Free Tier
What’s always free?
On-device transcription and meeting recording are free and unlimited — no account, license key, or credit card required. The speech-to-text model runs on your Mac’s Apple Silicon, so there are no per-minute fees and the audio never leaves your device.
Meeting summaries — with named speakers, action items, and transcript correction — are free too, with no daily cap. What’s metered on the free tier is the live in-meeting assistant: briefings and follow-up questions during the call.
What’s free, what’s metered
AI summaries and the assistant use Google Gemini on transcript text (never audio). On the free tier:
| Feature | Free limit |
|---|---|
| Meeting summaries, named speakers & corrections | Unlimited |
| Voice typing (dictation + transform) | 200/day |
| In-meeting briefings | 5/day |
| Meeting follow-up questions | 5/day |
| Search | Unlimited |
Summaries and corrections are unlimited; only the live in-meeting assistant — briefings and follow-up questions — has a daily allowance, and it resets each day. Importing an audio or video file produces a summary the same way a recorded meeting does. A fair-use ceiling guards against abuse, but normal use never reaches it. Current usage is shown in the menu bar panel.
What still works after limits are reached?
Everything on-device continues to work with no restrictions:
- Dictation with the provider set to None — raw transcription without AI refinement
- Meeting recording — full timestamped transcripts with Mic/Remote channel labels
- Audio playback and transcript review for past meetings
Only the metered live-assistant features pause until the next day: in-meeting briefings and follow-up questions. Summaries, named speakers, action items, and corrections keep working.
Upgrading
Two paid tiers lift the live-assistant limits and add your own Gemini key:
- Light ($6/month, or $4/month billed annually at $48/year — save 33%) — 200 in-meeting briefings and 100 follow-up questions a month, unlimited voice typing, and bring-your-own Gemini key. Summaries are already unlimited on every tier. Limits reset monthly.
- Unlimited ($18/month, or $12/month billed annually at $144/year — save 33%) — removes the per-feature limits entirely.
See Subscriptions & Licensing for purchasing details, or subscribe directly at mimicscribe.app.