Raindrop.io vs Stenographer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Raindrop.io
Save and organize web content like articles, photos, and videos from any app. Create custom collections with unique icons and visuals for easy retrieval. Share your curated content with others or collaborate privately.
- Clip articles, photos, and videos
- Organize bookmarks into collections
- Tag and customize collections
- Share collections publicly or privately
- Sync across all devices
- Import bookmarks from other services
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Manage bookmarks, highlights, annotations and tabs. Save Anything from the Web Clip articles, photos, videos, PDFs and pages from the web and apps. Organize with Ease Thematic collections, suggested tags and custom filters. Sort items by date, title, site or manually by drag'n'drop. Full-Text Search & Permanent Library Entire content of every web-page and PDF that you’ve saved is fully searchable. Even if a page you’ve saved is taken down, you’ll still have a copy of it. For Teams and Individuals Enable access to your collection by team members or entire web. Permissions let you control who can access each of your collections. Take Your Bookmarks Everywhere Securely access the bookmarks you’ve saved in from anywhere — even outside of the browser. Extension for all popular browsers. Apps for Android, iOS, macOS and Windows. More than 2,600 integrations and programatic access through API. Private by Default Your privacy comes first. We keep your data safe, never sold. 256-bit encryption protects you while syncing. No tracking or intrusive advertising. 13 years in a business. Privacy Policy: https://help.raindrop.io/privacy Terms of Use: https://help.raindrop.io/terms
Stenographer
This app offers on-device audio recording and transcription, ensuring complete privacy as your data never leaves your device. It utilizes advanced AI for accurate speech processing, summarization, and multilingual support, with a one-time purchase for unlimited use.
- 100% on-device processing
- No subscriptions, one-time purchase
- Discreet background recording
- AI-powered transcription and summarization
- Intelligent search and tagging
- Multilingual transcription and translation
- Cross-device synchronization
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Record conversations. Keep the words. Revisit what mattered. Stenographer 3.0 brings local recording, transcription and source-linked Chat into a cleaner workspace on iPhone and iPad, with Apple Watch recording as a companion. • Record on iPhone or Apple Watch and keep continuous capture together as one conversation. • Read transcripts, play original audio, search words and tags, and edit speaker names. • See live text when processing is available; saved audio remains available when processing is deferred. • Ask about a conversation or your library. Numbered sources open the captured passages behind an answer. • Review action targets before opening, playing, sharing or deleting recordings. LOCAL RECORDING AND TRANSCRIPTION Audio is recorded locally. Watch audio transfers to the paired iPhone for processing. Small multilingual transcription is included and works offline. Settings also offers downloadable Large multilingual; it needs more memory and processing time. Settings also offers optional Distil English-only transcription. Your multilingual settings are saved for switching back. The app shows the selected and actual model, preparation progress and recovery options. Some model failures can use Small while preserving your Large selection. LOCAL AI Apple Intelligence is the default local Chat option on supported, ready devices. You can download and select Qwen3.5-4B for local use. Automatic summaries and tags stay local. Keep the phone app active and idle for pending automatic work to finish. Model availability and speed vary with device, OS, language, downloaded assets and workload. OPTIONAL CLOUD CHAT Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic or OpenRouter API key and choose a provider model. Keys are stored in device Keychain. Explicit consent is required before cloud Chat sends your current question, selected transcript passages and recording dates and identifiers to the selected provider. Audio files and voice profiles are not sent. OpenRouter may route to another provider. Provider data policies and account charges apply. Failed requests do not silently switch providers. AI, transcripts and speaker attribution can contain mistakes or omissions. Check the original audio and source passages. Sharing uses your chosen destination; deletion requires confirmation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Raindrop.io at Free against Stenographer's $4.99. Raindrop.io also leads on ratings volume (423 vs 3). Stenographer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and review sentiment (88% vs 64%). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Raindrop.io is free to download; Stenographer costs $4.99 up front. Raindrop.io sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Stenographer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Raindrop.io holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Raindrop.io has 423 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Raindrop.io's written reviews are positive against 88% of Stenographer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Raindrop.io ships an update every 3 weeks, Stenographer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Raindrop.io | Stenographer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (423 ratings) — better | 4.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 423 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #166 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 501 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rustem Mussabekov | Caleb Phillips |
Customer experience
Raindrop.io
Stenographer
Bugs and requests
Raindrop.io
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to edit or delete bookmarks
- Inconsistent behavior across platforms
- Sharing and collaboration features not working as expected
- Slow or unreliable sync between devices
- Frequent crashes and freezes, especially on iOS
Requested features
5 requests- Offline support and local file storage
- Improved search with full-text indexing
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Nested folder structure for better organization
- Widgets and home screen integration
Stenographer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Raindrop.io
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$27.991 Year
- PRO 1 month$2.99
- PRO 3 month$8.99
- PRO 1 year$27.99
Stenographer
No in-app purchases
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