6 ClovaNote Alternatives Compared (2026): Languages, Free Tiers & Meeting Bots

NAVER's ClovaNote earned its place: it's free, it's fast, and for Korean voice notes it's the default — its consumer app has over a million downloads. But it transcribes a deliberately short list of languages — Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese — and it's built around NAVER's ecosystem. If you've bumped into those edges, the good news is that the AI meeting-note space is crowded with strong options.

I run Subanana, one of the tools in this comparison, so read the Subanana section with that in mind — I've tried to give every other tool its honest due. This comparison cites each tool's published pages (checked 15 July 2026); it is not a benchmark. The only reliable accuracy test is your own audio on each tool's free tier, so treat the free tiers below as your shortlist.

What to look for in a ClovaNote alternative

ClovaNote does three things well: it's free, it captures voice cleanly, and it handles Korean natively. When you outgrow it, it's usually for one of these reasons — so judge alternatives on the same axes:

• Language coverage — do you need more than Korean/English/Japanese/Chinese, or a specific language handled as its own entry (Cantonese as distinct from Mandarin, say)?
• Free tier — how many minutes, and what's capped (per-session length, exports, AI summaries)?
• Meeting capture — do you need a bot that joins Zoom / Teams / Meet, or is upload-and-transcribe enough?

The six tools below split cleanly along those lines.

LINE WORKS AiNote — the official successor

If you want the closest thing to ClovaNote itself, AiNote is it: LINE WORKS positions it as the corporate version of "CLOVA Note β." It supports four languages — Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean — and its free plan gives 300 shared transcription minutes a month, capped at 60 minutes per session for up to 30 users (no AI summary or automatic speaker identification on the free tier). Paid plans start at ¥1,440/month for the Solo tier.

Best for: Korean- and Japanese-language teams who want the official ClovaNote lineage in a corporate account.

Notta — broadest bot coverage in Asia-Pacific

Notta is the strongest all-rounder for multilingual meetings. It supports 58 languages for transcription and translation, and its meeting bot joins four platforms — Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Webex — which is wider bot coverage than most tools here. The free plan is genuinely usable for evaluation but tightly capped: 120 transcription minutes a month, a 3-minute limit per conversation, 50 file uploads and 10 AI summaries a month. Paid plans lift those caps (priced in your local currency).

Best for: teams across Asia-Pacific who need broad language support and a bot that joins whatever platform the meeting lands on.

Otter.ai — the English-first meeting assistant

Otter is the most polished option for English-language meetings, with real-time capture and a built-in AI assistant. Its free plan gives 300 monthly transcription minutes plus 3 lifetime imports; Pro is US$16.99/user/month (US$8.33 billed annually) and Business is US$30/user/month (US$19.99 annually). One honest limit for a ClovaNote switcher: Otter's language list is English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and a single generic "Chinese" — there's no separate Cantonese entry, and Asian-language depth is narrower than the Asia-built tools here.

Best for: English-language team meetings where a live assistant and integrations matter more than language breadth.

Fireflies.ai — widest language net + CRM

Fireflies leans into integrations and reach: transcription in 100+ languages, a bot for Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, and deep CRM sync. Its free plan is US$0 with 400 minutes of storage per team and 20 AI credits; Pro is US$10/seat/month billed annually — the cheapest paid entry of the mainstream Western tools here.

Best for: sales and revenue teams that want conversation data flowing into a CRM, plus the broadest raw language count.

tl;dv — the most generous free tier

If your priority is capturing everything without paying, tl;dv is hard to beat: its free plan includes unlimited video recordings and unlimited transcription in 30+ languages, with 10 meetings of AI notes. Paid tiers add the heavier AI features.

Best for: individuals who record a lot of calls and want an uncapped free recorder before deciding on AI features.

Subanana — language breadth + Chinese register output

Subanana (the tool I run) is a browser-based transcription and meeting product built around two strengths that matter once you outgrow ClovaNote's four-language scope. First, breadth: 95+ languages, with the source model chosen per language rather than a single engine for everything. Second, Chinese handling: for Cantonese audio, Subanana can output the text either as spoken Cantonese (口語) or as Standard Written Chinese (書面語) — the "spoken-Cantonese in, written-Chinese out" case that a generic Chinese setting doesn't cover.

Beyond that: the meeting summary lets you pick which language model writes it (the one place in the product where you choose the model), the transcript editor has an in-app AI chat, and there's a browser-based live caption mode with an audience-facing QR share link. The meeting bot joins Google Meet and Microsoft Teams and works post-production (it records and creates a project after the meeting — it is not a live-captioning bot, and there is no Zoom bot); for Zoom or Webex you record and upload. The cheapest paid plan is Lite at US$9/month billed annually.

Where Subanana is the wrong fit: it's a metered service, not an all-you-can-eat free app — the free tier previews the result so you can check quality, but exporting a file or copying the text is a paid feature. If you want a genuinely free, Korean-native note app, ClovaNote itself is hard to beat.

Comparison at a glance

So which should you pick?

• You want the official ClovaNote lineage, in Korean and Japanese → LINE WORKS AiNote.
• You run multilingual meetings and need a bot for any platform → Notta.
• Your meetings are in English and you want a live assistant → Otter.ai.
• You're a sales team that needs CRM sync and the most languages → Fireflies.
• You just want to record everything for free → tl;dv.
• You need 95+ languages, Cantonese-to-written-Chinese output, and to choose your summary model → Subanana — with the caveat that exports sit behind a paid plan.

There's no single winner here — there's the tool that fits how you actually work. Run your own audio through two or three free tiers before you commit.

Frequently asked questions

Is ClovaNote free? NAVER's consumer ClovaNote app is free and widely used, and it transcribes Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese. NAVER also runs a separate business version through NAVER WORKS; for current individual plan details, check NAVER's own pages, as they change.

What's the best ClovaNote alternative for multiple languages? For raw language count, Fireflies (100+) and Subanana (95+) lead; Notta's 58 languages come with the widest meeting-bot coverage. If your need is specifically Cantonese handled distinctly from Mandarin — including written-Chinese output — that's where Subanana's Chinese support goes further than a generic "Chinese" setting.

Which ClovaNote alternatives have a free tier? All six here do, but they cap different things: tl;dv gives unlimited free recording; Otter and AiNote give 300 free minutes a month; Notta gives 120 (with a 3-minute per-conversation limit); Fireflies is free with storage and AI-credit caps; Subanana's free tier previews the result but keeps export behind a paid plan.

Do these tools record Zoom meetings? Notta, Otter, Fireflies and tl;dv offer Zoom bots. Subanana's bot covers Google Meet and Microsoft Teams (post-production, not live) — for Zoom you record the meeting and upload the file.

Whichever you choose, the honest test is the same: put your own meeting audio through the free tier and see which transcript you'd actually trust. If broad language coverage or Chinese register output is your sticking point, try Subanana's free tier alongside the others.