What is ideaShell?
Voice thoughts organised into notes, to-dos and summaries.
Who is ideaShell best for?
ideaShell is best for people who think out loud and want spoken ideas and to-dos turned into organised notes.
Ideas on the move
Speak a thought into an iPhone, Android phone or Apple Watch and it syncs to your other devices as a tidy note.
Meetings and interviews
Recordings are transcribed, cleaned of filler words and given a title, tags and a summary you can search later.
Turning talk into tasks
It picks out action items, creates to-dos and sends reminders with the original note attached.
Drafting from your own notes
Its AI turns what you captured into slides, a web page or a research report, drawing on your past notes and meetings.
How much does ideaShell cost?
ideaShell's Starter plan is free with 50,000 trial AI points, and Premium costs $5.99 a month billed monthly, with 1,500,000 AI points a month that roll over.
- 1-minute recording limit
- 50,000 AI trial points
- Sync across several devices, 500MB storage
- No recording limit and all premium features
- 1,500,000 AI points a month; unused points roll over
- Unlimited devices, 25GB storage
The Premium card leads with $4.16 a month, the rate when you do not pay month to month; the page does not give the billing term or total. ideaShell's help center describes the free plan differently from the pricing page: single recordings under 10 minutes transcribe free for every user, free users get a weekly credit allowance that does not carry over, and one transcription can run up to 1 hour (5 hours on Premium). Premium credits last a year from issue, and extra credits can be bought at any time. Full pricing on ideashell.com. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best ideaShell alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do ideaShell's job. notesGPT is open source, so you can run it on your own server.
Questions about ideaShell
What is ideaShell?
Voice thoughts organised into notes, to-dos and summaries.
Who is ideaShell for?
ideaShell is best for people who think out loud and want spoken ideas and to-dos turned into organised notes.
Is ideaShell free?
Yes. ideaShell has a free Starter plan: 1-minute recording limit.
How much does ideaShell cost?
ideaShell's paid plans are Premium at $5.99 per month.
Is there an open source alternative to ideaShell?
Yes. notesGPT is an open source tool that does the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best ideaShell alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are TalkNotes, Voicenotes and notesGPT.
Where can I try ideaShell?
On its official website, ideashell.com.
How many credits does ideaShell transcription use?
ideaShell transcription uses about 3,000 to 4,000 credits a minute, or 100,000 to 150,000 an hour, by the maker's own measurements. Single recordings under 10 minutes use no credits for any user, so short voice notes cost nothing.
Which devices does ideaShell work on?
ideaShell runs on iPhone and Android phones, Apple Watch and OPPO Watch, and Mac and Windows computers, plus a web app. Notes sync between devices: the free Starter plan syncs across several devices, and Premium across as many as you like.
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