AI clinical notes tools for psychologists in Spain: an honest comparison

Over the past few years, a handful of tools have emerged in Spain promising the same thing: to generate clinical notes from therapy sessions using artificial intelligence. For those of us who have spent years in private practice, the promise is compelling — and a degree of caution is equally warranted. I have had the opportunity to explore the main options available to psychologists in the Spanish market and, in what follows, I try to explain what sets each one apart from the perspective of real clinical practice, without claiming there is a single right answer for everyone.

A preliminary note: this is a fast-moving space. Features, pricing and privacy policies change. What is described here reflects publicly available information at the time of publication and should be verified directly with each provider before making a decision.

What all of these tools have in common

Every tool in this comparison uses artificial intelligence to turn the content of a session into a structured clinical note. All of them claim GDPR compliance and EU-based data storage. And all share a common purpose: to reduce the time clinicians spend on documentation so they can be more present with their patients.

Beyond that, the differences are significant.

The question that matters most before choosing

Before evaluating each tool, it is worth asking: what problem am I actually trying to solve?

Some clinicians are primarily looking to automate documentation while keeping the rest of their workflow — scheduling, invoicing, consent forms — in the tools they already use. Others want an integrated platform that manages everything in one place. And others want a tool that does not just generate notes, but understands how they work clinically: one whose note language reflects their therapeutic orientation, not a generic template imported from the Anglo-Saxon medical model.

That distinction is the central axis of this comparison.

The tools

Clara

Clara is designed exclusively for psychologists and therapists, with a very specific focus: accompanying the session in real time from the browser and generating, at the end, a clinical note adapted to the clinician's therapeutic orientation. There is no audio file to upload afterwards — it works during the session itself, both in-person and online.

What distinguishes Clara from the other tools in this comparison is the clinical adaptation. Notes are not generated from a single template: the system adapts the language, focus areas and structure depending on whether the clinician works from CBT, a psychodynamic perspective, systemic therapy, EMDR, Gestalt, or other orientations it recognises. Combined with a cross-session memory — patterns, recurring themes, evolution of the therapeutic process — the patient history has genuine clinical continuity rather than being a collection of disconnected notes.

The system operates natively in Spanish and Catalan — not as a translation — built in Barcelona and oriented specifically to the Spanish context. On privacy: data is encrypted at rest and in transit, servers are EU-based, and the company explicitly states that clinical content is never used to train AI models.

Best fit for: Psychologists and therapists in private practice who work from a defined therapeutic orientation and want their notes to reflect their clinical language. Also well-suited for clinicians working in Catalonia or with Catalan-speaking patients.

moodo

moodo is a broader platform that combines a digital clinical history with AI-generated session notes. Unlike tools focused exclusively on documentation, moodo aims to manage the practice more comprehensively: patient records, scheduling and session notes in one environment.

From a clinical workflow perspective, this integration has a practical implication worth considering: adopting moodo means committing to its full suite. If you already use other tools for scheduling or invoicing and are happy with them, the transition carries a real switching cost. The platform makes the most sense for those starting a practice from scratch or willing to consolidate everything in one place. Note generation works through voice transcription, and the tool is oriented towards the Spanish market with GDPR compliance according to its public documentation.

Best fit for: Clinicians who want to manage their entire practice from a single platform and do not require adaptation to a specific therapeutic orientation.

Noa Notes

Noa Notes is an international product — not built for the Spanish market — that has developed a version with Spanish-language support. It offers session capture and AI-generated structured summaries, with a generalist approach aimed at therapists across different disciplines and contexts.

Having been conceived in the Anglo-Saxon context, the clinical language it generates tends to reflect the conceptual frameworks of that tradition: DSM-adjacent terminology, note structures oriented around the medical model, phrasing that feels foreign to clinicians trained in the European psychological tradition. A psychologist accustomed to documenting in terms of therapeutic process, alliance or relational dynamics will likely find that the notes require more editing than expected.

Best fit for: Therapists with international practices or who work primarily in English and want a well-established tool with multilingual support.

PsaicoTools

PsaicoTools allows you to record a session or upload an audio file to receive a structured summary: topics covered, key verbalisations and notes for the following session. It is oriented towards the Spanish market, servers are EU-based and it claims GDPR compliance according to its public information.

The particularities of this workflow are worth considering carefully. Unlike tools that work in real time during the session, PsaicoTools requires an extra step — recording the audio separately and processing it afterwards. For clinicians with tight schedules and back-to-back sessions, that additional step can become genuine friction. On the other hand, it allows reviewing the summary at a later point before archiving it, which some clinicians find valuable precisely because it creates space for reflection.

Best fit for: Clinicians who prefer to review and approve a summary after the session and do not need standardised clinical note formats (SOAP, DAP).

NovoNote

NovoNote is a tool developed by NovoPsych, an Australian company specialising in psychological assessment. It converts patient conversations into clinical notes and summaries using AI transcription, and claims GDPR and HIPAA compliance according to its public documentation.

Its origins within the psychological assessment ecosystem define its profile: NovoNote makes the most sense for clinicians who already use NovoPsych's assessment tools and want to integrate session documentation into the same environment. For those doing therapy without formal parallel assessment, the benefits of that integration disappear, and what remains is a tool designed originally for the Anglo-Saxon market with Spanish-language support added subsequently.

Best fit for: Psychologists who combine psychometric assessment with therapy and already work within the NovoPsych ecosystem.

Comparison table

Source: public information from each provider as of May 2026. Fields marked — indicate no public confirmation was found for that feature, not necessarily that it does not exist.

How to choose

Rather than recommending one tool over another, the most useful frame is identifying which variable matters most to you.

If your therapeutic orientation needs to be reflected in your notes, the only tool in this comparison that addresses this directly is Clara. The others generate notes from a generic clinical framework that is likely to require constant editing.

If you want to integrate documentation, scheduling and clinical history in one place and are willing to migrate your entire workflow, moodo has a more comprehensive scope. If you already have tools for those functions and simply want to automate note-taking, that integration may be more of an obstacle than an advantage.

If you work in Catalonia or with a significant proportion of Catalan-speaking patients, native Catalan support — not a translation — makes a real difference to the quality of the generated text. In this comparison, only Clara offers it.

If you are already embedded in an international tools ecosystem and do not need notes that reflect the language of Spanish psychology, Noa Notes or NovoNote may fit into that workflow without adding unnecessary complexity.

In all cases, before committing to any tool of this kind, verify two things: that the provider has signed a data processing agreement with you under GDPR, and that it is explicitly stated in writing that session content is not used to train AI models. These are not technical details — they are ethical and legal obligations for any clinician working with clinical data in Spain.

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