Type Notes, Record the Audio, Get One Clean Note
The AI notepad is a browser notepad with a record button next to it. Type your own notes while a call, lecture, or meeting is running, and the notepad keeps a live transcript of the audio in the background. When you are done, click Enhance Notes and AI combines your notes with the transcript into one clean set of notes.
Your original notes stay first, in bold, with anything from the transcript that you missed added underneath as bullet points. Nothing is uploaded until you choose to enhance the notes, and the tool works directly in the browser with no account or installation.
What you get:
- A text box for typing notes, with a record button that captures audio while you type
- A live transcript running in the background as you record
- One click to merge your notes with the transcript using AI
- A copy-to-clipboard button for the finished note
This is a different job from ScreenApp’s main recorder: it is built for jotting notes during a call and having AI fill the gaps, not for producing a full transcript, chapters, or AI chat on a long recording. For that, see record a lecture or summarize a meeting.
How to Use the AI Notepad
- Start typing: Open the notepad in your browser and start writing. There is nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
- Record if you want a transcript too: Press the record button and the notepad captures the audio and builds a live transcript while you keep typing shorthand notes.
- Enhance the notes: Click Enhance Notes once you have both a transcript and some typed notes. AI combines them into one note, with your original text in bold and the transcript’s extra detail added underneath. Copy the result to your clipboard.
The transcript comes from your browser’s own speech recognition, so accuracy depends on your microphone, your browser, and background noise, the same as any live dictation. See how we measure accuracy for ScreenApp’s uploaded and recorded transcription.
AI Notepad vs Other Apps
| Feature | ScreenApp | Granola | Otter.ai |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Notepad free to use; 2 transcriptions, up to 45 min each | Free (Basic), meeting history limited, no number stated | 300 min/month, 30 min per conversation |
| Paid plan | $19/month annual | $14/month, unlimited meeting history | $8.33/month billed annually, or $16.99 monthly |
Sources, checked 2026-09-28: ScreenApp pricing, otter.ai/pricing, granola.ai/pricing
- vs Granola: Granola also turns rough typed notes into a clean summary using the call audio, but it needs an account and its free Basic plan caps meeting history with no published number. ScreenApp’s notepad runs in the browser with nothing to sign up for.
- vs Otter.ai: Otter’s page describes real-time highlights, text notes, comments, and images on paid plans, not a typed-notes-plus-transcript merge. Otter’s free plan is capped at 300 minutes a month and 30 minutes per conversation.
Who Uses an AI Notepad
Students in a lecture or seminar type the two or three points they catch live, record the rest, and let AI fill in what they missed without re-listening to the whole class.
People on a client or sales call jot the numbers and the next step while talking, then merge in anything the call covered that they did not have time to write down.
Journalists doing a phone interview keep their own shorthand of the strongest quotes and let the transcript catch the exact wording for the rest.
Anyone in a meeting who does not want a bot on the call gets the note-taking benefit of a recorder without inviting one into the meeting.
Freelancers on a briefing call type the brief as it is given and use the transcript to check a detail after the call ends.
