Echonote
Echonote turns spoken recordings into clean written notes, to-do lists, verbatim transcripts or prompt-driven drafts using OpenAI Whisper and GPT. It runs on web and Android, from a French sole trader. Pricing is never published.
What is Echonote?
Echonote is a voice-first note-taking tool: you speak, and an AI hands back written text that is already organised. The processing chain is named openly in the terms of use, with OpenAI Whisper handling transcription and GPT handling the shaping, which is more disclosure than most tools in this category bother with.
Four modes cover four different intentions. Clean Note produces a polished note out of loose speech, stripping filler words and rewriting sentences that came out badly. To-do List converts a spoken run of tasks into a checklist: saying "Call Sarah, book dentist appointment, and buy groceries" returns three actionable items. Transcription keeps the raw wording untouched, which is what you want for meeting recordings, interviews and voice memos. Prompt mode treats speech as an instruction, so dictating "Write a professional email to my boss explaining the delay" returns the message written out. Summaries, outlines and article ideas work the same way.
Sitting above the modes are Custom Styles, reusable formats you define once for a formal email, a daily journal or a structured report, after which any note using that style follows it. Recordings stay available afterwards: you can replay them, switch a note from one mode to another without speaking again, and edit an existing note by voice.
Echonote runs as a web app and as an Android app on Google Play. The homepage also advertises iOS, but no App Store listing could be found. Separately, five free tools on the site transcribe an uploaded audio file in MP3, M4A, AAC, OGG or FLAC with no account at all, capped at 5 MB and five minutes; they advertise more than fifty languages, speaker recognition and optional timestamps.
The publisher is unusually easy to identify: BOCO, a French sole proprietorship registered by Fabien BOCO in Saverdun, with its SIRET and Foix trade register numbers printed in the terms and French law governing the service. The scale is modest, though. The Android app shows 100+ downloads, and the application requires a paid subscription whose price appears nowhere on the site.
What it does
- Turn a spoken idea into a clean written note, with filler words removed
- Dictate a run of errands and get back an actionable checklist
- Transcribe meetings, interviews and voice memos word for word
- Speak an instruction and receive a finished email, summary or outline
- Save reusable custom styles and apply them to every future note
- Regenerate a different output from a recording you already made
- Transcribe an audio file under 5 MB without creating an account
When to use Echonote / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Echonote is the right fit.
When to use Echonote
- Students who record lectures and want structured notes rather than raw audio to wade through
- Journalists and researchers turning interviews into searchable, word-for-word transcripts
- Founders, freelancers and consultants who capture ideas on the move and sort them later
- Content creators who prefer dictating drafts, outlines and social copy to typing them
- Anyone who thinks faster than they type and would rather speak than write
When not to use Echonote
- Teams needing shared workspaces, roles or permissions, none of which the tool documents
- Organisations that require a documented GDPR framework, a processing agreement or a known hosting country
- Buyers who must know what a tool costs before creating an account
- Developers wanting to embed transcription in their own stack: there is no API and no documentation
- Users under 16, excluded by the privacy policy, and iOS users until an App Store listing is confirmed
How to use Echonote
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open echonote.xyz and start from the signup page
- Register with an email address and password, or sign in with Google
- Use the web app, or install the Android app from Google Play
- Press record and speak naturally, with no script needed
- Choose the mode that matches your intent: clean note, to-do list, verbatim transcription or prompt
- Let the AI process the recording in the background
- Read the result in the format you chose, and edit it by voice if something is off
- Save a custom style if you want later notes to follow the same format
- Replay an earlier recording to generate a different output from the same audio
- Turn off automatic audio saving in the settings if you prefer nothing kept on the servers
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Four genuinely distinct modes, where most voice-note apps offer one or two
- A single recording can be replayed through a different mode without speaking again
- Reusable custom styles keep formatting consistent across notes
- The free file-transcription tools work with no account and no card details
- The publisher is identifiable down to its trade register number, under French law
- An explicit setting stops audio files being stored on the servers
- Deleting the account removes all associated data, described as permanent
Cons
- No price is published anywhere, although the terms make a paid subscription mandatory
- No permanent free plan on the application itself, and the terms are explicit about it
- Payments are non-refundable as a rule, with exceptions left to the publisher's discretion
- Nothing is said about the GDPR, no processing agreement is offered, no hosting country is declared
- iOS is advertised on the homepage, but no App Store listing could be found
- No API, no developer documentation and no integration path
- Support runs through one generic email address, with no help centre or documentation
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan for the application itself: the terms of use state that access to the service requires a paid subscription, billed monthly or yearly. No amount, currency or tier is published anywhere on the site, and no pricing page exists, so the lowest price point cannot be quoted. Payments are processed by Stripe and are non-refundable, except in the case of a major technical fault preventing use of the service, at the publisher's discretion. A free trial is advertised by the homepage button and by a question in the site's FAQ, but its duration and conditions are not published. The five file-transcription tools on the site remain free of charge and require no account, within a limit of 5 MB and five minutes.
- Monthly subscription — price not published
- Yearly subscription — price not published
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Echonote handles your data.
GDPR overview
Echonote never uses the words GDPR or data protection regulation anywhere on its site; a keyword check across every page collected returned nothing. Compliance is therefore recorded as not claimed, by silence rather than by refusal. The privacy policy does open real rights, however: access, correction and updating of personal data, deletion of the account and everything attached to it, and unsubscribing from marketing email, all exercised through the single address contact@echonote.xyz. No legal basis for processing is cited, and consent is presumed from use of the service. No data protection officer is named, no processing agreement is offered, and no hosting country is declared. An Article 27 representative is not required, since the publisher is established in France, and the terms are governed by French law with exclusive French jurisdiction. The stated minimum age is 16.
Who owns the data?
The terms leave account holders in control of their own material. Users may access, modify or delete their account and every associated file at any time from the dashboard, and deletion is described as permanent erasure from Echonote's systems. Audio files and notes sit on the publisher's servers by default, though automatic audio saving can be switched off whenever the user wants. No clause claims ownership or a licence over the text the service produces. Two caveats matter: the publisher's own developers may reach user data for support and debugging, and if the business is sold or transferred, the same terms carry over to the new owner.
Reuse rights
Nothing in the terms restricts what users may do with the notes, transcripts and drafts Echonote returns. No licence is claimed over that output, so it can be reused, published or sold without asking permission. In the other direction, the flow of data is documented in reasonable detail. Audio files and their transcripts are sent to OpenAI for processing; Stripe handles payments, and no card details are stored on Echonote's servers; Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel and TikTok Pixel collect usage data the policy describes as anonymous. Data may also reach service providers on a strict need-to-know basis, or public authorities on a lawful request. One question is never addressed anywhere on the site: whether any of this material is used to train AI models. That silence is neither a promise nor a denial, and it is worth registering as such.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Echonote declares no hosting jurisdiction at all. The terms say only that audio files and notes are stored securely on the publisher's servers, with no country, region or provider named, and the privacy policy adds nothing on the subject. Switching off automatic audio saving is the one lever a user has over storage. Two external facts fill part of the gap without replacing a declaration. Audio files and transcripts are sent to OpenAI for processing, and Echonote does not say where that happens. Separately, the site's own IP address geolocated to Sydney, Australia, on OVH infrastructure at the time of this review; that describes where the website is served from, not where user data lives, and it should not be read as a hosting commitment. One inconsistency deserves flagging. The Google Play data-safety card states that no data is shared with third parties and that data is encrypted in transit, while the site's privacy policy names five third-party recipients. Both declarations come from the same publisher. Nothing at all is said about encryption at rest.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Echonote.
- No price appears anywhere until you start creating an account, so you cannot weigh Echonote against alternatives on cost beforehand
- Creating an account subscribes you to the marketing email list automatically; unsubscribing is only possible afterwards
- Payments are non-refundable by default, and the terms let the publisher suspend or end the service at any time without notice
- Nothing on the site says whether voice recordings and transcripts are used to train AI models, which is neither a promise nor a denial
- The Google Play data-safety card claims no data is shared with third parties, while the site's own privacy policy names five recipients
- Three marketing trackers run alongside a product that processes your voice, and the publisher's developers may access user data for debugging
- Dictating everything is comfortable, but leaning on it for structure can quietly erode the habit of organising your own thinking
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Setup is close to trivial. The web app needs no installation, the Android app installs from Google Play, and an account is created with an email address and password or through Google. There are no API keys, no configuration files and no technical prerequisites. Only one setting is worth finding early: automatic saving of audio files is on by default and can be turned off. The free file-transcription tools skip even the account, taking a dropped file under 5 MB. The trade-off is that no documentation or help centre exists, so anything unclear goes through a single email address.
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick Echonote?
Echonote is a real, working product from an identifiable publisher, which in a category crowded with anonymous landing pages already counts for something. The terms name OpenAI Whisper and GPT as the engines, identify the company down to its trade register entry, and place the service under French law. The four modes are the genuine differentiator: replaying one recording as a clean note, then as a checklist, then as a drafted email covers more ground than the single-purpose apps it competes with.
The reservations are just as concrete. The terms make a paid subscription compulsory and never state what it costs; no pricing page exists, and the figure surfaces only once you begin creating an account. That is a transparency problem rather than proof of anything worse, but it does mean you cannot compare Echonote on price without signing up. Alongside it sits a broader silence: the site never mentions the GDPR, offers no processing agreement, declares no hosting country, and says nothing either way about whether customer data trains AI models. For personal notes that may be acceptable; for anything confidential it is not.
Scale matters too. The Android app shows 100+ downloads and the publisher is a sole trader, so continuity rests on one person, and the terms reserve the right to suspend the service at any time without notice. Small maintenance lapses point the same way: a declared social image that does not exist, a sitemap listed in robots.txt but absent, a footer still dated 2024.
The sensible way in is the free file-transcription tools. They need no account and no card, and they let you judge transcription quality on your own audio before committing to a subscription whose price you will only discover at signup.
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