Comparison

PivotList vs DictNow

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

Head to head
About

PivotList

Organize your grocery shopping by recipes and then view your list by individual items. This app helps you plan meals and efficiently shop for ingredients, saving time and reducing stress.

Highlights
  • Add recipes and ingredients
  • View list by meals or items
  • See ingredient-to-meal mapping
  • Clean, distraction-free interface
  • 100% private, data stays on device
Features
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Grocery shopping shouldn't feel like a memory test. PivotList is the smart grocery companion that adapts to how your brain actually works: planning by recipes, but shopping by items. Say goodbye to scattered lists and walking back and forth across the supermarket. With PivotList, you simply add the meals you want to cook, and the app does the heavy lifting to organize your trip. THE "PIVOT" SUPERPOWER Most lists force you to choose one way to view your items. PivotList gives you two smart views with the tap of a button: - Planning Mode: View your list sorted by meals. Perfect for sitting on the couch and checking if you have all the ingredients for Friday's lasagna. - Shopping Mode: View your list sorted by individual products. See that you need exactly 3 onions total (for three different recipes) so you only visit the produce aisle once. KEY FEATURES - Add recipes and their their ingredients - See exactly which meals a specific ingredient belongs to - Clean, distraction-free interface - 100% Private: Your lists stay on your device Whether you're meal prepping for the week or just trying to get in and out of the store faster, PivotList is the ultimate tool to save you time, money, and headaches at the supermarket. Download today and streamline your shopping!

About

DictNow

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With the DictNow App, you can access your individual DictNow templates from your iPhone at any time and add additional information such as work tasks, images, etc. to them. This guarantees a media-break-free assignment to your office network at all times. The dictation can also be speech-recognized on your server in your office and the text is immediately available to your secretary for further processing. Thanks to the latest recording technology, dictations are recorded with excellent sound quality. These can then be sent securely to your secretary for further processing via an encrypted connection. The dictations are now directly embedded in your DictNow workflow. If you are on the move and prefer to use voice instead of keyboard to write memos, facts, information of any kind, DictNow can support you just as optimally. No matter which way you go, with the DictNow App you always have your mobile dictation device at hand and always remain networked with your office (workflow). DictNow functions: • Recording dictations with excellent sound quality • Automated secure profile matching (no unauthorized access possible) • Encrypted transmission of dictations to the office • Optional use of background speech recognition • Use our various specialist vocabulary (law, medicine, medical law) • Recordings can be rewound, talked over, pasted, cut and deleted • Easy user interface for intuitive use • Separate creation of work instructions for dictation • View the dictation list including the processing status of the sent dictations. • Viewing the Dictation List for Draft Dictations • Dictation priority marking • Use photos as attachments • Push to talk function • Handling of highly compressed file formats • Support of the barcode scanner • and much more Requirement: The operation of the DictNow App requires the use of a DictNow workflow server in your office/organization. Further information can be found at http://www.dictnow.wolterskluwer.com/dictaplus/. In addition, sending the recordings requires a network connection.

Screenshots

PivotList4 screens
DictNow3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DictNow at 12.0 against PivotList's 15.6. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PivotList ships an update every 6 weeks, DictNow every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and December 2, 2025 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PivotList versus DictNow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPivotListDictNow
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DevelopersovioWolters Kluwer Deutschland GmbH

In-app purchases

None

PivotList

No in-app purchases

None

DictNow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PivotList free?
PivotList is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DictNow free?
DictNow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do PivotList or DictNow have ads?
Neither PivotList nor DictNow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PivotList or DictNow?
PivotList ships an update every 6 weeks, and DictNow every 3 months. Most recently, PivotList was updated on October 11, 2026 and DictNow on December 2, 2025.

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