AI Meeting Notes - Tablo

In the App Store “Tablo - AI Transcription” Information shows under In-App Purchases - Yes. When you click on that to see more information it says: Pro Account $0.00, 300 Minutes $5.99, 120 Minutes $2.99, and 60 Minutes $1.99. To use this App for any purposes, the transcription is charged by the minute. The 300, 120, and 60 Minutes pricing listed is correct. However, the Pro Account $0.00” for Minutes is NOT correct! Whether the developer has wittingly or unwittingly made this deception, either way, please be aware that when you purchase a Pro Account, unlimited or free minutes is NOT a benefit! There is no way to use this App other than to buy Minutes as detailed above! Even though I have the Pro Account, I am deleting the App right now! I can’t afford the Minutes!

Even with the pro upgrade, you still have to pay per minute. Comes with 60 minutes free but after that, if you use this a lot it could get pricy. They should have a monthly cost, not per minute cost. I’ll find an alternative solution. Deleting.

This seems pretty scammy to me. I downloaded Tablo for free through a promotional offer so I suppose I should praise the app, but I won’t. My first disappointment was to learn that the developers load the app with only sixty minutes of recording time. Additional minutes can be purchased at the following rates: 60 mins - $1.99, 120 mins - $2.99, 300 mins - $5.99. All that is on top of the $7.99 initial cost of the app. Moreover, there appears to be an additional expenditure if the buyer wishes to share transcriptions, export with email and PDF, iCloud sync or create custom vocabulary. (This was touted as free to me for responding to the promotion, so the normal cost of this “premium upgrade” was not revealed.) The worst part of this rather costly translation app is that it apparently doesn’t translate TO English. Yup, it can translate from, say, Russian to Korean, but there exists no option to provide an English translation. Not only is the app useless to me after burning through an hour of recording (I will not be purchasing extra minutes), but I felt obliged to use precious free time to write this review, warning strangers of its ongoing costs.