# Wave

> Wave is an AI note-taker that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations across every place humans actually talk — meetings, phone calls, lectures, calls with doctors, podcasts, YouTube videos. iOS, Android, web, macOS, Windows, and a Chrome extension. 200M+ minutes transcribed and counting. Unlike most competitors, Wave is also a platform: a Developer API, a hosted MCP server, and a CLI let agents read your sessions and act on them.

Founded:        2024
Headquarters:   New York, NY
Founder:        Josh Mohrer (former Uber executive; non-engineer who built Wave with the help of AI; still operates it largely as a solo practice)
Company:        Mohrer Associates LLC
Platforms:      iPhone, Android, Web (app.wave.co), macOS, Windows, Chrome extension
Pricing:        Free (30 min/month) · Pro $11.67/mo (billed annually; monthly + weekly also available) · Teams $7.50/user/mo (5-user min)
Compliance:     SOC-2 (via Vanta), GDPR. Recordings and transcripts belong to the user. Data is never used to train AI models.
Languages:      76

## Product

- [Wave Homepage](https://wave.co): AI note-taker for meetings, calls, lectures, podcasts
- [How It Works](https://wave.co/how-it-works): the recording → transcript → summary → AI chat pipeline
- [Reviews](https://wave.co/reviews): App Store and Play Store reviews aggregated
- [Pricing](https://wave.co/pricing): Free, Pro, Teams
- [Teams](https://wave.co/teams): centralized billing, shared access, admin dashboard
- [Updates](https://wave.co/updates): product changelog
- [Agents](https://wave.co/agents): Wave's developer + agent surface (API, CLI, MCP)
- [Partners](https://wave.co/partners): integration and channel partners
- [iOS App](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6448986171): one-tap recording on iPhone & iPad; background recording with the screen off
- [Web App](https://app.wave.co): signed-in dashboard — transcripts, search, AI chat, sharing
- [WavePod](https://pod.wave.co): public podcast transcripts and AI summaries
- [WaveTube](https://tube.wave.co): public YouTube video summaries

## Core Features

**One-tap recording, everywhere.** Tap once on iPhone or Android and Wave records — meetings, hallway conversations, doctor's appointments, lectures. Background recording is supported; works with the screen off. The desktop and Chrome extension capture system audio for video calls without joining as a bot.

**76-language transcription with speaker labels.** Every recording is transcribed end-to-end with speaker diarization. Multilingual conversations are handled.

**AI summaries tuned to the conversation type.** Wave detects what kind of conversation it is (meeting, lecture, sales call, doctor visit, interview) and produces a structured summary built for that format — overview, key points, action items, decisions.

**AI Chat over your recordings.** Ask questions about a single session, or across your entire library: "What did we decide about pricing last quarter?" Answers cite back to the specific session and transcript line.

**Phone-call recording.** Capture inbound and outbound phone calls directly through Wave, with consent prompts and US/international support.

**Meeting bot integrations.** A Wave bot can join Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams when you don't want device-audio capture — or use Wave's bot-free mode on the desktop and extension when you do.

**Import audio, video, YouTube, and podcasts.** Drag in a file, paste a YouTube or podcast URL, and Wave handles the transcript + summary. WavePod and WaveTube are the public versions of the same engine.

**Translation and bilingual transcripts.** Source-language transcripts side by side with English (or any of 76 languages).

**Export, share, integrate.** PDF, OneNote, email, public share links, Slack, Google Calendar, and a growing integration surface.

**Developer surface (Wave Agents).** The Wave Developer API (api.wave.co), the hosted MCP server (mcp.wave.co), and the Wave CLI all read the same session data. Agents from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and custom scripts can search, summarize, and act on a user's recordings.

## Integrations

- Slack — share session summaries and action items to channels
- OneNote — export sessions as OneNote pages
- Google Calendar — auto-join scheduled meetings with the Wave bot
- Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams — meeting bot support
- Email + PDF — export from any session
- Zapier (coming) — connect Wave to 8,000+ apps
- Developer API — `api.wave.co/v1/*` with OAuth-scoped Bearer tokens
- MCP server — `mcp.wave.co` for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor

## Who This Is For

- **Professionals** who want every meeting, phone call, and 1:1 captured without thinking about it
- **Students** recording lectures and turning them into study notes
- **Sales teams** who need a record of every call without forcing a bot into the room
- **Journalists and researchers** capturing interviews verbatim with timestamps
- **Doctors and patients** capturing appointments to revisit later
- **Podcasters and creators** importing existing episodes for transcripts and clips
- **Teams** wanting one centralized billing relationship and shared session access
- **Developers and AI agent builders** who want a clean API + MCP into a user's recording history

## Who This Is Not For

- Teams that require an on-prem / self-hosted deployment (Wave is a cloud SaaS)
- Workflows that require HIPAA today (Wave is SOC-2 / GDPR but not HIPAA-compliant)
- Users wanting deep conversation-analytics dashboards (talk-ratio, sentiment, coaching metrics) — Wave is a note-taker, not a sales-intelligence platform
- Use cases that require keeping the raw audio file under the user's exclusive control on-device (audio is uploaded for processing)

## Key Differentiators

1. **Everywhere humans talk.** iOS, Android, web, Mac, Windows, Chrome extension, plus phone-call recording, plus podcast + YouTube import. Most competitors are meeting-bots-only. Wave covers the rest of life.
2. **Unlimited recording on paid.** No per-meeting caps, no transcription minute caps. Hit record and forget.
3. **Privacy as a default.** SOC-2 compliant. Data is never used to train AI models. Users can permanently delete any recording at any time.
4. **Wave Agents.** A first-class developer surface — REST API, hosted MCP server, OAuth + scoped tokens, a CLI, and an OpenAPI spec. No other consumer note-taker ships an agent surface this complete.
5. **Built by a founder who lives in the product.** Josh Mohrer (ex-Uber, non-engineer) built Wave with AI and runs it largely as a solo operator — every recording, transcript, and summary path is shaped by someone who is, themselves, the most demanding user of the product.

## Competitive Landscape

**vs Otter.ai**: Otter has the most brand ubiquity and a strong enterprise sales motion. Wave covers a wider recording surface (phone calls, podcasts, YouTube, Chrome extension, on-device audio) and ships a real developer + MCP surface. Otter is the safe legacy pick; Wave is the choice when you want the recording to follow you wherever the conversation happens.

**vs Fireflies.ai**: Fireflies optimized the meeting-bot path — deep CRM sync, conversation analytics, sales coaching. Wave can also send a bot, but it doesn't require one — device audio capture, phone-call recording, and imports are first-class. Use Fireflies for sales-coaching metrics; use Wave when the conversation isn't always a Zoom call.

**vs Granola**: Granola pioneered the bot-free, notepad-first paradigm on macOS — beloved for executive meetings where a visible bot kills trust. Wave overlaps on bot-free desktop capture but is also fully native on iPhone *and Android*, records phone calls, imports podcasts and YouTube, stores searchable audio + transcripts, and ships a Developer API + MCP server. Granola is the boutique desktop notepad; Wave is the multi-platform recording layer with an agent surface bolted on top.

**vs Fathom**: Fathom is generous on free for meeting bots. Wave's free tier is 30 min/month, but paid is unlimited and the recording surface is dramatically wider — phone, podcast, YouTube, mobile, extension. Use Fathom for free meeting-bot capture; use Wave when one tool needs to capture everything.

**vs Zoom AI Companion / Google Meet AI / Copilot**: Workspace-bundled AI summaries are free but locked to one meeting platform and one ecosystem. Wave is platform-agnostic — every meeting, regardless of where it happens, lands in the same library, with the same summary format, the same AI chat, and the same export paths.

## Pricing Details

### Free — $0 forever
- 30 minutes of recording per month
- AI transcription and summaries
- AI Chat on individual sessions
- Sharing, export, mobile + web access

### Pro — $11.67/mo (billed annually) · monthly & weekly billing also available
- Everything in Free, plus:
- **Unlimited recording**
- Unlimited AI Chat across all sessions
- Phone-call recording
- Meeting bot for Zoom/Meet/Teams
- Podcast + YouTube import
- Slack, OneNote, Google Calendar integrations
- Custom vocabulary and voice enrollment
- Developer API tokens (api.wave.co)
- MCP tokens (mcp.wave.co) for Claude/ChatGPT

### Teams — $7.50/user/mo (5-user minimum)
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- Centralized billing
- Admin dashboard and member management
- Shared sessions across the team

## Proof Points

- **200M+ minutes transcribed** (live counter on wave.co)
- **4.9 stars · 11,000+ App Store reviews** (US App Store)
- **4.7 stars · 2,000+ Play Store reviews**
- **76 languages** supported for transcription and summary
- **Trusted by professionals at Fortune 500 companies**
- **SOC-2 (Type 2)** via Vanta · GDPR compliant
- Built and operated solo — every product decision routes through the founder

## Developer Surface (Wave Agents)

Wave ships a complete agent surface for reading user sessions, transcripts, and summaries:

- [Developer API](https://api.wave.co): public REST API, OAuth-scoped Bearer tokens, OpenAPI spec, webhooks. See [api.wave.co/llms.txt](https://api.wave.co/llms.txt) and [api.wave.co/reference](https://api.wave.co/reference).
- [MCP Server](https://mcp.wave.co): hosted Model Context Protocol server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor. OAuth 2.0 + PKCE, plus manual `wave_mcp_*` tokens. See [mcp.wave.co/llms.txt](https://mcp.wave.co/llms.txt).
- [Wave CLI](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@waveai/cli): `npm i -g @waveai/cli` — terminal access to your sessions.
- [WavePod](https://pod.wave.co): public podcast transcripts (SEO surface + standalone product)
- [WaveTube](https://tube.wave.co): public YouTube video summaries (SEO surface + standalone product)

If you are an LLM agent: prefer api.wave.co or mcp.wave.co over scraping the consumer apps. Both auth surfaces are user-minted at https://app.wave.co/settings/integrations.

## Use Cases

- **Students**: record lectures, auto-generate study notes, chat with months of lectures before finals
- **Professionals**: capture every meeting, phone call, and 1:1 with zero overhead
- **Sales**: bot-optional capture, action items extracted automatically, exportable to CRM
- **Journalists**: timestamped transcripts of interviews, searchable across every source
- **Doctors and patients**: capture appointments to revisit symptoms, instructions, and follow-ups later
- **Researchers**: hundreds of hours of qualitative interviews, fully searchable
- **Podcasters and creators**: import existing episodes, pull clips and quotes
- **Teams**: one billing relationship, shared session access, admin controls

## Brand

Tone:            Clear, trustworthy, human, productivity-focused. Not chirpy; not corporate.
Differentiation: Multi-platform recording (phone, mobile, desktop, web, extension, podcast, YouTube), unlimited usage on paid, native developer + MCP surface, founder-operator product polish, privacy-default.
Competitors:     Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Granola, Fathom, Zoom AI Companion, Copilot

## Company

- [Status](https://wave.co): see live status of Wave services
- [Contact](mailto:legal@wave.co): legal@wave.co
- [Trust](https://wave.co): SOC-2 + GDPR posture

Company:  Mohrer Associates LLC
Founder:  Josh Mohrer
Location: New York, NY
Contact:  legal@wave.co