Genio: Assistive note-taking tool (formerly Glean) that records and transcribes lectures and classes for students. Smart Noter: AI note-taker app that records, transcribes with speaker labels, and summarizes meetings, lectures, and voice recordings. Here's where each one pulls ahead on pricing, features, and the meetings it suits best.
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Shortlist Genio when university students recording and reviewing lectures matters most, and Smart Noter when capturing lectures and interviews into searchable notes matters most. Run both through a week of actual calls to see which suits your workflow.
Assistive note-taking tool (formerly Glean) that records and transcribes lectures and classes for students.
AI note-taker app that records, transcribes with speaker labels, and summarizes meetings, lectures, and voice recordings.
Genio, formerly known as Glean, is an assistive note-taking platform that helps students capture and learn from lectures and classes. It records class audio and provides live captions during the session, then generates a full transcript afterward, letting students focus on understanding rather than frantically writing notes. Genio lets learners add their own notes, organize material with AI-generated outlines, import slides and reading material, and review with study features such as quizzing, tying recorded audio together with class content. The platform is widely used by students, including learners with specific learning difficulties, and is adopted by educational institutions that provide it as a study and accessibility support tool. It works online or offline across devices, which suits classroom and lecture-hall environments. Genio is positioned as a mainstream learning tool that also supports accessibility needs. It is actively operating in 2025 and 2026, reporting use by well over a hundred thousand students and more than a thousand institutions, with active sign-in, pricing, and ongoing product development. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.
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Smart Noter is an AI-powered note-taking app, published under Deep Flow Software Services / Codespace Apps, that records audio and turns meetings, lectures, interviews, and voice memos into transcripts, summaries, and to-do lists. The app performs real-time speech-to-text transcription with speaker identification, then uses an AI summary engine to generate concise summaries and automatically extract action points and to-do lists from a recording. Beyond live recording, it can summarize uploaded audio, video, and PDF files, and an interactive chat lets you ask questions about a conversation, such as who was assigned a particular task. Notes can be exported and shared to destinations like Slack, Notion, Google Docs, and Google Drive, and the app connects with calendar tools such as Outlook, Google Calendar, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. Notes sync across devices for access anywhere. Smart Noter is available on iOS and Android, with the official website describing it as speech-to-text and AI transcription for meetings. The privacy and terms pages are hosted on the smartnoter.ai domain, and the iOS listing shows recent version updates, indicating an actively maintained product. Pricing varies by plan. Check the official website for current pricing.
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Genio is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium); Smart Noter is a free tier with paid upgrades (freemium). Always confirm current pricing on each vendor's site before buying.
| Feature | Genio | Smart Noter |
|---|---|---|
| Core capability | Class and lecture audio recording with live captions | Real-time transcription with speaker identification |
| Standout feature | Full transcript generation after the session | AI summaries with automatically extracted action points and to-do lists |
| Team usage | AI outlines and student-added notes tied to the recording | Summarizes uploaded audio, video, and PDF files |
| Integrations | Import of slides and reading materials into notes | Interactive chat to query a conversation |
| Languages & capture | Offline and cross-device capture for classrooms | Export and share to Slack, Notion, Google Docs, and Google Drive |
| Best-fit workflow | Class and lecture audio recording with live captions | Calendar and conferencing connections (Outlook, Google Calendar, Teams, Zoom) |
Genio
Choose Genio if you need university students recording and reviewing lectures — strengths include purpose-built for education and lecture capture.
Smart Noter
Choose Smart Noter if you need recording and summarizing business meetings with assigned action items — strengths include speaker labels make multi-person meeting transcripts easier to follow.
Genio
Smart Noter
It depends on your workflow. Genio is strong for university students recording and reviewing lectures, while Smart Noter is strong for recording and summarizing business meetings with assigned action items. Both transcribe and summarize meetings.
Genio is a free tier with paid upgrades and Smart Noter is a free tier with paid upgrades. Check each vendor's pricing page for the latest plans and free-tier limits.
Yes. Many teams run more than one meeting assistant when the workflows are complementary.
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