NoteMate
NoteMate

You can listen,
or you can write.
Not both.

We handle the notes so you can focus on the learning.

Record the lecture and get back notes, flashcards, a quiz and reminders to keep your revision on track.

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The deck you were never going to make

Your lecture also comes back as a quiz that tells you why you were wrong, not just that you were. Both written from what your lecturer actually said, so there is no off-syllabus filler.

Flashcards

Say Got it or Needs work and the next due date moves with you, and every card keeps its timestamp, so a half-remembered answer is one tap from the audio.

Three stages of memory

Question

What are the three stages of memory?

Answer

Encoding, storage and retrieval. Most everyday failures happen at retrieval rather than the memory having been lost.

Quizzes

Most quizzes mark you and move on, which teaches you nothing. Every option carries its own explanation, including the ones you didn't pick, so a wrong answer is the most useful thing that can happen before an exam.

Three stages of memory

Where do most everyday memory failures happen?

A Encoding Your answer

Encoding failures are real, but the lecture's point was that the material usually did go in - what fails is getting it back out.

B Storage
C Retrieval Correct

The memory is still there; the cue is missing. Being given the first letter of a name is usually enough to recover it.

D Consolidation
Why not the others?

Storage

This assumes the memory decayed away. The tip-of-the-tongue example shows it is still there, waiting for the right cue.

Consolidation

Consolidation is how a memory stabilises after encoding - a real stage, but not the one identified as the common failure point.

Start recording today. Pay when it's carrying your term.

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    • 300 minutes a month
    • 1 flashcard set and quiz a month
    • Up to 2 hours per recording
    • Lecture & notes summary modes
    • Text export
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    Was £59, now £49 for the academic year

    Works out at £4.08 a month, billed yearly.

    Or £2.04 a teaching week.

    • Unlimited minutes, flashcards and quizzes Fair use up to 100 hours a month
    • All 6 summary modes
    • Up to 3 hours per recording
    • Google Drive and Notion export
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Recording

Lectures a month
Unlimited
Monthly minutes
Unlimited
Longest recording
3 hours
Audio kept
7 days

Six summary modes

Lecture Notes Seminar Interview Action Items Brainstorm

Plus speaker identification, live transcription, search, folders, coaching and the iOS app.

Every export

PDF Word CSV Markdown Text ZIP batch Google Drive Notion

Lecture counts are based on a one-hour lecture.

Four steps. You do the first and the last

The lecture to your notes is ours. Proving it stuck is yours.

Step 01

Hit record

In the lecture hall, on the bus, or from an upload afterwards. Nothing to install — the browser does it. MP3, WAV, M4A and the rest.

Step 02

Watch it transcribe

Text appears live as the lecturer talks, with speakers separated automatically. Every line keeps its timestamp so you can jump back to the audio.

Step 03

Pick a format

Lecture notes for the module, revision summaries before the exam, Q&A for an interview, actions for a group project. Same recording, different output.

Step 04

Test yourself, then again later

Flashcards and a quiz from the same lecture. Every card keeps the moment it came from, so anything you half-remember is one tap from the audio — and we nudge you back a day, three days and a week later, so none of it quietly rots.

Why NoteMate exists

I spent five years studying while battling dysgraphia and dyspraxia — drowning in notes I couldn't organise fast enough, and hit with new lecture content before I'd taken in the last lot. So I built the thing I needed. Now I want every student who's ever felt behind to have it too.
Benjamin Tindal, founder of NoteMate · Read the full story
NoteMate flawlessly transcribed my whole lecture and summarised the key points in less than a minute. It's honestly made my life so much easier.
Joe · University student
I get instant high quality meeting notes with an accurate transcript of who said what. Highly recommended to anyone in meetings!
Ben · Software engineer

The rest of what's in there

Built for students who'd rather learn than transcribe

Speaker identification

Detects and labels who's talking, and you can rename them. Useful for seminars, group projects, and society meetings.

Clickable timestamps

Every line links back to the audio. Jump straight to the bit you didn't follow.

A folder per module

Colour-code your courses, then search the full text of everything you recorded this term. Export to Notion, Google Drive or Word when you need it elsewhere.

No bot in your lecture

You record on your own device. Nothing joins your Teams or Zoom call and announces itself to the room, which many universities prohibit outright.

Notes in your language

Record the lecture in English and revise from notes in Chinese, Spanish, Hindi — 11 languages in all. The transcript stays in the language it was spoken in.

iPhone app

Record from your pocket. Everything syncs to the web app automatically.

Before you sign up

NoteMate is an AI note taker built for students. Record or upload your lectures and it transcribes them with speaker identification, then turns them into structured, easy-to-review notes — lecture notes, summaries, Q&A, and more. It works just as well for meetings and interviews.

Policies vary between universities, so check your institution's guidelines or ask your lecturer first. Many universities allow recording for personal study, and students with accommodations (for example for dysgraphia, dyslexia, or ADHD) are often explicitly permitted to record lectures.

Nothing NoteMate writes is invented — every note, card and question comes from what was actually said in your lecture. It is not writing your essay and it is not doing your thinking; it gives you back the hour you would have spent typing, so you can spend it learning instead. Recording lectures is one of the most common adjustments universities make, and policies on it vary, so check your institution's guidance or ask your lecturer.

Yes. All data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. Audio is processed by our AI partners (OpenAI, AssemblyAI) under strict data protection agreements - they do not retain or use your data for training. NoteMate is built to be GDPR compliant, and you can delete any recording and its transcript at any time.

Accurate enough that most students edit nothing. Errors cluster around strong accents, poor room audio, and specialist vocabulary. You can correct any line in the transcript, and the summary regenerates from the corrected version.

Yes. NoteMate automatically detects and labels different speakers in your recordings — useful for seminars, group projects, and meetings. You can rename speakers, and the transcript shows who said what.

NoteMate supports MP3, WAV, M4A, WEBM, and most common audio formats. You can record directly in the browser or upload existing recordings from your phone or laptop.

Yes. Speaker identification, meeting notes, and action item extraction are all built in. NoteMate started as a lecture tool and works the same way for meetings, interviews, and research sessions.

Yes. Transcription covers 99 languages and detects the spoken one automatically, and the language your notes are written in is a separate setting — so you can record a lecture in English and revise from notes in your own language. Notes, titles, flashcards and quizzes are available in 11 languages: English, Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, Arabic, French, Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. The transcript itself always stays in the language that was spoken.

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