PlainScribe

About PlainScribe

PlainScribe is an AI transcription and translation service built around two decisions that most of the category made the other way: no subscription, and no retention. You top up a prepaid credit balance instead of committing to a monthly plan, and every transcript auto-deletes after seven days while the raw recording is removed as soon as processing finishes. Both are defaults for every account including the free trial, not enterprise add-ons buried behind a sales call. Upload one audio or video file and the finished bundle comes back in minutes: a transcript the vendor rates up to 99% accurate, translation across 47 languages with automatic source-language detection, an AI summary, and subtitles ready to drop into an editor. Exports cover TXT, CSV, SRT, VTT and JSON, and the upload ceiling is 200MB per file. The privacy posture goes one step further than the deletion policy — paying users get PlainScribe Desktop, a local transcription app the vendor prices at $49 standalone, which keeps genuinely sensitive recordings from ever leaving the machine. That combination is the reason to look at it over Otter, Rev, Descript or Sonix: those either bill monthly regardless of how many hours you actually run, or retain by default. PlainScribe's own comparison table puts it at $0.067 per minute against Rev's $0.25 for AI transcription and $1.50 for human, and credits stay valid for a full year from purchase rather than expiring with a billing cycle.

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