Notta vs ScreenApp
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentScreenApp compared with Notta
Notta is a transcription-first product with strong language coverage and a meeting bot, metered by transcription minutes. ScreenApp meters AI generations instead and adds screen and video capture with visual analysis. If your requirement is accurate multilingual transcription at volume, Notta's minute-based model is easier to reason about; if it is mixed-media capture with AI on top, ScreenApp.
Choose Notta if
Small businesses, consultants, and teams whose meetings are not exclusively in English, especially anyone working across Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or European languages, who want a cheap, reliable, high-volume transcription archive rather than a coaching or revenue tool.
Choose ScreenApp if
Small businesses whose recording needs go beyond meetings into demos, training, support sessions, and screen walkthroughs, and teams that want one SOC 2 certified tool covering every kind of capture rather than a dedicated notetaker plus a separate screen recorder.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Notta | ScreenApp |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $8.17 per month billed annually (Pro) (free plan available) | $0 (Free), then $19 per month billed annually (Growth) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Per-seat subscription with a monthly transcription-minute meter on the free and Pro tiers and a second separate meter on AI summaries and file uploads across all tiers. Business removes the minute meter. | Freemium subscription metered by AI credits and video analyses drawn from annual pools, with unlimited recordings from the first paid tier. |
| Free plan | 120 transcription minutes a month, a 3-minute cap on any single recording, 50 file uploads a month, 10 AI summaries a month, and 1 seat. | 3 recordings, 3 AI generations per month, and 1 transcription per month, with AI summaries, chat, templates, and full transcripts included within those limits. |
| Free trial | No fixed-length paid trial; the free plan is the evaluation path | 7-day free trial on Growth with a credit card required, alongside a permanent free plan that needs no card |
| Best for | Small businesses, consultants, and teams whose meetings are not exclusively in English, especially anyone working across Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or European languages, who want a cheap, reliable, high-volume transcription archive rather than a coaching or revenue tool. | Small businesses whose recording needs go beyond meetings into demos, training, support sessions, and screen walkthroughs, and teams that want one SOC 2 certified tool covering every kind of capture rather than a dedicated notetaker plus a separate screen recorder. |
| Setup time | Ten to fifteen minutes. Create an account, connect Google or Outlook calendar, decide whether the bot auto-joins everything or only meetings you approve, and install the mobile app if you record in person. | Under five minutes for browser recording, since there is genuinely nothing to install. Adding the desktop apps, mobile apps, Chrome extension, and meeting bot each take a few minutes more, and the meeting bot needs calendar access to schedule itself. |
| Learning curve | Very low for transcription. The generated deliverables (decks and infographics) take some experimentation before the output is good enough to send anywhere, and the interplay of the three meters takes a month of usage to internalise. | Low for recording, moderate for cost management. The thing users get wrong is the credit model: understanding that AI credits and video analyses are annual pools rather than monthly refills is the difference between a plan that works all year and one that stops in September. |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Desktop access via browser | Web browser, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Meeting bot for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams |
| Compliance | SOC 2, GDPR | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliance stated |
| Founded | 2020 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Ownership | Venture-backed | Privately held (ScreenApp Pty Ltd) |
Strengths and limitations
Notta
Strengths
- 58 languages with simultaneous translation, which makes it the obvious choice for any business whose meetings cross a language boundary and a decisive advantage over Otter's six languages.
- Genuine East Asian language quality, built from a Tokyo base rather than bolted onto an English-first engine.
- The cheapest unlimited-transcription tier among the established players at $16.67 per seat per month billed annually.
- Deliverable generation (slide decks and infographics from a conversation) is a real differentiator, not just another summary format.
Limitations
- The free plan's 3-minute per-recording cap makes honest evaluation impossible without uploading a file recorded elsewhere.
- Three separate meters (minutes, summaries, uploads) make the bill harder to reason about than a flat seat price, and Business still caps summaries at 200 a month.
- Bot-first capture with a vendor-named participant in the room, and no equivalent to Granola's silent local desktop capture for sensitive client calls.
- No sales coaching, scorecards, or rep analytics of any kind, so revenue teams will need a second tool.
ScreenApp
Strengths
- The broadest capture surface in this batch: browser, desktop, mobile, Chrome extension, meeting bot, and direct upload, all feeding one AI pipeline.
- Direct upload of existing Zoom, Meet, and YouTube recordings gives a genuine migration path for historical archives that dedicated notetakers cannot match.
- Video frame analysis finds visual moments in a recording, which is a capability no meeting-only tool offers and which matters for demos and screen walkthroughs.
- SOC 2 Type II certification at a $19 entry price, which is better certification than several dedicated notetakers in this category.
Limitations
- The AI credit pools are annual rather than monthly, which is easy to misread and means a busy quarter can consume most of a year's allowance.
- The free plan's one transcription a month makes free evaluation of the meeting use case effectively impossible.
- Meeting notes quality is not the product's centre of gravity; dedicated notetakers produce better-shaped meeting output from the same conversation.
- The meeting path uses a visible bot, so there is no discreet capture option for client calls where a vendor-named attendee is a problem.
Pricing compared
Notta
Per-seat subscription with a monthly transcription-minute meter on the free and Pro tiers and a second separate meter on AI summaries and file uploads across all tiers. Business removes the minute meter.
- Free$0
- Pro$8.17
- Business$16.67
- EnterpriseCustom
On raw transcription value Notta is the cheapest credible option here. Someone in 20 meetings a week at 45 minutes generates roughly 3,900 minutes a month; Pro's 1,800 minutes covers under half of that, so that person lands on Business at $16.67 per seat per month billed annually, about $200 a year, for unlimited transcription across 58 languages. That is cheaper than Otter Business, Fireflies Business, or Read AI Pro and gets you a wider language list than any of them. The catch is scope. There is no coaching layer, no video review, no meaningful API, and the free tier is close to useless as a trial. Notta is priced like a utility because it is one: a very good multilingual transcription and archive service, not a meeting operating system.
ScreenApp
Freemium subscription metered by AI credits and video analyses drawn from annual pools, with unlimited recordings from the first paid tier.
- Free$0
- Growth$19
- Business$34
- EnterpriseFrom $199
ScreenApp is excellent value if your recording problem is broad and poor value if it is narrow. Model 20 meetings a week, roughly 80 a month: on Growth at $19 you have unlimited recordings but 600 AI credits for the whole year, which is about 50 generations a month, so you would be summarizing fewer than two thirds of your meetings and running out by autumn. The honest plan for that person is Business at $34 a month, $408 a year, with unlimited AI. Against Granola Business at $14 a seat or Fathom, that is expensive for meeting notes alone and the meeting notes are not as good. But Business also includes screen recording across browser, desktop, mobile, and extension, video frame analysis, unlimited transcription, white labelling, and API access, all under SOC 2 Type II. If you would otherwise buy a notetaker plus Loom plus a transcription API, one $34 subscription replaces all three and the arithmetic flips decisively in ScreenApp's favour.
Editorial verdict on each
Notta
Notta is the best value in this category on the specific axis of multilingual transcription, and it is close to irrelevant on every other axis. Fifty-eight languages with simultaneous translation, genuinely good Japanese and Chinese recognition, and an unlimited-transcription tier at about $200 a year per seat is a combination nobody else offers at that price. Buy it if your meetings cross a language boundary, if you are transcribing a lot of tape, or if you simply want a cheap durable archive and do not care about coaching. Do not buy it if you need a silent bot-free recorder for confidential client calls, if you want video review or sales analytics, or if procurement will demand a clear written model-training and residency policy before signing, because Notta's English-language documentation on those points is thinner than its competitors' and you will have to ask.
Read the full Notta profileScreenApp
ScreenApp is the wrong answer to a narrow question and a very good answer to a broad one. If all you want is meeting notes, a dedicated notetaker will write better ones for less money, the meeting path uses a visible bot, and the free tier's single monthly transcription means you cannot even evaluate it properly. But small businesses rarely have only a meeting problem. If you are also recording demos, building training material, capturing support sessions, and sitting on an archive of old Zoom files nobody can search, ScreenApp Business at $34 a month replaces three or four tools with one SOC 2 Type II certified subscription that includes video frame analysis, unlimited transcription, white labelling, and an API. Buy it for consolidation and breadth, buy the Business tier rather than Growth so the AI credit pools stop mattering, and do not buy it expecting the best meeting summary in this category, because it is not competing for that.
Read the full ScreenApp profileNotta profile last reviewed 2026-08-22; ScreenApp last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.