A subscription for on-device processing?
Why on earth do you need $9.99 a week? $22.99 a month?!! There’s no server involved or any additional costs. Nobody in their right mind should be paying that much when they can take the transcription and get an equivalent summarisation online for free of approximately the same quality.
I know this is the typical playbook for AI apps. Start out free and then add overpriced subscriptions.
Response from developer
Dear RedRobin001, Thank you for taking the time to share your detailed feedback. You raise some valid points about on-device processing, and we appreciate your perspective. While it's true that the transcription happens locally on your device, this represents many hours of development work to optimize our algorithms for iOS devices, ensuring high-quality and realtime transcriptions while maintaining privacy and working offline. Just like your favorite apps that process photos or edit videos locally, the value comes from the sophisticated technology we've built into the app itself. You might be interested to know that our team continues to invest heavily in improving the transcription quality, adding new features, and optimizing performance. Similar to how authors release new chapters or editions of their books, we're constantly "writing new chapters" of our app's story – adding capabilities that make your experience better. The subscription model helps us: - Maintain and improve our transcription engine; - Develop new features based on user feedback; - Provide regular updates for new iOS versions; - Offer reliable technical support; - Continue research into advanced audio processing techniques We understand that our pricing might not fit everyone's budget, and we're actively exploring different pricing tiers to make our app more accessible while ensuring we can sustain its development. Your feedback about considering a separate tier for basic transcription features is valuable and something we're taking into consideration. If you'd like to share more specific thoughts about what pricing structure would work better for your needs, we're all ears. Our goal is to find the right balance between providing value to our users and sustaining the ongoing development of high-quality features. We hope that one day we will find a balance that will work for you as well. Thank you again for your feedback – it helps us make better decisions for our users. Best regards, Scribe Team