Daria vs Crit Scribbler
Daria vs Crit Scribbler
Two Discord bots that listen to your game and write it up. The real difference is not the quality of the notes — it is what still exists a year later, and whether your table has to be on Discord at all.
See everything Daria does →Crit Scribbler is a note taker, and it is an unusually clean one. It joins your voice channel, listens, and drops a recap back into Discord while people are still saying goodnight. There is no second tab, no account to set up before you see anything, and the free tier is genuinely usable rather than a demo. If what your table wants is a written record of each session, that is a short path to it and it costs very little.
Daria treats the recording as the beginning rather than the deliverable. The audio is kept as one track per speaker, the sessions accumulate into something you can ask questions of years later, rolls from Foundry land in the transcript beside what was said about them, and the whole campaign is readable by an AI assistant through an MCP server. That is a wider job, and it is worth being plain that it is not a better version of the same job.
So the decision is mostly about time horizon. For a table that plays on Discord and wants this evening written up, Crit Scribbler answers that directly and cheaply, and we would not argue you into paying more for the same thing. The questions it does not answer are the ones that arrive later — what did we agree with the duchess two years ago, where is the audio of that scene, what happened in the sessions we played around a kitchen table.
You are not choosing blindly either way: Daria reads Crit Scribbler transcript exports, so a campaign already written up there can come across with its history rather than starting from the next session.
Side by side
| Daria | Crit Scribbler | |
|---|---|---|
| Playing in person | Record straight from the browser on whatever laptop or phone is on the table. Audio is written to the device as it is captured, so a closed tab, a lost connection or a flat battery costs upload progress rather than the session. | Not offered. It is a Discord bot, and nothing on its site documents a browser recorder, a mobile app or an audio upload — its own advice for getting a recording names Discord tools. |
| Recording on Discord | One audio track per speaker, kept as the session archive. You can go back to the audio of a scene, not only to what was written about it. | Receives each speaker on their own Discord stream and transcribes them separately, so attribution is sound. What is kept is the text: its privacy policy describes collecting "voice data in the form of voice-to-text transcripts", and reserves "any future recording features". |
| Bringing in past sessions | Craig share links, Crit Scribbler transcript exports, audio files up to 2 GB, and multi-track uploads where each person is on their own track. | Transcript download on every tier, including Free — so your text is yours to take. No documented way to bring an existing recording or transcript in. |
| Asking about the campaign | Every session is searchable, and answers cite the session and scene they came from. A correction you make outranks what was inferred from the recording. | Per session. Its public pages describe recaps, quotes, notes and DM prep for the session just played — not a wiki, a codex, or asking questions across a campaign. |
| Virtual tabletop | A Foundry VTT module writes rolls into the transcript at the second they happened, so a recap can say what was cast and at whom, not merely that dice were rolled. | None documented — no Foundry module and no other VTT integration. |
| Getting the data out | An MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can read the campaign directly and answer from it. | Transcript downloads. No public API or MCP server is documented, and the API host serves account and billing routes only. |
| AI artwork | Character portraits and scene art drawn from what actually happened in the session, in the campaign’s choice of five art styles — switchable per campaign, overridable per image — with characters painted from their registered descriptions and portraits, so a face stays recognisable between scenes. | Yes, and it is a headline feature rather than a side dish: one image per session for one player on Note Taker, and images for every player plus a group photo on the tiers above. |
| Price | Not published yet — Daria is not open to the public. | Free for 5 sessions a month. Note Taker $10/month, or $8.33 a month billed annually ($100/year). World Builder $15, or $12.50 billed annually ($150/year). World Builder Unlimited $42/month — its annual card is inconsistent on the vendor’s own page, so no annual figure is quoted for it. Yearly billing is advertised as two months free. |
Crit Scribbler’s features and prices were read from its own public pages on 18 August 2026, and may have changed since — check its pricing page before deciding.
Check Crit Scribbler’s current pricing on critscribbler.com →
Where the two genuinely diverge
Tables that are not on Discord
Crit Scribbler assumes the game is happening in a voice channel, which for a great many tables it is. Daria also records the room: open the recorder on a laptop or a phone, put it in the middle of the table, and the evening is captured with the same pipeline behind it. That is the difference that decides it for a group that plays in person, or one that plays half its sessions each way.
What survives the evening
Both tools give you text. Only one gives you the recording — Daria keeps a track per speaker, so when the notes and four memories disagree, there is an original to go back to. Crit Scribbler’s own privacy policy is candid that what it collects is transcripts, and that recording is something it may add later.
Notes versus a campaign
A recap is about the session it came from. The questions that actually cause arguments are the cross-session ones — who has the amulet now, what did we promise, who was in the room when it was promised. Daria carries the campaign as a whole and cites the session and scene behind every answer, so you can check her rather than take her word.
What happened on the tabletop, not only what was said about it
If you play on Foundry VTT, Daria’s module puts the mechanical events into the record at the moment they occurred — the roll, and for D&D 5e the spell slot it was cast at, the item used and who was targeted. It is the part of a session that transcription alone cannot recover, because nobody says the numbers out loud.
Questions about switching
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