Does Wave's free plan cover a full meeting?
Barely: Wave's free plan allows 30 minutes of recording per month, so one standard meeting uses it up; Pro is $11.67 per month billed yearly. Wave's pricing page lists the limit, and its Mac app does record microphone and system audio without a bot, which makes it a fair comparison to Audiee.ai on capture. The difference is the allowance and what happens after. Audiee.ai's free plan is 3 transcription hours and 20 meetings a month — dictation shares the hours, questions and sharing are not metered — and Pro at $19 raises it to 25 hours. After the transcript, Audiee.ai writes a summary with action items and files the meeting into a knowledge base of Markdown files on your Mac, with people and project pages and answers that cite the source meeting; Mandarin and Cantonese are recognized alongside English, and a local MCP server exposes it all to Claude Code and Cursor. If you have one short call a month, Wave's free tier is enough; for a working week it is not. Record a normal week on Audiee.ai free and read the usage strip.
Checked September 2026. Numbers about other products link to the page they came from.
“No bot joins the call”
— Wave help: recording on Mac without a bot, checked September 2026
Key facts
- Wave: bot-free Mac recording; free 30 min/month; Pro $11.67/month yearly (checked September 2026).
- Audiee.ai: Free 3 h and 20 meetings/month; Pro $19 (25 h); files on your Mac; memory; EN/ZH/YUE; MCP.
Who this fits
People sizing a free plan against a real calendar.
Next step
See is Audiee.ai's free plan enough.