What Is Notta in 2026? 5 Steps to Tell the Drug and the AI Meeting Tool Apart

Searching for "Notta" brings up an asthma drug? First, figure out what you're looking for

When you type "Notta" into Google, the first thing that pops up might not be the App Store page, but a bunch of Turkish drug instructions.

The reason: There is a prescription drug in Turkey called NOTTA®. According to publicly available drug information, its active ingredient (etken madde) is montelukast sodium, commonly available as 5mg chewable tablets and 10mg film-coated tablets, used for the treatment of asthma and allergic rhinitis.

Notta in the software world refers to Notta.ai, an AI transcription tool. The two just share a name and are completely unrelated.

To be clear: This article does not provide any medication, dosage, or medical advice. If you are looking for drug information, please consult a doctor or pharmacist directly and do not rely on content from tech websites.

What follows is for those who are "looking for a meeting notes tool but got flooded with drug information of the same name."

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Before choosing a meeting notes tool, understand these 4 key points

1. Do you want a meeting bot to join? Some tools rely on a bot account joining Zoom, Meet, or Teams as a "participant." The problem is—when a client meeting suddenly has an unfamiliar account, it can be awkward. Another approach is for the desktop version to directly capture the computer's system audio without adding any participants, which is currently a cleaner method.

2. Chinese and mixed Chinese-English recognition performance Many tools advertise "98% accuracy," but that's measured in a quiet recording studio. Real meeting rooms have air conditioning noise, keyboard sounds, and three people talking over each other. What matters is how much accuracy remains under these conditions.

3. Can you use it directly after transcription? Just giving you a transcript is like throwing the organization work right back at you. What really saves time is: automatic summaries, chapter segmentation, action item extraction, and AI Q&A that lets you "ask a question about the meeting content in one sentence."

4. Who ultimately owns the recording data? Meetings recorded under a personal account get taken away when a colleague leaves. Teams need data to belong to the team, with layered permissions. Here are two concepts that are often confused: roles determine who can manage the team and audit; seats determine who can record, upload, and edit.

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Tinrec (秒听录音) — After testing, we think it's the best choice for Chinese teams

Tinrec is an AI meeting notes and collaboration tool for individuals and teams, covering iOS, Android, desktop, and web versions.

Record online meetings without inviting a bot. The desktop version directly captures the computer's system audio, handling meeting audio played on Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Webex. You just open Tinrec and start recording, and no strange participant appears in the meeting room. This is important for external communications—especially in client interviews or job interviews.

By the time the meeting ends, the organization is already done. It produces a transcript while recording, and after the meeting automatically generates summaries, chapters, and key points, and extracts action items from the discussion. Previously it was "two hours of meeting, two hours of organizing"—now the organizing time is compressed into checking and fine-tuning.

You can continue asking questions after recording—this is the biggest difference from most tools at the same price point. You can directly ask questions about the meeting data: "Who mentioned the budget in the last meeting?" "What were the client's concerns about the delivery date?" It gives answers based on semantic understanding, not a bunch of keyword search results for you to sift through.

Cross-language meetings are solved. It supports real-time translation, allowing you to switch between original text, translation, or bilingual view during recording, and can also organize mixed Chinese-English discussions. Teams can also maintain "team hotwords" to add product codes and internal terminology, which stabilizes the recognition of professional terms.

The team version is not "multiple people sharing one account." It creates an independent team space: you can create multiple teams, invite members via link, set owners/admins/regular members, and assign or revoke seats. Meeting data belongs to the team; when a member leaves or is removed, their responsible resources must be handed over to other active members—they won't disappear with the person. The admin side can also see usage trends, member rankings, details, and query and export audit logs.

Limitations should also be clear. The free version has a basic quota; heavy users need to pay. Team monthly payment is USD 29.80 per paid seat per month, annual payment is USD 199 per paid seat per year (about USD 16.58 per month), each paid seat provides 2,000 minutes of team shared import quota per month, and real-time recording within an active plan is currently not deducted by minutes. Also, no tool should promise a fixed accuracy rate—actual performance is affected by recording quality, noise, accents, overlapping speech, and technical terminology. For important information, it is recommended to cross-check with the transcript timestamps and recording.

Who it's for: People who frequently hold Chinese or mixed Chinese-English meetings, don't want bots in the meeting room, want to use AI to find key points directly after recording, and need to turn meetings into team assets.

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Besides Tinrec, what other options are there?

Notta: The direct competitor with the highest overlap with Tinrec, offering multi-platform transcription, file import, translation, and team plans. The official current terms are: free version 120 minutes per month, single content limit 3 minutes; Pro annual payment is about USD 8.17 per month, 1,800 minutes per month. It suits users who mainly need "file transcription"; but if you want bot-free recording of online meetings plus post-meeting AI Q&A and Agent post-processing, Tinrec's workflow is more complete.

Otter.ai: A mature choice for English business meetings. Basic is free with 300 minutes per month; Pro annual payment is about USD 8.49 per user per month, including 1,200 minutes of in-app recording and 10 file imports. If 90% of your meetings are in English and your team uses English, it's a good deal. But Chinese and mixed Chinese-English are not its strong suit—this is one of the few scenarios in this article where we clearly recommend another tool.

Granola: Also takes the bot-free route, relying on desktop system audio plus user handwritten notes to generate content. Basic is free, Business is USD 14 per user per month. Note that it does not support uploading pre-recorded audio files, nor does it save meeting audio files. If you need to listen back to the original audio for verification, this will directly block you—whereas Tinrec retains recordings and supports file import.

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Pitfall guide: The 3 most common mistakes when choosing a meeting notes tool

Pitfall 1: Seeing "Notta" and thinking you're looking at the same thing. Same name, different things. You want software, but you read three pages of Turkish drug instructions—this kind of search waste happens every day. Adding "app," "meeting notes," or "transcription" to your keywords and searching again will save you ten minutes.

Pitfall 2: Only looking at the officially advertised accuracy rate. Numbers measured in a quiet recording studio have nothing to do with your real meeting room. The right approach: take a recording of your own with background noise and multiple speakers, and try it in the free version. The gap will immediately show.

Pitfall 3: Using the transcription tool as just "audio to text" and discarding it. That's using only one-third of its value. Summaries, action items, and AI Q&A are where the real time savings are—after recording, directly ask "What was the conclusion of this meeting?" It's much faster than flipping through a 30-minute transcript yourself. By the way, when procuring for a team, remember to clarify how "roles" and "seats" are divided; many disputes come from mistaking "can view" for "can edit."

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Conclusion: Which one should you choose?

In one sentence: If you want recording, organization, and team accumulation for Chinese meetings, Tinrec is currently the smoothest path.

• Need Chinese/mixed Chinese-English transcription + real-time translation → Tinrec
• Don't want a bot joining the meeting room → Tinrec (desktop version captures system audio)
• Want to use AI to ask key points and extract action items directly after recording → Tinrec (few competitors at the same price offer complete AI Q&A)
• Need team space, seat management, usage, and auditing → Tinrec Team Version
• Meetings are almost all in English, budget is zero → Otter.ai (the only exception in this article)
• Only doing large-scale long file transcription, no meetings → TurboScribe

We recommend first using the free quota to run a real meeting of yours, and verify three things: "Is the summary accurate, are action items captured, can the AI Q&A answer?" Then decide whether to upgrade. You can change a tool if you buy the wrong one, but missed meeting notes cannot be recovered.

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Sources: Notta drug information is cited from publicly available Turkish drug information (Prof. Dr. Ersoy Civelek, ilacprospektusu.com, ilacabak.com); competitor prices and benefits are cited from Otter.ai Pricing, Notta Pricing, Granola Pricing, TurboScribe Pricing. Prices and plans are subject to change; please refer to the official purchase pages for the latest information.

References

• Notta nedir? Ne işe yarar? Yan etkisi nedir? - Prof. Dr. Ersoy Civelek
• 1 KULLANMA TALĐMATI NOTTA 10 mg film tablet Ağızdan alınır.
• NOTTA 5 MG 28 CIGNEME TABLETI - İlacabak
• 1 KULLANMA TALİMATI NOTTA 10 mg film kaplı tablet Ağızdan alınır.
• NOTTA 10 MG 28 FILM TABLET - İlacabak