This AI-powered transcription app turns any audio—whether it’s a voice note, live lecture, or business meeting—into searchable text in real time.

What we love: Otter’s AI can summarize conversations it transcribed to help you unearth insights. Use the Otter Chat feature to ask what next steps were agreed on, or draft a follow-up email with details from your discussion.

Quick tip: Tap the highlighter icon as you’re recording to quickly find a key moment later; all highlighted lines will be on the Takeaways tab of your note.

Meet the creator: Sam Liang and Yun Fu felt the meetings they attended were often hard to follow, with most insights forgotten forever. They launched Otter.ai, an automated note-taking tool, in 2016.