Kaseta vs Notta, briefly
Notta is a cloud transcription service: you record or upload, the audio is processed on Notta’s servers under your account, and the transcript is available in a browser and in their apps. Kaseta is an iPhone recorder that transcribes on the phone, with no server and no account anywhere in the flow.
Everything below follows from that one architectural difference, so this page is deliberately short. The longer version of the same argument, against the competitor people actually search for, is on the Otter page.
Kaseta vs cloud transcription
| Kaseta | Otter / Notta | Voice Memos | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works offline | ✓ | ✗ | Partial |
| Languages | 99 | Varies by service | Limited |
| What the app sends | Nothing | Your recording, to the service | Your recording, to your iCloud |
| Limits | Per recording: 5 min free, 3 h in Pro | Monthly minutes | None |
| File export | ✓ in Pro | ✓ | Audio only |
| Price | €39.99 once | Subscription | Free |
Competitor data checked on 2026-08-16
When Notta is the better choice
- You want the transcript off the phone. A service that holds your transcripts lets you open them on a laptop, send someone a link, and keep working after the phone is in a drawer.
- You are not on an iPhone, or not only on an iPhone. Kaseta is an iPhone app and nothing else.
- You are processing files in bulk through a browser. Uploading a folder of recordings to a web app is a workflow an on-device recorder is bad at.
- You need a service’s own feature set. Sharing, collaboration and integrations exist because there is a server. We do not have one and therefore cannot offer them.
When Kaseta is the better choice
- The upload is the problem. Clinical conversations, legal and financial work, anything under an NDA, anything a workplace policy blocks. Kaseta sends nothing, because there is nowhere for it to send.
- There is no network. The speech model is inside the app, so a plane, a basement or airplane mode changes nothing about whether the text arrives.
- You would rather not rent it. A free tier, one annual plan, or one purchase — and no meter counting minutes.
- You record in something other than English. The engine covers 99 languages, all on the same on-device path.
- Text arriving line by line while the recording runs
- Timecodes down the left edge
- No account or sync affordance on screen
What we are not claiming
We are not quoting Notta’s prices, limits or language list. Those move, and a comparison page that gets a competitor’s numbers wrong has earned the correction — check their site for current figures. What is stated above is architectural, and that part does not change quietly: a service that processes audio on its servers cannot also be one that never receives it.
If the whole question is which kind of tool to use rather than which brand, start at transcription alternatives, or read how offline transcription works for the technical detail.