NoteGPT
NoteGPT is an all-in-one AI learning assistant that summarizes YouTube videos, PDFs, slides and audio, transcribes recordings, then generates notes, voices, images, videos and decks. A permanent free tier covers 15 monthly credits.
What is NoteGPT?
NoteGPT is an all-in-one AI learning assistant published by NoteGPT Inc. It began as a YouTube and PDF summarizer that saved key takeaways into a personal note library, and that thread still runs through the product: anything the tool condenses can be kept as a note.
The catalogue has since grown past forty tools, each on its own page. Summarizers cover YouTube, PDF, PowerPoint, Word, articles, books, images, audio and video. Transcription turns videos, recordings and speech into text. An audio branch offers text to speech, voice cloning and design, PDF to audio, podcasts and music. An image branch generates and edits pictures, produces headshots, removes backgrounds and objects, enhances and extends. Add video generation, slide generation, essay writing and grading, flashcards, quizzes, a math solver, a homework helper, a layout-preserving PDF translator, an AI detector and an AI humanizer.
A chat module opens several third-party model families from one interface, among them GPT-5.6, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, DeepSeek V4 and GLM-5.2.
Access runs through the web app, plus Chrome and Edge extensions that summarize a YouTube page without leaving it, and a dedicated extension for Udemy courses. The terms of use also mention mobile and desktop applications, but no store link is published anywhere on the site. There is no public API and no developer documentation.
Consumption runs on two counters: Basic Quotas for summaries, standard transcription, chat with basic models, mind maps, translation and writing, and Premium Credits for voices, podcasts, images, videos, Agent Slides and advanced models. A permanent free plan grants 15 quotas a month and activates at login, with no card required. Paid plans include commercial use of outputs.
The homepage claims more than 80 million users and 12,000 schools and teams, and names five audiences: students, educators, professionals, researchers and creators. The interface ships in eleven languages. The terms name NoteGPT Inc. as publisher, while the privacy policy names ZINGDECK INTL PTE.LTD. No postal address appears on any page.
What it does
- Summarize YouTube videos, whole channels, PDFs, PowerPoint decks, Word files, articles, books, images and audio
- Transcribe local audio and video files, YouTube content and live speech into text
- Save every summary, transcript and mind map into a personal note library
- Generate slide decks, flashcards and quizzes from source material
- Turn text into speech, clone or design a voice, and produce podcasts or music
- Generate and edit images, headshots and videos, and remove backgrounds or objects
- Translate PDFs while keeping their layout, detect AI-written text and rewrite it
When to use NoteGPT / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if NoteGPT is the right fit.
When to use NoteGPT
- Students who record lectures and need transcripts, condensed summaries, flashcards and quizzes from the same material
- Teachers and lecturers turning course material into summaries, slide decks, translated handouts and audio lessons
- Researchers processing long PDFs, conference talks and papers, including layout-preserving translation
- Content creators converting videos into scripts, voice-overs, podcasts and visuals from a single subscription
- Knowledge workers who consume long documents, recordings and reports and need them condensed quickly
When not to use NoteGPT
- Teams wanting shared, collaborative notes: the FAQ states collaboration is not supported and only planned for later
- Anyone needing live note-taking during video calls, which the FAQ also lists as a future feature
- Developers looking for an API: no public endpoint and no developer documentation exist on the site
- Organisations with procurement requirements: no DPA, no subprocessor list, no retention policy and no postal address are published
- Buyers who want a refund window: refunds only cover the first 24 hours of a first purchase and exclude every discounted order
How to use NoteGPT
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open notegpt.io and create an account: signing in activates the free plan, with no card required
- Pick the tool that matches the job, since each one has its own page rather than a single dashboard
- Paste a YouTube URL into the video summarizer to get a summary, a transcript and a mind map
- Or upload a PDF, PowerPoint, Word file, image, audio or video into the matching summarizer
- Install the Chrome or Edge extension to summarize straight from a YouTube page
- Save the results into the My Notes library so they stay searchable later
- Send the material on to another tool: slides, flashcards, quiz, voice-over, podcast or translation
- Watch the two counters, since each action draws on Basic Quotas or Premium Credits depending on the feature
- Upgrade from the pricing page when the free quota runs out, paying by Stripe or PayPal
- Manage or cancel the subscription under Profile, then My Subscriptions
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Unusual functional breadth for the price: summarizing, transcription, voice, image, video, slides and multi-model chat in one subscription
- Permanent free plan of 15 monthly quotas, activated at login without a payment card
- Low paid entry point at USD 9.00 per month on annual billing, USD 9.99 monthly
- Public, itemised pricing with per-plan quotas and processing limits spelled out
- Commercial use of outputs allowed from the entry plan, with ownership left to the user
- Chrome and Edge extensions let users summarize from a YouTube page without switching context
- Interface available in eleven languages, with group buying down to USD 4.66 per person per month
Cons
- Privacy policy visibly built from a third-party template: it describes an analytics business serving Clients and routes opt-out through the Ghostery panel
- The rights section points to contact details in a section 11 that does not exist, so no recourse channel is given
- Section 3 of the terms, titled Security and Data Privacy, carries a heading and no text
- ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are announced on the homepage with no trust page, certificate number or named auditor
- No retention policy, no DPA, no subprocessor list, no DPO and no Article 27 EU representative
- No postal address anywhere, and two different legal entities depending on the page
- Refunds limited to 24 hours after a first purchase and excluded on any discounted order, while the site advertises discounts permanently
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available, activated at login without a payment card and limited to 15 quotas per month. The cheapest paid plan is Pro at USD 9.00 per month on annual billing, or USD 9.99 per month on monthly billing.
- 15 quotas per month
- activated at login
- no payment card required
- USD 9.00 per month billed annually (USD 108 per year) or USD 9.99 monthly
- 1
- 000 Basic Quotas and 100 Premium Credits per month
- 5 YouTube videos processed at once
- 1 GB files
- 2 saved voices
- USD 19.92 per month billed annually (USD 239 per year) or USD 29 monthly
- unlimited Basic Quotas and 2
- 800 Premium Credits
- 10 YouTube videos at once
- 5 GB files
- 5 saved voices
- USD 69 per month billed annually (USD 829 per year) or USD 99 monthly
- unlimited Basic Quotas and 10
- 000 Premium Credits
- 20 YouTube videos at once
- 5 GB files
- 8 saved voices
- Annual Pro USD 4.66
- Annual Unlimited USD 13.50 and Annual Max USD 46.20 per person per month
- with separate quotas and no shared data
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how NoteGPT handles your data.
GDPR overview
The homepage claims GDPR compliance in so many words, alongside ISO 27001, SOC 2 and CCPA, but no trust page, certificate number or auditor backs those claims. The privacy policy of 23 March 2026 never cites the GDPR itself: it refers to the repealed Directive 95/46/EC and to the 2003 ePrivacy regulations. Its rights section covers access, rectification and marketing opt-out for EU and Australian residents only, and omits erasure, portability, restriction and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. It then points to contact details in a section 11 that does not exist, the document ending at section 10. Section 3 of the terms, titled Security and Data Privacy, is empty. No DPO, no Article 27 EU representative and no DPA are published.
Who owns the data?
Under the terms of use, users keep ownership of their uploaded content and of every AI output, with full rights to use, modify, distribute and commercialise it, and no attribution to NoteGPT required. Commercial use is explicitly included in the Pro, Unlimited and Max plans. In exchange, uploading content grants NoteGPT a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, modify, display and perform that content in order to operate, improve and promote the service, and that licence survives termination. Feedback and suggestions are assigned perpetually and free of charge. The software, code, trademarks and designs remain the property of NoteGPT Inc.
Reuse rights
Outputs can be reused without asking permission: the terms grant full rights to copy, share commercially, publish and incorporate them into derivative works, with no attribution obligation. The publisher warns that outputs are not guaranteed to be unique and that other users may obtain similar results, and that ownership does not extend to anyone else's outputs. On the input side, the privacy policy states that uploaded files, links and text are used exclusively to process requests and deliver the service, and the homepage states that personal data is not used to train AI models or for automated decision-making. No opt-out mechanism for model training is documented, because none is presented as needed; the only opt-outs described are advertising ones.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
The privacy policy of 23 March 2026 states that collected data is stored on servers in the United States or in other territories, and that personal information may be transferred to third-party processors or to group companies located in other countries. No transfer mechanism is named: neither standard contractual clauses nor the EU-US Data Privacy Framework is mentioned. The policy adds that servers sit behind firewalls in physically secure facilities, but no hosting provider is identified and no subprocessor list is published anywhere on the site. Technically, the site itself resolves behind Cloudflare and serves assets from cdn.notegpt.io, which describes the front end rather than where user files and generated content are stored. In practice, a European user should assume processing in the United States under a framework the publisher does not document, and should ask for written confirmation before entrusting confidential material to the service.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting NoteGPT.
- The privacy policy is a template borrowed from a third-party service: it describes an analytics business selling to Clients and routes opt-out through the Ghostery panel, so it does not reliably describe what NoteGPT actually does with data
- Its rights section directs readers to contact details in a section 11 that the document does not contain, leaving no stated route to exercise those rights
- The homepage promises No Hidden Tracking while the privacy policy details advertising cookies, retargeting, pixels, Google Analytics and mobile SDKs: the two statements contradict each other
- ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and CCPA are displayed as badges without a trust page, a certificate number or a named auditor, so they should be read as claims rather than verified certifications
- No retention period is published anywhere, and the homepage promise that data can be deleted at any time is not repeated in the policy
- Two legal entities are named depending on the page, and no postal address is published, which makes the publisher hard to identify or reach in writing
- Handing lectures, meetings and reports to a summarizer saves time but can quietly replace the reading and note-taking that build understanding: outputs are explicitly disclaimed as possibly inaccurate and should be checked against the source
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. Nothing is installed for web use: creating an account activates the free plan immediately, with no payment card. Each tool has its own page, so users enter through the function they need rather than configuring a workspace. Installing the Chrome or Edge extension is optional and takes one click. There is no API, no key to configure and nothing to deploy. The only concept to absorb is the difference between Basic Quotas and Premium Credits, and how each feature draws on them.
Deployment
Integrations
Supported languages
Behind NoteGPT
Social
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
What is NoteGPT?
Is there a free plan, and how much does the first paid plan cost?
What kinds of content can it summarize?
Can I take notes during a video meeting, or work on notes with colleagues?
Is my data used to train AI models?
What is the minimum age to use NoteGPT?
Can I get a refund?
Who publishes NoteGPT, and is there an API?
Should you pick NoteGPT?
NoteGPT delivers an unusual amount of product for the money. More than forty tools each have their own page, pricing is public and itemised down to per-plan quotas, two browser extensions are published on the Chrome and Edge stores, and the product FAQ is candid enough to admit what the tool cannot yet do. At USD 9.00 per month on annual billing, the entry plan opens the whole catalogue, and commercial use of outputs is included from that level. For an individual studying, researching or producing content, the value proposition is hard to fault.
The weakness is elsewhere, and it is documented rather than suspected. The privacy policy is a template borrowed from another kind of service: it describes an analytics vendor serving its Clients and routes data opt-out through the Ghostery panel, which has nothing to do with this product. Its rights section refers readers to a section 11 that the document does not contain. Section 3 of the terms, titled Security and Data Privacy, is a heading with no text under it. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 appear on the homepage without a trust page, a certificate number or an auditor. No retention period is published, no postal address appears anywhere, and two different legal entities are named depending on which page is read.
The reasonable reading is a fast-moving consumer product whose legal layer has not kept pace with its catalogue. For personal study and creative work, that gap is a nuisance. For regulated professional use, or for anything involving confidential or personal data belonging to third parties, it warrants verification with the publisher before adoption.
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