Free SOAP Note Generator for Therapists
A free SOAP note generator built for therapy, not generic medical scribing. Therapy SOAP framing for CBT, ACT, and DBT with DAP, BIRP, and GIRP available alongside. Ten SOAP notes every month, no credit card required.
What is actually free
A working 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 "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 and read the SOAP drafts it produces.
- ✓ SOAP notes drafted automatically from each session (default format)
- ✓ Switch to DAP, BIRP, or GIRP per client if you ever need to
- ✓ 10 AI-generated session notes per month, every month
- ✓ Therapy SOAP framing (not medical SOAP) for CBT, ACT, and DBT
- ✓ In-session transcription with the structured note 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
Therapy SOAP, not medical SOAP
A SOAP draft that reads like a therapy progress note
Generic medical scribes such as Heidi, Nuance DAX, and Suki default to medical SOAP. Chief complaint, vitals, exam findings, plan of care. Useful in a primary-care visit, wrong shape for a therapy session. Emosapien 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, quoted language where it informs formulation.
Observed affect, behavior, mental status, engagement, risk indicators. Not vitals. Therapist-observed clinical signals, written in a way an auditor would accept.
Your clinical formulation, in your modality. CBT cognitive-behavioral conceptualization, ACT functional analysis with the hexaflex, or DBT skills tracking and target hierarchy. Modality shows up in the Assessment language, not as a label.
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. The AI SOAP notes overview explains the rest of the product flow.
From sign-up to signed SOAP note
Three steps. Most therapists are signed and exported within three minutes of the session ending
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.
Get 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.
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 the 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 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) | ✗ | ✓ |
| 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+) |
Full pricing on the pricing page. Most clinicians who upgrade do so because they want unlimited SOAP notes plus the BAA, not because they ran out of features. If you also want a generic progress-note framing instead of SOAP-specific, the free AI progress note generator is the same tool with a different default format.
Free SOAP tier reality, Emosapien vs the alternatives
Most therapy-specific tools offer a SOAP trial; only one offers an ongoing free tier with therapy SOAP framing. The honest 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 | Partially supported | Partially supported | Not available |
| No credit card required to start drafting SOAP notes Sign up and generate a SOAP draft without any payment information | Fully supported | Partially supported | Partially supported | 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 | Not available |
| SOAP plus DAP, BIRP, and GIRP 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 |
Why this list excludes general medical scribes. Heidi, Nuance DAX, Suki, Abridge, and Freed all offer free trials too, but they are not built for therapy. Their SOAP framing defaults to medical SOAP, not therapy SOAP, and they do not handle BIRP, GIRP, modality language, or the psychotherapy-notes versus progress-notes split. Wrong free tool for this job.
Documentation context
SOAP is the most common therapy note format. For good reason
SOAP comes from problem-oriented medical records and has anchored clinical documentation for over fifty years. In behavioral health it persists because the Subjective and Objective split separates what the client reported from what you observed. That is the separation an auditor, supervisor, or board reviewer looks for later.
Documentation duties for licensed clinicians come from three layers: the APA records guidelines, HIPAA, and your state board plus malpractice carrier. HIPAA sets the safeguard floor for electronic PHI. Emosapien runs on HIPAA-aligned infrastructure free and ships a Business Associate Agreement on the Professional tier and above.
The constraint is volume, not quality. Ten SOAP notes a month cover a part-time caseload and let a full-time clinician evaluate on real sessions before upgrading for unlimited generation, a BAA, and EHR integrations.
For the broader framework, the clinical documentation hub covers SOAP alongside the other accepted formats and what auditors look for. The AI clinical notes overview explains how the SOAP draft links into your treatment plan and between-session engagement on the paid tiers.
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. We built it this way because the only honest way to evaluate a therapy AI is to run it on your own sessions, and a 14-day countdown forces a rushed decision.
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. The SOAP notes guide walks through the exact structure with worked examples.
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. If BIRP is your default format, start with the free BIRP note generator instead. If you are deciding which format fits your caseload, the BIRP vs SOAP vs DAP comparison is the right place to start.
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 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 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.
A free soap note generator built for therapy
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