Best Free and Low-Cost AI Note Takers for Therapists in 2026

Yes. Upheal has a Free plan for notes from text, dictation and uploads, Berries gives 10 sessions a month after a 20-session trial, TheraPro has a Free plan with a weekly allowance, and Heidi has a free seat. If you need unlimited notes, the lowest published prices we found were Note Designer at $15 a month and AutoNotes at $19 a month.

We are WellNotes, and WellNotes does not have a free plan, so it is not the cheapest tool here. To keep this fair, every competitor fact comes from the vendor's own website, checked on November 3, 2026, with a link. If a vendor did not state something clearly, we left it out. Prices change often, so confirm before you subscribe.

• Free tier: is it a lasting free plan, or a trial that ends?
• Limits: how many notes or sessions you get, and which note types.
• Lowest paid price: the cheapest plan for one clinician, monthly unless noted.
• Input: whether it records sessions, takes dictation or works from a typed summary.

A free plan is only useful if it fits your caseload. A clinician with 25 sessions a week will outgrow most free tiers in days, so look at the price per month you would actually pay.

Free tier: $0 per month, with AI notes via text-to-note, dictation and uploads only, for individual therapy, using basic SOAP, DAP and Intake note types, plus telehealth calls without AI (Upheal pricing).

Lowest paid price: AI Notes at $39 per month flat with unlimited sessions, which adds recorded sessions and the full set of note types. The EHR is $1 per session.

Best for: clinicians who want a free tool for individual therapy notes and can work with three note types.

Free tier: the first 20 sessions free, then 10 sessions a month, without a card. Berries captures sessions live, by dictation, or from handwritten notes, text or audio, and says it does not store recordings (Berries pricing, heyberries.com).

Lowest paid price: Pro at $79 per month, unlimited sessions.

Best for: a part-time caseload of about two or three sessions a week, which fits inside 10 a month.

Free tier: 3 full sessions (up to 60 minutes) and 3 typed sessions per week, with 14-day note history, signup with an email address and without a card (therapro.ai).

Lowest paid price: paid plans start with a 14-day trial. When we checked, prices were shown in euros, so US pricing was not clear from the page.

Best for: trying AI notes on a few sessions a week, with both recorded and typed sessions in the free plan.

Free tier: one free seat with unlimited transcription, standard templates, and limited use of features such as dictation and advanced templates under a weekly allowance (Heidi pricing).

Lowest paid price: the Clinician plan has a 14-day free trial; its price was not shown in the page text we read.

Best for: clinicians who are comfortable with an ambient scribe and want a free tier. Heidi is built for clinicians in general rather than for therapy alone.

Free tier: up to 20 SOAP notes to start, without a card (SOAPNoteAI pricing).

Lowest paid price: Lite at $29 per month or $200 per year for 30 audio notes a month. A one-time $59 pack gives 5 audio notes and 100 text notes for a year, which is cheap if you mostly type.

Best for: clinicians who write SOAP notes and prefer to pay once rather than subscribe.

Free tier: you can try it free without a card, starting with a free demonstration note (Note Designer pricing).

Lowest paid price: $15 per month or $150 per year, with unlimited notes and clients and optional AI included; Workspace is $5 more (Note Designer pricing).

Best for: clinicians who want unlimited notes for the least money and do not want sessions recorded. It is template-driven rather than a free-text AI writer.

Free tier: a free trial on every plan, without a card (AutoNotes pricing).

Lowest paid price: Notes at $19 per month per clinician, or $16 billed annually, with unlimited typed or dictated notes. Session recording starts on Workspace.

Best for: unlimited AI notes from a typed or dictated summary at a low monthly price.

Mentalyc: a 14-day trial without a card. Mini is $19.99 per month (or $14.99 billed annually) for 40 notes a month, and you can record, upload audio, or dictate or type a summary. Basic is $39.99 for 100 notes (Mentalyc pricing).

Supanote: a 14-day trial. Starter starts at $19.99 a month for 40 notes, and Pro at $39.99 for unlimited notes. Supanote records, takes dictation or accepts uploaded audio (Supanote pricing).

Best for: both suit a part-time caseload of under 10 sessions a week at the entry price, with an upgrade path for treatment plans and more notes.

Free options: no free plan. The free note generators (SOAP, DAP, BIRP and more) write one note per day from de-identified details, and a first subscription starts with a 3-day trial (a card is required).

Lowest paid price: Starter $27 per month for 50 notes; Professional $38 per month for unlimited notes and custom note templates (each a name plus instructions). See pricing.

What you get: 15 formats drafted from a summary you type or dictate after the session, with no session capture mode. Saved notes stay in your browser and are cleared on logout, so you copy each note into your EHR. Dictation and audio upload unlock after the trial.

Best for: clinicians who want many formats from a short typed summary and would rather not record sessions. If price is the only factor, Note Designer, AutoNotes and Upheal's Free plan cost less.

Monthly prices for one clinician as listed on each vendor's site on November 3, 2026. Annual billing is cheaper for most of them.

• Count your sessions. A 40-note plan covers about 9 sessions a week. Past that, an unlimited plan is usually cheaper per note.
• Check the note types on the free tier. Free plans often cover SOAP and DAP only. If you write BIRP or GIRP notes, check before you commit.
• Decide whether recording is acceptable. Several free tiers are built around recorded sessions. For tools that work from your own summary, see our list of AI note takers that work without recording.
• Read the trial terms. Some trials ask for a card and some do not, and some free plans limit note history.

For the note itself, the SOAP note template and DAP note template show what each section needs. For a broader comparison of full-featured tools, see our therapy note software comparison. Social workers can also see the AI note writers for social workers, and speech-language pathologists the AI SOAP note tools for SLPs.