Hedy AI Review: Your Real-Time AI Meeting Coach

Hedy AI is pitched less as a notetaker and more as a live coach for professional conversations: it listens in on a meeting, call, or interview and surfaces real-time suggestions, questions, and prep notes while you’re still talking, rather than just handing you a transcript afterward. The company behind it, Hedy AI, built it around specialized modes for everything from job interviews to negotiations to spiritual counseling.

Hedy AI offers a free plan to start, a Pro plan at $12.99 a month (or $99.99 billed annually), and a Lifetime plan at $299 one-time that unlocks every feature with no recurring fees.

What is Hedy AI?

Hedy AI falls under the AI Notetakers category, though its own positioning is broader — it leans on “coaching” language more than competitors that focus purely on transcription and summaries. The company is based in Portland, Oregon, founded June 1, 2024, and remains a small team of 1-10 people, led by founder Julian Pscheid, who describes it as a response to unproductive meetings and language barriers.

The problem it targets is the moment in a meeting, interview, or negotiation where you need to think on your feet — the vendor’s answer is proactive, in-the-moment prompts instead of a recap you only get to use next time. Hedy AI is aimed at the same buyers who’d otherwise reach for a general AI notetaker and then separately wish it did more during the call, not just after.

Key features

Specialized modes for different conversations

Rather than one generic transcription mode, Hedy AI offers session types including Business, Coaching & Mentoring, Job Interview (Candidate), Negotiation, Journalism, Healthcare, Spiritual Teaching, Recruitment, Personal Conversations, Lectures, and Solo Brainstorming, each tuned to surface different kinds of prompts.

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Real-time coaching during the call

Automatic Suggestions deliver proactive coaching without you having to ask anything, alongside AI-crafted responses to tricky questions, custom quick prompts, and a one-tap Highlights feature to flag key moments as they happen. The free plan includes real-time insights for the first 30 minutes of a session; Pro and Lifetime remove that cap along with the meeting-length limit entirely.

Staying organized across sessions

Hedy AI groups related conversations into Topics, generates automatic prep notes before a meeting starts, and lets you chat across multiple past sessions at once. Data exports in Markdown, CSV, or JSON, and it can also import and analyze YouTube videos.

Automation and integrations

Session summaries can flow into your note-taking app, create tasks automatically from action items, or post into Slack. Zapier, n8n, webhooks, a developer REST API, and an MCP Server (for connecting Hedy’s data to AI tools like Claude) round out the automation layer, and an EU Data Residency option lets European users keep conversation data on EU servers.

Plans and pricing

Hedy AI runs a simple three-tier structure: a free plan to try it, a Pro subscription billed monthly or annually, and a Lifetime plan for anyone who wants every feature with a single payment and no renewals. A Teams option is currently in preview.

Who it’s best for — and who should skip it

Hedy AI suits consultants, project managers, and remote teams, and the specialized session modes back that up — negotiation and job-interview modes in particular serve a different buyer than a plain meeting-notes app. Anyone who regularly walks into calls where the stakes are high and improvisation is costly is the clearest fit.

It’s a weaker pick if all you need is a straightforward transcript-and-summary tool with no interest in real-time prompting, since the coaching layer is Hedy AI’s whole premise. Windows users should also note the desktop app is still in beta, behind the more mature Mac, iOS, Android, and web versions.

What users say

Hedy AI holds a 4.7-out-of-5 rating across 218 user reviews, with 195 of those at five stars. Reviewers point to exceptional note-taking, real-time insights, and accurate transcriptions as the recurring praise, with limited search functionality and occasional recording issues as the main complaints.

Founder responsiveness is unusually visible here — Julian Pscheid has personally replied to 9 reviews. In one thread, a buyer flagged a delay when starting or resuming recordings; Julian asked for device details and app version to track it down rather than offering a generic response. Another reviewer, self-described as someone who “hates computers,” called the install glitch-free and said Hedy AI noticed enough nuance to suggest switching session modes mid-use.

Price and value

With a usable free tier, a Pro plan under $13 a month, and a $299 one-time Lifetime option for anyone who wants to stop thinking about renewals, Hedy AI’s pricing scales comfortably from occasional use to daily reliance. For anyone who sits in enough calls to make real-time coaching worth the setup, the unlimited sessions and meeting length on Pro and Lifetime remove the usual subscription math entirely.

Verdict

Hedy AI’s real-time coaching angle sets it apart from plain AI notetakers, and a 218-review track record with visibly engaged founders backs up the core promise. With a free plan to try it and a straightforward Lifetime option beyond that, it’s a strong pickup for consultants, PMs, and anyone who needs to perform, not just remember, in their meetings.