Audiopen
Turns rambling voice notes into clean prose, sold as one-off passes
Overview
AudioPen records your spoken thoughts, strips the filler and rewrites them into notes, emails or drafts in a style you pick or describe, with hotkey voice typing on desktop and offline transcription. Free for three-minute recordings; Prime is a non-recurring pass from $33 for three months.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 1 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Recordings up to 3 minutes
- Any writing style
- Limited voice-typing sessions
- 15-minute recordings
- Unlimited notes and voice typing
- 100 audio uploads per 4 weeks
- Everything in Prime
- SuperSummaries and restyling
- MCP access for AI assistants
- Everything in Prime
- Lowest effective monthly cost
Use cases
What you can produce with Audiopen
- Voice-to-structured-text with filler removed
- Preset or custom writing styles, matched from a description or sample
- Hotkey voice typing on Mac and Windows, plus an iPhone voice keyboard
- Offline on-device transcription in the apps
- SuperSummaries combining several notes into one
- Webhooks and a read-only MCP connector for AI assistants
- Apps for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, Apple Watch and web
AudioPen does one job — turn a rambling voice note into readable text — and does it without fuss. Speak for up to 15 minutes on Prime, choose a preset style or describe your own, and it returns a polished rewrite alongside the raw transcript; newer hotkey voice typing on Mac and Windows extends that to any app you are writing in. The pricing is unusual for 2026: a free tier for three-minute recordings, then one-off passes ($33 for three months, $99 for a year, $159 for two) instead of a subscription. It suits people who think out loud — writers, founders, podcasters — rather than teams needing shared workspaces or meeting transcription, which it deliberately does not do. Audio is deleted within 48 hours, which helps if privacy matters. It claims dozens of languages, including Malay, Indonesian and Thai; check accuracy yourself before relying on it beyond English.
What we found
AudioPen does one job: you talk, it strips out the filler and hands back clean prose — a note, an email, a draft — in a style you choose, alongside the raw transcript. A solo founder built it in 2023, and in 2026 it has grown well beyond a phone recorder. There are apps for iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows and Apple Watch as well as the web; desktop voice typing lets you dictate into any app with a hotkey; an iPhone voice keyboard does the same on mobile; and the apps can transcribe offline, on the device.
The old complaint that you were stuck with preset styles no longer holds: you can describe the style you want in a sentence or paste a writing sample for it to match, and choose how heavily it rewrites. SuperSummaries combine several notes into one, webhooks send note data as JSON, and an MCP connector gives ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants read-only access to your notes. What it still doesn't do is teamwork: there are no shared workspaces, and it won't join a Zoom call or label who said what.
Pricing remains its most distinctive feature. The free tier allows recordings of up to three minutes and a limited number of voice-typing sessions, with no card. Prime is sold as a one-off pass rather than a subscription: $33 for three months, $99 for a year or $159 for two, covering 15-minute recordings, unlimited notes and voice typing, and up to 100 audio uploads every four weeks. Teams can buy up to 100 one-year licences at a 20% discount.
On privacy, AudioPen says recorded audio is deleted from its servers within 48 hours, voice-typing audio is never stored and notes are not used to train AI. It lists support for Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, Thai, Vietnamese, Tamil and Chinese among dozens of languages, though we have not tested quality outside English. The App Store rates the iPhone app 4.7 out of 5 from 171 ratings; the higher figures on its website are the company's own.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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