Acta

Overview

Acta is a meeting-recording and note-making service for teams that want conversations turned into transcripts and work-ready outputs. It is best suited to groups with repeatable workflows across sales, product, recruiting and other functions; the main caveat is that paid-plan pricing is custom.

Its combination of bot and computer-based recording, searchable transcripts and role-specific templates gives it broader use than a simple meeting recorder. The free option is useful for a limited trial of the workflow, but its storage cap and restricted AI outputs are likely to push regular team use toward a paid plan.

Key features

Acta can join Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams as a recording bot, then produce transcripts, summaries and action items. When a visible notetaker is a poor fit, the desktop app and Chrome extension can capture audio from the user's computer instead. That flexibility matters to teams with different meeting norms, although the bot-free option is tied to those computer tools.

Ask Acta searches selected meeting transcripts and answers questions across them. This can help teams retrieve context from past conversations without scanning each transcript. Templates turn meeting content into role-specific outputs, including sales reports, interview scorecards, product requirements, tickets and clinical notes. That makes Acta a stronger fit for teams with defined follow-up workflows than for people who only need a basic transcript.

Integrations include Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Jira, Asana, ClickUp and Monday.com, as well as the supported meeting platforms. Acta says recordings and notes belong to the user's account and are shared only if the user shares them; it also says meeting data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Enterprise adds controls such as on-premise deployment, SSO, private storage and custom data retention, which are relevant to organizations with stricter deployment or data-handling requirements.

Pricing

Acta has no ongoing free plan. Its Free plan is free and includes 600 minutes of storage, with limited AI summaries and action points. That cap makes it a constrained option for sustained meeting archives, even though it can help an individual or team assess the service before committing.

The Free (15 days) plan is free for 15 days. It includes 600 minutes of storage, limited AI summarization and action points, plus unlimited recordings and transcriptions. The trial gives more room to capture conversations than the regular free plan, but the 15-day term and storage ceiling limit its usefulness as a continuing setup.

Pro has custom pricing, billed per seat/month, with monthly or annual billing. It includes unlimited transcription, AI summaries, storage and integrations, making it the relevant tier for teams that use Acta regularly and need to avoid the free storage and AI limits. Per-seat billing means team size matters to the cost, and no price is available here for comparing that commitment against alternatives.

Enterprise also has custom pricing. It adds on-premise deployment, white-label solutions, APIs, SSO, private storage and custom data retention, with a dedicated account manager. It is aimed at organizations that need those controls rather than teams looking only for more transcription capacity. Users can change or cancel a plan from the dashboard at any time.

Platforms

Acta supports Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and web, as well as an API, extension and self-hosted deployment. That breadth can accommodate mixed-device teams and organizations with deployment needs, while computer-based recording specifically uses the desktop app or Chrome extension.

Who it's for

Acta is suited to sales, product, engineering, recruiting, finance and customer-support teams that need meeting content shaped into role-specific documents or actions. Its transcript search is also useful when teams need to revisit decisions across several conversations. Solo users or small groups wanting a simple, low-cost recorder may find the free storage limit and custom-priced Pro tier harder to justify.

Pros and cons

Flexible capture: bot recording and desktop or Chrome-based recording accommodate different preferences about having a notetaker in the call.

Useful workflow outputs: role-specific templates can turn discussions into formats such as interview scorecards, tickets and clinical notes, rather than leaving users with only a recap.

Search across meetings: Ask Acta can answer questions across selected transcripts, helping teams retrieve prior context.

Constrained free use: 600 minutes of storage and limited AI summaries and action points make the free plan a poor fit for a large, ongoing meeting archive.

Unclear paid-plan budget: Pro and Enterprise use custom pricing, so teams cannot judge the paid commitment from a published rate.

Alternatives

For a free plan with AI meeting notes and action items, Circleback is worth considering; its free tier includes limited automations and covers online and in-person meetings. Choose Fellow if a free starting point with five lifetime AI notes per user is enough. OLVA is another meeting assistant with a free trial and a Basic plan whose price is custom.

Grain may suit personal-email users who can work within 20 bot-recorded meetings and 45-minute meetings on its free plan. Notta offers a free tier with one seat and 120 transcription minutes per month, which is a clear fit for lighter transcription needs. For an alternative with free signup minutes and a per-file duration limit, consider VOMO. Laxis is another free option, with 300 transcription minutes per month, 30 days of conversation history and a 45-minute maximum per recording on Basic. MeetGeek offers a free-forever Basic tier with three transcription hours per month and three months of transcript storage.

To compare more products by category, see Meeting Intelligence Software, Meeting Notes Software and AI Meeting Assistants.

Verdict

Choose Acta if your team needs meetings converted into searchable records and role-specific deliverables, with both bot and computer-based capture available. Its strongest case is the way transcripts can feed distinct team workflows; look elsewhere if predictable published pricing or a generous ongoing free allowance is essential.