The Meeting Transcript Tool Built for People Who Live in Calls

Mobile first, not mobile second

Most note-taking tools start as desktop products, then bolt on a phone app. That's how Descript works. You record on your phone, but the real work happens on a laptop later. We built Scribr the opposite way.

The Quick Record widget lives on your lock screen. You start recording from Apple Watch or Siri without unlocking your phone. Your transcription happens instantly, on the device itself, using Whisper. No upload. No waiting. No internet required.

A consultancy manager we work with told us: 'I was losing notes in email forwarding loops. With Scribr, I capture the insight the moment the call ends, right there in my pocket.' That's the difference between a tool you carry and a tool you remember to use later.

For people whose job is the meeting itself - therapists, recruiters, sales teams, researchers - that millisecond of friction matters. Descript optimises for editing desktop video. Scribr optimises for the human being on the call.

Privacy isn't a checkbox, it's the default

Here's what happens when you record on Descript: audio travels to their servers. They transcribe it there. Then you decide what to do with it. You have to trust them with that raw audio file.

Scribr's free tier works entirely on your device. Whisper transcribes locally. Your audio never leaves your phone. Your notes live in a biometrically locked app.

We made this choice because knowledge workers deal with sensitive material. A therapist can't send session audio to the cloud without explicit consent and proper encryption. A lawyer interviewing a witness has duty of care. A researcher recording participant interviews needs GDPR clarity from day one.

If you want cloud transcription for longer files, that's available in Pro and Team tiers through Deepgram. But you opt in. You see exactly what you're consenting to. And if you choose Team tier, we offer GDPR Compliance Modes with audit logs, so you know who accessed what, when.

Descript doesn't really offer that transparency. Their model assumes you're happy trading convenience for data handling you don't fully control.

Action items, not just notes

Transcription is only half the problem. The other half is remembering what you're supposed to do about it.

Last spring, we watched a product manager use Descript to transcribe a sprint planning meeting. She read through thirty minutes of transcript, highlighted three follow-ups, then forgot one of them. The transcript was good. The system didn't help her actually stay on top of commitments.

Scribr extracts action items automatically. If you say 'I'll send the contract by Friday' or 'We need to book a follow-up in two weeks', the app pulls that out and offers it as a structured task. Pro and Team tiers get an Action Items widget on the home screen and push notifications when deadlines approach. You're not reading transcripts hoping you don't miss something. The system is watching for you.

That sounds simple. It's surprisingly powerful for people managing ten calls a day across different projects. A freelance consultant told us: 'I stopped losing client deliverables.' Not because the transcription was perfect. Because the app didn't let her forget.

Capture from anywhere, not just calendar

Descript syncs with your calendar. It assumes you're in Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet. But knowledge workers don't always live in scheduled calls.

Researchers conduct phone interviews. Sales teams take cold calls. Therapists work within scheduled sessions. Lawyers have informal client check-ins. A consultant might record a voice memo while walking between meetings.

Scribr captures meetings, phone calls, voice notes, and audio files. You record from the lock screen. You upload audio from your files. You transcribe a voice memo you made three days ago. The app doesn't care whether it was scheduled or spontaneous, video or voice only, five minutes or five hours.

That flexibility means Scribr fits your actual workflow, not the other way around. You're not trying to force every conversation into a calendar tool's model.

Built for teams that need guardrails

Freelancers and solo practitioners are our core users. But we've learned that team tiers need something different. Not just more transcription quota. Actually different features.

Contact Intelligence ties transcriptions to the people in them. So when you search 'What did Sarah say about the Q4 roadmap?', the app finds every note mentioning Sarah across every call, in context. Note Sharing lets team members see redacted or full transcripts without needing admin access or reading everything. GDPR Compliance Modes give legal and healthcare teams the audit trail they need for regulatory review.

We built these because enterprise customers kept asking: 'How do we share insights without accidentally exposing sensitive information?' Descript doesn't really solve that. It treats every user as an individual working in isolation. Teams need something more intentional.

The honest limitation

Descript works beautifully if you're editing video and need to trim based on transcript. That's genuinely a strong use case. Scribr doesn't do that.

We're also iOS first right now. Android support is coming, but if you're a heavy Android user, Descript is the more finished product today.

What we do instead is this: we capture what you actually say, make it searchable, extract what matters, keep it private by default, and alert you when you need to act. We meet you on the device you're already holding. We don't ask you to remember to go back to a laptop later.

That's not better for everyone. It's better for people whose job is the conversation itself, not the editing suite afterwards.