Notta: our review

Notta transcribes your meetings and recordings, then produces a summary and actionable notes from them. Built on the same principle as Otter or Fireflies — a bot that joins the call, or a capture from the device — it stands out through a lower entry price and a French interface that genuinely exists, something neither Otter nor the French version of Fireflies push all the way into the product itself.

What it actually does

Two recording methods coexist at Notta: a bot that joins the Zoom, Teams or Google Meet call in your place, or a "bot-free" recording from the device, for teams that would rather avoid one more visible participant showing up in the meeting. Imported audio and video files are also transcribed, with translation and a bilingual mode for exchanges between two languages.

The lowest price, the thinnest documentation

Of the three tools compared, Notta shows the cheapest entry point: $8.17 a month for the Pro tier, billed yearly ($97.99 total), against $8.33 at Otter and $10 at Fireflies. The site exists in French from top to bottom, interface included — a real differentiator, since neither Otter nor the French version of Fireflies go that far on the product.

The trade-off appears as soon as you look for what happens to the recording. Notta's privacy policy never says whether audio or transcripts are used to train a model: it only specifies, about the Google Workspace APIs, that they "are not used to develop, improve, or train generic AI and machine learning models", a narrow clause that doesn't cover the rest of the service. No retention period is published either. The security page, on the other hand, is more complete: SOC 2 Type II certification, ISO 27001, GDPR and HIPAA compliance claimed, hosting at Amazon Web Services, TLS 1.2 encryption in transit and AES-256 at rest — but without specifying the server region.

Why it interests us

For a small French-speaking organization that wants a cheap tool and an interface adopted without training, Notta has a real argument. We mention it in passing in our training engagements, for teams that would refuse a tool left in English.

Where it falls short

The silence on model training is the main reservation: unlike Fireflies, which rules it out in black and white, or Otter, which owns it in black and white, Notta takes no position either way in the pages reviewed. The location of the AWS servers isn't specified, which makes it impossible to say whether data stays within the European Union. Lastly, the company communicates little about its identity: no address or country of establishment appears in the pages reviewed.

Our recommendation

A defensible choice for a small French-speaking team that prioritises price and interface, provided you accept not knowing exactly what happens to the recording. A company under a strict confidentiality obligation should demand a written answer from Notta on training before signing, or turn to Fireflies.