TL;DR / Key Takeaways
- Full 10-minute transcript on the free plan in about a minute.
- 21.1% WER, about two points behind the best.
- No speaker labels on the free plan.
- Paid plans from $79.99 a year.
Verdict: HyNote transcribed our whole 10-minute meeting on its free plan in about a minute and titled it sensibly, with a 21.1% word error rate in our four-tool accuracy test, about two points behind the best. It did not separate speakers. Tested October 31, 2026.
How we tested: on October 31, 2026 we took the first 10 minutes of a real recorded meeting from the AMI Meeting Corpus (meeting ES2004a, University of Edinburgh, licensed CC BY 4.0): four people with British and European accents, often talking over each other. We uploaded the same MP3 to each tool on a new free account with default settings and English selected. We then scored each transcript against the corpus's human transcript using word error rate (WER): the share of words a tool got wrong, dropped or added. Before scoring we lowercased both sides, removed punctuation and filler words such as "um", and spelled out numbers, so "25" and "twenty five" count as the same. Lower is better. This is one recording, so treat differences of a point or two as a tie.
HyNote at a glance
| What we checked | Result |
|---|---|
| WER, first 5.5 minutes | 13.4% |
| WER, full 10 minutes | 21.1% |
| Speakers | Not labelled |
| Time to transcript | About 1 minute |
| Extras | Auto title, summary templates, suggested questions |
| Paid plans (yearly) | Pro $79.99, Plus $129.99, Unlimited $189.99 |
Accuracy
HyNote was level with the others over the first 5.5 minutes (13.4%) and fell slightly behind in the crosstalk-heavy second half. Its early text matched Transkriptor's almost word for word, including shared mistakes such as "do two training", so the two may share a speech engine.
Pricing
HyNote's plan page offers Pro at $79.99 a year ($6.66 a month) with 1,200 transcription minutes a month, Plus at $129.99 a year adding real-time transcription and better speaker identification, and Unlimited at $189.99 a year. Each starts with a 7-day free trial; "Continue for free" skips them.
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Who HyNote is for
- Good fit: quick, free transcripts of recordings, with summary templates on top.
- Less good: meetings where you need to know who said what; Otter and HappyScribe label speakers.
Related reading
- Otter review
- Transkriptor review
- HappyScribe review
- We tested 4 AI transcription tools on the same meeting
Frequently asked questions
Is HyNote free?
Yes. On October 31, 2026 HyNote's free plan transcribed our full 10-minute recording. Paid plans start at $79.99 a year.
How accurate is HyNote?
21.1% word error rate over a real 10-minute, four-person meeting, about two points behind the best of four tools, and 13.4% over the first 5.5 minutes.