Comparison

Crowdcast Mobile vs Grug Notes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Crowdcast Mobile

Host and attend virtual events like webinars, workshops, and concerts with this platform. It simplifies event management, fosters audience interaction through chat and polls, and offers tools for audience growth and analytics. Join events easily via browser or app without downloads.

Highlights
  • Host livestreams, webinars, workshops, Q&As, shows, summits, concerts
  • One event URL for registration, live event, and replay
  • Join via browser or app, no downloads required
  • Audience engagement via chat, Q&As, and polls
  • Integrates with over 1.4k apps
  • Collect emails and charge ticket prices
  • Robust analytics for livestream effectiveness
Features
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Crowdcast is an all-in-one virtual events platform for creators. - - - Grow your audience with livestreams, webinars, workshops, Q&As, shows, summits, concerts and more. We've reimagine how to gather over live video and focused on 3 key areas: simplicity, interaction, and growth. Simple for hosts and participants -> One intelligently event URL handles registration, live event, and replay. Join via the browser or the app on any device, nothing to download. Interactive at scale -> Engage your audience over chat, Q&As, polls and even pull attendees up on stage with one click. Stream from your phone or professional encoders in HD. Tools for growth -> Collect emails, integrate with over 1.4k apps, charge ticket prices, host members only events through Patreon and grow you channel followers. Use robust analytics to measure how effective your livestreams are. Discover live conversations all over the world. See you on air.

About

Grug Notes

This app allows users to capture, edit, and organize notes using voice commands. It offers real-time voice interaction for finding, modifying, and asking questions about your notes, as well as a voice-powered calculator and meeting transcription. It's designed for hands-free use, syncing across devices.

Highlights
  • Live voice mode for real-time interaction
  • Hands-free note editing and retrieval
  • Voice-powered calculator
  • Meeting recording and transcription
  • AI-powered summarization
  • Personal wiki creation
  • Cloud syncing across devices
Features
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A daily notes app for people who work on their feet. Its live voice mode doesn't just take dictation: it finds your notes, edits them, answers questions, and even does the math, all while you talk. Get what's in your head onto the page, minus the clutter. LIVE MODE: TALK, AND IT ACTS This isn't dictation. Live mode understands what you mean and does it, in real time: • Find anything: ask "what did I note about the trip budget?" and the note surfaces. • Edit hands-free: add to, rewrite, or clean up a note by talking. • Ask anything: get answers from your notes, or quick answers to anything else. • Do the math: say "what's 15% of 2,400?" and get the answer on the spot. CAPTURE BY VOICE Just want it written down? Tap record and talk — your words become clean, transcribed notes instantly. MEETINGS, HANDLED Record and transcribe entire meetings, then get clean, searchable notes. Pair with your own notes and use AI to summarize. YOUR PERSONAL WIKI Mention a person, company, or date and Grug Notes tags it for you, then builds a page that pulls together every note where it comes up. A second brain, minus the busywork. PLAN IT WITH GRUG CHAT Organize each day with prompts you choose — Goals, Tasks, Training, whatever fits. Then tell Grug Chat what you're working toward and it drafts the plan straight into your days: training for a race, next week's jobs, a simple travel itinerary. You review everything it proposes before it lands. CHATGPT, GEMINI, AND CLAUDE. ONE APP. Grug Chat runs on the models you already know — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and more — with one subscription. Pick a favorite, or ask several at once and compare their answers. WORKOUTS FROM APPLE HEALTH Plan the training, then let the results log themselves. Connect Apple Health and every workout becomes a note on the day it happened — distance, duration, pace, heart rate, and calories, right next to what you planned. Read-only, opt-in, and only from the workout apps you approve. PICK UP ANYWHERE Notes sync automatically between your phone and the web. Start anywhere, pick up right where you left off. BUILT BY A CANOE SHOP We build canoes for a living, on our feet all day with our hands full. Every notes app we tried was made for someone sitting at a desk. So we built the one we actually needed: talk to it, and it works. No keyboard required. Download and start talking. — Terms of Use: https://grugnotes.com/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://grugnotes.com/privacy/

Screenshots

Crowdcast Mobile4 screens
Grug Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grug Notes at 100% against Crowdcast Mobile's 61%. Grug Notes also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Crowdcast Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (28K vs 23). On price and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grug Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Crowdcast Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grug Notes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crowdcast Mobile has 28K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Crowdcast Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Grug Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crowdcast Mobile ships an update every 2 weeks, Grug Notes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Crowdcast Mobile versus Grug Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrowdcast MobileGrug Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (28K ratings)5.0 (23 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings28K — better23
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB32 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperCrowdcastKamanu Composites, LLC

Customer experience

Crowdcast Mobile

All ratings28,266 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral3.3%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews288 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral8.7%
Negative30.2%

Grug Notes

All ratings23 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Crowdcast Mobile

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Video constantly restarts, rewind button issues
  • Can't see all speakers on mobile, chat doesn't work
  • Keeps cutting out, have to refresh constantly
  • Blurry video, audio sync problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add future events to Google calendar
  • Include day of week in date/time format
  • Larger video view, ability to hide chat
  • Improve login process, allow password manager

Grug Notes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Crowdcast Mobile

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Grug Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Grug Core$12.991 Month
  • Grug Plus$17.991 Month

Questions

Is Crowdcast Mobile free?
Crowdcast Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Grug Notes free?
Grug Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crowdcast Mobile or Grug Notes?
Grug Notes is rated higher. Crowdcast Mobile averages 4.7 out of 5 from 28K ratings, while Grug Notes averages 5.0 from 23 ratings.
Do Crowdcast Mobile or Grug Notes have ads?
Neither Crowdcast Mobile nor Grug Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crowdcast Mobile or Grug Notes?
Crowdcast Mobile ships an update every 2 weeks, and Grug Notes every 3 days. Most recently, Crowdcast Mobile was updated on November 6, 2026 and Grug Notes on November 5, 2026.

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