AudioPen
Verified Oct 23, 2026 ActiveTurns rambling voice notes into clean written text in a style you choose
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $33 once
- Billing
- One-time purchase
No monthly subscription. Prime is sold as fixed-length passes: 3 months for $33, 1 year for $99, 2 years for $159, each covering one account on every platform. Free allows 3-minute recordings with all styles including custom ones; Prime lifts recordings to 15 minutes, adds unlimited notes and rewrites, audio uploads (100 files per four weeks, 100MB each), note merging and a read-only MCP connector.
Use tool ↗About AudioPen
AudioPen records or ingests audio and returns two artefacts: the raw transcript and a rewritten version in a style you select, with a control for how far the rewrite may stray from your words. Presets cover formats such as emails, summaries or blog posts, custom styles can be defined, and several notes can be merged into one longer piece. It fits people who think faster out loud than they type, from founders drafting on a walk to writers clearing a backlog of ideas. Access is sold as fixed-length passes rather than a rolling monthly plan, and one account covers web, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows and a Chrome extension.
- Platforms
- Web · macOS · Windows · iOS · Android · Chrome extension
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 23, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page lists Prime passes at $33 for 3 months, $99 for 1 year and $159 for 2 years, a free tier with 3-minute recordings and custom styles, Prime limits of 15-minute recordings and 100 audio uploads per four weeks, and apps for web, Chrome, Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android and Apple Watch (15 October 2026)audiopen.ai ↗
- Footer names Nicheless Inc. as the operator; integrations listed are Zapier and webhooks plus an AudioPen MCP, with no public REST API (15 October 2026)audiopen.ai ↗
Is AudioPen legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Mar 25, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 18, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 15, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 23, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 23, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Nicheless Inc.Our research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of AudioPen
The narrow focus is the point: AudioPen does one job, turning messy speech into text someone else can read, and does it across every device on a single account. The catch is the pass-based pricing, which asks for a year up front instead of letting you try a month.
Pros
- Rewrite intensity is adjustable rather than take-it-or-leave-it
- Custom writing styles and multi-note merging on paid passes
- One licence spans web, mobile, Mac, Windows and Chrome
- Zapier and webhook hooks for pushing notes into other tools
Cons
- No monthly plan; the entry commitment is a multi-month pass
- No documented public API, only Zapier and webhooks
- Run by a very small operation, with little published about the company
Best for
- People who draft by talking and want usable prose, not a transcript
- Writers and founders capturing ideas away from a keyboard
- Anyone switching constantly between phone, laptop and browser
Not for
- Teams needing shared workspaces or collaborative editing
- Developers who want to call the rewriting engine from their own code
Watch out: Passes expire at the end of their term rather than auto-renewing into a cheaper rate, so the effective monthly cost depends on how long a term you can commit to.
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