I had low expectations for the moderately generic Comulytic Observe Professional, however it stunned me as not solely probably the most helpful all-around notetaker on obtainable but additionally the most affordable after you take into account the price of a premium subscription.
The slim gadget, at 28 grams, is sufficiently small to slot in a pockets or connect unobtrusively with the included magnetic ring to the again of your handset (observe: it requires a particular USB dongle to cost). The 64 GB of space for storing and a 45-hour battery life aren’t large, however each must be greater than sufficient to deal with a full week of interviews with out offloading or recharging, all processed via OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini. The small LCD is useful (and uncommon on this market), indicating once you’re recording and providing a recording period. This makes it much more foolproof than different notetakers, which supply nothing greater than a coloured LED to let you know if it’s on.
The Observe Professional helps 113 languages—kind of. It can file in a overseas tongue and provide a verbatim transcript within the native language, however insights and summaries are delivered in your language of selection. It’s not a full answer in the event you want a whole, direct translation, however in the event you simply want the gist of a overseas information story or speech, Comulytic can uniquely deal with it.
The proof is within the high quality of the abstracts and insights offered. Of all of the gadgets I examined, Comulytic’s summaries had been probably the most insightful and least rambling (although higher than its transcripts), successfully choosing out probably the most related parts of interviews and pulling the perfect quotes from my conversations (maybe too many at instances). It was additionally the one gadget to accurately transcribe a punny product nickname talked about in passing in a single interview, indicating {that a} extra refined language mannequin could also be behind the scenes.
Comulytic isn’t good. It doesn’t transcribe in actual time, it’s one of many slowest merchandise at finishing analyses, and I by no means bought its “quick switch” mode working, which meant all recordings needed to be despatched to my telephone by way of a pokey Bluetooth connection, however these are minor dings towards an in any other case strong answer. Better of all, for a restricted time, the corporate features a beneficiant three months of premium service at no cost. Even in the event you don’t need to subscribe, the free plan, which provides three “deep dives” and 10 abstracts a month, is healthier than nothing.
Subscription prices $15 per 30 days or $120 per 12 months
