Craig is a Discord bot that records your voice channel as separate audio files, one per speaker. It's free, reliable, and built for people who edit audio. It doesn't write recaps, track NPCs, or remember your campaign. If what you actually want is "notes from last session", you need a different kind of bot. If you want clean audio to edit, Craig is still the better pick. Details below, checked on craig.chat in October 2026.
Craig joins your voice channel and records each speaker on their own track. Every track stays in sync, even when someone joins late. That lets an editor fix one loud player or cut one person's cough without touching anyone else.
/join starts a recording (in your current channel by default), /note marks a moment, /stop ends it. /recordings lists past recordings.Supporter tiers on Patreon:
| Tier | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 6-hour recordings, kept 7 days |
| Tier 1 | $1/mo | 14-day storage, avatar video overlays, cloud backup to Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox |
| Tier 2 | $4/mo | 30-day storage, 24-hour recordings, auto-leveled premixed audio, automatic recording |
| Tier 3 | $8/mo | Everything above plus transcripts (WebVTT, SRT, or plain text) and 24-bit FLAC in the web app |
Craig's output is audio, plus a transcript on Tier 3. Nothing on its site mentions summaries. Even with a transcript, a four-hour session is tens of thousands of words of crosstalk, rules questions, and pizza orders. Someone still has to read it and pull out:
That job is what a notes bot does.
| Craig | Loreify | |
|---|---|---|
| Main output | Audio files, one track per speaker | Written session notes |
| Transcript | Tier 3 supporters ($8/mo) | Included |
| Recap, NPCs, quests, loot | No | Yes |
| Posts a session summary to Discord | No | Yes, with a link to the full notes |
| Ask questions about past sessions | No | Yes, with /loreify-ask |
| Per-speaker audio tracks for editing | Yes | No |
| Cost | Free; $1–$8/mo for extras | 7-day free trial, then from $7/mo |
Loreify is our app, so weigh this section accordingly.
/loreify-record. Add a title and campaign if you like. The bot never starts on its own./loreify-pause and /loreify-resume for breaks, or /loreify-cancel to throw a recording away./loreify-stop. The session is transcribed and written up.The full notes in the app add a timeline, unresolved threads, word-for-word quotes, and a lore map that connects characters, places, and events across sessions. /loreify-campaign-create takes a dictionary of your campaign's names ("Vex, Keyleth, Whitestone") so transcription spells them right. /loreify-settings sets the language and whether each player has to click a consent button before they're recorded.
Setup steps are in the Discord help guide. Pricing is $15/month, $120/year, or $7/month for up to 2 sessions, after a 7-day free trial. More on the notes themselves: the D&D note-taking app.
Be honest about what you need. Craig wins when:
Loreify wins when nobody in your group wants to be the note-taker, or when "what was that NPC's name?" comes up every week.
Plenty of podcast tables do both. Record with Craig for the show, and still get notes:
You get Craig's per-speaker stems for editing and Loreify's notes for the campaign.
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Yes. Free recordings can be up to 6 hours long and are kept for 7 days. Patreon tiers at $1, $4, and $8 a month add longer storage, longer recordings, cloud auto-upload, and (at $8) transcripts.
Only for Tier 3 supporters ($8/month). Transcripts come as WebVTT, SRT, or plain text. Craig doesn't summarize sessions or write notes.
A bot that writes notes, not just audio: Loreify, Archivist, or Kazkar. All three record from Discord and turn the session into a written recap.
Yes. Keep Craig for per-speaker audio, then upload a mixed export to Loreify to get session notes from the same recording.
7 days on the free plan, 14 days on Tier 1, and 30 days on Tiers 2 and 3. Download anything you want to keep before then.
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