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Recordist and Supernormal
Supernormal: AI agent for agencies with a bot-free Mac notetaker, priced in credits.
What we admire. Supernormal makes good notes quick to start with, with templates and integrations that fit how teams already work.
Supernormal describes itself as an AI agent for agencies that turns meetings into client work. Its notetaker is a Mac app for Apple silicon that takes meeting notes with no bot on the call, and Supernormal can then generate presentations, images, spreadsheets and more.
Recordist also takes notes without a bot, in the app itself, with templates of its own. It transcribes and writes the notes right there, shows a Prep Brief before calendar meetings with people you have recorded a call with, and gives your agents local access over MCP and A2A.
| Feature | Supernormal | Recordist |
|---|---|---|
| Joins the call as a bot | No | Never |
| Where audio is transcribed | Supernormal's SOC 2 infrastructure | On-device (Whisper) |
| Free plan | 5 credits a day, 15 a month | Unlimited recording and transcription; 7-day Pro trial, then 3 AI notes a month |
| Price | Team $20/mo and Business $40/mo (marked Annual), 50 credits a month each, shared across seats | Free with no time limit; Pro $9/mo or $90/yr for anyone who subscribes by 8 Jan 2027, kept while subscribed; $15/mo or $144/yr after |
| Agent access | MCP | Local MCP server and A2A agent |
| Platforms | Mac notetaker for Apple silicon, macOS 14.4.1 or later | macOS 14.6 or later on Apple silicon; 64-bit Windows 10 or 11; x86_64 Linux |
What this page says about Supernormal comes from these pages, read on the date shown. Prices and plans change, so check Supernormal's site before you decide.
- supernormal.com: an AI agent for agencies, and the Mac notetaker download (read 7 October 2026)
- supernormal.com/pricing: no bots, credits, plans, prices and MCP (read 14 October 2026)
- supernormal.com/security: transcription, summaries and storage (read 7 October 2026)
The bot
Supernormal's pricing page lists its meeting notetaker as having no bots, on every plan.
Recordist never joins a call. It records your microphone and the call's audio as it reaches you, so it does not appear in the participant list. It copies a short notice for you to read out or paste into the chat and keeps a mark of when you said you gave it, but telling people stays your job. A card asks before each recording, and nothing is captured until you click Record, unless you add that app to the automatic-recording list in Settings, which is empty until you do. The recording-law guide explains where consent is required.
Where the audio goes
Supernormal's security page says meetings are transcribed and summarised inside its SOC 2 infrastructure and stored with AES-256 encryption, private to your account.
Recordist writes audio to your machine, transcribes it there with Whisper, and writes notes there by default. There is no workspace and no server. The Privacy Ledger shows the app's outbound requests (a few kinds are not recorded yet; the help article lists them), and on the default setup none of them carries your meetings. Getting notes into another system is an export you set up yourself.
Price and limits
Supernormal prices in credits. Its free plan has 5 credits a day and 15 a month. The Team plan removes the daily credit limit and lets unlimited seats share 50 credits a month; it is listed at $20 a month and marked Annual. Business, listed at $40 a month and marked Annual, adds SSO, audit logs and data retention controls.
Recordist Free is unlimited recording, transcription, search and export with 7 days of Pro, then 3 AI notes a month. Pro is $9 a month or $90 a year for anyone who subscribes by 8 January 2027, and that price stays for as long as the subscription stays active; from 9 January 2027 new subscribers pay $15 a month or $144 a year. Pro has unlimited notes, Prep Briefs, Ask and follow-up emails; templates, export as Markdown, plain text and JSON, and agent access are on every plan, and Pro adds PDF, Word and subtitle files. Each key is personal. A team of 3 to 49 people buys Pro in one checkout, with a personal key for each person; larger organisations write to hello@recordist.app.
Agent access and offline use
Supernormal lists MCP on its free plan, to connect Supernormal to other tools.
Recordist's MCP server and A2A agent run on-device and read your local database, with no API key and no hosted service in the middle. Recording, transcription, search and local notes all work with no network connection once the models are downloaded.
When Supernormal is the better choice
If your agency wants meetings turned into presentations, documents and spreadsheets in one place the whole team shares, Supernormal is built for that and Recordist is not. Recordist stops at the transcript, the notes, the action items and the export.
When Recordist may suit you better
If you want the notes without a cloud copy, and your own agents reading your meetings where you keep them, Recordist is designed around exactly that.
Try Recordist free, with no bot in the call.
The Free plan gives you unlimited recording, transcription, search and export, with no account. On the default setup, nothing in the Privacy Ledger carries your meetings.
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