Free for licensed therapists
Free DAP Note Generator for Therapists
A free DAP note generator built for therapy sessions, private practice, group work, and skills-led care. Draft Data, Assessment, and Plan from live sessions. Ten notes each month, no credit card, clinician review before signing.
Free is for evaluation, training, or non-PHI use when your practice needs a BAA before PHI is processed.
What is actually free
A working DAP tool, not a 14-day countdown
The free DAP note generator is a permanent tier for therapists who want to test the format on real clinical workflow before upgrading. You get ten AI-generated DAP notes per month, no watermark, and the same live-session drafting engine used on paid plans.
- ✓ 10 AI-generated DAP notes per month, every month
- ✓ DAP as the default format, with SOAP, BIRP, and GIRP available
- ✓ In-session transcription from a live browser session
BAA note: the free plan does not include a Business Associate Agreement. If your covered entity needs a BAA before any PHI is processed, use the free plan only for evaluation, training, or non-PHI contexts until the agreement is in place.
More free-plan details
- ✓ Edit, sign, export to PDF, or copy into your EHR
- ✓ No watermark on exported notes
- ✓ No credit card required to start
- ✓ Free-plan use for evaluation, training, or non-PHI contexts when your practice needs a BAA first
DAP built for therapy
Built around the data-to-reasoning thread
DAP collapses the subjective and objective into a single Data section, so the clinical weight moves into Assessment and Plan. That makes the format a good fit for private practice, ongoing psychotherapy, CBT and ACT work, and any caseload where you trust your own observation discipline and want a faster note that still ties intervention to reasoning.
If you want the clinical reasoning behind the three sections, read the DAP notes guide. If you are deciding whether DAP, SOAP, or BIRP fits a caseload better, use the BIRP vs SOAP vs DAP comparison.
What the client reported and what you observed, combined into one section. Presenting concern, affect, behavior, symptoms, and relevant safety information, kept tight and clinically relevant rather than padded.
Your clinical interpretation of the data, tied to a treatment goal. Progress toward objectives, the working hypothesis, risk reasoning, and the why behind the next care step. This is the load-bearing section of a DAP note.
The intervention delivered, between-session tasks, coordination, risk follow-up, and the focus for the next session. The plan should connect directly to the assessment so the note reads as one clinical thread.
From session to signed note
Three steps from live session to edited DAP draft
Sign up free
No credit card. Choose DAP as your default format, pick the modality language that fits your work, and start with a practice session if you want to test the flow first.
Run the session
Open a live therapy session in the browser, enable the microphone, and work normally. Emosapien listens in the background without interrupting the therapeutic frame.
Review the DAP draft
When the session ends, read the Data, Assessment, and Plan sections. Edit, sign, export, or copy into your EHR. Your license is on the line when the note goes into the chart, so review every section before signing.
Free vs paid, plainly
What the free DAP tier does, and what it does not
The free DAP note generator runs the working clinic loop. Live session transcription, DAP drafting, format switching, editing, and export. Paid plans are for clinics that outgrow that loop. Unlimited notes, BAA, integrations, audio backfill, Planning Agent continuity, and multi-clinician controls.
Free
10 notes each month
Live transcription, DAP drafting, format switching, editing, and manual export are included.
When to upgrade
Unlimited notes and a BAA
Professional and Enterprise add the BAA, integrations, backfill, and practice controls.
Full 10-row free vs paid comparison
| Capability | Free plan | Paid plans |
|---|---|---|
| AI-drafted DAP notes | 10 per month | Unlimited |
| DAP as the default note format | Included | Included |
| SOAP, BIRP, and GIRP available alongside DAP | Included | Included |
| In-session transcription | Included | Included |
| Edit, sign, export, or copy | Included | Included |
| Business Associate Agreement (BAA) | Not included | Professional and Enterprise |
| Direct EHR integrations | Manual export | Included where available |
| Audio backfill from past sessions | Not included | Included |
| Planning Agent continuity | Not included | Included |
| Multi-clinician practice features | Not included | Professional and Enterprise |
Honest comparison
Free DAP support, Emosapien vs the alternatives
The comparison below is limited to the free-tier and DAP-format capabilities a therapist can evaluate before committing to a paid documentation workflow.
Emosapien
Ongoing free DAP support
Ten monthly notes, no card required, and DAP plus SOAP, BIRP, and GIRP in one account.
Alternatives
Partial or unavailable free support
The vendor matrix below shows the public free-tier findings for each capability.
Full 5-row vendor comparison
| Free-tier capability | Emosapien | Upheal | Mentalyc | Blueprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ongoing free tier with DAP support Monthly free note generation rather than only a short trial window | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | Not available |
| No card required to evaluate the note flow A therapist can try the workflow before adding payment information | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | Not available |
| DAP plus SOAP, BIRP, and GIRP in the same account Switch format per client or program without changing tools | Fully supported | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Live browser transcription on the free tier Draft from a live therapy session rather than only an upload workflow | Fully supported | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Therapy-specific format framing Progress-note structure for psychotherapy, group work, and skills-led care | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | Partially supported |
Format family
Use DAP when you want speed without losing the reasoning
Choose DAP when the assessment should carry the clinical reasoning. Choose SOAP when a payer or supervisor needs Subjective and Objective separated.
Explore related note formats
DAP is not the right call when a payer or supervisor requires the explicit Subjective and Objective split. Use SOAP for those charts. For the full format map, see the clinical documentation hub, and for the SOAP default, use the free SOAP note generator.
For one free tool that can draft SOAP, DAP, BIRP, or GIRP, use the free AI progress note generator, or browse the full set on the free tools for therapists hub. If the note should open with the treatment-plan goal, use the free GIRP note generator.
Emosapien drafts the DAP note. You own the clinical judgment and the signed record.
DAP keeps my notes fast because the Data section is one block, not two. Emosapien drafts all three sections, then I sharpen the Assessment wording before I sign.
Documentation workflow
How the AI DAP note generator moves from live session to draft
Your AI DAP note generator follows the three-step workflow above: sign up free, run a live browser session, then review and edit the Data, Assessment, and Plan draft before you sign.
You get 10 AI-generated DAP notes each month, so you can evaluate the workflow in your own practice and keep the clinician review that belongs in your documentation process.
Frequently asked questions
Is the free DAP note generator really free?
Does it write true DAP notes?
Can I switch to SOAP, BIRP, or GIRP?
Is the free plan appropriate for HIPAA covered entities?
What happens after 10 notes?
Does the clinician still review and sign?
A working DAP tool, not a 14-day countdown
The free DAP note generator is a permanent tier for therapists who want to test the format on real clinical workflow before upgrading.