TwinMind

Ask what your doctor said last Tuesday. Get the three action items from today's standup, already written. Ramble on a walk and have an organized plan by the time you're home. TwinMind is a free AI note taker that remembers everything you hear and say — meetings, conversations, lectures, phone calls and voice notes — so you never forget a thing.

It is free: the Free plan has unlimited capture hours and unlimited summaries, which is why TwinMind calls itself the #1 free alternative to Granola. It works in 140+ languages, detects the language automatically and can translate in real time.

It runs all day on the phone you already have. A phone captures 16+ hours a day without draining the battery, and TwinMind also runs on Apple Watch, Mac, Windows and as a Chrome extension — no new hardware, no pendant. Unlike meeting bots, TwinMind never joins your Zoom, Google Meet or Teams call as a participant; it listens from your own device, so in-person conversations, lectures and phone calls are covered too.

It is private. Audio is deleted after transcription by default. It keeps recording without internet, even across several sessions, and transcribes everything once you're back online. An on-device storage mode keeps everything on your device with no cloud backup, and a zero-data-retention mode is available for the cloud. Your data is never sold or used to train AI models. TwinMind is SOC 2 Type II certified and Google CASA Tier 2 verified; HIPAA is available on the Enterprise plan (contact TwinMind).

Everything you capture becomes a memory with a summary, action items and a transcript, and TwinMind automatically builds a second brain from it, organized by people and projects — a private Wikipedia of your life. Every morning a daily digest arrives with yesterday's highlights and today's priorities; connect your calendar and email and replies are drafted for you.

TwinMind also works as a real-time memory layer for other AI tools. Ask any question and it answers from your conversations, email and the web; one subscription includes ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini models. Over MCP (Model Context Protocol) you can connect TwinMind to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI agents so they have live context of what you have heard and said, and turn it into reports, decks, drafts and prototypes.

TwinMind is used by 500,000+ people — founders, salespeople, lawyers, doctors, therapists, engineers, project managers, students, religious workers and small-business owners — across 200+ countries. It runs on iPhone, Android, Apple Watch, Mac, Windows and Chrome, and syncs across all of them.

Pricing: Free includes unlimited capture hours, unlimited summaries, daily digests and chat with no memory limits. Pro ($11.99/month, billed annually) adds ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude access, the latest AI models, phone-call recording and audio upload. Max ($29.99/month, billed annually, 40% off; 7-day free trial) adds 5x limits, email auto-tagging and drafting, frontier models with extended thinking, MCP integrations, speaker separation and priority support.