Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder
- 65 of 100 · reviews
- 4.9of 5 · store
- 11,576ratings on the App Store
- 189reviews read
An editorial reading of the saved reviews
One of the strongest apps in the niche for real functionality: background recording, detailed section-by-section summaries, and multilingual transcription. The main failures are silent recording with no warning (the app records silence while the user thinks it is capturing audio) and slow summary generation. Export to Notion and OneNote breaks formatting.
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What people use it for
Professionals and students in in-person meetings and lectures who need not a word-for-word transcript but a structured outline with key takeaways.
What reviews praise
Summaries are structured and substantive, multilingual transcription works without switching modes, and it helps in medical and business meetings where reviewing details afterward matters.
What reviews complain about
- Recording can silently capture silence, costing users 10 to 15 minutes of a meeting they did not know was lost.
- Summary generation slows down with a large archive, export to OneNote and Notion drops formatting, and search across many notes is unreliable.
What users experience
2 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.
Needs work. Always needs me to update the app in order to use it. Probably only gets 50% of my meetings correctly.
Everything is great except when I edit the summary of the recording (which is sometimes rigorous) it does not save when I click 'done'. Very frustrating that it cannot be edited effectively.
Mentioned for these jobs
- Capture the decisions and action items from a meeting without being stuck taking notes during the conversationManagers and teams in meetings
- Transcribe an interview with several participants and export the text to an editor to work with quotesJournalists and researchers
- Record a full lecture or seminar and get structured notes without re-listening to the whole thingStudents in lectures
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