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Memo.ac
✓ verifiedFreemium
Cross-platform desktop app that transcribes and translates audio/video into text, subtitles and notes, running locally on GPU.
2.3K saves
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Transcriptly
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free-to-start converter for turning uploaded files or YouTube videos into transcripts with AI summaries in 98+ languages.
74K visits/mo
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Audiotype
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI transcription and subtitle tool converting audio/video to text in 30+ languages, no account needed, with a free first minute.
10K visits/mo
Pricing
Memo Basic: Free
Memo Pro: $25.99/year
Memo Believer: $49.99/lifetime
Free: $0/month (10 credits/month)
Hobby: $6/month billed as $72/year
No public pricing
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Audio/video to text transcription
- ✦Translation across 90+ languages
- ✦Speaker diarization
- ✦Local, offline GPU-accelerated processing
- ✦Subtitle, Markdown and Notion export
- ✦AI summaries (bring your own key)
- ✦Audio/video/YouTube transcription
- ✦AI-generated summaries and highlights
- ✦Support for 98+ languages and formats
- ✦Credit-based free tier
- ✦API access
- ✦45-day media file retention
- ✦Automatic AI transcription
- ✦No account required
- ✦30+ language support
- ✦SRT/VTT subtitle generation
- ✦Speaker detection and smart punctuation
- ✦Export to TXT, DOCX, PDF
Use cases
- →Transcribing meetings and interviews
- →Subtitling and translating videos
- →Turning podcasts into text notes
- →Private, on-device transcription
- →Students and researchers converting lecture recordings to text
- →Creators repurposing YouTube video content into text form
- →Professionals needing quick AI summaries of long recordings
- →Transcribing interviews and meetings
- →Generating video subtitles
- →Podcast and lecture transcripts
- →Journalism and research
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