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GetNotes vs Sonix: which fits your meetings?
Sonix is where a finished recording goes to be edited, captioned and translated — it has no way to record your meeting in the first place.
Side by side
Getting audio in
Sonix: File upload only. No meeting bot, no mobile recorder, no live capture of a conversation as it happens.
GetNotes: Record the room live in the phone or laptop browser, or upload MP3, M4A, WAV, WebM or MP4 — both routes produce the same output.
What comes out
Sonix: A transcript, with an editor, timestamps, and subtitle and translation export — a document to work on.
GetNotes: Minutes written from the transcript: a summary, the decisions taken, and action items with owners and deadlines.
Pricing model
Sonix: Hour-based. $10 an hour pay-as-you-go, or Core $25 a month for 5 hours, Advanced $50 for 20, Pro $80 for 40, overage $10 an hour, extra seats $25 each.
GetNotes: Flat $19 a month, unlimited meetings, three hours per recording, fair-use 25 hours of processed audio a month.
Languages
Sonix: 54-plus for transcription and 55-plus for translation, as of July 2026.
GetNotes: 99 for transcription, with mid-sentence code-switching handled inside a single meeting.
Where Sonix is the better pick
Pick Sonix when the transcript is a production asset rather than a meeting record: you are captioning video, cutting a podcast, or translating a finished transcript into three other languages, and you want to sit in a good editor and correct every word. Its pay-as-you-go rate also beats a subscription outright if you only transcribe a couple of hours a year.
Comparison based on publicly available information, checked July 2026. Products change — check their site for current details.
Sonix is the odd one out in this set, and honestly so. It is a transcription and post-production tool rather than a meeting assistant: you upload a finished file and get a transcript in a browser editor that is genuinely good to work in, with word-level timestamps, speaker labels, subtitle and caption export, and machine translation of the finished transcript into other languages. For anyone producing video or podcasts, that editor is the reason to use it.
What it does not do is capture. There is no meeting bot, no mobile recorder, no live transcription of a conversation happening now — file upload is the only way in. Sonix covers 54-plus transcription languages and 55-plus for translation. GetNotes covers 99 for transcription and is designed for the moment before a file exists: a phone on a table in a room where nobody has pressed record on anything else.
Pricing works differently too, and comparing monthly figures without the included hours is misleading. Sonix sells pay-as-you-go at $10 an hour with no subscription, or Core at $25 a month for 5 hours, Advanced at $50 for 20 and Pro at $80 for 40, with overage at $10 an hour and extra seats at $25 each. GetNotes Pro is $19 a month for unlimited meetings under a fair-use ceiling of 25 hours of audio, which is a different bet: heavy regular use versus occasional volume.
Where it earns its keep
The meeting nobody recorded
A department review overruns and finishes with everyone agreeing to write it up later, which never happens. Sonix cannot help, because it needs a file and no file exists. GetNotes only needs someone to open the browser on their phone and press record before the first agenda item, which is why the capture step is the whole design.
A conference talk you need subtitled
You have the video, you need burned-in captions in two languages, and the transcript has to be corrected word by word first. This is Sonix's home ground: its editor, timestamps and subtitle export are better suited than anything GetNotes offers. GetNotes writes meeting minutes, not caption files.
Two hours of audio a month, every month
At Sonix's Core plan you get 5 hours for $25 a month, with overage at $10 an hour and extra seats at $25 each. At $19 a month, GetNotes covers unlimited meetings up to a fair-use 25 hours, so the more meetings you actually hold, the more the flat rate favours you.
How GetNotes works
- Record or upload. Hit record on your phone or laptop in the room — or drop in an audio file you already have. No bot joins anything.
- It writes it down. Every word transcribed, every speaker labelled, in 90+ languages including ones that switch mid-sentence.
- Share the minutes.Summary, decisions, and action items with owners — ready before everyone's back at their desk.
Questions, answered
Can Sonix record a meeting like GetNotes does?
No. As of July 2026 Sonix accepts uploaded files only — there is no meeting bot and no live recording app, so something else has to capture the audio first. GetNotes records the room directly in the browser on a phone or laptop, then transcribes it with speaker labels and writes minutes with decisions and action items.
Does GetNotes have a transcript editor like Sonix?
Not to the same standard. Sonix's browser editor, with word-level timestamps and subtitle export, is the best transcript-editing experience in this comparison and GetNotes does not try to match it. GetNotes gives you a speaker-labelled transcript alongside written minutes, on the assumption you will share the minutes rather than edit the transcript line by line.
Is GetNotes or Sonix better value for regular meetings?
It depends on volume. Sonix is hour-based: $10 an hour pay-as-you-go, or Core at $25 a month for 5 hours with overage at $10 an hour. GetNotes Pro is $19 a month for unlimited meetings, up to three hours each, under a fair-use ceiling of 25 hours a month. Frequent meetings favour GetNotes; occasional files favour Sonix.
Does Sonix write action items and decisions?
Sonix is a transcription and post-production tool, so its output is centred on the transcript, subtitles and translation rather than meeting follow-up. GetNotes uses Claude to write structured minutes from the transcript — a summary, the decisions made, and action items with owners and deadlines — so the record is ready to send once the room clears.
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