Scribbl
Bot-free notes with the video still there when you need it
Scribbl is a Chrome extension that silently records and transcribes Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams calls without a bot joining, then generates AI notes and action items and keeps the video alongside the transcript so you can jump straight to any moment; it charges by meeting credit, with 10 to 15 free meetings a month and paid plans from $13 per user per month billed annually.
Overview
Scribbl occupies a specific and slightly awkward gap in this category. Most bot-free tools buy their discretion by giving up the recording: Granola, Tactiq, and Superpowered all capture the words and throw the media away. Most tools that keep video do it by sending a bot into the call. Scribbl does neither. It runs as a Chrome extension, nothing announces itself in the participant list, and it still keeps a video recording you can scrub through afterwards.
That combination is the entire reason to consider it. The product's best feature is the one they call finding key moments fast: video, transcript, and AI notes are stitched together so clicking a line of the transcript jumps the video to that second. If you have ever dragged a playback bar around trying to find the thirty seconds where a client actually said the thing, that is the problem Scribbl solves better than the bot-free competition, because the competition simply cannot solve it.
The tradeoffs are real. Scribbl is a small US company, and it shows: there is no published SOC 2 or ISO certification, no data residency story, no SSO, and no mobile or in-person capture. Languages are inherited from Google Meet's caption list rather than being a Scribbl capability, which means non-English quality is really Google's quality and Zoom or Teams calls are on a different footing. The Team plan is priced on the site at $20 per user per month annually but routes through a sales conversation, and large parts of the team feature set are still labelled coming soon.
As a purchase it is straightforward. Lite is free forever for 10 meetings a month with video that expires after two months. Pro is $13 per user per month billed annually, or $29 billed monthly, which is a 55 percent annual discount and one of the steeper monthly penalties in the category. Pro gives unlimited meetings, unlimited length, video retained for a year, up to 500GB of storage per team, and unlimited AI chat with your meetings. There are more than 3,000 Chrome Web Store reviews and a claimed 10,000 organizations behind it.
Best for
Small agencies, sales teams, and consultants who want a recording they can rewatch and clip without a bot embarrassing them in front of a client, and individuals who need unlimited meetings with video for thirteen dollars a seat.
Not the right fit for
- Anyone with a formal vendor security review, because Scribbl publishes no SOC 2, no ISO 27001, no data residency commitment, and no SSO; a compliance officer will stop you at the first question.
- Teams outside the browser: no native desktop client capture, no mobile app, and no way to record an in-person meeting.
- Non-English teams relying on anything beyond Google Meet, since language coverage is explicitly inherited from Google Meet's caption list rather than being a capability Scribbl owns.
- Buyers who need structured CRM field updates, call scoring, or rep coaching analytics; this is a note-taker, not a conversation intelligence platform, and Avoma or Sybill are the right shape for that job.
- Organizations that need a mature, well-staffed vendor relationship, because Scribbl is a very small company and much of the team feature set is still marked coming soon.
How it works
- 1
You install the Chrome extension and sign in. There is no desktop application, no bot to authorize, and no meeting-platform admin approval to chase, which is why teams that have been blocked by IT elsewhere often land here.
- 2
When you join a Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams call in the browser, Scribbl captures transcript and optionally video silently. Nothing appears in the roster and no notification fires to other participants. During the call you can mark moments that matter so they are flagged before you forget them.
- 3
The moment the call ends, a new tab opens with your notes already generated: the meeting broken into topics, action items pulled out, and the transcript aligned to the video timeline. Clicking any point in the transcript seeks the recording to that moment.
- 4
Notes stay private to you by default. You share them deliberately, either by adding a meeting to a team library or by grabbing a link that works for people outside your organization. On the Team plan an administrator can set automatic sharing rules and route meetings into a CRM, Slack, or Google Drive.
Feature breakdown
25 features in 5 modulesSilent capture with video
The unusual bit: no bot in the call, but the recording survives.- Bot-free Chrome extension capture
- Recording and transcription run inside your browser, so no vendor-named attendee appears and a host who blocks external bots cannot block Scribbl.
- Video recording retained
- Unlike most bot-free tools, Scribbl keeps the video. Recordings expire after two months on the free plan and after one year on Pro.
- Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams
- All three platforms are covered on every paid plan, with no per-platform upcharge.
- Unlimited meeting length
- Even the free Lite plan places no cap on how long a single meeting can run, which is unusual; the limit is meeting count, not duration.
- In-call moment marking
- Flag a moment while it is happening so the important thirty seconds are bookmarked before the call ends.
AI notes and retrieval
Where the video and the transcript stop being separate artefacts.- Topic-structured AI notes
- The meeting is broken into a set of discussed topics rather than delivered as one undifferentiated summary paragraph, which makes skimming a 60-minute call viable.
- Action item extraction
- Commitments and next steps are pulled out separately so the follow-up list does not have to be reconstructed from prose.
- Transcript-to-video seeking
- Click a transcript line and the recording jumps to that second. This is the feature that justifies choosing Scribbl over a text-only bot-free tool.
- Unlimited AI chat with meetings
- Pro includes unlimited conversational querying of a meeting, so you can ask what was decided about pricing rather than reading the transcript.
- Key moment search
- Combined video, transcript, and AI search across a call to locate a specific exchange without manual scrubbing.
- Query from ChatGPT or Claude
- Scribbl markets the ability to ask ChatGPT or Claude about any of your meetings, extending retrieval beyond its own interface.
Sharing and team library
Private by default, shared on purpose.- Private by default
- Meetings belong to the individual until explicitly shared, so nothing gets accidentally broadcast to the whole company; this is the opposite of tools that auto-populate a team library.
- External share links
- Share a meeting or a clip with someone outside the organization by link, without requiring them to have an account.
- Shared meeting library
- Team plan pools client calls and key meetings into a shared library so institutional knowledge does not sit in one person's account.
- Automated sharing rules
- Administrators on the Team plan can auto-share calls with the whole team or specific members based on rules rather than habit.
- Collections
- Meetings can be auto-added to collections so an account, a project, or a hiring loop accumulates its own thread of calls.
Team administration and integrations
The paid team layer, parts of which are still being built.- CRM integrations
- Team-tier routing of meeting output into a CRM. This is note write-back rather than structured field syncing.
- Slack and Google Drive
- Notes and recordings can be pushed into Slack channels and Drive folders automatically on the Team plan.
- Admin controls
- Set an administrator, manage access and permissions, and centralize how meetings are shared across the organization.
- Unified billing
- Team consolidates seats onto one invoice instead of individual card charges, with annual billing required at that tier.
- Storage pool
- Pro includes up to 500GB of storage per team, which is the practical ceiling on how much video you can keep.
Privacy posture
Good defaults, thin certification.- No model training on your conversations
- Scribbl states plainly that it does not train models with your data for use outside your own account, which is the clearest answer in this batch.
- No bot, no announcement
- Nothing announces itself in the meeting, which is a privacy benefit for you and a disclosure obligation you now own personally.
- Video expiry as a retention control
- Recordings expire automatically at two months on free and one year on Pro, so old media does not accumulate indefinitely by default.
- Team access is opt-in
- Teammates cannot see your meetings unless you share them or an administrator has configured an automatic sharing rule.
Use cases
4 documentedAgency account manager on client calls
Clients notice and dislike recording bots, but the agency needs proof of what was scoped and agreed, and the delivery team needs to hear the client's exact words.
Scribbl captures silently with no visible attendee, the account manager shares a link to the two-minute segment where scope was discussed, and the delivery team watches it rather than reading a paraphrase.
Founder-led sales at a five-person startup
Every discovery call matters, budget is nonexistent, and a full conversation intelligence platform would cost more than the whole tooling stack.
Two Pro seats at $13 each give unlimited recorded calls with a year of video retention and unlimited AI chat, and the founder rewatches the calls that were lost to find the pattern.
Recruiter running a staffing desk
Dozens of candidate and client intake calls a week, and hiring managers keep asking for detail that was mentioned in passing three weeks ago.
Free Lite covers the low-volume weeks, Pro covers the rest, and searching a candidate's name across the archive surfaces the exact clip where they described their notice period.
Project manager tracking decisions across a rollout
Weekly stakeholder calls produce decisions that get contested later, and the meeting minutes are always a lossy summary of what was actually said.
Topic-structured AI notes plus transcript-to-video seeking mean a contested decision is settled by playing the fifteen seconds where it was made, and the meeting is auto-added to the project collection.
Pricing
from $0 (Lite), then $13 per user per month billed annually (Pro)Freemium credit-based subscription where one credit equals one meeting, with per-seat pricing on paid tiers and a steep annual discount.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Lite | $0 per user per month |
The site's pricing table says 10 meetings while the FAQ says 15 credits; treat 10 as the safe planning number. |
| Pro | $13 per user per month, billed annually |
Billed monthly the same plan is $29, a 55 percent penalty for avoiding the annual commitment. |
| Team | $20 per user per month, annual billing required |
Priced publicly but routed through a sales conversation, and several Team capabilities are still marked coming soon on the site. |
Billing notes
- The meter is meetings, not minutes: one credit equals one meeting regardless of whether it ran ten minutes or three hours, which is unusually generous for long workshops.
- The annual discount is 55 percent, the steepest in this batch. Pro is $13 annually against $29 monthly, so a monthly subscriber is paying more than double for flexibility.
- Free credits replenish on the first of each month and do not roll over.
- Video retention is tied to plan: two months on Lite, one year on Pro. Downgrading does not truncate your notes but it does shorten how long the media survives, so export anything you need to keep before dropping a tier.
- The 500GB per team storage pool on Pro is a real ceiling for video-heavy teams; nothing on the pricing page explains what happens when you hit it.
- Team requires annual billing and a sales conversation despite carrying a published price, which technically breaks the fully self-serve path at that tier.
Value assessment: For the specific person who wants bot-free capture and video playback, Scribbl is the cheapest route by a wide margin and there is barely any competition. Model 20 meetings a week: that is roughly 80 calls a month, all covered by Pro's unlimited allowance at $13 per user per month, or $156 a year per seat, with a year of video retention included. Fathom's paid tiers or tl;dv give you more platform, but both put a bot in the room. Granola at $14 is the closer comparison on price and loses on media entirely. What you are trading away is certification and scale: no SOC 2, no SSO, no residency, no mobile, and language coverage borrowed from Google. If none of those appear on your requirements list, the price is excellent. If any of them do, no discount makes it work.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- The only genuinely cheap way to get bot-free capture and retained video in the same product, which is a combination almost nobody else offers.
- Transcript-to-video seeking makes finding the exact moment in a call trivial, and it is the feature users cite most in reviews.
- One credit equals one meeting regardless of length, so a three-hour workshop costs the same as a fifteen-minute stand-up.
- Chrome extension install means no desktop agent, no admin package, and no meeting-platform approval, which routes around IT friction entirely.
- Private by default with explicit sharing, rather than dumping every call into a team library where colleagues can browse your one-on-ones.
- Unambiguous statement that customer conversations are not used to train models outside your own account.
- A 55 percent annual discount brings Pro to $13, which undercuts nearly every recording-capable competitor in the category.
Limitations
- No SOC 2, no ISO 27001, no published data residency, and no SSO, which disqualifies Scribbl from most formal procurement processes.
- Language support is explicitly inherited from Google Meet's caption list rather than owned, so non-English quality is not something Scribbl controls or publishes figures on.
- Browser-only: no desktop client capture, no mobile app, and no in-person meeting recording.
- Several Team-tier capabilities are still labelled coming soon, and Team requires a sales conversation despite having a published price.
- The free plan's meeting allowance is stated inconsistently on the site, 10 in the pricing table and 15 in the FAQ, which is a small but telling sign of a thinly staffed product.
- Video expiry at one year on Pro means the archive is not permanent, and the 500GB team storage pool is an undocumented cliff for heavy users.
- Very small company with limited public information about funding, headcount, or roadmap, which is a concentration risk if the tool becomes load-bearing.
Head-to-head comparisons
5 alternativesScribbl vs Tactiq
from $0 (Free), then $8 per user per month billed annually (Pro)Both are bot-free Chrome extensions at a near-identical price, and the difference is whether the media survives. Tactiq keeps text only, holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001, and ships a real workflow layer into Slack, Notion, Linear, and HubSpot. Scribbl keeps the video, aligns it to the transcript, and lets you jump to any moment. Take Tactiq if you will face a security review; take Scribbl if you will need to rewatch the call.
Full Scribbl vs Tactiq comparisonScribbl vs Superpowered
from $0 (Free), then $25 per month (Basic)Superpowered captures native desktop audio so it is not confined to the browser, holds SOC 2 Type II, and deletes transcripts after seven days by design. Scribbl is browser-only, keeps video for up to a year, and costs $13 against Superpowered's $25 entry. Choose Superpowered for desktop coverage and an aggressive privacy default; choose Scribbl if you want the archive and the recording.
Full Scribbl vs Superpowered comparisonScribbl vs Granola
from $0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business)Granola is the better-written product: it merges your own typed notes with the transcript, runs natively on five platforms including mobile for in-person meetings, and carries SOC 2 Type II with API and MCP access at $14. It stores no media at all on desktop. Scribbl is a dollar cheaper and keeps the video. If you write notes yourself and want them finished, Granola wins comfortably; if playback is the point, Granola cannot compete.
Full Scribbl vs Granola comparisonScribbl vs Fathom
from $0 (Free plan, unlimited recording and transcription)Fathom sends a bot but gives you a famously generous free tier with unlimited recording, plus CRM field sync and sales scorecards on paid plans, and it is a far larger and better-resourced company. Scribbl's answer is the absence of the bot: no vendor-named attendee in a client call. If your calls are internal or your clients do not care, Fathom is the stronger product; if the bot is the objection, Scribbl is the cheapest way around it.
Full Scribbl vs Fathom comparisonScribbl vs tl;dv
from EUR 0 (Free), then EUR 216 per seat per year for Pro (EUR 18 per month equivalent; EUR 29 billed monthly)tl;dv is a bot-based recorder with deep sales coaching, multi-language support it actually owns, and a mature integration catalogue, priced well above Scribbl once you leave its free tier. Scribbl offers no coaching, no owned language stack, and no compliance certifications, but it records without announcing itself and costs $13. This is a straight trade of platform depth against discretion and price.
Full Scribbl vs tl;dv comparisonImplementation & onboarding
- Setup time
- Five minutes. Install the Chrome extension, sign in, and the next browser meeting is captured. There is nothing for IT to package and no bot to whitelist in your meeting platform's admin console.
- Learning curve
- Minimal. The post-call tab opens automatically with notes already generated, and the only habit worth building is marking moments during the call so the key exchanges are pre-flagged.
- Onboarding
- Self-serve on Lite and Pro. The Team tier routes through a demo or sales conversation despite having a published price, so a team rollout involves a conversation you cannot skip.
- Migration notes
- No importer for another vendor's archive. Video and notes can be shared or exported by link, but there is no documented bulk export API, so plan to pull anything you need manually before leaving. Note also that Pro video expires after a year, so an archive migration has a natural deadline built into it.
Platform, API & security
- Platforms
- Chrome extensionWeb appGoogle MeetZoomMicrosoft Teams
- API
- No public API is documented. Integration happens through the Team tier's CRM, Slack, and Google Drive connectors, plus the ability to query meetings from ChatGPT or Claude.
- Compliance
- No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification publishedNo published GDPR data processing agreementStated policy of not training models on customer conversations
- Data residency
- No data residency options are published; Scribbl, Inc. is a United States company and states its product is made in the USA.
- SSO
- Not offered. Admin controls exist on the Team tier but SAML or OIDC single sign-on is not advertised.
- Security notes
- Meetings are private to the individual by default and only visible to teammates when shared or when an admin sharing rule applies. Video recordings expire automatically after two months on the free plan and one year on Pro. Scribbl states it does not train models with customer data for use outside the customer's own account. The absence of formal certification is the significant gap.
Support & resources
- Channels
- Email and web support formDedicated customer support on the Team plan
- Documentation
- Support pages on scribbl.co plus in-product help; documentation is light compared with larger vendors in the category.
- Community
- More than 3,000 five-star Chrome Web Store reviews and a claimed 10,000 organizations, but no formal community forum or user programme.
Company
- Founded
- 2022
- Headquarters
- United States
- Ownership
- Privately held, independent
- Employees
- Not disclosed; very small team
- Funding
- No funding rounds publicly disclosed; Scribbl, Inc. appears to be self-funded.
Timeline
- 2022Scribbl launches as a Chrome extension for Google Meet, positioning bot-free capture against the wave of bot-based note-takers.
- 2023Adds AI-generated topic notes and action items on top of raw transcription, plus transcript-to-video seeking.
- 2024Expands platform coverage to Zoom and Microsoft Teams and passes 10,000 organizations with more than 3,000 Chrome Web Store reviews.
- 2025Introduces unlimited AI chat with meetings on Pro and vertical landing pages for agencies, sales, project managers, and staffing.
- 2026Team plan with shared library, automated sharing, CRM routing, and admin controls is published at $20 per user per month with parts still marked coming soon.
Integrations
- Google Meet
- Zoom
- Microsoft Teams
- Slack (Team plan)
- Google Drive (Team plan)
- CRM integrations (Team plan)
- ChatGPT and Claude for querying past meetings
- Shareable external links
Frequently asked questions
10 questionsWhat is Scribbl?
Scribbl is a Chrome extension that records and transcribes Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams meetings without sending a bot into the call, then produces AI notes broken into topics with action items. Unusually for a bot-free tool, it keeps the video recording and links it to the transcript so you can jump to any moment.
How much does Scribbl cost?
Lite is free for 10 meetings a month with unlimited meeting length and video that expires after two months. Pro is $13 per user per month billed annually, or $29 billed monthly, with unlimited meetings, a year of video retention, up to 500GB of team storage, and unlimited AI chat. Team is $20 per user per month with annual billing required and adds shared libraries, CRM routing, and admin controls.
Does a bot join my meeting?
No. Capture runs entirely through the Chrome extension in your own browser, so nothing appears in the participant list and nothing announces itself. That is Scribbl's whole positioning: silent recording without the vendor-branded attendee that makes clients uncomfortable and that some hosts block outright.
Does Scribbl keep the video, and for how long?
Yes, and this is what separates it from most bot-free tools. Recordings expire after two months on the free Lite plan and after one year on Pro. Scribbl also caps Pro at 500GB of storage per team. If you need a permanent archive, export what matters before the expiry window closes.
What is the real monthly cost for someone in 20 meetings a week?
Roughly 80 meetings a month, which is well past the free plan's 10 and comfortably inside Pro's unlimited allowance. That person pays $13 per user per month on annual billing, about $156 a year, with no minute meter and no per-meeting overage. Length does not matter either, since one credit equals one meeting regardless of duration.
What languages does Scribbl support?
Scribbl says it supports the languages available for Google Meet captions rather than maintaining its own speech stack. That is an honest answer and a limiting one: non-English quality is Google's quality, not Scribbl's, the list changes without Scribbl controlling it, and Zoom and Teams calls sit on a different footing. Non-English teams should test before buying.
Is Scribbl SOC 2 certified?
No. Scribbl publishes no SOC 2, no ISO 27001, no data residency commitment, and no SSO option. It does state clearly that it will not train models on your conversations for use outside your account, and meetings are private until you share them. If you have to pass a vendor security questionnaire, this is where the conversation ends.
How does Scribbl handle recording consent?
It does not handle it for you. Because nothing joins the call and nothing is announced, every participant except you may be unaware a recording exists. In two-party consent jurisdictions such as California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and most of the EU, recording a call without telling the other side can be unlawful. Scribbl keeps video, not just text, which raises the stakes further. Say it out loud at the start of the call.
Can my teammates see my meetings?
Not by default. Meetings belong to you until you share them, either by adding one to a team library or by sending a link. On the Team plan an administrator can configure automatic sharing rules so that certain calls are routed to the team or to specific members, which changes the default deliberately rather than silently.
Does Scribbl do CRM write-back or sales coaching?
CRM integration exists on the Team plan, but it is meeting and note routing rather than structured field updating, and there is no coaching layer at all: no scorecards, no talk-time analysis, no playbook adherence. A sales manager who needs rep-level analytics should look at a conversation intelligence tool such as Avoma or Sybill and treat Scribbl purely as the capture layer.
Editorial verdict
Scribbl is a narrow product that is very good at the one thing it chose. If you want a recording you can rewatch and clip, but you refuse to put a bot in front of a client, there is almost nothing else at this price that does both, and transcript-to-video seeking makes the archive genuinely usable rather than nominally searchable. At $13 a seat with unlimited meetings and unlimited length, the arithmetic works for anyone in constant calls. The problem is everything around the product: no SOC 2, no SSO, no residency, no mobile, borrowed language support, a Team tier that is half built, and a company small enough that its own site disagrees about the size of the free plan. Buy it as an individual or a small unregulated team where the buyer is the user. Do not put it in front of a procurement department, because it will not survive the first page of the questionnaire.
Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.