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AI dictation and meeting-notes apps, compared.
Which one fits what you need?
Noted is a free dictation and meeting-notes app for Mac and Windows, with no bot in the call. Which app to pick depends on what you need, so here is the short answer for each need, from the table below:
- Dictation only. Noted, if you want dictation in any app that is free with no word limit and works without internet, on Mac and Windows. Superwhisper is the better pick if you also want to dictate on your phone or in more than 35 languages. Wispr Flow dictates on your phone too, but its free plan has a weekly word limit and it needs a connection.
- Running a Windows PC by voice. Dragon Professional is the better pick: it has “custom voice commands” and “macros to automate multi‑step workflows by voice” (product page). Noted types what you say and has no voice commands for the PC. Noted is the better pick for calls and for a free plan: it records your microphone and your computer’s audio on Mac and Windows, so both sides of a call are in the transcript, where Dragon transcribes “another single speaker” (product page); and Noted’s free plan has no end, where Dragon says “You can launch Dragon in Trial mode five times” (release notes).
- Meeting notes without a bot. Noted, Granola, Wispr Flow, Otter’s desktop app and Superwhisper (Mac only, on its Pro plan) all take notes with no bot in the call. Noted keeps every note on the free plan, with no limit on meeting length, on Mac and Windows. Granola’s free plan shows 30 days of meeting history; Otter’s free plan has a conversation history of the “25 most recent” and “30 minutes” per conversation.
- Notes that stay on your computer, or that work without internet. Noted, on Mac and Windows: speech becomes text on your computer and your notes stay there. Superwhisper also keeps saved meetings on your Mac and can work without internet. Granola and Wispr Flow say transcription needs a connection.
- A notetaker that joins the call for you. Otter is the better pick: its AI Meeting Agent can join Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet on its own. Noted records from your computer, so it has to be running during the call.
- Phone apps. Wispr Flow, Granola, Otter and Superwhisper all have them. Noted’s downloads are for Mac and Windows.
- Company sign-on (SSO) or HIPAA. Wispr Flow, Granola, Otter and Superwhisper offer them on team or enterprise plans. Noted has neither.
- Answers during the call. Noted’s Pro is for Live Answers and screen answers: they hear a question on the call and answer it from your documents in Knowledge and your past meetings, as it’s asked, without you typing. Granola lets you chat about a meeting during it, from prompts you write, and Wispr Flow’s Notetaker can sum up the last few minutes.
Side by side
| Noted | Wispr Flow | Granola | Otter | Superwhisper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Mac (macOS 13 or later) and Windows (Windows 10, version 1903 or later, 64-bit). | “Available on Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android” (features). | “Available for macOS, Windows, iOS, Android” (home page). | Desktop apps for Mac and Windows, and “iOS and Android apps” (pricing). | “Available on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android” (home page). |
| Dictation in any app | Free, with no word limit, in 35 languages. Hold ⌃ Shift Space on a Mac or Ctrl Alt Space on Windows. | Yes, in “100+ languages” (features). | Voice typing, “in beta on Mac, Windows, and iPhone”; “A dictation can be up to 20 minutes long.” (voice typing help) | Not stated on their pages: Otter’s pricing and home pages don’t list dictation. | “Voice to text that works in any app”, in “100+ Languages” (home page). |
| Meeting notes | Yes, on Mac and Windows. Recording and transcripts have no limit; AI meeting notes have a generous monthly quota on Free and are unlimited on Pro. | Yes, with Notetaker (Notetaker). | “AI meeting notes” on every plan (pricing). | Yes, with “Live transcription” on every plan (pricing). | On Pro: “Try free, then keep Meetings with Pro.” “Meetings is available on Mac only” (meetings page). |
| Bot in the call | No. Noted takes notes from your computer’s audio. | No: “Notetaker records on your computer, so nothing joins the call” (Notetaker). | No: “Granola doesn’t join your meeting.” (home page) | Your choice: an AI Meeting Agent that can “automatically join all your Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet meetings”, or record “bot-free on desktop or Chrome” (home page). | No: “No bot joins your call.” (meetings page) |
| Works without internet | Yes, on Mac and Windows. Once you’re signed in and the voice is downloaded, dictation, recording and transcripts need no connection. AI meeting notes, Polish, Ask, Live Answers and screen answers need one. | No: “An internet connection is required” (known limitations). | No: “Transcription needs a live connection to our transcription providers.” (transcription help) | Not stated on their pages (pricing); we have not tried Otter without a connection. | Yes: “Superwhisper works offline”; its offline models “only run really well on Apple Silicon macs” (home page). |
| Where notes are kept | Your notes stay on your computer, unless you share a note by link; Noted has no other cloud copy of them. | “Notetaker transcripts are stored on Wispr’s private cloud for cross-device syncing and resumption of meetings.” (data controls) | “Notes are stored in our US-hosted AWS Virtual Private Cloud”, with some data also kept on your device (security). | Not stated for notes; Otter’s privacy policy names cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, for compute and data storage (privacy policy). | “Saved meetings live on your Mac.” (meetings page) |
| Free plan limits | Dictation, recording and transcripts have no limit. AI meeting notes and Polish have a generous monthly quota, reset on the 1st (UTC). Knowledge and Ask are free; Pro makes Ask unlimited. | “Limited words per week” and “Limited Notetaker access”; “Free accounts have a weekly meeting limit” (pricing). | Basic: “See limited meeting history”, 30 days; no meeting cap shown (pricing). | Basic: “30 minutes” per conversation, “300 monthly transcription minutes”, and conversation history of the “25 most recent” (pricing). | Free: “Unlimited use of Whisper models”; Pro adds “Unlimited use of Cloud and Local AI models” (home page). “Meetings is part of Pro. On the Free plan, meetings use your free trial words.” (plans) |
| Training on your data | No. Our AI providers keep none of it and don’t use it to train their models; we would train our own only with your separate opt-in. | If you allow data sharing, your data “may be used to evaluate, train, or improve AI models, by Wispr”; you set it in Settings > Data and Privacy (data controls). | “Granola trains on your anonymized data”; “You can opt out of this in your Settings.” (security) | “training our proprietary AI technology on de-identified audio recordings and on transcriptions (which may contain Personal Information)” (privacy policy). | No: “Your data is not used for training AI models or any other machine learning purposes.” (privacy) |
| Phone app | No. Noted’s downloads are for Mac and Windows. | Yes, iPhone and Android (features). | Yes: “Desktop, iOS, Android & Apple Watch apps” on every plan (pricing). | Yes: “iOS and Android apps” on Basic (pricing). | Yes, iOS and Android (home page). |
| Live help in calls | Live Answers (Pro) hear a question on the call and answer it as it’s asked, from your documents in Knowledge and your past meetings. Screen answers (Pro) answer from a capture of your screen. Only you see them. | “What did I miss?” gives “a summary of the last few minutes”, and Ask anything searches your past meeting notes and the web (Notetaker). | Chat to “Ask questions about one specific meeting before, during or after the meeting”, and attach files (chat help). | “AI Chat within and across meetings” and “Live transcription” (pricing). | Not stated on their pages (meetings page). |
| Company sign-on (SSO) and HIPAA | Neither. | “Single sign-on (SSO) with SAML” and “Org-wide HIPAA enforcement with a signed BAA” on Growth (pricing). | “Single sign-on (SSO)” and “HIPAA-compliant workspaces” on Enterprise (pricing). | “SSO, SCIM, Domain Capture” on Enterprise, with HIPAA compliance as an extra (pricing). | “SAML 2.0 SSO with SCIM provisioning”; “HIPAA compliant”, with a BAA “available on request” (enterprise page). |
Each column links to its rival’s own pages, and the name heading a column links to our one-to-one page where we have one: Noted and Wispr Flow, Noted and Granola, Noted and Otter, Noted and Superwhisper. Dragon has no column, as Nuance’s pages list no meeting notes; coming from Dragon, see Noted and Dragon.
How we checked
Every fact about another app comes from that company’s own pages, read on 14 November 2026 and checked again on 15 November 2026, and is quoted where we could. The Dragon facts, in the pick for running a PC by voice, come from Nuance’s pages, read on 15 November 2026. Where their pages don’t say, the table says “Not stated on their pages”. We have not tested the other apps by hand. Noted’s features were tested by hand by our founder on Mac and Windows, November 2026.
Knowledge and Ask are free in Noted: add your documents once, and Ask answers from them and your notes, with sources. Pro is for Live Answers and screen answers, and makes AI meeting notes, Polish and Ask unlimited; see Noted’s pricing.
Sources
Each company’s own pages. Checked 15 November 2026.
- Wispr Flow: features, pricing, Notetaker, data controls, known limitations
- Granola: home page, pricing, security, voice typing help, transcription help, chat help
- Otter: home page, pricing, privacy policy (effective 16 June 2026)
- Superwhisper: home page, meetings page, plans, privacy, enterprise page
- Dragon: Dragon Professional, Dragon Professional 16 release notes
Noted is not affiliated with Wispr Flow, Granola, Otter, Superwhisper or Dragon. The names are used only to identify the products compared.