SOAP Note Generator for Therapists
A soap note generator built for therapy sessions, not generic medical scribing. CBT, ACT, and DBT framing. Ten free SOAP notes every month, no credit card required.
How it works
Three steps from live session to signed SOAP draft
Sign up free
No credit card. SOAP is the default note format. Pick your default modality (CBT, ACT, DBT, or general) and you are ready. 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 in the background. No on-screen prompts unless you ask for them.
Review the SOAP draft
When the session ends, a structured SOAP note is waiting. Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan. Modality-aware language. Risk language flagged. Edit, sign, export, done within three minutes.
Therapy SOAP, not medical SOAP
A SOAP draft that reads like a therapy progress note
Generic medical scribes default to medical SOAP: chief complaint, vitals, exam findings, plan of care. Useful in a primary-care visit, wrong shape for a therapy session. This soap note generator produces therapy SOAP from the first draft.
Client-reported content. Mood, presenting concerns, between-session events, the homework they actually did or did not do, and quoted language where it informs formulation.
Observed affect, behavior, mental status, engagement, and risk indicators. Not vitals. Therapist-observed clinical signals written so an auditor can follow them.
Your clinical formulation in your modality. CBT conceptualization, ACT functional analysis, or DBT skills tracking. Modality shows up in the language, not as a sticker.
Intervention used, homework assigned, next-session focus, treatment-plan goals referenced when applicable on paid plans, and any safety follow-up. Concrete and actionable.
The full structure, with worked examples by presenting concern, lives in the SOAP notes guide. For the product workflow beyond the free tier, see AI SOAP notes for therapy practices.
What you get
A working free SOAP tool, not a 14-day trial
The free plan is a permanent tier. Ten SOAP notes per month, every month, with the same note-generation engine the paid plans use. No watermark on exports, no countdown. This soap note generator lets you run real sessions and read the drafts it produces.
- ✓ SOAP notes drafted from each live session (default format)
- ✓ Switch to DAP, BIRP, GIRP, or PIE per client when needed
- ✓ 10 AI-generated session notes per month, every month
- ✓ Therapy SOAP framing for CBT, ACT, and DBT
- ✓ In-session transcription with the structured draft ready when you finish
- ✓ Edit, sign, and export to PDF or copy into your EHR
- ✓ HIPAA-aligned encryption and infrastructure
- ✓ No credit card required to start
Free vs paid, plainly
What the free SOAP tier does, and what it does not
The free plan covers the core: SOAP note generation per session, in therapy framing. Paid adds the ongoing workflow. Unlimited notes, between-session engagement, EHR integrations, the BAA, audio backfill, and multi-clinician practice features.
| Capability | Free plan | Paid plans (Starter / Professional / Enterprise) |
|---|---|---|
| AI-drafted SOAP notes | 10 per month | Unlimited |
| SOAP as the default note format | ✓ | ✓ |
| DAP / BIRP / GIRP / PIE available alongside SOAP | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-session transcription | ✓ | ✓ |
| Therapy SOAP framing (CBT / ACT / DBT) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live in-session intervention prompts | ✗ | On demand |
| Treatment-plan continuity (Planning Agent) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Between-session client engagement (Engagement Agent) | ✗ | ✓ (Professional+) |
| Audio backfill (upload past sessions, draft SOAP notes) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Direct EHR integrations (SimplePractice live; TherapyNotes and Jane in beta; more on the roadmap) | Manual export | ✓ |
| Business Associate Agreement (BAA) | ✗ | ✓ (Professional+) |
| Multi-clinician practice management | ✗ | ✓ (Professional+) |
Ongoing free SOAP drafts, not a countdown trial
Emosapien gives you ongoing free SOAP drafts with therapy framing, ten a month with no countdown. For a side-by-side AI SOAP buying guide, open the AI SOAP note generator comparison.
| Free-tier capability | Emosapien | Upheal | Mentalyc | Blueprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier with SOAP support (ongoing, not just a trial) 10 SOAP notes per month, every month, no countdown clock | Fully supported | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| No credit card required to start drafting SOAP notes Sign up and generate a SOAP draft without any payment information | Fully supported | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Therapy SOAP, not medical SOAP Subjective and Objective framed for psychotherapy presentation, not chief complaint plus vitals | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | Partially supported |
| SOAP plus DAP, BIRP, GIRP, and PIE on the free tier Default to SOAP, swap formats per client if your supervisor or EHR prefers another | Fully supported | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| In-session transcription on free Live browser transcription, no upload step, no plug-in install | Fully supported | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Modality-aware SOAP language (CBT / ACT / DBT) Assessment and Plan reflect the modality you actually practice | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | Not available |
Other formats
Stay here for SOAP. When another format is your default, use the multi-format tool
Use this soap note generator when SOAP is your standing default. When your caseload needs one free tool that drafts across formats, open the free AI progress note generator.
Emosapien drafts the SOAP note. You review and sign. The clinical call stays yours.
I needed SOAP, not medical SOAP. My EHR wants Subjective and Objective written like a therapy progress note, and the generic scribes I tried kept giving me chief complaint and vitals. Emosapien drafted therapy SOAP from the first session. The free tier let me check that on ten real clients before I committed.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Ten SOAP notes per month, every month, no credit card required. The free plan is a permanent tier, not a trial. Run it on your own sessions and read the drafts before you decide on a paid plan.
Therapy SOAP. Subjective is the client's reported presentation and content, Objective is observed affect, behavior, and mental status, Assessment is your clinical formulation in your modality, Plan is interventions and next-session focus. Not the medical chief-complaint-and-vitals format.
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). HIPAA covered-entity status is determined by who you are and what you do with PHI, not by payer type, so private-pay practices are not automatically exempt. If your practice creates, receives, maintains, or transmits PHI through Emosapien, you need the BAA in place first, which is on the Professional plan ($79/mo/seat) and Enterprise. The free plan is suited to evaluation, training, or contexts where no PHI is processed.
You can keep transcribing sessions, but 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.
Yes, even on the free plan. SOAP is the default because it is the most-requested therapy format, but you can switch per client or per session without leaving your account.
Yes. The mental health SOAP note example shows the structure and language Emosapien produces, with the same Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan sections you would write by hand.
Audio backfill is on the Professional and Enterprise plans. The free plan drafts SOAP notes from sessions run live in the browser. If you need to backfill 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 SOAP draft is ready when the session ends. Live in-session prompts are an opt-in feature on the Professional plan.
Sign up, confirm SOAP as your default format, pick a modality, run a practice session with a colleague, then run a real one. Start free.
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Ten SOAP notes per month, every month. CBT, ACT, DBT framing. No card.