Free AI Progress Note Generator for Therapists
Generate SOAP, DAP, BIRP, and GIRP progress notes in CBT, ACT, or DBT framing. Free for ten sessions every month, no credit card required. Built for therapy practices, not generic medical scribing.
What is actually free
A working tool, not a 14-day trial.
The free plan is a permanent tier. Ten sessions per month, every month, with the same note-generation engine the paid plans use. No watermark on exports, no "powered by" tag, no countdown. We built it this way because the only honest way to evaluate a therapy AI is to run it on your own sessions.
- ✓ 10 AI-generated progress notes per month
- ✓ SOAP, DAP, BIRP, and GIRP formats
- ✓ In-session transcription and structured note draft
- ✓ Modality-aware drafting for CBT, ACT, and DBT
- ✓ Edit, export, and sign in the browser
- ✓ Export to PDF or your EHR
- ✓ HIPAA-aligned encryption and infrastructure
- ✓ No credit card required to start
From sign-up to signed note
Four steps. Most therapists are done within ten minutes of signing up.
Sign up free
No credit card. Pick your default note format (SOAP is most common) and your default modality (CBT, ACT, DBT, or general). Two minutes from sign-up to first session.
Run a session
Open the session in the browser, enable the microphone, talk normally. The Therapy Agent runs silently. No on-screen prompts during the session unless you ask for them.
Get the note draft
When the session ends, a structured progress note is waiting in your chosen format with treatment-plan goals referenced (when applicable on paid plans) and risk language flagged.
Edit, export, sign
Read it, make small edits if you want, sign. Export to PDF, Word, or copy into your EHR. Most therapists are done within three minutes of the session ending.
Free vs paid, plainly
What the free plan does, and what it does not.
The free plan covers the core: progress note generation across all four formats. Paid adds the ongoing workflow: unlimited notes, between-session engagement, EHR integrations, BAA, audio backfill, and the multi-clinician practice features.
| Capability | Free plan | Paid plans (Starter / Professional / Enterprise) |
|---|---|---|
| AI-drafted progress notes | 10 per month | Unlimited |
| SOAP / DAP / BIRP / GIRP formats | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-session transcription | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live in-session intervention prompts | — | On demand |
| Treatment-plan continuity (Planning Agent) | — | ✓ |
| Between-session client engagement (Engagement Agent) | — | ✓ |
| Audio backfill (upload past sessions, generate notes) | — | ✓ |
| Direct EHR integrations (SimplePractice, TherapyNotes, Jane, Halaxy) | Manual export | ✓ |
| Business Associate Agreement (BAA) | — | ✓ (Professional+) |
| Multi-clinician practice management | — | ✓ (Professional+) |
| Custom EHR / API connectors | — | Enterprise only |
Full pricing on the pricing page. Most clinicians who upgrade do so because they want unlimited notes plus the BAA, not because they ran out of features.
Free tier reality, Emosapien vs the alternatives.
Most therapy-specific tools offer a trial; only one offers an ongoing free tier. The honest comparison.
| Free-tier capability | Emosapien | Upheal | Mentalyc | Blueprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier (ongoing, not just a trial) 10 progress notes per month, every month, no countdown clock | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | Not available |
| No credit card required to start Sign up and use the tool without any payment information | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | Not available |
| All four note formats on the free tier SOAP, DAP, BIRP, and GIRP, switchable per client | Fully supported | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| In-session transcription on free Live transcription in the browser, no upload step | Fully supported | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Modality-aware drafting (CBT / ACT / DBT) Note language reflects the modality you actually practise | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | Not available |
Why this list excludes general medical scribes. Heidi, Nuance DAX, Suki, Abridge, and Freed all run free trials too, but they are not built for therapy. Their note formats default to medical SOAP, not therapy SOAP, and they do not handle BIRP, GIRP, modality framing, or the psychotherapy-notes / progress-notes split. Wrong free tool for this job.
I tried four AI note tools in my first year of solo practice. The other three timed out my trial before I felt comfortable using them on real sessions. Emosapien gave me ten sessions a month, every month. That is what let me actually evaluate it instead of rushing the decision.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Ten progress notes per month, every month, no credit card required. The free plan is not a trial. It is a permanent tier. We use it because the easiest way to evaluate a therapy AI is to run it on your own sessions, and we did not want a 14-day clock pushing that decision.
No. Exported PDFs and copy-pasted notes do not carry a "powered by" tag. The note belongs to you and your client.
The free plan uses the same encryption and infrastructure as paid, but it does not include a Business Associate Agreement (BAA). For practice that handles PHI under HIPAA, you need a BAA; that is on the Professional plan ($79/mo/seat). The free plan suits private-pay solo practice or evaluation use.
You can keep transcribing sessions, but the AI note generation pauses for the rest of the month. Your account does not lock. You can keep editing existing notes, exporting, and using the platform. The 10-session limit resets the first of every month.
All four: SOAP, DAP, BIRP, and GIRP. Switch per client or per session. The documentation hub has a format-by-format guide if you are deciding which fits your caseload.
Audio backfill is on the Professional and Enterprise plans. The free plan generates notes from sessions run live in the browser. If you need to backfill 50 sessions of historical notes, that is a Professional-plan workflow.
No. On the free plan, the Therapy Agent runs silently in the background. No audible cues, no on-screen pop-ups. The note is ready when the session ends. Live in-session prompts are an opt-in feature on the Professional plan.
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