Notta's desktop recorder gets the botless part right, which is more than most. What it does not do is keep any picture of what happened.
Short answer: Notta's desktop mode is botless, which is the right idea, but it captures audio and produces a transcript. There is no video. If your calls involve anything on screen, you will end up running a screen recorder alongside it.
Jotted is the single tool: botless capture of the screen, your microphone and the system audio, transcribed on your own machine, with the notes written afterwards.
Most client calls are half visual. Audio alone turns a product demo into a description of a product demo.
Without the recording, you have a claim about a meeting rather than the meeting.
So you run two tools, remember to start both, and end up with the audio in one place and the video in another.
| Jotted | Notta | |
|---|---|---|
| Bot joins the call | Never | Never, in desktop mode |
| Keeps the full video | Yes, on every plan | No, audio and transcript |
| Screen recording included | Yes | No |
| Need a second tool for the video | No | Usually yes |
| Free plan | Unlimited recordings, unlimited length, full local transcript | Limited minutes |
| Transcription runs on your machine | Yes | Cloud based |
| Recording length limit | None on any plan | Varies by plan |
| Price, billed monthly | Free, or $14 | Priced by region, check their page |
| Monthly cap on AI summaries | None | Around 100 a month on the entry paid plan |
| Video capture | Included on every plan | Their higher business plan |
Prices checked July 2026 and quoted on monthly billing, not the cheaper annual rate. Tools change their plans often, so check Notta's own pricing page before you decide.
If you genuinely only need audio, Notta is lighter and the files are far smaller. Video takes real disk space, and a botless audio recorder avoids that entirely.
Notta also supports a wide range of languages and does things Jotted does not, like transcribing uploaded audio files and in-person recordings.
Worth checking their pricing page for your own currency, since Notta prices by region. The two things to look at are the cap on AI summaries, which is around 100 a month on the entry paid plan, and where video capture sits, which is a much more expensive business plan.
This is the exact problem Jotted was built to fix, because the founder was living it. Transcripts in one tool, screen recordings in another, and the job of remembering to start both before every call.
Notta does the botless part well and its transcription is solid. But audio-only means every screen share, demo, design review and spreadsheet walkthrough becomes a description rather than a record. When a client asks what number you showed them, a transcript of you saying it depends is not much help.
Jotted records the display you pick, capped at 1080p so text on screen stays readable, along with two separate audio tracks: your microphone and everything coming out of the speakers. That separation is what makes the action items know which commitments were yours rather than guessing.
Everything is transcribed locally on your own computer, so the transcript is free on every plan and, on the free plan, nothing you record ever leaves your machine.
Its desktop recorder captures audio and produces a transcript. For the screen, most people run a separate screen recorder, which is the two-tool problem Jotted was built to replace.
Its desktop mode is, yes. That is the part it gets right, and it is why people comparing the two are usually asking about the video rather than the bot.
Your microphone is you and the system audio is everyone else. Keeping them separate gives perfect separation between you and the other participants before any AI is involved, which is how the action items know which commitments were yours.
The recording you keep runs roughly 180 MB an hour. There is no cap on length on any plan, and on Pro the recording is also backed up to the cloud after the call.
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