Notta

Notta built its meeting assistant around one clear strength: language coverage. Where many competitors lead with English and bolt on other languages later, Notta has leaned into multilingual transcription from the start. The platform lists 58 languages for transcription, which makes it a practical pick for international teams and cross-border work. Real-time translation is part of the pitch too, though as of 2026 it has moved into paid add-on territory rather than coming bundled with the base plan.

The Tokyo-based company has been busy. A ~$6.3M raise in mid-2025 funded a US push, and a ~$15M Series B in December 2025 (led by Granite-Integral Capital) is going toward enterprise expansion and AI-agent development, including deeper Zoom, Google Meet, Salesforce, and Slack integrations. Notta reports figures in the millions of users and hundreds of millions of audio hours processed, though we treat those vendor numbers as context rather than verified fact.

Notta can join Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls with a bot, and it also runs on mobile for in-person recording. There is now a native Notta Desktop app for both Mac and Windows that captures meeting audio directly off your device without sending a bot into the call. That is a meaningful shift from the bot-only framing the product carried for years. In July 2026 Notta went further and added Privacy Mode to the desktop app (still labelled beta): transcription runs on your computer, recordings and transcripts stay in a local folder, and it works offline once set up. It covers auto-detect, English, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese and Simplified Chinese, with about 11 more languages (German, French, Spanish and others) through Apple’s speech engine on macOS 26. Everywhere else, audio is processed in the cloud, and Notta returns transcripts with speaker labels, AI summaries, and action items. Accuracy is strong across major languages and thins out on less common ones.

The mobile apps remain a real asset. Both the iOS and Android versions work as standalone recorders, so Notta is useful well beyond scheduled video calls: in-person meetings, lectures, interviews, voice memos. The experience is clean, and the combination of phone, browser extension, and now desktop makes Notta one of the more flexible options for capturing audio wherever it happens.

Key Features

Multilingual transcription is the headline, with 58 languages supported. Recording happens three ways now: a bot that joins major video platforms, the mobile apps for in-person audio, and the new Notta Desktop app that captures locally without a bot. AI summaries and action items are generated after each meeting, and Notta has added an ask-anything AI chat, renamed Notta Brain in January 2026, that lets you query a recorded transcript conversationally (“What were the action items?”, “Summarize the client feedback”) rather than only reading a static summary. A web editor syncs the audio to the transcript for review and correction.

Integrations have expanded considerably from where this product sat a year ago. Salesforce, Slack, Notion, Zoom, and Google Meet are built in, with HubSpot and other CRM connections, Google Docs, ClickUp, OneNote, and Zapier filling out the rest. The Series B funding is explicitly aimed at pushing this further with AI-agent capabilities.

One genuinely new direction worth noting: Notta Memo, a $149 standalone AI voice recorder. It is a thin, sub-ounce hardware device that auto-syncs to the cloud platform for transcription and summarization, putting Notta in direct competition with Plaud.ai and serving as a low-friction on-ramp into the subscription. Memo went on sale in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain in February 2026.

Pricing

There is a free plan, but read the fine print before relying on it. It allows 120 transcription minutes per month, caps each individual recording at 3 minutes, limits you to roughly 10 AI summaries per month, and locks transcript downloads behind a paid plan. For anything beyond light testing, that 3-minute ceiling makes it impractical.

The Pro plan is about $8.17 per month, billed annually at $97.99/year, and lifts you to 1,800 minutes per month, recordings up to 5 hours and 100 AI summaries. Business runs $27.99 per seat monthly or about $16.67 per seat annually ($199.99/seat/year) with unlimited minutes and team admin controls. Enterprise is custom-quoted and now gated to 51+ seats.

Two pricing caveats matter. First, real-time translation is no longer bundled into Pro the way it once was; it is a paid add-on (+$6/mo for monolingual real-time translation on annual billing or $10 monthly, and +$9/mo for bilingual transcription-plus-translation on annual billing or $15 monthly), so the “multilingual is included” assumption no longer holds for the headline feature. Second, multiple users have reported being charged on auto-renewal after attempting to cancel, which is worth knowing before committing to an annual term.

Privacy & Security

By default Notta processes audio in its cloud. It holds SOC 2 Type II and covers GDPR and CCPA, with data encrypted in transit and at rest. It says it follows ISO 27001 and HIPAA guidelines, but it does not claim ISO 27001 certification and does not offer a HIPAA BAA. We found no EU data-residency option.

Privacy Mode in the desktop app changes the picture for transcription. When it is on, transcription happens on your computer, recordings and transcripts stay in a local folder, and with Pro it does not use your cloud minutes. Internet is still needed to log in, update, and re-validate the licence roughly monthly, and the AI summaries appear to stay cloud-based; Notta does not say they run locally. It is also beta, desktop-only, and limited to a handful of languages. Useful, but not an on-device product end to end.

Training is the other point to check. Notta’s English privacy policy has no explicit model-training clause, while its Japanese business page lists “no AI training” as an Enterprise feature, which implies data on lower tiers may be used. For teams handling sensitive or regulated cross-border content, get that answer in writing before you commit.

Best For

Notta suits teams that regularly work across language barriers, and it has grown into a more complete tool than it was a year ago. International organizations, translation-heavy workflows, and globally distributed teams get the most out of the broad transcription coverage, and the mobile and desktop apps make it a solid fit for journalists, researchers, and anyone capturing in-person conversations. The expanded integrations and ask-anything chat also make it more viable as a day-to-day knowledge tool than the “summaries only” reputation suggests. It remains a weak fit for anyone who needs offline AI notes or fully on-device privacy beyond transcription, or who balks at paying extra for the real-time translation that drew them to the product in the first place.

How Notta Compares to Hedy

Notta’s language breadth is real, and its 2026 additions close some gaps: there is now a native Mac and Windows desktop app, bot-free local capture, an optional on-device transcription mode, and an ask-anything AI chat over transcripts, so the old “cloud bot with post-meeting summaries only” picture is out of date. Credit where it is due.

The durable difference is where the intelligence runs. Hedy can run transcription, summarization, and real-time coaching entirely on-device on supported hardware. Notta’s Privacy Mode keeps transcription local, but it is a desktop-only beta covering a handful of languages, and the AI notes still come from the cloud. Hedy never puts a bot in your meeting at all. Hedy works fully offline; Notta can transcribe offline in Privacy Mode, but summaries and its other features need an internet connection. And Hedy’s coaching surfaces guidance live, in the moment, rather than after the call.

If your single biggest need is translating across many languages, Notta covers that ground well, though you will now pay an add-on fee for the real-time version. For teams who care most about keeping meeting audio off external servers, working offline, and getting help while the conversation is still happening, Hedy is the more complete fit.