Info-FOMO is real: you leave 65% of information behind in class.
And no wonder! The volume and speed of the information that you receive makes it harder to learn.
Glean note taking boosts your ability to learn and build knowledge from class.
Follow our note taking process to record audio notes and then identify and summarise key information more effectively.
Just BYOB (that’s Bring Your Own Brain - we’ve got the rest)
Use our step-by-step process to take brief notes and review on-the-go with your mobile companion app, then sync with our web app to make your notes more meaningful.
On our mobile app you can:
Capture information
- Record your class so nothing is missed
- Highlight key information to return to
- Sync seamlessly with the web app to add slides
Refine the important parts
- Return to the highlighted sections
- Listen again and improve your notes
- Understand your next steps
Integrate into your studies
- Regularly revisit to absorb information
- Download your notes to review them anywhere
- Organise into a library of useful information
We’re continually adding new features to help improve your learning, so keep checking in for updates.
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Glean Notes FAQ
Is Glean Notes free?
Yes, Glean Notes is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Glean Notes legit?
🤔 The Glean Notes app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
Please update it to where we can use the Apple Pencil to take notes on the ppt slide that was imported!!! It would make the app so much better. Also I can only import one slide set, it would be nice to be able to import multiple slideshows.
Please give me a response and I’ll change my rating!!!
Thanks
Apple pen functionalities?
Seems like good app for what it is advertised to do, but it doesn’t interface well with the iPad/pencil combo. I’d love it if there was an update to allow handwritten notes within the app and also live captions, again, in app. :)
App is better than website
I use glean for my school and it’s great… only if it’s on phone. When it’s on my laptop or computer it takes forever to load, it overheats my laptop, it doesn’t play my audio recordings and it likes to stop working and freeze up while I use it. So this rating is for the website. Been using it for 2 and a half years now and I always had these problems. Thought it would get better but it seems to only get worse
App crashing
Hello! I love this app and have been using it for my accommodations since 2021. Recently the app has been crashing on me a lot. I always make sure im on the latest update. If I add too many things too fast it will crash. This includes the regular notes, important notes, taking photos, and posting the slides. This is frustrating because I have to be able to add stuff quickly while im in class. If it crashes I then have to go back into the app and resume the recording so it will end up having a gap. I am not sure if it’s an issue with my phone or if it’s the app. I genuinely love glean it has helped me so much with school. Hopefully this can be solved in one way or another.
Needs better photos tool
I’m a user of OneNote by choice, but I’m having to use this app as it was recommended to me by our accessibility department.
In Microsoft OneNote, when I take a picture it has the option to take a photo, a whiteboard shot or a scan, I believe. In the latter of the two cases, it only captures the whiteboard and allows me to adjust for it. Even when taking a picture at an angle, Microsoft OneNote straightens it out as if I’m standing right in front of the board or screen. I would like to see better image capture tools for the app.
Needs pencil integration
I have an account through my university for ADA Accommodations, however, I use my iPad and Apple Pencil for all my notes so I haven’t been able to really use this app since there is no pencil integration.
Making Glean better
If we could edit the transcripts that would really help with clarity as Glean doesn’t always pick up what is being said accurately. Even if we could save and download the transcripts so we could fix it ourselves, that would be absolutely stellar. If you guys could achieve that then this app would definitely be a five star experience in my book.
Why no transcription?
I had given up on glean, and then I saw that you could transcribe and include slides, and I came back for the new semester, ready to try again. But I come to find out the transcription service is only available in the web app. Despite my iPad having 6gb ram and 2.49 gHz, I can’t transcribe. I don't even know if I could view the transcriptions afterwards on my iPad if I put the time in to go to the library to use a computer to transcribe.
It’s not a usefool tool when I have 15 hours a week of transcribed audio and no quick way to go through it. For over a year I have tried to make it work for me. Transcription would save this tool for me, yet Glean doesn’t seem to want to make that an option for all learners, despite transcription coming out months ago.
Can we please download our notes as whole files?
Speech to text is nice, but wish it was available to see on iPhones, as I use that more than computers.
I have been searching for a way to download the audio and text notes together (or at all). I want take the notes I make to use in future classes. Will this ever be a feature? Re-recording the audio, copy/pasting the transcripts and then my actual notes isn’t the same if they aren’t put together.
app not functional
newest update causes the app to crash immediately on startup