Alternatives to Trace
Trace: A Mac menu bar app that records calls, transcribes them locally and gives you markdown notes and a summary. Here are 6 other products that do a similar job. Of these, 5 have a free plan.
- Prismical
Records meeting audio and voice memos without a bot joining, then turns them into transcripts, summaries and action items.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Jørnal
A private journal that gives you one blank page per visit and locks each entry once you finish writing.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Theorem
An open source reader for EPUB, PDF, comics and RSS that saves your highlights to an Obsidian or Logseq vault as Markdown.
Free · Notes and knowledge · Individuals and families
- Meetily
Records, transcribes and summarises your meetings on your own computer, so audio and notes never go to the cloud.
Free plan · Notes and knowledge
- Parrot
Mac app that records your calls without a bot, transcribes them on your machine and suggests answers from your files.
Since 2026
Free · Notes and knowledge
- Perfect Wiki
A wiki for SOPs, manuals and FAQs that sits in Microsoft Teams and answers staff questions from your own pages.
Since 2020
Subscription · Notes and knowledge