Superpowered

Name: Superpowered
Brand: Superpowered
Price: 025 USD

No bots, no recordings, transcripts deleted after seven days

Superpowered is a Y Combinator-backed AI notetaker for macOS and Windows that transcribes your device's audio locally during a meeting without a bot joining, generates template-driven notes, and then deletes the transcript after seven days; it works with any meeting platform because it captures system audio, supports more than 50 languages, holds SOC 2 Type II, and is priced at $0, $25, and $50 a month.

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Overview

Superpowered takes the bot-free argument further than anyone else in this category and then adds a second commitment most vendors will not make: it does not keep your data. Audio is transcribed live and deleted immediately. The transcript itself is retained for only seven days, purely so you have time to generate notes from it, and then that goes too. What survives is the notes you produced, and on the free plan even those age out after a month.

That posture is the whole product thesis. Every other tool in this category is quietly building an archive of your conversations on its servers, which is either the point of the product or a liability depending on who you ask. Superpowered has decided it is a liability. If your objection to meeting AI is not the bot in the room but the permanent corpus of your private conversations sitting on a vendor's infrastructure, this is the only mainstream option built around that objection.

Mechanically it is a desktop application rather than a browser extension, which is the important practical difference from Tactiq and Scribbl. It captures the audio your machine is playing, so it works with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Around, and anything else that makes sound, including native desktop clients. macOS and Windows only; there is no mobile app and no Linux build, so in-person meetings are out of scope. AI Templates enforce a consistent output shape for one-on-ones, sales calls, and interviews, and you can bring your own.

The pricing is the weak point. Free covers 10 AI notes a month with one calendar connection and a month of notes history. Basic is $25 a month and Pro is $50, with the site advertising savings of up to 54 percent on annual billing. That entry price is roughly triple Granola Business and three times Tactiq Team, and what you get for it is a smaller feature surface: AI Chat over past meetings is still marked coming soon, which is a strange gap in 2026 and is partly explained by the fact that Superpowered deliberately does not keep the transcripts such a feature would need.

Best for

Privacy-conscious professionals and small teams on macOS or Windows who use native desktop meeting clients, want nothing recorded and nothing retained, and will pay a premium for a vendor that deletes rather than accumulates.

Not the right fit for

Anyone who wants a searchable long-term archive of what was said, because Superpowered deletes transcripts after seven days by design and that is not a setting you can turn off.
Mobile or Linux users, and anyone needing in-person meeting capture; the product is macOS and Windows desktop only with no phone app.
Teams on a tight budget, because $25 a month for the entry paid tier is roughly triple what Granola, Tactiq, or Scribbl charge for a comparable individual plan.
Buyers who need AI chat across their meeting history today, since that feature is still marked coming soon and is architecturally awkward given the seven-day deletion policy.
Sales organizations wanting call scoring, talk-time coaching, or structured CRM field updates; the HubSpot and Salesforce connectors push notes, they do not run revenue intelligence.

How it works

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You install the desktop app on macOS or Windows and connect a Google or Outlook calendar. The free plan allows one calendar connection; paid plans allow unlimited, which matters if you juggle a work and a client-side account.
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The app watches your calendar and can auto-join meetings, meaning it starts capturing when the call starts rather than waiting for you to remember. Because it transcribes the audio coming out of your own machine, it is indifferent to which platform the meeting is on and no participant appears in the roster.
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Transcription happens live and the audio is discarded immediately; nothing is recorded. The transcript is held for seven days. During that window you pick a template, one-on-one, sales call, interview, or your own, and generate notes.
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Notes route outward according to your plan: Slack on free, email and Slack on Basic, and Notion, Google Drive, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zapier on Pro. After seven days the transcript is deleted and only the notes remain, retained for a month on free and indefinitely on paid plans.

Feature breakdown

22 features in 4 modules

Bot-free desktop capture

System audio capture on the desktop, which is the difference from browser-extension rivals.

Native system audio transcription: The app transcribes the audio playing on your machine rather than reading a browser tab, so native desktop Zoom and Teams clients are fully supported.
No participant bot: Nothing joins the call and nothing announces itself, so a client never sees a vendor-named attendee and a host who blocks external bots cannot block you.
Platform agnostic: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Around are all named, and in practice anything that produces sound on the machine is captured.
Auto-join meetings: Calendar-driven capture starts automatically at the scheduled time on every tier including free, so there is no manual start step to forget.
Calendar connections: One calendar on free, unlimited on Basic and Pro, which matters for consultants operating across multiple client tenancies.
Remove Zoom and Slack branding: Listed on every tier including free, letting shared output carry your own presentation rather than the meeting platform's.

Deletion-first data handling

The commitment the rest of the category will not make.

No recording at all: Superpowered states plainly that it does not record your meetings. Audio is transcribed live and deleted immediately, so there is no media file in existence to leak, subpoena, or misplace.
Seven-day transcript deletion: Transcripts are held for seven days solely so you can generate notes, then deleted. This is a default, not a configurable retention window, and it is the single most distinctive thing about the product.
Notes history by tier: Free keeps generated notes for one month; Basic and Pro keep them indefinitely. Downgrading therefore does truncate your history, and the transcripts behind those notes are already gone.
SOC 2 Type II: Independently audited SOC 2 Type II alongside stated GDPR compliance, which is a serious posture for a company this size.
Nothing to train on: Because audio is discarded on the spot and transcripts expire in a week, the corpus a vendor would need in order to train on customer conversations does not accumulate in the first place.

AI notes and templates

Output quality through enforced structure rather than a single generic summary.

AI Templates: Prebuilt formats for one-on-ones, sales calls, and interviews impose notetaking best practice so output is consistent across a team rather than varying by whoever generated it.
Custom templates: Bring your own template so a discovery call, a board update, and a candidate screen each produce their own shape.
AI note generation: 10 notes a month on free, unlimited on Basic and Pro. The meter is generations, not minutes or meetings, so a long workshop costs the same as a stand-up.
50-plus languages: A published list spanning Afrikaans through Welsh, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, and most European languages, with no per-language upcharge.
AI Chat (coming soon): A promised assistant that has effectively attended all your meetings. Still unreleased as of this review, and worth treating as a roadmap item rather than a reason to buy.

Distribution and integrations

Where the notes go once they exist, tiered fairly aggressively.

Slack: Included on every tier including free, which is unusually generous; most vendors gate all integrations behind payment.
Email delivery: Basic adds emailed notes so the recap reaches people who do not live in Slack.
Notion and Google Drive: Pro routes notes into documentation and file storage so the meeting record lands where the rest of the project lives.
Salesforce and HubSpot: Pro-tier CRM connectors attach meeting notes to records. This is note attachment rather than structured field updating, so treat it as context, not pipeline hygiene.
Zapier: Pro includes Zapier, which covers destinations outside the native connector list without waiting for a first-party build.
Calendar notifications: Pre-meeting notifications appear on every tier so you know capture is about to begin.

Use cases

4 documented

Executive coach or therapist-adjacent practitioner

Sessions are deeply confidential, a recording bot would end the relationship, and the practitioner is unwilling to have a permanent corpus of client conversations on a vendor's servers.

Superpowered captures with nothing in the room, produces structured session notes from a custom template, and deletes the transcript within a week so the only durable artefact is the practitioner's own record.

Corporate development or legal professional

Discussions touch material non-public information, and retention policy says the fewer copies that exist the better.

No audio is ever created, the transcript self-destructs in seven days, SOC 2 Type II satisfies the security review, and the notes that survive are the deliberately curated ones.

Consultant working across multiple client tenancies

Different clients use Zoom, Teams, and Webex, several are on native desktop clients, and some block external meeting bots outright at the admin level.

System audio capture is indifferent to platform and cannot be blocked by a host policy, unlimited calendar connections cover every client account, and no bot ever appears to embarrass the consultant.

Hiring manager running structured interviews

Interview notes vary wildly by interviewer, which makes debrief comparisons unfair and creates a documented inconsistency problem.

The interview template forces every interviewer to produce the same shape of output, notes route into Notion for the hiring loop, and no candidate has to be asked to consent to a recording that is never made.

Pricing

from $0 (Free), then $25 per month (Basic)

Freemium per-seat subscription metered by AI note generations, with unlimited generations from the first paid tier and a large annual discount.

Plan	Price	Includes
Free	$0 per month	10 AI notes per month 1 calendar connection 1 month of notes history Slack integration Auto-join meetings and AI templates A real product rather than a teaser, but one month of history plus seven-day transcript deletion means nothing accumulates.
Basic	$25 per month	Unlimited AI notes Unlimited calendar connections Unlimited notes history Email and Slack integrations All AI templates The tier most individuals need. Annual billing is advertised at savings of up to 54 percent.
Pro	$50 per month	Everything in Basic Notion and Google Drive Salesforce and HubSpot Zapier Unlimited notes history You are paying an extra $25 purely for the integration set; the capture and notes are identical to Basic.
Business	Custom quoted	Team plans quoted on request via team@superpowered.me Everything in Pro Team administration SOC 2 Type II documentation Volume pricing The only tier that breaks the self-serve path; individuals and small teams never need to talk to anyone.

Billing notes

Headline prices are monthly. The site advertises savings of up to 54 percent on annual billing, which would put Basic near $12 and Pro near $23 per month when paid up front, but the annual figures are not stated as fixed numbers on the pricing table.
The meter is AI note generations, not transcription minutes or meeting count, so meeting length is irrelevant to your bill.
The gap between Basic and Pro is purely integrations. If you do not need Notion, Drive, Salesforce, HubSpot, or Zapier, Pro is a pure $25 premium for nothing you will use.
Downgrading to free truncates notes history to one month, and because transcripts are already deleted after seven days there is no way to regenerate notes from an older meeting.
Team and business pricing is not published and requires an email, which is the one place Superpowered stops being fully self-serve.

Value assessment: Superpowered is the most expensive entry point in this batch and it is honest about why: you are buying a deletion policy, not a feature list. Model 20 meetings a week, roughly 80 a month. On Basic that is $25 a month flat with unlimited generations, about $300 a year, or nearer $150 if the advertised annual discount holds. Granola Business gives the same person unlimited notes plus permanent history, API, and MCP for $14 a seat. Tactiq Team gives unlimited AI for $16.67. On pure capability per dollar, Superpowered loses to both. It wins only if the seven-day transcript deletion and the no-recording guarantee are load-bearing requirements rather than nice-to-haves, in which case the alternatives are not really alternatives at all. Decide which of those two situations you are in before comparing prices, because the comparison is meaningless otherwise.

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

The only mainstream notetaker built around deleting your data rather than accumulating it: no audio ever, transcripts gone in seven days.
Native desktop capture on macOS and Windows works with native meeting clients that browser-extension competitors cannot reach, and cannot be blocked by a host's bot policy.
SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance on a product this small and this cheap to evaluate, which shortens the security conversation considerably.
More than 50 languages supported with no per-language pricing, and a published list rather than a vague claim.
Templates enforce consistent output across a team, which matters more for interview and one-on-one quality than raw summarization ability.
Slack integration and auto-join meetings are included on the free plan, so the free tier is genuinely testable in a real workflow.
Y Combinator backing and a claimed 15,000 companies including Adobe, ClickUp, and HelloFresh, which is more traction than the price and feature surface suggest.

Limitations

The seven-day transcript deletion is a hard architectural choice, not a setting; you cannot search back through what was said last quarter because it no longer exists.
AI Chat across your meetings is still marked coming soon, and the deletion policy makes a full cross-archive assistant structurally difficult to deliver.
Entry paid pricing at $25 a month is roughly triple the individual tiers of Granola, Tactiq, and Scribbl for a smaller feature surface.
The Basic to Pro jump doubles the price for integrations alone, with no improvement in capture, notes, or history.
macOS and Windows only: no mobile app, no Linux, and therefore no in-person meeting capture at all.
No speaker diarization is advertised, and system audio capture makes attributing lines in a conference-room setting genuinely hard.
No published data residency options and no self-serve team tier, so a European buyer or a growing team both hit a wall that requires an email.

Head-to-head comparisons

5 alternatives

Superpowered vs Tactiq

from $0 (Free), then $8 per user per month billed annually (Pro)

Tactiq is browser-only, costs $8 to $16.67, holds SOC 2 Type II plus ISO 27001, and keeps your transcripts permanently and searchably. Superpowered captures native desktop audio so it reaches meetings Tactiq cannot, and deletes transcripts after seven days on principle. If you want the archive, Tactiq wins on price and capability. If the archive is the thing you are trying to avoid creating, only Superpowered answers.

Full Superpowered vs Tactiq comparison

Superpowered vs Scribbl

from $0 (Lite), then $13 per user per month billed annually (Pro)

Scribbl is browser-only, keeps video for up to a year, and costs $13 a seat, but publishes no security certification at all. Superpowered costs $25, records nothing, deletes transcripts in a week, and carries SOC 2 Type II. These are opposite products wearing the same bot-free label: one builds a media archive, the other refuses to build any archive.

Full Superpowered vs Scribbl comparison

Superpowered vs jamie

from €0 (Free), then €21 per month billed annually (Plus)

Both are bot-free, both delete audio after transcription, and both take privacy seriously. Jamie hosts entirely in the EU, holds ISO 27001, supports 99-plus languages with speaker recognition and in-person capture, and starts at €21 a month. Superpowered is SOC 2 Type II, US-oriented, desktop-only, and deletes transcripts after seven days. Pick Jamie for EU residency, language breadth, and a retained archive; pick Superpowered if you want the transcripts gone.

Full Superpowered vs jamie comparison

Superpowered vs Granola

from $0 (Basic), then $14 per user per month (Business)

Granola merges your typed fragments with the transcript, runs on five platforms including mobile, keeps unlimited history, and ships API and MCP access for $14 a seat. Superpowered costs $25, does not keep the transcript, and has no cross-meeting chat yet. Granola is the better product for almost everyone; Superpowered is the right product only for the buyer whose actual requirement is that nothing persists.

Full Superpowered vs Granola comparison

Superpowered vs Circleback

from $20.83 per user per month (Individual, billed annually)

Circleback is also bot-optional and also focused on note quality, but it goes the opposite direction on depth: 100-plus languages, a very large automation layer with API, webhooks, and MCP, at roughly $21 to $25 a seat. Superpowered matches it on price and beats it on nothing except the deletion guarantee. If post-meeting automation is what you want, Circleback. If data minimisation is what you want, Superpowered.

Full Superpowered vs Circleback comparison

Implementation & onboarding

Setup time: About ten minutes. Install the macOS or Windows app, grant audio and screen recording permission at the operating system level, connect a calendar, and auto-join handles the rest. The permission grant is the only step that trips people up, particularly on managed Macs.
Learning curve: Low. The one investment worth making is template design, because Superpowered's output quality is driven far more by template structure than by prompt skill. Teams that skip templates get generic notes and conclude the product is ordinary.
Onboarding: Fully self-serve on Free, Basic, and Pro. Team and business plans require emailing the vendor, which is the only non-self-serve step in the product.
Migration notes: There is nothing to migrate in and, more importantly, very little to migrate out: audio never existed, transcripts older than a week are gone, and what you can export is the notes themselves. That cuts both ways. Switching away from Superpowered is trivially easy because there is no archive holding you hostage, and switching to it means accepting that your historical record starts today.

Platform, API & security

Platforms: macOS desktop appWindows desktop appZoomGoogle MeetMicrosoft TeamsWebexAround
API: No public API is documented. Programmatic reach is via Zapier on the Pro tier, which covers most workflow automation needs without a first-party API.
Compliance: SOC 2 Type IIGDPR compliance stated
Data residency: No regional hosting options are published. Superpowered is a US company backed by Y Combinator.
SSO: Not advertised on the published self-serve tiers; enquire through the business plan route.
Security notes: Audio is transcribed live and deleted immediately with no recording created. Transcripts are retained for seven days and then deleted automatically. Generated notes are kept for one month on the free plan and indefinitely on paid plans. SOC 2 Type II is independently audited and GDPR compliance is stated. Because no durable corpus of conversation data exists, questions about model training on customer data are largely moot.

Support & resources

Channels: Email support at team@superpowered.meIn-app support
Documentation: FAQ and help content on superpowered.me covering capture, supported languages, calendar setup, and the retention policy.
Community: Product Hunt presence (ranked fifth Product of the Day) and Y Combinator network visibility; no formal user community.

Company

Founded: 2023
Headquarters: United States
Ownership: Venture-backed
Employees: Not disclosed; small team
Funding: Backed by Y Combinator; specific round sizes are not publicly disclosed.

Funding history

Round	Amount	Year	Notes
Y Combinator	Not disclosed	2023	Accepted into Y Combinator; the company markets itself as YC-backed but does not publish round detail.

Timeline

2023Superpowered launches as a bot-free AI notetaker for macOS with Y Combinator backing, built around live transcription of device audio.
2024Ships the Windows desktop app and expands platform coverage to Zoom, Teams, Webex, and Around through system audio capture.
2024Ranked fifth Product of the Day on Product Hunt and passes a claimed 15,000 companies, including Adobe, ClickUp, and HelloFresh.
2025Completes SOC 2 Type II and formalises the seven-day transcript deletion policy as a marketed differentiator rather than an implementation detail.
2025Adds AI Templates for one-on-ones, sales calls, and interviews, plus Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Google Drive, and Zapier on the Pro tier.
2026AI Chat over past meetings is announced as coming soon; language coverage passes 50 and a business tier is offered by request.

Integrations

Slack (all tiers)
Email delivery (Basic and above)
Notion (Pro)
Google Drive (Pro)
Salesforce (Pro)
HubSpot (Pro)
Zapier (Pro)
Google Calendar and Outlook calendar
Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Around via system audio

Frequently asked questions

11 questions

What is Superpowered?

Superpowered is an AI notetaker for macOS and Windows that transcribes your device's audio during a meeting without a bot joining the call, then generates structured notes from a template. It records nothing, deletes transcripts after seven days, holds SOC 2 Type II, and supports more than 50 languages.

How much does Superpowered cost?

Free covers 10 AI notes a month with one calendar connection, one month of notes history, and Slack. Basic is $25 a month with unlimited notes, unlimited calendar connections, unlimited notes history, and email plus Slack. Pro is $50 a month and adds Notion, Google Drive, Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zapier. Annual billing is advertised at savings of up to 54 percent, and team pricing requires an email.

Does Superpowered record my meetings?

No. This is the central claim of the product. Audio is transcribed live and deleted immediately, so no recording file is ever created. There is no video, no audio playback, and nothing to review afterwards other than the notes you generated. If you need to rewatch a demo or check someone's tone, Superpowered structurally cannot help you.

What happens to my transcripts after seven days?

They are deleted. The seven-day window exists purely so you have time to generate notes before the source disappears. This is not a configurable retention setting, it is the design. The practical consequence is that you cannot search back through what was actually said in a meeting from last month, only what your notes captured at the time.

What does it cost for someone in 20 meetings a week?

About 80 meetings a month, which is far beyond the free plan's 10 AI notes and comfortably inside Basic's unlimited allowance. That person pays $25 a month, roughly $300 a year, or nearer half that if the advertised annual discount applies. There is no minute meter and no per-meeting charge, so long workshops cost nothing extra.

Does a bot join my call?

No. Superpowered captures the audio your computer is playing, so no participant appears in the roster, nothing announces itself to your client, and a host who blocks external meeting bots cannot block it. Because it is a desktop application rather than a browser extension, it also works with native Zoom and Teams clients, which browser-based rivals do not reach.

How does Superpowered handle recording consent?

It does not manage consent for you, and the silence cuts both ways. In two-party consent jurisdictions such as California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and most of the EU, the other participants have a right to know a transcript is being made, and nothing in Superpowered tells them. The mitigating factor is real, though: no recording exists and the transcript self-destructs within a week, so the durable exposure is far smaller than with a tool that keeps video for a year. Announce it at the top of the call anyway.

Can I chat with my past meetings?

Not yet. AI Chat is marked coming soon on Superpowered's own site as of this review. It is also structurally awkward for this product, since a cross-archive assistant needs an archive and Superpowered deliberately deletes transcripts after seven days. If querying meeting history is a requirement, Granola, Circleback, or Jamie will serve you better today.

Is Superpowered secure and does it train on my data?

It holds independently audited SOC 2 Type II and states GDPR compliance. The training question is largely answered by the architecture: audio is discarded on the spot and transcripts expire in seven days, so the corpus a vendor would need to train on never accumulates. No regional data residency options are published, which is the main gap for EU buyers with strict hosting requirements.

Does it handle speaker identification and non-English meetings?

More than 50 languages are supported and published by name, spanning most of Europe plus Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic, Thai, and others. Superpowered does not advertise voice-based speaker diarization, and system audio capture makes attribution in a shared conference room genuinely hard, so a room full of people on one microphone is the weakest scenario for this product.

Who is behind Superpowered?

It is a small Y Combinator-backed US company that launched in 2023. It claims more than 15,000 companies as users, including Adobe, ClickUp, and HelloFresh, and was ranked fifth Product of the Day on Product Hunt. Specific funding amounts are not publicly disclosed.

Editorial verdict

Superpowered is the answer to a question most buyers do not have, and the only good answer for the ones who do. If your real objection to meeting AI is not the bot in the room but the permanent transcript archive accumulating on someone else's servers, this is the only credible product built around deleting instead of hoarding, and the SOC 2 Type II plus native desktop capture make it defensible in a security review. For everyone else the arithmetic is unkind: $25 a month buys less than Granola's $14 or Tactiq's $16.67, cross-meeting chat is still unbuilt, there is no mobile app, and the seven-day deletion you are paying for is the same thing that stops you searching your own history. Buy it deliberately, for the policy. Buy anything else if you want the archive.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.