ClionoteRecord on any cheap USB voice recorder, or just talk into your phone. Clionote transcribes it, works out what it is, writes the summary, pulls out the action items and tags it. All on your own device. £4.99, once.
Android · Windows app included · one-off price · coming soon to Google Play
The AI recorder crowd wants to sell you a device, then a plan, then keep your audio on their servers. We went the other way.
You don't need a £150 clip-on to record your voice. A generic USB recorder does the job, and so does the phone already in your pocket. Clionote reads the files, whatever made them.
No monthly minutes to ration. No "Pro" tier gating the good features. Buy it once and transcribe as much as you like, because it's your phone doing the work, not our servers.
There is no Clionote server. Transcription runs on your device. AI summaries and chat run on-device too, or go straight to your own OpenAI or Anthropic account. We never see a word of it.
Three steps. No setup wizard, no account, no pairing.
A cheap USB voice recorder from the drawer, or the Live Dictate button in the app. If it makes a WAV file, Clionote can read it.
Connect the recorder to your phone or PC and hit Transcribe and Interpret. Every new recording on the drive gets transcribed and summarised in one go. Already-done notes are skipped.
Each note gets a title, a summary and its action items, sorted as a meeting, personal note, instructions or general. Tagged, searchable, and ready to chat with.
Capture on whatever's closest. Let the app do the tidying.
Whisper speech-to-text, downloaded once and run entirely on your device. No upload, no minutes cap, and it works on a plane.
A meeting gets decisions and action items. A shopping list stays a shopping list. Every note is classified first, then summarised the right way, with a title written for you and tags suggested from the ones you already use.
"What did we agree about the pricing?" Ask in plain English and get an answer grounded in the actual transcript. Chat with one note, a selection, everything pinned, or every note matching your current search.
Every note keeps its recording. Play it back in the app, and if the transcript missed something, hit Retranscribe with the quiet recording or background noise setting flipped on.
Colour-coded tags you define, one-tap filters, and a pinboard for the notes you keep coming back to. Same tags, same pins on the phone and the Windows app.
No recorder to hand? Tap the mic, talk, and watch the words appear. Uses your phone's own on-device speech recognition, so nothing leaves the handset. The screen stays awake while you ramble.
Needs Android 13 or newer.Transcribes English, French, Spanish and German out of the box.
Flip one switch and the AI runs on your phone too, using Google's Gemma 3n. Not as sharp as GPT or Claude, but free forever and it never leaves the handset. Or plug in your own OpenAI or Anthropic key for cloud-quality answers, billed by them, not us.
Local model is a one-time 3.4 GB or 4.6 GB download. 6 GB+ RAM recommended.The Windows app is included and reads the same notes off the same drive. Transcribe on the phone, tidy up on the big screen. Unplug the drive and the phone keeps a local copy so your notes are always there.
Plaud, Pocket and friends make nice hardware. You just shouldn't need to buy it, or pay rent on it, to get a decent summary of your own voice.
Competitor figures are from Plaud's and Pocket's public US pricing pages as of September 2026, rounded. Their plans and free tiers change, so check their sites for the latest. Clionote isn't affiliated with either.
Clionote isn't tied to any hardware and doesn't sell any. It's built for the cheap, generic voice recorders millions of people already own.
Just an example, not a specific product. Any plain USB voice recorder like this works.
No subscription, no server, no minutes to count. Transcription runs on your device. AI runs on your device too, or talks straight to your own OpenAI or Anthropic account. Your data, your call.
One email when the Android app goes live, with a discount code attached. That's it. No drip campaign, no "we miss you" nonsense.