Credits & privacy

What's free vs meteredСкопировать ссылку на раздел

Foxl Notes is built so the door is always open:

• Free, no account needed - opening the app, reading notes, editing, formatting, renaming, exporting, searching, and recording on the default engine.
• Billed by whoever runs the engine - transcription. Amazon bills your own AWS account on the default engine; Deepgram, AssemblyAI, OpenAI, ElevenLabs or Gemini bill the key you use (Gemini's free tier costs nothing), and OpenRouter bills your OpenRouter account's credits; the on-device engine costs nothing. The one exception is the Foxl Relay engine, metered against Foxl credits: it is offered only to accounts Foxl has enabled for it, and an ordinary account does not see it at all.
• Runs on the model provider you supply - AI summaries, titles, coaching reports, live translation, Live Q&A and the assistant. On a Mac with Apple Silicon, a Windows PC or a Linux x64 computer that can be Google's open Gemma 4 on the computer itself, which costs nothing (see Your first note). The exception: on the accounts remote chat is offered to, the phone and app.foxl.ai can have the summary, title, coaching report and speaker names written in the cloud on your Foxl credits while your computer is offline (how).

Nothing in Notes asks you to sign in to Foxl. A Foxl account is only needed for the things that go through Foxl's servers: syncing notes between your computer and your phone, iPad or app.foxl.ai, push notifications to your phone when a transcript or summary finishes, the cloud summaries above, and the Foxl Relay engine on accounts that have it.

What each half costsСкопировать ссылку на раздел

• Transcription costs whatever your engine charges by the minute of audio - Amazon Transcribe streaming rates on your AWS bill by default, your provider's rates on a pasted key, nothing on device. Only Foxl Relay is metered against Foxl credits, by the second.
• AI summaries, titles, coaching reports, live translation, Live Q&A and the assistant cost whatever the provider you set for Foxl Agent charges for the model you picked, on the length of the transcript. A local model (Gemma 4 on this device, Ollama, LM Studio) costs nothing. Lighter models are cheaper and faster; heavier ones produce richer output. Live translation and Live Q&A make many small requests during a meeting, which is why they start on a fast, cheap model (see Choosing a model).

There is no plan to buy. When any engine refuses to keep transcribing - an expired AWS session, a key out of quota, an OpenRouter account without enough credits - Foxl says why and stops the recording; no note is filed and the audio is not kept. AWS account numbers, ARNs and access key ids are removed from that message.

How your audio is handledСкопировать ссылку на раздел

• Audio is streamed for transcription only while you're recording, and only to the engine you chose.
• Amazon Transcribe (default): the Foxl desktop signs a short-lived session with your own AWS credentials and your device streams the audio straight to AWS. Foxl's servers are not in that path. On the phone, your desktop hands over a one-hour, transcribe-only pass so the phone can sign for itself.
• Deepgram, AssemblyAI, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Gemini: your audio goes from your device to your Foxl desktop, which opens the connection to the vendor with your key and passes the audio through. The key is stored encrypted on that computer and is never sent to Foxl. On the iPhone and Android apps (after the App Store update to 0.9.3, or the 0.9.3 APK), a Deepgram, AssemblyAI, OpenAI or ElevenLabs key you paste there is kept in the phone's own secure storage instead, and the audio goes from the phone straight to the vendor, with no computer and no Foxl server in the path; that key is never sent to Foxl either. On Google's free tier, Google may use the audio and transcripts to improve its products; a key on a paid plan is not used that way (Gemini API pricing).
• OpenRouter: your audio goes from your device to your Foxl desktop, which cuts it into passages at the speaker's pauses and sends each passage to OpenRouter with your key; OpenRouter passes it to the company that runs the model you picked. Your OpenRouter account's privacy settings decide which of those companies may receive it; Refuse providers that train on your data in Settings > Model & provider does not cover this audio yet. The key is stored encrypted on that computer and is never sent to Foxl.
• On device: the audio never leaves your computer.
• Foxl Relay (only on accounts that have it): Foxl's relay signs the AWS session on Foxl's own account and counts the seconds; the audio still goes directly from your device to AWS. Foxl never stores your raw audio.
• The transcript, your notes and the recorded audio (so you can play a transcript line back) are kept on the device you recorded on - the desktop app's data folder, the phone app's own storage, or your browser's storage on app.foxl.ai.
• Sync. With Sync notes on (the default, per device, under Settings > Notes > Sync across devices), the note itself - transcript, notes, summary and report, not the audio - also goes to Foxl on your computer, which holds the shared copy and passes it to your other devices. A phone, iPad or browser sends and fetches notes only in requests sealed with the key it shares with your computer (the relay forwards them without it), and Foxl's servers keep none of them; a device with no encrypted connection yet waits rather than sending (see Transport security). The audio stays on the device that recorded it. For a file on disk, auto-save is still the way (see Exporting & saving).
• Deleting a note removes it and its audio from that device, and with sync on the note is deleted on your other devices too (an edit made elsewhere in the meantime wins, and the note comes back). Signing out of the web app clears the notes kept in that browser.
• When you're signed in, Foxl's relay is told when a transcript, summary or report has finished - the note's title and id, nothing else - so it can push a notification to your phone.
• What the AI sees: the transcript or note text, the Background tab, and My context for AI from Settings go to your model provider, or stay on this computer when that model runs on it (Gemma 4 on this device). With Use Foxl Agent tools on (the default), an ask can also read your files and run commands under Settings > Tools/MCP and your permission rules. A summary written in the cloud while your computer is offline sends the note's text to Amazon Bedrock through Foxl Relay, which does not store it.
• With Let Foxl Agent search your notes on (on by default, desktop only), Foxl keeps a copy of each note's title, summary and your own notes - and transcript, with Include transcripts (also on by default) - on this computer so Foxl Agent can search it. Notes the Agent reads go to its model provider like the rest of the chat, unless that model runs on this computer. Turning the option off deletes the copy.
• On the phone and the web, Notes AI replies (summaries, Ask AI answers, reports, automatic titles and live translation) stream back from your desktop through Foxl's relay protected by TLS only, so the relay can read them while they pass. See Transport security.

When everything runs on your computerСкопировать ссылку на раздел

On a Mac with Apple Silicon, a Windows PC or a Linux x64 computer you can keep a meeting on the computer: pick On device (Apple Silicon, offline) (on Windows and Linux, On device (offline)) under Settings > Notes > Recording and download Gemma 4 under Settings > Model & provider > On this device (or press Run Notes on this Mac in first-run setup, or Install both on this Mac on the Notes home; on Windows and Linux, Run Notes on this computer and Install both on this computer).

• The audio, the transcript and the summary stay on the computer. Once installed, the speech engine needs no network, and starting a recording contacts nothing.
• Summaries, coaching reports and the assistant run on Gemma when it is Foxl Agent's model, or when you pick it as the Summary AI model. The Title model, Run live features on and Live translation AI model rows start on Automatic, which prefers a fast model on a cloud provider this computer has set up, such as Amazon Bedrock (AWS keys or a profile) or an Anthropic API key. Pick the Gemma model in each of those rows to keep them on the computer too.
• What still goes online: when you are signed in to Foxl, the relay is told that a transcript, summary or report finished (its title and id) so it can notify your phone; an Outlook calendar or iCal link is read from its provider (see Calendar meetings); a Foxl Agent chat that reads your notes sends what it reads to the model that chat uses; and a phone, iPad or browser that syncs Notes on your account fetches the notes through the relay, sealed as described above.

Cost todayСкопировать ссылку на раздел

Foxl is free and there is no plan to buy. The two halves of Notes are affected differently, because only one of them is model inference:

• Transcription is unaffected. It is a streaming session on the engine you chose, not a model completion, so the default (Amazon Transcribe on your own AWS account) works with no Foxl account at all.
• AI summaries, titles and the assistant run on the provider you set for Foxl Agent, through your desktop - your own key, a local model, or a Claude / ChatGPT subscription. Notes adds no model of its own and no charge of its own, except a summary you have written in the cloud while your computer is offline, on the accounts remote chat is offered to, which uses Foxl credits. With no provider configured, Settings > Notes > AI features shows a notice with a Model & provider button instead of a model list; on the phone or on app.foxl.ai these features also need your computer reachable over the desktop relay.

See Cost & model access for the ways to supply a model and for what the refusal looks like.