtained ISO 27001, SOC 2, CCPA, GDPR, SSL and APPI certifications.	Yes Granola complies with GDPR and UK GDPR, in the words of their own help centre, and the same page names a UK entity called Granola Labs Ltd. Their standard Data Processing Addendum is published at a public link.	Yes Pocket's trust page names SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR as their compliance set. The same page says your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with extra safeguards for sensitive material.	Yes HiDock complies with the General Data Protection Regulation, in the words of their own security page. The same page says no customer data is used to train the AI, and that shared metadata is anonymised.
ISO 27001 certified	Yes Jamie is certified to the international standard for information security, independently verified and audited, and Jamie is GDPR compliant alongside that certificate. Those two together are the pair a European compliance review asks for by name before a client call.	Yes Notta have obtained ISO 27001, SOC 2, CCPA, GDPR, SSL and APPI certifications, in the words of their own help centre. Their security page describes the standard and says Notta follows the guidelines.	No ISO 27001 is not yet available, in the words of their own help centre, and the same page says Granola currently holds SOC 2 Type II. Their Trust Center lists every certification they hold today.	No Pocket's trust page names SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR, and names no ISO 27001 certificate. A security review asking for that certificate has to ask Pocket directly.	No HiDock's security page names ISO/IEC 27001 as one of Microsoft Azure's certifications rather than one of their own. The same page names GDPR compliance and says no customer data is used to train the AI.
SOC 2 Type II	No Our own security page names GDPR, ISO 27001 and DORA readiness, and does not name SOC 2. European buyers ask for GDPR and ISO 27001 by name, and that is the pair Jamie holds and publishes.	Yes Notta has successfully obtained SOC 2 Type II certification through an independent audit, in the words of their own security page. The same page names ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance beside that report.	Yes Granola holds SOC 2 Type II certification, in the words of their own help centre. The full report is available through their Trust Center once your security team requests access to it.	Yes Pocket's trust page names SOC 2 Type II alongside SOC 2 Type 1, HIPAA and GDPR. The same page says transcription and summarisation run on US based cloud infrastructure behind private networking.	No HiDock's security page names SOC 1-3 as Microsoft Azure's certifications rather than their own. That page names GDPR compliance and says no customer data is used to train the AI instead.
Trains AI on your meetings	No Your data is never used for training of models, not by us or any of the model providers, in the words of our own security page. That holds on every plan, including our free plan, with nothing to switch off.	Partial Notta names one AI training statement, scoped to Privacy Mode. In that mode the offline model keeps recordings off their cloud and out of AI model training. No page of theirs carries a general no training commitment.	Partial Granola trains on your anonymised data to keep improving the product, in their own words, and you can opt out in Settings. Enterprise users have model training turned off by default, which their pricing page repeats.	No Pocket will not use your personal recordings to train their models without your consent, in the words of their own privacy page. No other training statement appears anywhere else on their site.	No No customer data is used to train the AI, in the words of HiDock's own security page. The same page says metadata shared with OpenAI or Anthropic is anonymised before it goes anywhere.
Free plan	Yes Jamie's free plan covers 10 meetings a month at 30 minutes each, with unlimited Ask AI and unlimited storage. In-person meetings, every online platform and Speaker Memory are all included on it, which is unusual for a plan costing nothing.	Yes Notta free plan gives 120 transcription minutes a month with up to 3 minutes per conversation, in the words of their own pricing page. The same plan includes 50 file uploads and 10 AI summaries each month.	Yes Granola Basic is 0 dollars per user per month, and the plan lets you see limited meeting history, in their own words. AI chat within and across meetings is included on that plan as well.	Yes Pocket free plan gives unlimited transcription at what they call standard accuracy. Ask Pocket is limited to 2 messages a day, and summaries are saved for 30 days, which means you export anything worth keeping.	Yes HiDock includes free AI transcription for the lifetime of a P1, in the words of their own HiNotes page. That free transcription starts once you have bought the recorder at 169 US dollars.
Paid price, billed monthly	Yes Jamie is 25 euros a month on Plus, 47 euros a month on Pro and 39 euros per seat a month on Team, with Enterprise priced on request. Those are the monthly figures, read with the monthly toggle switched on.	Yes Notta Pro is 13.49 US dollars a month and Business is 27.99 US dollars a month, both marked Billed monthly on their own pricing page. Enterprise is custom priced and starts from 51 seats.	Yes Granola is 14 US dollars per user a month on Business and 35 dollars per user a month on Enterprise, in the words of their own pricing page. That page carries no annual or monthly toggle at all.	Yes Pocket Pro is 19.99 US dollars a month, in the words of their own pricing page, and 16.59 a month if you pay 199 dollars for the whole year. The first 30 days of the subscription are free.	Yes HiDock lists the P1 at 169 US dollars as a one off purchase, and their page prints the same figure as the regular price. Their product page names a Pro Membership on top of that, with pay-as-you-go and annual options.
Transcription minutes metered	No Jamie sells no pool of transcription minutes on any plan. Jamie does cap how many meetings you get and how long each meeting runs, and those two numbers sit in the free plan and meeting length rows of this table.	Yes Notta meters minutes on the lower plans, at 120 a month on Free and 1,800 a month on Pro, in the words of their own pricing page. The Business plan at 27.99 dollars is unlimited transcription.	No Granola Basic limits how far back your meeting history goes, in their own words, and Business is unlimited meeting notes and history. Their pricing page meters no transcription minutes on any of the three plans.	No Pocket free plan is unlimited transcription at what they call standard accuracy, in their own words. The part that is limited instead is the summaries, which their page says are saved for 30 days.	No HiDock includes unlimited AI transcription in 75 or more languages for the lifetime of the recorder, in the words of their own product page. No minute pool is named anywhere on that page.
Meeting length limit	5h Jamie runs 30 minutes a meeting on Free, 2 hours on Plus and 5 hours on Pro, Team and Enterprise, read off our own pricing page. A three hour investment committee is therefore one recording on Pro.	5h Notta allows up to 3 minutes per conversation on Free and up to 5 hours per recording on Pro, Business and Enterprise. Those numbers come off their own pricing page with the monthly toggle switched on.	None Granola pricing page names no limit on how long a meeting can run. What the Basic plan limits instead is how far back your meeting history goes, in their own words.	None Pocket pages name no limit on the length of a recording. The same page names 64GB of storage on the card and unlimited cloud storage behind it, which is where a long day of meetings ends up.	4h HiDock turns speeches up to 4 hours into structured paragraphs, in the words of their own HiNotes page. The P1 itself holds 64GB of audio locally until you move the recordings off it.
Languages	100+ Jamie generates notes and transcripts in over 100 languages, on every plan including our free plan. A call that runs half in English and half in German comes back in the language people actually spoke, with nothing to set first.	58 Notta Memo does real-time transcription and translation across 58 languages, in the words of their own shop page. The same page names over 30 summary templates for turning those recordings into a written format.	Yes Granola supports ten languages on macOS and Windows and seven more on iOS and Android, in the words of their own help centre. They also run a language waitlist for anything their transcription provider does not yet cover.	120+ Pocket supports over 120 languages, in the words of their own site. The same page names AI summaries, action items and mind maps generated in those languages after the conversation has finished.	75+ HiDock gives unlimited AI transcription in 75 or more languages, in the words of their own product page. The same page describes that transcription as high precision and free for the life of the recorder.
Deal CRM logging	Yes Jamie logs your meeting notes to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Pipedrive, and attaches them to Salesforce records, from Pro upwards. Notion, Google Docs and OneNote are on every plan, including our free plan.	Yes Notta includes CRM and Zapier integration from the Business plan at 27.99 US dollars a month, in the words of their own pricing page. Their integrations list names Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Zendesk Sell, Salesflare and Freshsales.	Business Granola includes advanced integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier on the Business plan at 14 dollars per user a month. Their help centre gives the free Basic plan Slack only from that list.	No Pocket site names no CRM integration anywhere. Somebody on your team therefore still opens the client record and pastes the notes in by hand after every call that matters.	No HiDock pages name no CRM integration. The notes stay inside HiNotes until a person opens the deal record and moves them across, which is a job somebody does after the meeting.
Answers questions across all your meetings	Yes Ask AI answers questions across all of your meetings at once, and Ask AI is unlimited on every Jamie plan including our free plan. You ask what a client said in March without opening a single March meeting.	Yes Notta Brain answers questions across your meetings and their compare table gives every plan, including Free, 1,000 AI credits a month. The Notta Brain add-on at 12.99 US dollars a month raises that to 8,000 credits.	Yes Granola includes AI chat within and across meetings on the free Basic plan, in their own words. Access to advanced AI thinking models and features comes with the Business plan at 14 dollars per user.	Pro Pocket limits Ask Pocket to 2 messages a day on the free plan, in their own words. The higher accuracy transcription and the rest of the features sit on the Pro plan billed yearly.	No HiDock pages name summary templates and search across your notes, and they name no chat that answers a question across all of your recordings at once for you.
AI notes and summaries	Yes Executive Level AI Notes give you an Executive Summary and a Full Summary structured by the topics discussed, in the words of our own docs, on every plan including our free plan. Every word of it is editable afterwards.	Yes Notta Memo generates smart summaries from the transcription, in the words of their own shop page, with over 30 templates to choose from. Their pricing page meters the AI summary quota by plan, starting at 10 a month.	Yes Granola generates AI meeting notes on the free Basic plan, in their own words, with customised note templates included. The Business plan adds unlimited meeting notes and history on top of that.	Yes Pocket generates AI summaries, action items and mind maps in over 120 languages, in the words of their own site. On the free plan those summaries are saved for 30 days only.	Yes HiDock extracts summaries tailored to the kind of recording, in the words of their own HiNotes page. Their plan table gives 8 or more summary templates on the free Member tier and 39 or more on Pro.
Action items with an owner	Yes Jamie extracts action items from the meeting with assignees, in the words of our own docs, and Creating Tasks is one of the four processing steps on every plan. Each task stays editable after the meeting.	Yes Notta AI Notes get summaries and action items, in the words of their own pricing page. Their help centre says you select a To-Do list block, then choose an assignee from your Notta workspace members and set a due date.	Yes Notes, action items and follow-ups are ready the moment the meeting ends, in the words of their own homepage. Their pages name no owner assigned against each item.	Yes Pocket generates action items alongside summaries and mind maps, in the words of their own site. The same page names unlimited todos and task app integrations, listing Apple Reminders, Google Tasks, Todoist, ClickUp and Asana.	Pending HiDock names 39 or more summary templates on Pro and 8 or more on the free tier, in the words of their own plan table. We could not settle from their published pages whether HiNotes builds a separate action item list. This cell therefore makes no claim either way.
Agent that acts in your other tools	Yes Jamie is agentic, which means Jamie acts on your meetings instead of stopping at the notes. You describe what should happen and Jamie does it after every matching meeting, using the tools you have connected. Workflows are rolling out to workspaces gradually.	Yes Notta ships an AI-powered Sales Agent, and their help centre says you turn CRM Sync on, select HubSpot or Salesforce and proceed with the integration. The agent moves records to an agent folder and updates CRM data for you.	Yes Granola Chat drafts follow-up emails, sends Slack messages and schedules Google Calendar events, in the words of their own docs, with a review step before anything is sent. Recipes save the prompts you reuse.	Partial Pocket documents a Calendar Hub that turns talk into follow-through with one tap, plus an MCP server, a public API and webhooks. The calendar step is one you tap yourself rather than a job the product carries out unattended.	No HiDock lets you export notes and manage them in Notion and Google Docs, in the words of their own page. Neither of their pages names an agent that carries out a job in another tool.

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1. Jamie: Best Plaud Alternative AI Note Taker on Every Device

Best for: Jamie is the AI note taking app for teams who want bot free notes from in-person and online meetings on your laptop and phone, 100+ languages, Ask AI, and meeting data in Europe.

Similar to: Granola, Otter.ai and Fathom.

Jamie is a bot-free AI note taker that takes notes during in-person and online meetings. This is done via your own device (i.e., without any intrusive bot joining your meeting; no recorder sits at your counterparties' tables). We created Jamie for those conversations that remain between the individuals in the meeting room.

All meeting data is both stored and processed in Europe, and Jamie is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified. Once the transcription is complete, Jamie permanently removes the recorded meeting audio. Your data will neither be used by Jamie to train models, nor by our model providers.

As for informing the parties within the meeting room, you inform them directly. Below are the three notices Jamie carries for it.

You obtain verbal consent in your own words.
Optional: the Automated Recording Notice email goes out prior to the meeting.
Once enabled, a notice post appears in the meeting chat.

Jamie generates Executive Level AI Notes with an executive summary, a full summary and the action items

Jamie’s Dashboard With Meeting Notes, Action Items and Speakers

Once you click Stop Recording, Jamie will generate the meeting notes. The documentation outlines how Jamie does this in sequence, which is transcription, then speaker matching, then the summary, then the tasks, with a processing time of five to ten minutes. If you write up a client call before the next one starts, these four outputs are the ones you send on:

Executive Level AI Notes: The Write Up Is Already Done. Jamie organizes the notes as an executive summary and a full summary organized by topic, on every plan including our free plan. Instead of having to rebuild a meeting from a transcript, you forward the summary to the client.
Action Items With An Owner: You Stop Working Out Who Owes What. Jamie identifies the action items with assignees during the note generation process, on every plan. You do not need to work out who is responsible for each item after the call.
Live Transcript And Scratchpad: Live Transcription With Your Own Notes. During the meeting, Jamie will display the Live Transcript on your screen. Your private notes go in the Scratchpad beside it. None of your Scratchpad notes get lost between the call and the write up.
Fully Editable Output: You Fix A Name Without Starting Again. All parts of the meeting output, the notes, the transcript and the tasks, may be edited within Jamie, on every plan. A misheard company name is a two second edit rather than a rewrite.
30+ Summary Templates: The Format Your Firm Already Uses. Jamie includes a minimum of thirty plus different, pre-designed template options for each level of plan (including the free) with one customizable option available at the lowest tier, which is free. Three customizable options are available to the Plus tier, while unlimited customization options are available to those who purchase the Pro tier. You stop reshaping the same notes into your own format by hand..

Jamie records from your own laptop or mobile, with no additional device on your table

Jamie records the conversation using the laptop or mobile you already bring into the meeting room. Since there are no additional devices, you don't need to place anything on your table and nothing joins your call.

In addition, Jamie won't interrupt your meeting with something you didn't expect, like a recorder. Your relationship of trust with the person hosting it remains intact. If you are the associate who walks into a room somebody else owns, then these three answers cover the part you cannot control:

The diligence call you do not host: on a diligence call or a management presentation the target company hosts, the room, the table and the rules are your client's, not yours. A card sized recorder has to be placed somewhere on that table in front of them, and Jamie asks for nothing on it, because the recording runs on the laptop you brought with you.
The recording policy your compliance officer wrote: your compliance officer set out how a client conversation may be recorded, and Jamie follows it with your own disclosure rather than a device. You obtain verbal consent in your own words, the optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out before the meeting, and the meeting chat notice posts in the call once you switch it on.
Walk in, ask, record: you walk into your client's office, open the laptop you already brought, obtain verbal consent in your own words, and start the recording. Nobody has to explain a strange object to a founder before the meeting can start.

Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcription is finished

Jamie retains your notes and your transcript and permanently deletes the meeting audio once transcription has been completed. Therefore, when Jamie records a confidential conversation, nothing remains behind that could be forwarded, subpoenaed, or found in an account a year later.

If you record calls regarding unannounced deals, these three answers cover what happens to the recording:

The call about an unannounced acquisition: the most sensitive hour of a deal is the one nobody wants sitting in a vendor's storage. Jamie removes the audio for you rather than waiting for somebody to remember it.
The partner whose name is on the mandate: the partner running the mandate, and the compliance officer beside them, both answer for what was kept. Neither of them has to trust a person to press delete.
Nothing left to hand over: the call ends, the notes appear, and there is no audio file left to govern, share by accident or hand over. Jamie removes the audio once the transcript exists, while Plaud's own trust page states that data is kept for as long as the account remains active.

Regardless of plan, Jamie stores and processes all meeting data within Europe. Jamie also is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified as a company, and Jamie is DORA-ready. If your legal or IT teams review Jamie before a client call, these three answers are the ones they ask for:

The security questionnaire before approval: the questionnaire arrives before any note taker is approved, and it asks for residency, certification and model training. Every one of those answers sits on our own security page, one line each, all meeting data in Europe, GDPR and ISO 27001, and no model training. Plaud runs data centres in the US, Europe with Frankfurt, Singapore and Japan, and does not train on your data by default.
The officer who signs Jamie off: your compliance, legal or IT officer is the person who has to defend the choice later. They answer the certification question from our own page, without waiting on a vendor to send evidence mid sign off.
No model training on your data: neither Jamie nor our model providers use your data to train models. That is the sentence a client asks for in writing before their own management team is recorded.

Jamie runs on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and the web, with no second device to carry

Jamie records the audio on the device you already own and synchronizes all of your meetings across each of those devices from one account. There isn't a separate recorder to purchase, charge, keep tabs on or pass along. No 64GB of client conversation travels in a jacket pocket. If your week involves travel to multiple locations including a site visit, a portfolio company office, an airport, then these three answers cover what you need to carry:

The site visit and the airport: on a site visit, in a portfolio company office or between flights, you already carry a laptop and a phone. Jamie records on either one, and in-person meetings are covered on every plan, including our free plan. Plaud makes an app for your laptop, called Plaud Desktop, and their pricing page says it needs the recorder to work. The recorder travels with you.
The IT team that keeps the asset register: a recorder is an asset somebody has to inventory, insure and collect when a colleague leaves. Your IT team has nothing extra to track, because Jamie runs on the machines they already manage.
One account, every device: your meetings sync across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and the web from a single account. Nobody copies files off a device before the notes are readable.

Jamie counts meetings rather than metered transcription minutes

Jamie sets how long a meeting can run and how many meetings you get on each plan, and does not sell a pool of transcribed minutes. Pro runs unlimited meetings at up to 5 hours each. Twenty calls a week at an hour each is eighty hours a month, and Jamie counts none of those hours against a quota. Thus there is no extra cost in the middle of a long week. If your diligence weeks run back to back, the three answers below cover all that you could possibly want to record:

The back to back diligence week: a diligence week is the week you least want to be rationing minutes. Jamie counts meetings instead of minutes, with 10 AI notes and transcripts a month on our free plan, 20 on Plus and unlimited from Pro upwards. Plaud's own pricing page caps its Pro plan at 1,200 transcription minutes a month for 17.99 USD, where Jamie's Pro plan has no monthly minute pool at all.
The associate and the budget holder: the associate running the calls never checks a remaining balance, and whoever owns the budget sees one price rather than a top up. Meeting length runs 30 minutes on Free, 2 hours on Plus and 5 hours from Pro.
Unlimited storage on every plan: storage is unlimited on all five plans, and Ask AI is unlimited too, including on our free plan. Nobody deletes last quarter's notes to make room for this quarter's.
One Transcription Quality On Every Plan: You Never Pay For Better Words. Jamie does not sell tiers that carry higher levels of accuracy than what is already provided in our base tier or free version. We have listed all pricing tiers on our pricing page and there are none that provide any higher level of accuracy. The only thing we change is the number of meetings you can hold, how long they last, what templates are included, and what type of integrations you will be able to use. You will never question if the paid plan could have captured the room better..

Jamie records every meeting platform on your device, plus in-person meetings

Jamie captures the audio during the meeting on your own device and does not join calls. That means Jamie captures the audio from all the online meeting platforms on that device, including Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Zoom. Additionally, the same app records your in-person meetings. Therefore if half of your week is spent online and the other half is spent face-to-face in somebody's office, the three answers below cover both halves of your week:

Teams in the morning, a founder in the afternoon: a sourcing call on Microsoft Teams and a founder meeting in a room are the same job for Jamie. Nobody on your team works out which tool covers the call in front of them.
Nothing in your attendee list: nothing joins your call as a participant, and nothing appears in the attendee list your client is looking at. You are the one person from your side in that meeting.
In-person on every plan: in-person meetings are covered on every plan, including our free plan. You do not upgrade to record the conversation you had across a table.

Jamie displays a Live Transcript on your screen while the meeting is still running

Jamie generates the transcript in real time as opposed to generating it after the meeting has concluded. You read back what was discussed throughout the meeting without having to pause anyone or wait for an uploaded file. Once Live Transcript is started, it appears on your screen in real time as the meeting continues. Thus, if you sit through lengthy committee meetings, the three answers below cover the length of the wait:

The three hour investment committee: in a three hour investment committee the number you need is often an hour behind you. You can check it on your screen without stopping the room to ask.
The associate taking the notes: the associate keeping the record is the one person who cannot rewind the conversation. Live Transcript keeps the whole meeting in front of them as it runs.
No upload, no queue: nothing has to be transferred off a device and processed before you can read it. Jamie captures the audio on your own machine, and the text appears while people are still speaking.

Jamie identifies each speaker through speaker diarisation and matches voices with Speaker Memory

Jamie’s Speaker Identification and Memory

Jamie assigns a name to each speaker as opposed to assigning them a number. Speaker Memory then matches that same voice in future meetings, and thus the names remain intact from one call to another. If you write up meetings with several people in the room, the three answers below cover who spoke at various points throughout the meeting:

The four person management presentation: four people around a table usually come back as unnamed speakers. Jamie separates them through speaker diarisation and labels the transcript with real names.
Attributing a number to the CFO: the associate writing it up has to put a figure against the CFO, not against Speaker 2. The attribution is already on the page before they open it.
Speaker identification and memory: Jamie has the ability to remember voices between meetings. You are not renaming Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 by hand after every call.

Jamie logs meeting notes to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot and Dynamics 365

Jamie logs the meeting summary to the system your team already uses, once you enable syncing within Settings. This way, the note is logged where the next person will look for it. For example, if your company runs a customer relationship management (CRM) or deal tracking system, the three answers below cover the retyping:

The sourcing call and the company record: a sourcing call has to land against the right company record before the next call starts. Jamie logs it to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot and Dynamics 365, attaches it to Salesforce records and sends it to Attio, Notion, Google Docs, OneNote and Asana.
The head of platform who owns the CRM: the person who owns the CRM cares whether the data arrives without a person in the middle. The sync is set once in Settings and runs on every meeting after that.
MCP, API and webhooks: Jamie connects to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor through MCP, with MCP on Pro and up, and our API and webhooks cover whatever else your firm runs. Nobody exports a transcript by hand.

Jamie answers questions across all of your meetings at once with Ask AI

Jamie AI meeting assistant interface displaying the PE Discovery template summary view with automated customer context documentation for a private equity evaluation call.

Conversational Intelligence in Jamie searches across all of your previously recorded meetings and answers in one place. As such, the hours you have recorded stay useful as opposed to sitting unopened. If your team records more meetings than it can ever listen to again, the three answers below cover the pile:

Three management teams, one question: an investment committee asks what three different management teams said about pricing. Ask AI returns the answer without anybody opening three transcripts.
The partner preparing for committee: the partner preparing the paper needs the quote, not the recording. Ask AI is unlimited on every plan, including our free plan.
Jamie is agentic: the Agent acts inside your connected tools, Agent Connectors authorise it with your own account, and Agent Skills carry the instructions you write once. The follow up happens in those tools instead of sitting on your desk until Friday.

Jamie Pricing

Free: EUR 0 per month
Plus: EUR 25 per month
Pro: EUR 47 per month
Team: EUR 39 per seat per month
Enterprise: Custom pricing

Source: meetjamie.ai/pricing, read on 25 August 2026 with the monthly toggle on.

Storage is unlimited on every plan.

What Jamie users love

Bot-free capture keeps the call free of an extra participant

"I like Jamie because it's a bot-free AI note-taker that can take notes without an awkward bot on the call." Verified User in Design, G2

Transcription accuracy and the layout of the AI summaries

"The transcription is also usually very accurate. I also like the AI summaries it generates after the call - they're well laid out and organized, especially compared to other AI note-takers." Verified User in Design, G2

Multilingual meetings, including Hebrew, in person and online

"Finally an app that... Understands Hebrew. Jaime is also a life saver for: Multi lingual conversations [and] Offline and online meetings." Rachel C., G2

What Jamie users flag

Microphone setup was needed before an early update

"I had an issue before with recording the meeting notes because my microphone or something was not set up properly. But the latest update now grabs the meeting sounds with no extra configuration." Verified User in Design, G2

The reviewer names the fix in the same sentence: the current app captures the meeting audio without any configuration step.

Speaker identification benefits from a good microphone

"The speaker identification feature of Jamie, though very useful, isn't entirely reliable or infallible. In our experience, to get the most effective results from Jamie, it was necessary to invest in a good quality microphone." Tom W., G2

In a board room with several people at a long table, a conference microphone raises the accuracy of the speaker labels.

Some rough edges and missing integrations

"There a few buggy things and missing integrations but Jaime is young and I have full confidence in what their future looks like. It's better than every other app I've tried." Rachel C., G2

If your own tool is not on our list, MCP, the API and webhooks cover it on Pro and up.

2. Notta Memo: Best AI Voice Recorder for 58 Language Translation

Best for: Notta Memo is an AI voice recorder for people who want a physical recorder on the table for in-person conversations, with transcription and translation across 58 languages.

Similar to: Plaud Note, HiDock P1 and Pocket.

Source: Notta Memo

Notta Memo is a card sized AI voice recorder from Notta that captures meetings, calls and in-person conversations with one press, then transcribes them in the Notta app with AI summaries and translation. Notta's own shop lists the device at 0.35cm thick and 28g, with 30 hours of recording, 28 days of standby and 32GB of storage, which Notta describes as 144 hours of audio.

Notta Memo records with one press and transcribes in 58 languages

Notta splits the work between the recorder and the Notta app. The recorder holds the audio, and the Notta account does the transcription, the summary and the translation, which means the plan you are on decides how much of it you can process each month. If you are choosing between the card recorders, these five features are the ones Notta publishes:

One press recording: the device starts capturing with a single touch and shows the recording on an InstantView OLED display.
58 languages: Notta lists transcription, summary and real time translation across 58 languages.
30+ AI summary templates: Notta generates structured summaries from over 30 templates, including to-do lists and mind maps.
Battery and storage: 30 hours of recording, 28 days of standby and 32GB of onboard storage, which Notta counts as 144 hours of audio.
Notta Brain: Notta's AI assistant answers questions across your meetings, and their compare table gives every plan, including Free, 1,000 AI credits a month. The 12.99 USD add-on raises that to 8,000 credits.

Notta Memo costs 149 USD and the transcription minutes come from a Notta plan

Notta charges for the device once and for the transcription monthly. Buying the recorder includes what Notta calls the Starter allowance, and everything above that comes from a paid plan, which means the real monthly cost depends on how many hours your week actually runs:

The device: 149 USD on Notta's own shop, with the magnetic leather case, a one year warranty and a 30 day return window.
Starter: Notta's shop states that buyers get 300 minutes of free transcription each month as a benefit of the purchase.
Free: 0 USD, with 120 transcription minutes a month and a limit of 3 minutes per conversation on that plan.
Pro: 13.49 USD per month billed monthly, with 1,800 transcription minutes a month and up to 5 hours per recording.
Business: 27.99 USD per month billed monthly, with unlimited transcription and up to 5 hours per recording.
Enterprise: custom pricing, starting from 51 seats, with SAML SSO, audit logs and full data access control.

On security, Notta's own help centre says Notta have obtained ISO 27001, SOC 2, CCPA, GDPR, SSL and APPI certifications, and their security page adds encryption in transit using TLS 1.2 and at rest using AES-256. The same help centre page says Notta use Amazon Web Services as their data center and your data is stored in a data center located in Tokyo. Where a client's meeting data physically sits is the question a European buyer usually asks first, and it is the same question we answer for AI note takers for remote teams in the EU.

What Notta users love

Going back to the written version of a recorded meeting

"The transcription is the part I use most, and I like being able to go back to the written version when I need to find a particular point." Muzammil M., G2

Fast transcription with summaries and action items

"What I like most about Notta is its fast, accurate transcription and AI-powered meeting summaries. It allows me to focus on conversations instead of taking notes, while automatically capturing key discussions and action items." Verified User in Oil & Energy, G2

Naming a voice once and having it applied to the rest

"The ability to add a name once to a voice and have it filter down to all the voices." Verified User in Financial Services, G2

What Notta users flag

Transcripts need a check after a noisy recording

"The transcription is useful, but it still needs a quick review when the recording has unclear speech, background noise, or unusual names." Muzammil M., G2

Technical terms and long meetings affect the speaker labels

"The biggest drawback is accuracy in technical discussions. In meetings involving APIs, code, or industry-specific terminology, I often need to review the transcript and correct a few terms before sharing it with the team. Speaker identification isn't always consistent during long meetings." Verified User in Oil & Energy, G2

No way to check that a named voice was matched correctly

"I've had it happen where there are mistakes" Verified User in Financial Services, G2

3. Granola: Best AI Notepad for Mac and Mobile Without Stored Audio

Best for: Granola is an AI notepad for people who want meeting notes from the laptop and phone they already own, plus an AI chat that reaches back across their past meetings.

Similar to: Jamie, Otter.ai and Fathom.

Source: Granola

Granola is an AI notepad that records the audio on your own computer or phone and turns it into notes, with no bot in the call. Granola's own security page states that you start Granola manually for a meeting, and that it will not auto-join or auto-record anything. Granola then accesses your microphone audio and your meeting audio on your computer, and transcribes it without adding a bot to your video call.

Granola records on your own device and keeps the transcript instead of the audio

Granola splits its work between the desktop app and the phone. Granola's own homepage says it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and every other meeting app. Granola for mobile covers meetings on the go and phone calls, which is the pairing a reader leaving a recorder usually looks for. If you are weighing a recorder against software, these five facts all come from Granola's own security page:

No bot in the call: Granola states that it does not add a bot to your video call, and that you start it manually because it will not auto-join or auto-record anything.
Any meeting platform on the desktop: Granola's own homepage says it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and every other meeting app, and captures conversations in-person and on the go. Granola runs on desktop, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch.
No stored recordings: Granola states that it does not store the audio from meetings. Granola transcribes in real time on macOS and Windows, or after the meeting from cached audio on mobile, and keeps only the transcript and your notes.
Model training: Granola states that third parties such as OpenAI and Anthropic are not allowed to train on your data. Granola itself trains on your anonymised data unless you opt out in Settings, and Enterprise accounts have training off by default.
Security: Granola holds SOC 2 Type II certification and complies with GDPR and UK GDPR, in the words of their own help centre, and their Data Processing Addendum sits at a public link. Granola stores all data on AWS servers in the United States, and ISO 27001 is not yet available, in their own words. This is the first question a European compliance officer asks for bot free AI note takers.

Granola costs 14 USD per user per month for unlimited meeting notes and history

Granola prices per user, and their free plan is a taste rather than a working tier. Their pricing page describes that plan as limited meeting history. The notes you took last quarter are the ones you may not be able to open, and the plan you need depends on how far back your work makes you look:

Basic: 0 USD per user per month, with AI meeting notes, AI chat within and across meetings, shared folders, custom templates and, in Granola's own words, "See limited meeting history".
Business: 14 USD per user per month, with unlimited meeting notes and history, advanced AI models, integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier, MCP and API access.
Enterprise: 35 USD per user per month. Enterprise includes single sign-on, org-wide auto-deletion periods, admin controls for sharing and API access, and training off for the whole team. Their page also lists an org-wide notice that Granola is being used, marked as a pilot.

If you are signing a note taker off for European deal work, Granola's own security page answers two of the four questions a diligence review asks. Granola holds SOC 2 Type II certification and complies with GDPR and UK GDPR, in the words of their own help centre, and their Data Processing Addendum is published at a public link. Granola stores no audio, only the transcript and the notes you write. On model training, Granola states that third parties such as OpenAI and Anthropic may not train on your data. Granola itself trains on your anonymised data unless you opt out in Settings, and Enterprise accounts have training off by default. Their help centre says ISO 27001 is not yet available, and that all data sits on AWS servers in the United States with no EU or UK residency offered. That is the line a compliance officer needs before a client conversation is recorded.

What Granola users love

The conversation comes back as readable notes

"It records the conversation and turns it into readable notes, which is awesome." Shui H., G2

Notes from both the Mac and the iPhone

"It transcribes both on my Mac and iPhone, which is a game-changer for on-the-go catch-ups. The summaries it produces are actually good, not just a raw transcript dump, but key insights and actions." Aprielle D., G2

Asking the chat about an old meeting instead of searching for it

"I like the most the chat function with Granola itself. I can go back in history without having to search for the chat." Lisa K., G2

What Granola users flag

No way to open a note first and start recording later

"I'd love the ability to create a note and only start recording when I'm ready." Shui H., G2

A failed recording is lost with no second attempt

"There have also been times when something goes wrong and you lose the whole recording, instead of being able to simply try again." Shui H., G2

No one click send of a summary into Slack

"I'd like to have little buttons in Granola for automated actions, like a Slack button to generate a message or an email button for a formatted email. It'd be nice to connect directly to Slack for sending meeting summaries." Lisa K., G2

Need today's notes without buying anything first? Our free plan covers 10 meetings a month at 30 minutes each, with unlimited Ask AI across every meeting you record. There is no device to order and nothing to wait for.

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4. Pocket: Best AI Recorder for Phone Calls in 120+ Languages

Best for: Pocket is an AI voice recorder for people whose recording happens with the phone already in their hand, on calls and in face to face conversations.

Similar to: Plaud Note, Notta Memo and HiDock P1.

Source: Pocket

Pocket is a card sized AI voice recorder that snaps onto the back of a phone with MagSafe and turns conversations into transcripts, summaries, action items and mind maps in 120+ languages. Pocket's own specification list names two studio microphones and one contact microphone. Their page describes that contact microphone as capturing phone calls without the speaker. The device holds 64GB onboard and runs for four days.

Pocket records with two studio microphones and a contact microphone for calls

Pocket is built around the phone rather than the laptop. The device holds the audio and the Pocket app writes the notes, which means most of what you get depends on the plan you are on rather than the hardware you bought. If you are choosing between the card recorders, these five specifications come from Pocket's own page:

Microphones: two studio microphones and one contact microphone, which Pocket describes as capturing phone calls without the speaker.
Recording range: Pocket lists a range of up to 15 metres, which is 49 feet.
Battery and storage: four days of active use, with 64GB on the device and cloud storage on top.
Languages: Pocket lists summaries, action items and mind maps in over 120 languages.
Size and mount: 52 grams, 0.2 inches thick, held on the back of the phone by MagSafe.

Pocket costs 129 USD and the accurate transcription sits on the Pro plan

Pocket sells the device once and puts the sharper features behind a yearly plan. Their free tier keeps recording and transcription open. The parts a professional usually needs, the highest accuracy and the speaker names, are the paid ones. That matters if you are deciding whether the device replaces a note taker or only records for you. This is what a client facing week costs on their published plans, and it is the same maths we run for AI note takers for private equity:

The device: 129 USD for one Pocket on their own site, down from a list price of 199 USD, with free shipping, a one year warranty and 30 day returns.
Free: 0 USD, with unlimited transcription at what Pocket calls standard accuracy, summaries kept for 30 days, mind maps, plain text exports and Ask Pocket limited to 2 messages a day.
Pro: 16.59 USD a month, billed yearly at 199 USD a year, which includes the highest accuracy transcription, automatic speaker names, unlimited Ask Pocket, summaries kept forever, custom templates and audio downloads. Their page publishes no monthly price.
Enterprise: custom pricing for larger teams.

If your firm reviews tools before they touch client conversations, Pocket's privacy page is the document you will be handed. Pocket states that it will not use your personal recordings to train its models without your consent, and that personal information is retained only for as long as it is necessary. Their separate trust page names SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR, and prints Processed in the United States. A European reviewer therefore gets the certifications there rather than in the privacy policy.

What Pocket users love

Site visits with trades and clients, with the to-do list emailed afterwards

"its the best for me, I am older in age 65 and it help me record all my site visits with trades and client, it does my to do list and send it into my emails, its a game changer for me, many thanks" andthe, Trustpilot

Easy to use day to day

"This little device has transformed my day to day business life, it is so easy to use and the results are outstanding." Nick Bailey, Trustpilot

The note taking and the summaries

"This pocket AI works better than I could ever have imagined. The note-taking and summarizing are excellent." Lindsay Thompson, Trustpilot

What Pocket users flag

The yearly plan came as a surprise after buying the device

"The subscription model is egregious. If I knew there was one I wouldn't have got it." Consumer, Trustpilot

Audio quality in a room with other conversations in it

"It says its great in environments with outside sound, however in multiple meetings ive had at both indoor and outdoor patios, with any kind of chatter (not even music), it captures audio horribly." Dave Woeckener, Trustpilot

Meetings that did not come back as recordings

"After today it was no better, recording the wrong things or I'm not able to follow the directions to record my meeting. I did get one meeting out of 4." Oakie Mitchell, Trustpilot

5. HiDock P1: Best AI Voice Recorder for Bluetooth Earphone Calls

Best for: HiDock P1 is an AI voice recorder for people who take most of their calls on Bluetooth earphones and want that audio captured without anything joining the meeting.

Similar to: Plaud Note, Notta Memo and Pocket.

Source: HiDock

HiDock P1 is an aluminium AI voice recorder that captures calls through your Bluetooth earphones and sends the audio to HiNotes, HiDock's own app, for transcription and summaries. HiDock's product page describes the feature as BlueCatch, capturing clear audio through your Bluetooth earphones without adding a bot to your meeting. HiDock lists three recording modes: Call Mode for private calls, Room Mode for meetings and interviews, and Whisper Mode for quick ideas.

HiDock P1 records through Bluetooth earphones and transcribes in 75 languages

HiDock built the P1 around the headset rather than the room. The recorder holds the audio, HiNotes writes the notes, and HiDock states that owners of the P1 keep the transcription for the life of the device rather than paying monthly for it. If your working day runs on calls, these five facts come from HiDock's own product and HiNotes pages:

BlueCatch: HiDock states that the P1 captures audio through your Bluetooth earphones, without adding a bot to your meeting.
Lifetime free transcription: HiDock's HiNotes page states that HiDock H1, H1E and P1 owners benefit from a lifetime free transcription service, in 75 languages.
Three recording modes: Call Mode for private calls, Room Mode for meetings and interviews, and Whisper Mode for quick ideas, with one touch to start, mute, highlight or stop.
Speaker Identification: HiNotes separates up to 10 voices in a meeting with colour markers and names each participant.
The hardware: 72 grams of aluminium at 126 by 38 by 15.8 millimetres, with dual studio level ECM microphones, 64GB of local storage, a 600mAh battery and USB-C transfer.

HiDock P1 costs 169 USD and the transcription is included with the device

HiDock prices the P1 as a one off purchase with the transcription attached to it, which is a different model from the card recorders that meter your minutes each month. On compliance, HiDock's own security page states GDPR compliance and says that no customer data is used to train the AI, with any metadata shared with OpenAI or Anthropic anonymised first. That page names no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certificate and no European data region. Those are the first two things a compliance team asks about, and it is the question we work through for AI note takers for investment banks:

The device: 169 USD on HiDock's own store, in Space Gray or Star White, with the metal plate, touch control cable and quick start guide in the box.
HiNotes transcription: free for the life of the device for P1 owners, in HiDock's own words, covering audio of up to 4 hours per recording.
What it works with: HiDock lists compatibility with GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro for the summaries.

If the recorder is going into client meetings, HiDock's own security page is where a European reviewer starts. That page states HiDock complies with the General Data Protection Regulation, that no customer data is used to train the AI, and that any metadata shared with OpenAI or Anthropic is anonymised first. HiDock also states that it runs HiNotes in Microsoft Azure data centres located in the USA, and names Azure's own SOC 1 to 3 and ISO/IEC 27001 certificates rather than certificates of its own. For a European reviewer, the data sits in the USA.

What HiDock users love

Accurate transcripts and summaries that carry the follow up

"The transcripts and AI-generated summaries are accurate, organized, and genuinely useful. At this point, they have become an essential part of how I manage follow-ups after meetings." Joe McDowell, Trustpilot

Small enough for the hand, with the battery to last the day

"The device itself is very easy to use, small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and has excellent battery life." Joe McDowell, Trustpilot

Satisfied with the P1 and with the support behind it

"I bought the HiDock P1 and am very satisfied with its features. Customer service is excellent; they answered a question of mine quickly and efficiently." JOSé ANTONIO ROIG ROCHER, Trustpilot

What HiDock users flag

A P1 that stayed buggy after the firmware update

"it has never properly worked since receiving it, as it is so buggy!! Even after updating to the latest software and firmware." Frazer, Trustpilot

One buyer captured only their own side of an iPhone call

"its supposed to market itself as something that records calls using iphones and airpods. it only records you, not the person you are talking to" CN, Trustpilot

Help pages that had fallen behind the product

"If I had to point out one downside, it would be that some help resources are a bit outdated." JOSé ANTONIO ROIG ROCHER, Trustpilot

Is it legal to record a client meeting in Europe?

The recorder is legal to own. What the law governs is the recording, and that comes down to one thing: do the people in the room know, and have they agreed. Under GDPR you need a lawful basis before you record a conversation, and in a client meeting that usually means telling them and getting a yes. In parts of the United States every person on the call has to agree, including California, Florida and Pennsylvania. A call with a US counterparty therefore follows the stricter rule.

The EU AI Act added a second layer on 2 August 2026, the day its transparency rules started to apply. Article 50 is about telling people when they are dealing with an AI system, and when something has been generated by one. Whether it reaches your note taker depends on how your firm uses it, and that is a question for your own counsel rather than for a vendor. Consent is settled either way.

Every tool on this page leaves that job with you. Plaud's own trust page carries the line "If required by law, please obtain consent from all participants before recording." Jamie carries three notices for it. You obtain verbal consent in your own words at the start of the meeting. The optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out beforehand, 4 hours ahead by default and settable from 10 minutes to 48 hours. The meeting chat notice posts inside the call once you switch it on. This section is general information and not legal advice, and your compliance team has the final word.

Final Verdict on What's the Best 5 Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking?

The best Plaud alternative depends entirely on what you need right now. If it is recording client meetings without a second device, and knowing the audio does not outlive the transcript, then Jamie can be the best choice among the 5 Plaud alternatives for note taking. Let's do a quick recap of what Jamie does for you:

On Device Recording: No Recorder To Put On Their Table. Jamie records through the laptop you already carry, and the disclosure comes from you through verbal consent, the optional Automated Recording Notice email, and the meeting chat notice.
Audio Deletion: No Audio Left Behind After The Transcript. Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcription is finished, which is the answer a compliance team wants from any of the AI note takers for finance teams.
European Data Residency: GDPR Compliant And ISO 27001 Certified. Jamie stores and processes all meeting data in Europe, and Jamie is DORA-ready for the banks and funds that need it.
Speaker Memory: Speaker Names Identified And Remembered. Jamie has speaker identification and memory, on every plan including our free plan.
Plug and Play Integrations: Your Notes Land Where Your Team Already Works. Jamie logs your meeting notes to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot and Dynamics 365. Jamie also attaches them to Salesforce records, once you switch the sync on in Settings.
Agentic Intelligence: Your Follow Up Is Drafted Before The Next Call Starts. Jamie drafts the follow up email and raises the tasks from what was actually said, inside the tools you connect. Agent Connectors authorise it with your own account, and Agent Skills carry the instructions you write once.

Plaud built this category, and the hardware is genuinely good. Their own product page puts Plaud Note at 0.12 inches thin and 1.06 oz. The Plaud Note records for up to 30 hours, holds 60 days of standby, and stores 64 GB of audio on the device itself. The Plaud Note sells for 159 USD and includes 300 transcription minutes a month, alongside 112+ languages and a desktop app that records online meetings without a bot. Plaud Note Pro is 189 USD, and Plaud NotePin S, the wearable one, is 179 USD.

However, the trade-off with Plaud is that the record of a client conversation depends on a device you have to remember to bring. You must always remember to carry the recorder everywhere, because their laptop app does not run without it. If you even forget it once, the meeting is simply not recorded; you anyway have to resort to other means of note-taking, like your phone perhaps or another AI note taker.

You also have to keep your eye on the meter, because Plaud's Pro plan stops at 1,200 minutes a month. That is only twenty hours, which, if you count it, is only a week of client calls that eats it.

And if your company is privacy-conscious, this might be one thing to be worried about, your audio recordings stay in the account until somebody physically has to delete them, which means a private conversation outlives the meeting it belonged to.

You can also pick a different tool when the job is different.

Choose Notta Memo when you want a card sized recorder that translates across 58 languages.
Choose Granola when you want a bot free notepad on a Mac or a phone, and an AI chat over past meetings.
Choose Pocket when most of your recording happens with the phone in your hand, including phone calls.
Choose HiDock P1 when your day runs on Bluetooth earphones and you want transcription included with the device.

For everything else, Jamie records the meeting from the machine you already own; keeps the notes in Europe under GDPR and ISO 27001; and leaves no audio behind once the transcript exists.

Looking for the notes to reach DealCloud or Affinity on their own?

Jamie logs them there after every meeting, once you switch the sync on in Settings.

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Meetings all on Zoom? Read bot free notetakers for Zoom.
Running on Microsoft Teams instead? See Microsoft Teams note taker alternatives in Europe.
Most of your calls on Google Meet? Read European note takers for Google Meet.
Weighing Notta on its own? See the two side by side in Notta vs Jamie.
Leaning toward Granola? Read Granola vs Superpowered vs Krisp vs Jamie.
Billing your time to clients? Read note takers for consultants.

FAQS

Can I get the same notes without carrying a second device?

Yes. Jamie records in-person and online meetings from the laptop or phone you already own, on every plan including our free plan. Granola does the same from a Mac, a Windows machine or a phone. The three card recorders here, Notta Memo, Pocket and HiDock P1, all need their own hardware first, which means you must remember it, charge it, and account for it when somebody leaves the team.

Which of these records my online calls as well as the meetings in the room?

Jamie records the audio on your own device, which covers every meeting platform running on it, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet included, plus in-person meetings on every plan. Granola says it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and every other meeting app, in-person included, on desktop, iPhone and Android. Plaud Desktop also records online meetings without a bot. Their pricing page says it needs the recorder to work, which means the device travels with you even for a call at your own desk.

What happens to the recording after the meeting ends?

Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcription is finished, which means your notes and your transcript stay and the recording does not. Granola states that it does not store meeting audio at all. Plaud's trust page says data is kept for as long as the account remains active. And if your company is privacy-conscious, that is the line to read twice, because a private conversation then sits there until somebody physically deletes it.

Where is my meeting data stored, and which of these is certified?

Jamie stores and processes all meeting data in Europe, and Jamie is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified, with DORA readiness for regulated firms. Notta is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified. Granola holds SOC 2 Type II and complies with GDPR and UK GDPR, and HiDock complies with GDPR. Pocket's privacy page names no certification, which means your own security review has to ask them directly before anything is signed off.

Will the transcript still be readable when several people are in the room?

Jamie identifies each speaker through speaker diarisation, and scored 98 out of 100 for speaker identification in our own accuracy test. HiDock's HiNotes app separates up to 10 voices and names each one, on its Pro and Unlimited plans. A room with background chatter is the hard case for all of them. One Pocket reviewer on Trustpilot reports poor audio in exactly that setting, and you anyway end up checking the transcript line by line.

Which free plan actually covers a working week?

Jamie's free plan covers 10 meetings a month at 30 minutes each, with unlimited Ask AI. Pocket's free plan includes unlimited transcription at what it calls standard accuracy, with summaries kept for only 30 days, which means you must export anything you want to keep. HiDock includes transcription for the life of a P1. Notta's free web plan is 120 minutes a month, and Granola's free plan limits how far back your history goes.

Will the notes reach my CRM without anybody retyping them?

Jamie logs your meeting notes to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot and Dynamics 365, and attaches them to Salesforce records. Jamie also sends them to Attio, Notion, Google Docs, OneNote and Asana, once you switch the sync on in Settings. Granola includes integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier on its Business plan at 14 USD per user per month. The card recorders hand you a file instead, which means somebody on your team still opens the CRM and pastes it in.

Can I search across past meetings instead of listening again?

Ask AI answers questions across all of your meetings at once, and it is unlimited on every Jamie plan including our free plan. Granola includes AI chat within and across meetings on its free plan too. Pocket limits its own chat, Ask Pocket, to only 2 messages a day on the free plan, which means the third question of your morning waits until tomorrow.

Is it legal to record a client meeting, and who tells the room?

The recording is what the law governs, not the note taker, and under GDPR you need a lawful basis before you record. With Jamie the disclosure comes from you, in three ways. You obtain verbal consent in your own words. The optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out before the meeting, and the meeting chat notice posts inside the call once you switch it on. Plaud's own trust page carries the same instruction, to obtain consent from all participants. And if your compliance team has to sign the note taker off, this is the paragraph they will ask about first.

Does any of these record phone calls?

Granola's own pricing page names meeting notes on the go and for your phone calls, which makes their phone app the one to look at for call recording. Pocket's contact microphone captures phone calls without a speaker, in the words of their own site, and HiDock has a Call Mode for private calls. Jamie records in-person and online meetings rather than phone call capture, and the Jamie app on your phone is not a call recorder. If phone call recording is the job you are buying for, read those three pages before you read ours.

Which is the best AI voice recorder if you want the hardware?

If you want a dedicated recorder, the form factor is the first thing to settle. Notta Memo is a 28g card at 149 US dollars, Pocket is a 52g card at 129 dollars, and the HiDock P1 is a 72g aluminium AI recorder at 169 dollars. Pocket is the cheapest entry point of the three, and every one of them is a hardware purchase before you record anything at all. A portable recorder is a hardware device you have to charge and remember, which is the trade you take for the microphones. The original Plaud Note is the device the rest of them are answering. Jamie needs no separate device, because one device you already own does the whole job.

How do the AI features compare across these tools?

All five are AI software built on AI transcription rather than a plain dictaphone, and the AI tools underneath them differ by plan. Jamie does real time transcription on your screen and multilingual transcription in over 100 languages, with Ask AI unlimited on every plan including our free one. Notta Memo does real time transcription and translation across 58 languages, and Notta Brain gives every plan 1,000 AI credits a month, and a 12.99 US dollar add-on raises that to 8,000. Granola includes AI chat within and across meetings on their free plan, and the more advanced AI features come with Business at 14 dollars per user. Pocket names AI summaries, action items and mind maps, and HiDock names 39 summary templates, which means the advanced AI features there are about shaping the output.

What about video recording and audio playback?

Notta records video of web meetings on their Business plan, in the words of their own pricing page. Granola reads your microphone and your system audio on the computer and keeps no audio at all, which means there is nothing to play back afterwards. Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcript is finished, and the same is true with us. The card recorders hold the raw audio on the device instead, and Notta Memo names 30 hours of continuous recording on one charge. The app then has to process recordings into notes. Recording quality is where a device earns its price, because the other person's voice across a wide table is the hard case for every one of them.

Do you need an internet connection?

Granola caches your notes on your device, which means you open and edit them offline, in the words of their own help centre. The transcription itself needs an internet connection on the software tools, and the card recorders record to the device first and upload later. Jamie runs mobile apps on iOS and Android alongside macOS and Windows, and picks up your scheduled meetings from your calendar. On price, Pocket has the more generous free plan on transcription volume, because theirs is unlimited at what they call standard accuracy. Jamie's generous free plan covers 10 meetings a month at 30 minutes each with unlimited Ask AI, and a monthly subscription only starts when you outgrow it.

Who is each one actually for?

If you are looking for a Plaud AI alternative, the honest split is by where the recording happens. Jamie is the alternative to Plaud for teams who record in person conversations and online calls from one device, with no meeting bot in anybody's call. You obtain verbal consent in your own words, the optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out beforehand, and the meeting chat notice posts in the call once you switch it on. Notta Memo and the HiDock P1 are the closest Plaud Note alternative on hardware, because in person recording is what a card is built for. Pocket has a visible recording indicator, and their trust page says everyone in the conversation can see when Pocket is on. Sales teams who live in a CRM should read the integrations row first, and anyone comparing the Plaud app itself should start with what Plaud AI keeps after the meeting is over.

By Sanduni

Growth Content Editor

Sanduni Yureka is a Growth Content Editor at Jamie, known for driving a 10x increase in website traffic for clients across Singapore, the U.S., and Germany. With an LLB Honors degree and a background in law, Sanduni transitioned from aspiring lawyer to digital marketing expert during the 2019 lockdown. She now specializes in crafting high-impact SEO strategies for AI-powered SaaS companies, particularly those using large language models (LLMs). When she’s not binge-watching true crime shows, Sanduni is obsessed with studying everything SEO.

30.08.2026

20 min

5 Best Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking [2026]

By Sanduni

Growth Content Editor

I compared five Plaud alternatives for note taking; Jamie, Notta Memo, Granola, Pocket, and HiDock P1.

These alternative AI note takers to Plaud were compared on data security, transcription, speaker identification, hardware, free plans, and price.

Jamie performed better than Granola, Otter, Fireflies, and Fathom. You can see the receipts and proof to the test over at our AI note taker article.

Now before read this article, I need to give a quick reminder of how Plaud truly works.

Plaud has a desktop application called Plaud Desktop, and it does not work without the recorder. The Plaud Desktop app needs the recorder to work.

This requires carrying both devices in order to capture the same set of notes. This means the app won't work if you forget to bring the recorder that you left at home and vice versa.

Whether you already own a Plaud device or are still deciding, the question is the same: what is the best Plaud alternative for note-taking? In this article, we are going to show you 5 of them.

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TL;DR: the 5 best Plaud alternatives for note taking

Jamie, best overall AI note taker: consent first, bot free notes from in-person and online meetings in 100+ languages, on Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android, with Scratchpad, live transcription, meeting data in Europe and permanent audio deletion. Jamie is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified, with speaker identification and memory. Pro runs unlimited meetings at 5 hours each, with unlimited history, storage and unlimited Ask AI. Free covers ten meetings, Plus is 25 euros monthly.
Notta Memo, best for translation across 58 languages on a card-sized recorder. The Notta Memo 28g recorder is priced at $149 and can capture thirty (30) hours of recording time. The free web plan includes 120 minutes of transcription each month. For customers who purchase the recorder, Notta includes 300 minutes of transcription each month.
Granola, best for a bot free notepad on a Mac or a phone. Granola captures and transcribes on the user's computer and retains the transcript while deleting the recorded audio. The free plan costs nothing, and Granola's pricing page calls its meeting history limited. Granola holds SOC 2 Type II certification and complies with GDPR and UK GDPR, and Granola Chat drafts follow-up emails and sends Slack messages.
Pocket, best for people whose recording happens on the phone. The Pocket 52g recorder costs $129 and includes a MagSafe mount and a contact microphone for capturing phone conversations. There is a free plan, which does not charge anything but keeps summaries for thirty (30) days and limits Ask Pocket to two (2) messages per day.
HiDock P1, best for calls taken on Bluetooth earphones. The HiDock aluminium P1 recorder weighs seventy-two (72) grams and has three (3) different recording modes. HiDock states that owners of the P1 receive free transcription for the life of the product, in seventy-five (75) languages. HiDock complies with GDPR, and the P1 holds 64GB of recordings and turns speeches of up to four hours into structured paragraphs.

What Are the Best Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking?

Here is how Jamie, Notta Memo, Granola, Pocket and HiDock P1 compare on the things your team checks before a client call. Every cell opens up for the fuller answer.

	Jamie	Notta Memo	Granola	Pocket	HiDock P1
Bot-free capture	Yes Jamie records from the laptop or phone you already carry, on every plan including our free plan. You obtain verbal consent in your own words, the optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out before the meeting, and the meeting chat notice posts in the call once you switch that on.	Yes Notta Desktop records the audio on your own computer, and their help centre calls the app Bot-Free. Their separate Notta Bot joins a call as a participant instead, which leaves you to choose between the two routes before a client meeting.	Yes Granola runs only on your computer and uses your system audio and microphone, and their own docs say there is no meeting bot. If you are clicked into an upcoming meeting note, Granola starts transcribing at the scheduled start time.	Yes Pocket is a card sized recorder that captures a room through its own microphones, which keeps the meeting software untouched. You do still bring the recorder into the room, because the card is where the audio comes from.	Yes HiDock records on the P1 itself, and their product page says BlueCatch captures clear audio through your Bluetooth earphones without adding a bot to your meeting. The recorder has to be with you and paired with your earphones first.
Ships a meeting bot	No Jamie ships no bot on any plan, which leaves your host nobody to admit or block. You obtain verbal consent in your own words, the optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out beforehand, and the meeting chat notice posts in the call once you switch that on.	Yes Notta Bot joins your meeting as a participant and appears in the attendee list, and their help centre gives a joining time of 10 to 30 seconds. Notta Bot is optional, because Notta Desktop is their bot-free route.	No There is no meeting bot, in the words of their own docs, and Granola runs only on your computer using your system audio and microphone. Granola does not transcribe a meeting you have not clicked into.	No Pocket ships no bot into the call. The recording happens on the card in your pocket rather than inside the meeting software your client is running, which leaves their call exactly as they set it up.	No HiDock ships no bot into the call either. Their product page says BlueCatch works through your Bluetooth earphones, which keeps the meeting your host is running exactly as they set it up, with nothing to admit.
Records without buying a separate device	Yes Jamie records from the laptop, phone or tablet you already own, on macOS, Windows, iOS and Android, and on every plan including our free plan. There is nothing to buy, charge or carry before your first client meeting.	No Notta Memo is the hardware, and their shop lists a regular price of 149 US dollars. Notta also makes Notta Desktop, which records on your computer with no device at all, leaving the recorder as a choice rather than a requirement.	Yes Granola is software only, with no hardware to buy first. Their security page says Granola is an app for Desktop and Mobile, covering iPhone and Android, and the recording runs through the computer or phone you already own.	No Pocket is the hardware you buy first. Their pricing page lists the recorder at 129 US dollars against 199 dollars, and the app then works from the recordings the card has made for you.	No HiDock P1 is the hardware you buy first, and their product page lists the P1 at 169 US dollars. Transcription is included for the life of the recorder, and the audio still starts on the device rather than your laptop.
In-person meetings	Yes Jamie records in-person meetings on every plan including our free plan, from macOS, Windows, iOS and Android. Your meetings then sync across all of those devices from one account, which means a client visit is on your laptop when you get home.	Yes Notta Memo records a room through its own microphones, and their shop page names 30 hours of recording and 32GB of storage. The same page describes that storage as roughly 144 hours of audio held on the card.	Yes Granola for Mobile is built for in-person meetings, in their own words, and the mobile app runs on iPhone and Android. On macOS and Windows the desktop app covers the room in front of you as well.	Yes Pocket records a room through two studio microphones and one contact microphone, and their site names a recording range of up to 15 metres. The same page names four days of active battery life on one charge.	Yes HiDock has a Room Mode for meetings and interviews, in their own words, sitting alongside Call Mode and Whisper Mode. Their product page names dual studio level microphones and 64GB of storage on the recorder.
Records online meeting platforms	Yes Jamie captures the audio on your own device, which covers every online meeting platform running on that device. Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet are all included, on every plan including our free plan, with nothing to switch on first.	Yes Notta transcribes web meetings on the free plan, in their own words. Their help centre says Notta Desktop records any meeting software in any browser, and that Notta Bot covers a call joined from a machine without the app installed.	Yes Granola for Desktop works with any meeting platform, in their own words, and they name Zoom, Meet and Teams. That sentence describes the desktop app on macOS and Windows rather than the mobile app for in-person meetings.	Yes The Pocket desktop app records the audio from Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet calls on macOS and Windows, in the words of their own docs. It captures your microphone and the meeting audio playing through your computer, and adds no recording bot.	Yes P1 is compatible with all major meeting platforms, including Teams, Zoom, Google Meet and Webex, in the words of their own product FAQ. BlueCatch carries the audio through your Bluetooth earphones rather than through the meeting software.
Live transcript during the meeting	Yes Jamie displays a Live Transcript on your screen while the meeting is still running, and the Scratchpad sits in the same panel for the notes you type yourself. You read back what was said without stopping anybody or waiting for an upload.	Yes Notta Memo does real-time transcription, in the words of their own shop page, and the same page names real-time translation across 58 languages. That is the transcription arriving while the recording is still going.	Yes Granola transcribes in real time on macOS and Windows, in the words of their security page. On the mobile app the transcription happens after your meeting instead, from audio their page describes as temporarily cached.	No Pocket's own page names no live transcript, and the raw page carries no mention of one either. You work from the recording after the conversation has finished rather than reading it while somebody is talking.	Pro HiDock's product page says a Pro Membership adds live transcription, alongside speaker identification and 39 or more summary templates. On the free transcription included with the recorder you read the text afterwards instead.
Speaker names on the transcript	Yes Jamie identifies each speaker through speaker diarisation and puts a name against each voice, on every plan including our free plan. In our own accuracy test Jamie scored 98 out of 100 for speaker identification, and Jamie has the ability to remember voices between meetings.	Yes Notta lists speaker identification on the free plan, in the words of their own pricing page. The Notta Memo shop page adds smart summaries built from the same transcription, with over 30 summary templates to choose from.	Partial Granola transcripts default to Me and Them, and speaker tags add each participant's name once you set the tags up. Their page names Google Meet and Zoom only, and Google Meet also needs the free Granola browser extension on macOS or Windows.	Pro Pocket auto-detects speaker names on the Pro plan, in their own words, and their site describes two studio microphones plus one contact microphone for speaker separated audio in a room full of people.	Pro HiDock Speaker Identification distinguishes up to 10 voices in a meeting with colour markers, in the words of their HiNotes page. Their own plan table gives speaker identification to Pro and marks it unavailable on the free Member tier.
Voice memory across meetings	Yes Speaker Memory means Jamie has the ability to remember voices between meetings, and Speaker Memory is on every plan including our free plan. You name a voice once, and the same name comes back on the next call with that person.	No Notta pages name speaker identification inside a single recording, and they name no memory of a voice carried from one recording to the next. A second call with the same client starts the naming again.	No Granola speaker tags read the names from the participant list of that one call, in the words of their own docs. Their pages name no memory of a voice held between one meeting and another.	Yes Once you have named a speaker, Pocket will recognize them across your other recordings, in the words of their own docs. Voice Print also trains on your own voice and stays active for all future recordings, and duplicate profiles can be merged.	Partial HiNotes may display Speaker Suggestions, names drawn from people who appeared in previous meetings and from your saved contacts, in the words of their own guide. You still choose the name from that list rather than having it applied for you.
Meeting audio deleted after transcription	Yes Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcription is finished, on every plan. Your notes and your transcript stay, which means a confidential conversation leaves nothing behind to be forwarded, subpoenaed or found in an account a year later.	No Notta security page names TLS 1.2 in transit and AES-256 at rest, with user data regularly backed up on Amazon Web Services. That page names no deletion of the meeting audio once the transcription is made.	Yes Granola does not store the audio from meetings, in the words of their security page. They keep the transcript and any notes you write yourself, and on the mobile app the audio is only temporarily cached.	No Pocket privacy page says recordings are kept only for as long as necessary, and names no deletion once the transcript exists. The card itself also holds 64GB of audio until somebody clears the device.	No HiDock security page names GDPR compliance and no AI training on customer data, and names no deletion of the audio after transcription. The P1 also holds 64GB of recordings locally on the device.
Meeting data in Europe	Yes Jamie stores and processes all meeting data in Europe, on every plan, and Jamie is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified alongside it. Your compliance officer answers the where is our data question straight from our own security page.	No Notta use Amazon Web Services as their data center and your data is stored in a data center located in Tokyo, in the words of their own help centre. Their security page and pricing page name no European region.	No All data is stored on Amazon Web Services servers located in the United States, in the words of their own help centre. The same page says Granola does not offer EU, UK or other regional data residency at this time.	No Transcription and summarisation run on US based cloud infrastructure, in the words of their own trust page, which prints Processed in the United States. Nothing on that page names a European region.	No HiDock operates its software HiNotes in Microsoft Azure data centres located in the USA, in the words of their own security page. Nothing on that page names a European region for your recordings.
GDPR compliant	Yes Jamie is fully compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, in the words of our own security page, and Jamie is ISO 27001 certified alongside that. Jamie is also DORA-ready, which means a bank or fund under DORA can use Jamie.	Yes Notta is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation, in the words of their own security page. Their help centre adds that Notta have obtained ISO 27001, SOC 2, CCPA, GDPR, SSL and APPI certifications.	Yes Granola complies with GDPR and UK GDPR, in the words of their own help centre, and the same page names a UK entity called Granola Labs Ltd. Their standard Data Processing Addendum is published at a public link.	Yes Pocket's trust page names SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR as their compliance set. The same page says your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with extra safeguards for sensitive material.	Yes HiDock complies with the General Data Protection Regulation, in the words of their own security page. The same page says no customer data is used to train the AI, and that shared metadata is anonymised.
ISO 27001 certified	Yes Jamie is certified to the international standard for information security, independently verified and audited, and Jamie is GDPR compliant alongside that certificate. Those two together are the pair a European compliance review asks for by name before a client call.	Yes Notta have obtained ISO 27001, SOC 2, CCPA, GDPR, SSL and APPI certifications, in the words of their own help centre. Their security page describes the standard and says Notta follows the guidelines.	No ISO 27001 is not yet available, in the words of their own help centre, and the same page says Granola currently holds SOC 2 Type II. Their Trust Center lists every certification they hold today.	No Pocket's trust page names SOC 2 Type 1, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR, and names no ISO 27001 certificate. A security review asking for that certificate has to ask Pocket directly.	No HiDock's security page names ISO/IEC 27001 as one of Microsoft Azure's certifications rather than one of their own. The same page names GDPR compliance and says no customer data is used to train the AI.
SOC 2 Type II	No Our own security page names GDPR, ISO 27001 and DORA readiness, and does not name SOC 2. European buyers ask for GDPR and ISO 27001 by name, and that is the pair Jamie holds and publishes.	Yes Notta has successfully obtained SOC 2 Type II certification through an independent audit, in the words of their own security page. The same page names ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance beside that report.	Yes Granola holds SOC 2 Type II certification, in the words of their own help centre. The full report is available through their Trust Center once your security team requests access to it.	Yes Pocket's trust page names SOC 2 Type II alongside SOC 2 Type 1, HIPAA and GDPR. The same page says transcription and summarisation run on US based cloud infrastructure behind private networking.	No HiDock's security page names SOC 1-3 as Microsoft Azure's certifications rather than their own. That page names GDPR compliance and says no customer data is used to train the AI instead.
Trains AI on your meetings	No Your data is never used for training of models, not by us or any of the model providers, in the words of our own security page. That holds on every plan, including our free plan, with nothing to switch off.	Partial Notta names one AI training statement, scoped to Privacy Mode. In that mode the offline model keeps recordings off their cloud and out of AI model training. No page of theirs carries a general no training commitment.	Partial Granola trains on your anonymised data to keep improving the product, in their own words, and you can opt out in Settings. Enterprise users have model training turned off by default, which their pricing page repeats.	No Pocket will not use your personal recordings to train their models without your consent, in the words of their own privacy page. No other training statement appears anywhere else on their site.	No No customer data is used to train the AI, in the words of HiDock's own security page. The same page says metadata shared with OpenAI or Anthropic is anonymised before it goes anywhere.
Free plan	Yes Jamie's free plan covers 10 meetings a month at 30 minutes each, with unlimited Ask AI and unlimited storage. In-person meetings, every online platform and Speaker Memory are all included on it, which is unusual for a plan costing nothing.	Yes Notta free plan gives 120 transcription minutes a month with up to 3 minutes per conversation, in the words of their own pricing page. The same plan includes 50 file uploads and 10 AI summaries each month.	Yes Granola Basic is 0 dollars per user per month, and the plan lets you see limited meeting history, in their own words. AI chat within and across meetings is included on that plan as well.	Yes Pocket free plan gives unlimited transcription at what they call standard accuracy. Ask Pocket is limited to 2 messages a day, and summaries are saved for 30 days, which means you export anything worth keeping.	Yes HiDock includes free AI transcription for the lifetime of a P1, in the words of their own HiNotes page. That free transcription starts once you have bought the recorder at 169 US dollars.
Paid price, billed monthly	Yes Jamie is 25 euros a month on Plus, 47 euros a month on Pro and 39 euros per seat a month on Team, with Enterprise priced on request. Those are the monthly figures, read with the monthly toggle switched on.	Yes Notta Pro is 13.49 US dollars a month and Business is 27.99 US dollars a month, both marked Billed monthly on their own pricing page. Enterprise is custom priced and starts from 51 seats.	Yes Granola is 14 US dollars per user a month on Business and 35 dollars per user a month on Enterprise, in the words of their own pricing page. That page carries no annual or monthly toggle at all.	Yes Pocket Pro is 19.99 US dollars a month, in the words of their own pricing page, and 16.59 a month if you pay 199 dollars for the whole year. The first 30 days of the subscription are free.	Yes HiDock lists the P1 at 169 US dollars as a one off purchase, and their page prints the same figure as the regular price. Their product page names a Pro Membership on top of that, with pay-as-you-go and annual options.
Transcription minutes metered	No Jamie sells no pool of transcription minutes on any plan. Jamie does cap how many meetings you get and how long each meeting runs, and those two numbers sit in the free plan and meeting length rows of this table.	Yes Notta meters minutes on the lower plans, at 120 a month on Free and 1,800 a month on Pro, in the words of their own pricing page. The Business plan at 27.99 dollars is unlimited transcription.	No Granola Basic limits how far back your meeting history goes, in their own words, and Business is unlimited meeting notes and history. Their pricing page meters no transcription minutes on any of the three plans.	No Pocket free plan is unlimited transcription at what they call standard accuracy, in their own words. The part that is limited instead is the summaries, which their page says are saved for 30 days.	No HiDock includes unlimited AI transcription in 75 or more languages for the lifetime of the recorder, in the words of their own product page. No minute pool is named anywhere on that page.
Meeting length limit	5h Jamie runs 30 minutes a meeting on Free, 2 hours on Plus and 5 hours on Pro, Team and Enterprise, read off our own pricing page. A three hour investment committee is therefore one recording on Pro.	5h Notta allows up to 3 minutes per conversation on Free and up to 5 hours per recording on Pro, Business and Enterprise. Those numbers come off their own pricing page with the monthly toggle switched on.	None Granola pricing page names no limit on how long a meeting can run. What the Basic plan limits instead is how far back your meeting history goes, in their own words.	None Pocket pages name no limit on the length of a recording. The same page names 64GB of storage on the card and unlimited cloud storage behind it, which is where a long day of meetings ends up.	4h HiDock turns speeches up to 4 hours into structured paragraphs, in the words of their own HiNotes page. The P1 itself holds 64GB of audio locally until you move the recordings off it.
Languages	100+ Jamie generates notes and transcripts in over 100 languages, on every plan including our free plan. A call that runs half in English and half in German comes back in the language people actually spoke, with nothing to set first.	58 Notta Memo does real-time transcription and translation across 58 languages, in the words of their own shop page. The same page names over 30 summary templates for turning those recordings into a written format.	Yes Granola supports ten languages on macOS and Windows and seven more on iOS and Android, in the words of their own help centre. They also run a language waitlist for anything their transcription provider does not yet cover.	120+ Pocket supports over 120 languages, in the words of their own site. The same page names AI summaries, action items and mind maps generated in those languages after the conversation has finished.	75+ HiDock gives unlimited AI transcription in 75 or more languages, in the words of their own product page. The same page describes that transcription as high precision and free for the life of the recorder.
Deal CRM logging	Yes Jamie logs your meeting notes to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Pipedrive, and attaches them to Salesforce records, from Pro upwards. Notion, Google Docs and OneNote are on every plan, including our free plan.	Yes Notta includes CRM and Zapier integration from the Business plan at 27.99 US dollars a month, in the words of their own pricing page. Their integrations list names Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Zendesk Sell, Salesflare and Freshsales.	Business Granola includes advanced integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier on the Business plan at 14 dollars per user a month. Their help centre gives the free Basic plan Slack only from that list.	No Pocket site names no CRM integration anywhere. Somebody on your team therefore still opens the client record and pastes the notes in by hand after every call that matters.	No HiDock pages name no CRM integration. The notes stay inside HiNotes until a person opens the deal record and moves them across, which is a job somebody does after the meeting.
Answers questions across all your meetings	Yes Ask AI answers questions across all of your meetings at once, and Ask AI is unlimited on every Jamie plan including our free plan. You ask what a client said in March without opening a single March meeting.	Yes Notta Brain answers questions across your meetings and their compare table gives every plan, including Free, 1,000 AI credits a month. The Notta Brain add-on at 12.99 US dollars a month raises that to 8,000 credits.	Yes Granola includes AI chat within and across meetings on the free Basic plan, in their own words. Access to advanced AI thinking models and features comes with the Business plan at 14 dollars per user.	Pro Pocket limits Ask Pocket to 2 messages a day on the free plan, in their own words. The higher accuracy transcription and the rest of the features sit on the Pro plan billed yearly.	No HiDock pages name summary templates and search across your notes, and they name no chat that answers a question across all of your recordings at once for you.
AI notes and summaries	Yes Executive Level AI Notes give you an Executive Summary and a Full Summary structured by the topics discussed, in the words of our own docs, on every plan including our free plan. Every word of it is editable afterwards.	Yes Notta Memo generates smart summaries from the transcription, in the words of their own shop page, with over 30 templates to choose from. Their pricing page meters the AI summary quota by plan, starting at 10 a month.	Yes Granola generates AI meeting notes on the free Basic plan, in their own words, with customised note templates included. The Business plan adds unlimited meeting notes and history on top of that.	Yes Pocket generates AI summaries, action items and mind maps in over 120 languages, in the words of their own site. On the free plan those summaries are saved for 30 days only.	Yes HiDock extracts summaries tailored to the kind of recording, in the words of their own HiNotes page. Their plan table gives 8 or more summary templates on the free Member tier and 39 or more on Pro.
Action items with an owner	Yes Jamie extracts action items from the meeting with assignees, in the words of our own docs, and Creating Tasks is one of the four processing steps on every plan. Each task stays editable after the meeting.	Yes Notta AI Notes get summaries and action items, in the words of their own pricing page. Their help centre says you select a To-Do list block, then choose an assignee from your Notta workspace members and set a due date.	Yes Notes, action items and follow-ups are ready the moment the meeting ends, in the words of their own homepage. Their pages name no owner assigned against each item.	Yes Pocket generates action items alongside summaries and mind maps, in the words of their own site. The same page names unlimited todos and task app integrations, listing Apple Reminders, Google Tasks, Todoist, ClickUp and Asana.	Pending HiDock names 39 or more summary templates on Pro and 8 or more on the free tier, in the words of their own plan table. We could not settle from their published pages whether HiNotes builds a separate action item list. This cell therefore makes no claim either way.
Agent that acts in your other tools	Yes Jamie is agentic, which means Jamie acts on your meetings instead of stopping at the notes. You describe what should happen and Jamie does it after every matching meeting, using the tools you have connected. Workflows are rolling out to workspaces gradually.	Yes Notta ships an AI-powered Sales Agent, and their help centre says you turn CRM Sync on, select HubSpot or Salesforce and proceed with the integration. The agent moves records to an agent folder and updates CRM data for you.	Yes Granola Chat drafts follow-up emails, sends Slack messages and schedules Google Calendar events, in the words of their own docs, with a review step before anything is sent. Recipes save the prompts you reuse.	Partial Pocket documents a Calendar Hub that turns talk into follow-through with one tap, plus an MCP server, a public API and webhooks. The calendar step is one you tap yourself rather than a job the product carries out unattended.	No HiDock lets you export notes and manage them in Notion and Google Docs, in the words of their own page. Neither of their pages names an agent that carries out a job in another tool.

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1. Jamie: Best Plaud Alternative AI Note Taker on Every Device

Best for: Jamie is the AI note taking app for teams who want bot free notes from in-person and online meetings on your laptop and phone, 100+ languages, Ask AI, and meeting data in Europe.

Similar to: Granola, Otter.ai and Fathom.

As for informing the parties within the meeting room, you inform them directly. Below are the three notices Jamie carries for it.

You obtain verbal consent in your own words.
Optional: the Automated Recording Notice email goes out prior to the meeting.
Once enabled, a notice post appears in the meeting chat.

Jamie generates Executive Level AI Notes with an executive summary, a full summary and the action items

Executive Level AI Notes: The Write Up Is Already Done. Jamie organizes the notes as an executive summary and a full summary organized by topic, on every plan including our free plan. Instead of having to rebuild a meeting from a transcript, you forward the summary to the client.
Action Items With An Owner: You Stop Working Out Who Owes What. Jamie identifies the action items with assignees during the note generation process, on every plan. You do not need to work out who is responsible for each item after the call.
Live Transcript And Scratchpad: Live Transcription With Your Own Notes. During the meeting, Jamie will display the Live Transcript on your screen. Your private notes go in the Scratchpad beside it. None of your Scratchpad notes get lost between the call and the write up.
Fully Editable Output: You Fix A Name Without Starting Again. All parts of the meeting output, the notes, the transcript and the tasks, may be edited within Jamie, on every plan. A misheard company name is a two second edit rather than a rewrite.
30+ Summary Templates: The Format Your Firm Already Uses. Jamie includes a minimum of thirty plus different, pre-designed template options for each level of plan (including the free) with one customizable option available at the lowest tier, which is free. Three customizable options are available to the Plus tier, while unlimited customization options are available to those who purchase the Pro tier. You stop reshaping the same notes into your own format by hand..

Jamie records from your own laptop or mobile, with no additional device on your table

The diligence call you do not host: on a diligence call or a management presentation the target company hosts, the room, the table and the rules are your client's, not yours. A card sized recorder has to be placed somewhere on that table in front of them, and Jamie asks for nothing on it, because the recording runs on the laptop you brought with you.
The recording policy your compliance officer wrote: your compliance officer set out how a client conversation may be recorded, and Jamie follows it with your own disclosure rather than a device. You obtain verbal consent in your own words, the optional Automated Recording Notice email goes out before the meeting, and the meeting chat notice posts in the call once you switch it on.
Walk in, ask, record: you walk into your client's office, open the laptop you already brought, obtain verbal consent in your own words, and start the recording. Nobody has to explain a strange object to a founder before the meeting can start.

Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcription is finished

If you record calls regarding unannounced deals, these three answers cover what happens to the recording:

The call about an unannounced acquisition: the most sensitive hour of a deal is the one nobody wants sitting in a vendor's storage. Jamie removes the audio for you rather than waiting for somebody to remember it.
The partner whose name is on the mandate: the partner running the mandate, and the compliance officer beside them, both answer for what was kept. Neither of them has to trust a person to press delete.
Nothing left to hand over: the call ends, the notes appear, and there is no audio file left to govern, share by accident or hand over. Jamie removes the audio once the transcript exists, while Plaud's own trust page states that data is kept for as long as the account remains active.

The security questionnaire before approval: the questionnaire arrives before any note taker is approved, and it asks for residency, certification and model training. Every one of those answers sits on our own security page, one line each, all meeting data in Europe, GDPR and ISO 27001, and no model training. Plaud runs data centres in the US, Europe with Frankfurt, Singapore and Japan, and does not train on your data by default.
The officer who signs Jamie off: your compliance, legal or IT officer is the person who has to defend the choice later. They answer the certification question from our own page, without waiting on a vendor to send evidence mid sign off.
No model training on your data: neither Jamie nor our model providers use your data to train models. That is the sentence a client asks for in writing before their own management team is recorded.

Jamie runs on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and the web, with no second device to carry

The site visit and the airport: on a site visit, in a portfolio company office or between flights, you already carry a laptop and a phone. Jamie records on either one, and in-person meetings are covered on every plan, including our free plan. Plaud makes an app for your laptop, called Plaud Desktop, and their pricing page says it needs the recorder to work. The recorder travels with you.
The IT team that keeps the asset register: a recorder is an asset somebody has to inventory, insure and collect when a colleague leaves. Your IT team has nothing extra to track, because Jamie runs on the machines they already manage.
One account, every device: your meetings sync across macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and the web from a single account. Nobody copies files off a device before the notes are readable.

Jamie counts meetings rather than metered transcription minutes

The back to back diligence week: a diligence week is the week you least want to be rationing minutes. Jamie counts meetings instead of minutes, with 10 AI notes and transcripts a month on our free plan, 20 on Plus and unlimited from Pro upwards. Plaud's own pricing page caps its Pro plan at 1,200 transcription minutes a month for 17.99 USD, where Jamie's Pro plan has no monthly minute pool at all.
The associate and the budget holder: the associate running the calls never checks a remaining balance, and whoever owns the budget sees one price rather than a top up. Meeting length runs 30 minutes on Free, 2 hours on Plus and 5 hours from Pro.
Unlimited storage on every plan: storage is unlimited on all five plans, and Ask AI is unlimited too, including on our free plan. Nobody deletes last quarter's notes to make room for this quarter's.
One Transcription Quality On Every Plan: You Never Pay For Better Words. Jamie does not sell tiers that carry higher levels of accuracy than what is already provided in our base tier or free version. We have listed all pricing tiers on our pricing page and there are none that provide any higher level of accuracy. The only thing we change is the number of meetings you can hold, how long they last, what templates are included, and what type of integrations you will be able to use. You will never question if the paid plan could have captured the room better..

Jamie records every meeting platform on your device, plus in-person meetings

Teams in the morning, a founder in the afternoon: a sourcing call on Microsoft Teams and a founder meeting in a room are the same job for Jamie. Nobody on your team works out which tool covers the call in front of them.
Nothing in your attendee list: nothing joins your call as a participant, and nothing appears in the attendee list your client is looking at. You are the one person from your side in that meeting.
In-person on every plan: in-person meetings are covered on every plan, including our free plan. You do not upgrade to record the conversation you had across a table.

Jamie displays a Live Transcript on your screen while the meeting is still running

The three hour investment committee: in a three hour investment committee the number you need is often an hour behind you. You can check it on your screen without stopping the room to ask.
The associate taking the notes: the associate keeping the record is the one person who cannot rewind the conversation. Live Transcript keeps the whole meeting in front of them as it runs.
No upload, no queue: nothing has to be transferred off a device and processed before you can read it. Jamie captures the audio on your own machine, and the text appears while people are still speaking.

Jamie identifies each speaker through speaker diarisation and matches voices with Speaker Memory

The four person management presentation: four people around a table usually come back as unnamed speakers. Jamie separates them through speaker diarisation and labels the transcript with real names.
Attributing a number to the CFO: the associate writing it up has to put a figure against the CFO, not against Speaker 2. The attribution is already on the page before they open it.
Speaker identification and memory: Jamie has the ability to remember voices between meetings. You are not renaming Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 by hand after every call.

Jamie logs meeting notes to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot and Dynamics 365

The sourcing call and the company record: a sourcing call has to land against the right company record before the next call starts. Jamie logs it to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot and Dynamics 365, attaches it to Salesforce records and sends it to Attio, Notion, Google Docs, OneNote and Asana.
The head of platform who owns the CRM: the person who owns the CRM cares whether the data arrives without a person in the middle. The sync is set once in Settings and runs on every meeting after that.
MCP, API and webhooks: Jamie connects to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor through MCP, with MCP on Pro and up, and our API and webhooks cover whatever else your firm runs. Nobody exports a transcript by hand.

Jamie answers questions across all of your meetings at once with Ask AI

Three management teams, one question: an investment committee asks what three different management teams said about pricing. Ask AI returns the answer without anybody opening three transcripts.
The partner preparing for committee: the partner preparing the paper needs the quote, not the recording. Ask AI is unlimited on every plan, including our free plan.
Jamie is agentic: the Agent acts inside your connected tools, Agent Connectors authorise it with your own account, and Agent Skills carry the instructions you write once. The follow up happens in those tools instead of sitting on your desk until Friday.

Jamie Pricing

Free: EUR 0 per month
Plus: EUR 25 per month
Pro: EUR 47 per month
Team: EUR 39 per seat per month
Enterprise: Custom pricing

Source: meetjamie.ai/pricing, read on 25 August 2026 with the monthly toggle on.

Storage is unlimited on every plan.

What Jamie users love

Bot-free capture keeps the call free of an extra participant

"I like Jamie because it's a bot-free AI note-taker that can take notes without an awkward bot on the call." Verified User in Design, G2

Transcription accuracy and the layout of the AI summaries

"The transcription is also usually very accurate. I also like the AI summaries it generates after the call - they're well laid out and organized, especially compared to other AI note-takers." Verified User in Design, G2

Multilingual meetings, including Hebrew, in person and online

"Finally an app that... Understands Hebrew. Jaime is also a life saver for: Multi lingual conversations [and] Offline and online meetings." Rachel C., G2

What Jamie users flag

Microphone setup was needed before an early update

"I had an issue before with recording the meeting notes because my microphone or something was not set up properly. But the latest update now grabs the meeting sounds with no extra configuration." Verified User in Design, G2

The reviewer names the fix in the same sentence: the current app captures the meeting audio without any configuration step.

Speaker identification benefits from a good microphone

"The speaker identification feature of Jamie, though very useful, isn't entirely reliable or infallible. In our experience, to get the most effective results from Jamie, it was necessary to invest in a good quality microphone." Tom W., G2

In a board room with several people at a long table, a conference microphone raises the accuracy of the speaker labels.

Some rough edges and missing integrations

"There a few buggy things and missing integrations but Jaime is young and I have full confidence in what their future looks like. It's better than every other app I've tried." Rachel C., G2

If your own tool is not on our list, MCP, the API and webhooks cover it on Pro and up.

2. Notta Memo: Best AI Voice Recorder for 58 Language Translation

Best for: Notta Memo is an AI voice recorder for people who want a physical recorder on the table for in-person conversations, with transcription and translation across 58 languages.

Similar to: Plaud Note, HiDock P1 and Pocket.

Source: Notta Memo

Notta Memo records with one press and transcribes in 58 languages

One press recording: the device starts capturing with a single touch and shows the recording on an InstantView OLED display.
58 languages: Notta lists transcription, summary and real time translation across 58 languages.
30+ AI summary templates: Notta generates structured summaries from over 30 templates, including to-do lists and mind maps.
Battery and storage: 30 hours of recording, 28 days of standby and 32GB of onboard storage, which Notta counts as 144 hours of audio.
Notta Brain: Notta's AI assistant answers questions across your meetings, and their compare table gives every plan, including Free, 1,000 AI credits a month. The 12.99 USD add-on raises that to 8,000 credits.

Notta Memo costs 149 USD and the transcription minutes come from a Notta plan

The device: 149 USD on Notta's own shop, with the magnetic leather case, a one year warranty and a 30 day return window.
Starter: Notta's shop states that buyers get 300 minutes of free transcription each month as a benefit of the purchase.
Free: 0 USD, with 120 transcription minutes a month and a limit of 3 minutes per conversation on that plan.
Pro: 13.49 USD per month billed monthly, with 1,800 transcription minutes a month and up to 5 hours per recording.
Business: 27.99 USD per month billed monthly, with unlimited transcription and up to 5 hours per recording.
Enterprise: custom pricing, starting from 51 seats, with SAML SSO, audit logs and full data access control.

What Notta users love

Going back to the written version of a recorded meeting

"The transcription is the part I use most, and I like being able to go back to the written version when I need to find a particular point." Muzammil M., G2

Fast transcription with summaries and action items

"What I like most about Notta is its fast, accurate transcription and AI-powered meeting summaries. It allows me to focus on conversations instead of taking notes, while automatically capturing key discussions and action items." Verified User in Oil & Energy, G2

Naming a voice once and having it applied to the rest

"The ability to add a name once to a voice and have it filter down to all the voices." Verified User in Financial Services, G2

What Notta users flag

Transcripts need a check after a noisy recording

"The transcription is useful, but it still needs a quick review when the recording has unclear speech, background noise, or unusual names." Muzammil M., G2

Technical terms and long meetings affect the speaker labels

"The biggest drawback is accuracy in technical discussions. In meetings involving APIs, code, or industry-specific terminology, I often need to review the transcript and correct a few terms before sharing it with the team. Speaker identification isn't always consistent during long meetings." Verified User in Oil & Energy, G2

No way to check that a named voice was matched correctly

"I've had it happen where there are mistakes" Verified User in Financial Services, G2

3. Granola: Best AI Notepad for Mac and Mobile Without Stored Audio

Best for: Granola is an AI notepad for people who want meeting notes from the laptop and phone they already own, plus an AI chat that reaches back across their past meetings.

Similar to: Jamie, Otter.ai and Fathom.

Source: Granola

Granola records on your own device and keeps the transcript instead of the audio

No bot in the call: Granola states that it does not add a bot to your video call, and that you start it manually because it will not auto-join or auto-record anything.
Any meeting platform on the desktop: Granola's own homepage says it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Teams and every other meeting app, and captures conversations in-person and on the go. Granola runs on desktop, iPhone, Android and Apple Watch.
No stored recordings: Granola states that it does not store the audio from meetings. Granola transcribes in real time on macOS and Windows, or after the meeting from cached audio on mobile, and keeps only the transcript and your notes.
Model training: Granola states that third parties such as OpenAI and Anthropic are not allowed to train on your data. Granola itself trains on your anonymised data unless you opt out in Settings, and Enterprise accounts have training off by default.
Security: Granola holds SOC 2 Type II certification and complies with GDPR and UK GDPR, in the words of their own help centre, and their Data Processing Addendum sits at a public link. Granola stores all data on AWS servers in the United States, and ISO 27001 is not yet available, in their own words. This is the first question a European compliance officer asks for bot free AI note takers.

Granola costs 14 USD per user per month for unlimited meeting notes and history

Basic: 0 USD per user per month, with AI meeting notes, AI chat within and across meetings, shared folders, custom templates and, in Granola's own words, "See limited meeting history".
Business: 14 USD per user per month, with unlimited meeting notes and history, advanced AI models, integrations with Attio, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Affinity and Zapier, MCP and API access.
Enterprise: 35 USD per user per month. Enterprise includes single sign-on, org-wide auto-deletion periods, admin controls for sharing and API access, and training off for the whole team. Their page also lists an org-wide notice that Granola is being used, marked as a pilot.

What Granola users love

The conversation comes back as readable notes

"It records the conversation and turns it into readable notes, which is awesome." Shui H., G2

Notes from both the Mac and the iPhone

"It transcribes both on my Mac and iPhone, which is a game-changer for on-the-go catch-ups. The summaries it produces are actually good, not just a raw transcript dump, but key insights and actions." Aprielle D., G2

Asking the chat about an old meeting instead of searching for it

"I like the most the chat function with Granola itself. I can go back in history without having to search for the chat." Lisa K., G2

What Granola users flag

No way to open a note first and start recording later

"I'd love the ability to create a note and only start recording when I'm ready." Shui H., G2

A failed recording is lost with no second attempt

"There have also been times when something goes wrong and you lose the whole recording, instead of being able to simply try again." Shui H., G2

No one click send of a summary into Slack

"I'd like to have little buttons in Granola for automated actions, like a Slack button to generate a message or an email button for a formatted email. It'd be nice to connect directly to Slack for sending meeting summaries." Lisa K., G2

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4. Pocket: Best AI Recorder for Phone Calls in 120+ Languages

Best for: Pocket is an AI voice recorder for people whose recording happens with the phone already in their hand, on calls and in face to face conversations.

Similar to: Plaud Note, Notta Memo and HiDock P1.

Source: Pocket

Pocket records with two studio microphones and a contact microphone for calls

Microphones: two studio microphones and one contact microphone, which Pocket describes as capturing phone calls without the speaker.
Recording range: Pocket lists a range of up to 15 metres, which is 49 feet.
Battery and storage: four days of active use, with 64GB on the device and cloud storage on top.
Languages: Pocket lists summaries, action items and mind maps in over 120 languages.
Size and mount: 52 grams, 0.2 inches thick, held on the back of the phone by MagSafe.

Pocket costs 129 USD and the accurate transcription sits on the Pro plan

The device: 129 USD for one Pocket on their own site, down from a list price of 199 USD, with free shipping, a one year warranty and 30 day returns.
Free: 0 USD, with unlimited transcription at what Pocket calls standard accuracy, summaries kept for 30 days, mind maps, plain text exports and Ask Pocket limited to 2 messages a day.
Pro: 16.59 USD a month, billed yearly at 199 USD a year, which includes the highest accuracy transcription, automatic speaker names, unlimited Ask Pocket, summaries kept forever, custom templates and audio downloads. Their page publishes no monthly price.
Enterprise: custom pricing for larger teams.

What Pocket users love

Site visits with trades and clients, with the to-do list emailed afterwards

"its the best for me, I am older in age 65 and it help me record all my site visits with trades and client, it does my to do list and send it into my emails, its a game changer for me, many thanks" andthe, Trustpilot

Easy to use day to day

"This little device has transformed my day to day business life, it is so easy to use and the results are outstanding." Nick Bailey, Trustpilot

The note taking and the summaries

"This pocket AI works better than I could ever have imagined. The note-taking and summarizing are excellent." Lindsay Thompson, Trustpilot

What Pocket users flag

The yearly plan came as a surprise after buying the device

"The subscription model is egregious. If I knew there was one I wouldn't have got it." Consumer, Trustpilot

Audio quality in a room with other conversations in it

"It says its great in environments with outside sound, however in multiple meetings ive had at both indoor and outdoor patios, with any kind of chatter (not even music), it captures audio horribly." Dave Woeckener, Trustpilot

Meetings that did not come back as recordings

"After today it was no better, recording the wrong things or I'm not able to follow the directions to record my meeting. I did get one meeting out of 4." Oakie Mitchell, Trustpilot

5. HiDock P1: Best AI Voice Recorder for Bluetooth Earphone Calls

Best for: HiDock P1 is an AI voice recorder for people who take most of their calls on Bluetooth earphones and want that audio captured without anything joining the meeting.

Similar to: Plaud Note, Notta Memo and Pocket.

Source: HiDock

HiDock P1 records through Bluetooth earphones and transcribes in 75 languages

BlueCatch: HiDock states that the P1 captures audio through your Bluetooth earphones, without adding a bot to your meeting.
Lifetime free transcription: HiDock's HiNotes page states that HiDock H1, H1E and P1 owners benefit from a lifetime free transcription service, in 75 languages.
Three recording modes: Call Mode for private calls, Room Mode for meetings and interviews, and Whisper Mode for quick ideas, with one touch to start, mute, highlight or stop.
Speaker Identification: HiNotes separates up to 10 voices in a meeting with colour markers and names each participant.
The hardware: 72 grams of aluminium at 126 by 38 by 15.8 millimetres, with dual studio level ECM microphones, 64GB of local storage, a 600mAh battery and USB-C transfer.

HiDock P1 costs 169 USD and the transcription is included with the device

The device: 169 USD on HiDock's own store, in Space Gray or Star White, with the metal plate, touch control cable and quick start guide in the box.
HiNotes transcription: free for the life of the device for P1 owners, in HiDock's own words, covering audio of up to 4 hours per recording.
What it works with: HiDock lists compatibility with GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro for the summaries.

What HiDock users love

Accurate transcripts and summaries that carry the follow up

"The transcripts and AI-generated summaries are accurate, organized, and genuinely useful. At this point, they have become an essential part of how I manage follow-ups after meetings." Joe McDowell, Trustpilot

Small enough for the hand, with the battery to last the day

"The device itself is very easy to use, small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and has excellent battery life." Joe McDowell, Trustpilot

Satisfied with the P1 and with the support behind it

"I bought the HiDock P1 and am very satisfied with its features. Customer service is excellent; they answered a question of mine quickly and efficiently." JOSé ANTONIO ROIG ROCHER, Trustpilot

What HiDock users flag

A P1 that stayed buggy after the firmware update

"it has never properly worked since receiving it, as it is so buggy!! Even after updating to the latest software and firmware." Frazer, Trustpilot

One buyer captured only their own side of an iPhone call

"its supposed to market itself as something that records calls using iphones and airpods. it only records you, not the person you are talking to" CN, Trustpilot

Help pages that had fallen behind the product

"If I had to point out one downside, it would be that some help resources are a bit outdated." JOSé ANTONIO ROIG ROCHER, Trustpilot

Is it legal to record a client meeting in Europe?

Final Verdict on What's the Best 5 Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking?

On Device Recording: No Recorder To Put On Their Table. Jamie records through the laptop you already carry, and the disclosure comes from you through verbal consent, the optional Automated Recording Notice email, and the meeting chat notice.
Audio Deletion: No Audio Left Behind After The Transcript. Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcription is finished, which is the answer a compliance team wants from any of the AI note takers for finance teams.
European Data Residency: GDPR Compliant And ISO 27001 Certified. Jamie stores and processes all meeting data in Europe, and Jamie is DORA-ready for the banks and funds that need it.
Speaker Memory: Speaker Names Identified And Remembered. Jamie has speaker identification and memory, on every plan including our free plan.
Plug and Play Integrations: Your Notes Land Where Your Team Already Works. Jamie logs your meeting notes to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot and Dynamics 365. Jamie also attaches them to Salesforce records, once you switch the sync on in Settings.
Agentic Intelligence: Your Follow Up Is Drafted Before The Next Call Starts. Jamie drafts the follow up email and raises the tasks from what was actually said, inside the tools you connect. Agent Connectors authorise it with your own account, and Agent Skills carry the instructions you write once.

You also have to keep your eye on the meter, because Plaud's Pro plan stops at 1,200 minutes a month. That is only twenty hours, which, if you count it, is only a week of client calls that eats it.

You can also pick a different tool when the job is different.

Choose Notta Memo when you want a card sized recorder that translates across 58 languages.
Choose Granola when you want a bot free notepad on a Mac or a phone, and an AI chat over past meetings.
Choose Pocket when most of your recording happens with the phone in your hand, including phone calls.
Choose HiDock P1 when your day runs on Bluetooth earphones and you want transcription included with the device.

For everything else, Jamie records the meeting from the machine you already own; keeps the notes in Europe under GDPR and ISO 27001; and leaves no audio behind once the transcript exists.

Looking for the notes to reach DealCloud or Affinity on their own?

Jamie logs them there after every meeting, once you switch the sync on in Settings.

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Running on Microsoft Teams instead? See Microsoft Teams note taker alternatives in Europe.
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Weighing Notta on its own? See the two side by side in Notta vs Jamie.
Leaning toward Granola? Read Granola vs Superpowered vs Krisp vs Jamie.
Billing your time to clients? Read note takers for consultants.

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Which of these records my online calls as well as the meetings in the room?

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Where is my meeting data stored, and which of these is certified?

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Which free plan actually covers a working week?

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Can I search across past meetings instead of listening again?

Is it legal to record a client meeting, and who tells the room?

Does any of these record phone calls?

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5 Best Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking [2026]

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TL;DR: the 5 best Plaud alternatives for note taking

What Are the Best Plaud Alternatives for Note Taking?

1. Jamie: Best Plaud Alternative AI Note Taker on Every Device

Jamie generates Executive Level AI Notes with an executive summary, a full summary and the action items

Jamie records from your own laptop or mobile, with no additional device on your table

Jamie deletes the meeting audio once the transcription is finished

Jamie stores all meeting data in Europe and is GDPR compliant and ISO 27001 certified

Jamie runs on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and the web, with no second device to carry

Jamie counts meetings rather than metered transcription minutes

Jamie records every meeting platform on your device, plus in-person meetings

Jamie displays a Live Transcript on your screen while the meeting is still running

Jamie identifies each speaker through speaker diarisation and matches voices with Speaker Memory

Jamie logs meeting notes to DealCloud, Affinity, HubSpot and Dynamics 365

Jamie answers questions across all of your meetings at once with Ask AI

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What Jamie users love

Bot-free capture keeps the call free of an extra participant

Transcription accuracy and the layout of the AI summaries

Multilingual meetings, including Hebrew, in person and online

What Jamie users flag

Microphone setup was needed before an early update

Speaker identification benefits from a good microphone

Some rough edges and missing integrations

2. Notta Memo: Best AI Voice Recorder for 58 Language Translation

Notta Memo records with one press and transcribes in 58 languages

Notta Memo costs 149 USD and the transcription minutes come from a Notta plan

Notta holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA, and stores your data in a Tokyo data centre

What Notta users love

Going back to the written version of a recorded meeting

Fast transcription with summaries and action items

Naming a voice once and having it applied to the rest

What Notta users flag

Transcripts need a check after a noisy recording

Technical terms and long meetings affect the speaker labels

No way to check that a named voice was matched correctly

3. Granola: Best AI Notepad for Mac and Mobile Without Stored Audio

Granola records on your own device and keeps the transcript instead of the audio

Granola costs 14 USD per user per month for unlimited meeting notes and history

Granola holds SOC 2 Type II and complies with GDPR, and stores all data on AWS servers in the United States

What Granola users love

The conversation comes back as readable notes

Notes from both the Mac and the iPhone

Asking the chat about an old meeting instead of searching for it

What Granola users flag

No way to open a note first and start recording later

A failed recording is lost with no second attempt

No one click send of a summary into Slack

4. Pocket: Best AI Recorder for Phone Calls in 120+ Languages

Pocket records with two studio microphones and a contact microphone for calls

Pocket costs 129 USD and the accurate transcription sits on the Pro plan

Pocket names SOC 2 Type II, SOC 2 Type 1, HIPAA and GDPR on its trust page, and processes your recordings in the United States

What Pocket users love

Site visits with trades and clients, with the to-do list emailed afterwards

Easy to use day to day

The note taking and the summaries

What Pocket users flag

The yearly plan came as a surprise after buying the device

Audio quality in a room with other conversations in it

Meetings that did not come back as recordings

5. HiDock P1: Best AI Voice Recorder for Bluetooth Earphone Calls

HiDock P1 records through Bluetooth earphones and transcribes in 75 languages

HiDock P1 costs 169 USD and the transcription is included with the device

HiDock complies with GDPR, trains no AI on customer data, and runs HiNotes in Microsoft Azure data centres in the USA

What HiDock users love

Accurate transcripts and summaries that carry the follow up

Small enough for the hand, with the battery to last the day

Satisfied with the P1 and with the support behind it

What HiDock users flag

A P1 that stayed buggy after the firmware update

One buyer captured only their own side of an iPhone call