Scribe
AI meeting minutes for churches
Record the board meeting in Scribe, or upload what you already captured. Scribe writes up the minutes — who was there, the motions, the action items — and an admin approves them before anyone else sees a word.
Scribe turns a recording of a church meeting into formatted minutes.
An admin records the meeting straight into Scribe in the browser, or uploads audio or video — up to 4 hours per write-up, in 11 file formats, and across as many as 6 files — and Scribe returns a transcript, with the speakers separated for a meeting or a study, plus one document typed to the recording: minutes for a meeting, sermon notes for a sermon, a summary for anything else.
Minutes come back listing who was present, who was absent and who came as a guest; motions carrying who moved, who seconded and whether they carried; and action items with an owner and a due date. Every document is a draft until an admin approves it.
At a glance
| What it takes in | A recording made in Scribe, or audio or video files of a meeting, sermon, study or anything else — up to 4 hours per write-up, counted across every part, and 500 MB per file, in 11 formats (mp3, m4a, aac, wav, webm, ogg, oga, flac, plus mp4, mov, mkv video). Up to 6 parts in one write-up. Optionally, who was there — members, saved people or named guests, from your own roster. |
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| What it produces | A transcript — with the speakers separated for a meeting or a study — plus one document typed to the recording: minutes for a meeting, sermon notes for a sermon, a summary for a study or anything else. Draft until approved; revisable by a plain-language instruction; exports to PDF in your church’s own accent color, or emails to a list you pick. |
| Where it runs | The admin side of Psalmly, on the web. Not in the member app. |
| Plans | Community and Growth. Priced by length from your church's monthly AI credits. |
How it works
Four steps, and a person signs off on the last one.
Step 1
Record it, or bring the file
Press record in Scribe — pausing and resuming as the meeting does — or drop in a file you already have. A board meeting captured across three files is still one write-up: add up to 6, in the order they happened, and each is transcribed on its own, so long as they come to 4 hours or less together.
Step 2
Scribe transcribes, then writes
Meetings and studies are transcribed with the speakers separated, because who said what is the point; a sermon is one voice, so it isn't. The document type follows the recording type — you don't pick it.
Step 3
Fix it by saying what to fix
One plain-language instruction, up to 400 characters. Scribe rewrites against the transcript rather than from a blank page, so a correction can't quietly invent something nobody said.
Step 4
A person approves it
The document stays a draft until an admin approves it. Nothing is filed, sent or published on its own — Scribe writes, a human signs off, and then it becomes the record.
What a set of minutes actually contains
Not a wall of transcript with a summary on top. Scribe fills a structure a church board would recognize — and leaves a field empty rather than inventing something to put in it.
- Meeting body
- Board of Trustees, deacons, finance committee — taken from what you entered, or from what the room called itself.
- Date, time, location
- As stated at the top of the meeting.
- Who was there
- Split three ways — present, absent or excused, and guests — against the roster you supplied.
- Previous minutes
- The one line on whether last meeting's minutes were approved.
- Topics, in order
- Each agenda item as a heading, with a short account of what was said about it.
- Decisions
- What was decided in plain language, plus who moved it, who seconded it, and the outcome — carried, deferred or failed.
- Action items
- The task, the owner by name, and when it is due. Where the recording never says who owns it, Scribe leaves it blank instead of guessing.
- Announcements
- Other business raised before everyone stood up.
- Next meeting
- Date, time and place, if they were set in the room.
Board of Trustees
[date] · [time] · [location]
Who was there
Present · [n] · Absent · [n] · Guests · [n]
Decision
[what was decided, in plain language]
Moved [name] · Seconded [name] · Carried
Action item
[task]
Owner [name] · due [date]
A sermon becomes sermon notes
Theme · speaker · scripture references with the primary one first · the main points in order · lines worth pull-quoting · application and takeaways · the series it belongs to.
A study or anything else becomes a summary
A subject · a two- to four-sentence overview of what happened · the key points as bullets · who took part.
Where Scribe stops
Worth knowing before you plan a meeting around it.
It does not join your meeting
No bot dials into a video call. Scribe records in the browser on the laptop already in the room, or takes a file from whatever you used — a phone video is fine, since it reads the audio track.
You do not pick the document type
It follows the recording. A meeting becomes minutes, a sermon becomes sermon notes, anything else becomes a summary. There is no template menu to get wrong.
It does not caption live
Nothing appears on screen while people are talking. Whether you record inside Scribe or upload afterwards, the write-up begins when the recording stops.
It does not decide who sees it
The write-up waits as a draft until an admin approves it. Sending it is a separate, deliberate step: you tick the people it goes to, and nothing leaves until you confirm.
Scribe is included on Community and Growth, from $49 a month.
Community comes with 3,500 AI credits a month and Growth with 15,000. One pool covers every AI feature, so what you spend is up to you: 3,500 credits is about 3,500 assistant messages, or 29 hours of Scribe recording — and a quiet month of meetings leaves more for everything else.
AI is the part of Psalmly a paid plan buys. The rest of the app — prayer, events, groups, giving, the member app and your public church page — is free forever.
See what each plan includes →Questions churches ask
Can I split one meeting across several recordings?
Yes — up to 6 parts in a single write-up. Each is transcribed on its own and they are stitched into one document, so a board meeting captured in three chunks still produces one set of minutes. The 4-hour ceiling is the total across them; if the parts come to more, upload them as separate recordings and get a write-up for each.
What files can I upload?
11 formats: mp3, m4a, aac, wav, webm, ogg, oga, flac audio, plus mp4, mov, mkv video — Scribe transcribes the audio track, so a phone video of the room works. Up to 500 MB per file, and 4 hours per write-up counted across all of its parts.
Does it know who was speaking?
For meetings and studies, yes — those are transcribed with the speakers separated. Supply who was there from your own roster, and the document uses those names. A sermon is one voice, so it is transcribed straight through.
What if it gets something wrong?
Tell it, in up to 400 characters — "cut the budget discussion", "list the trustees alphabetically". Scribe rewrites the document against the transcript rather than from a blank page, and it stays a draft until an admin approves it.
How do the minutes reach the board?
Two ways. Export a PDF, set in your church's own accent color rather than ours. Or email it from Scribe: tick the people from your directory, type in anyone who isn't in Psalmly, and confirm the send.
Is Scribe in the member app?
No. Scribe is an admin feature and runs on the web. The member app has the assistant, which is a different thing — it answers members' questions about their church.
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