Otter.ai, the company behind the leading AI meeting and lecture notetaker, today announced a Back to School promotion offering eligible students 50% off an annual Pro plan, giving them a full academic year of AI-powered notetaking, transcription, and study tools at half the price. Otter is already used by millions of students across hundreds of colleges and universities.

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Otter.ai announced a Back to School promotion offering eligible students 50% off an annual Pro plan, giving them a full academic year of AI-powered notetaking, transcription, and study tools at half the price.

Otter.ai announced a Back to School promotion offering eligible students 50% off an annual Pro plan, giving them a full academic year of AI-powered notetaking, transcription, and study tools at half the price.

The offer arrives as students head back to campus for the fall semester and face a familiar challenge: keeping up with fast-moving lectures. Otter is designed to not only capture lectures but turn them into action:

  • Automatic notetaking. Otter records and transcribes class automatically, whether in person or over a virtual meeting platform.

  • From lecture to study guide. Notes are turned into study guides, quizzes, and exam prep sheets, generated automatically or with a single prompt.

  • Accurate to the source. Built-in speaker identification ensures every point is attributed to the right person, so study materials stay accurate to what the professor actually said, not generic AI output.

  • Ask across the whole semester. AI Chat lets students ask questions across every class they’ve recorded, not just a single lecture, and points back to the exact moment in a recording where an answer came from.

“For many students, the skills that matter most in school are the same ones that carry into their careers: staying organized, retaining information, and being able to quickly find and act on what was said in a lecture or meeting,” said Sam Liang, co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai. “By capturing class automatically and turning it into searchable, structured material, students learn to treat AI as a tool for deeper understanding, not a shortcut around it.”

Availability

The offer is available now through eligible .edu email addresses through the end of September 2026. This builds on Otter.ai’s previous student discount, which provided 20% off Pro plans (monthly and annual) automatically applied to .edu email addresses. For more information, visit here.

About Otter.ai

Otter.ai is the AI notetaker that turns conversations into action. With over 40 million users and 1 billion+ meetings transcribed, Otter captures, connects, and activates the knowledge from every meeting, lecture, and conversation into searchable intelligence, automated action items, and agentic workflows. Otter is used by millions of students across hundreds of colleges and universities to capture lectures and turn them into study guides, quizzes, and exam-ready material, as well as by professionals and businesses of every size to capture meetings, interviews, and briefings. Backed by Spectrum Equity, Horizon Ventures, and Draper Associates. Otter.ai is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

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