Safe Scanner vs Audio Recording:Audio Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Safe Scanner
This app uses advanced local technology to efficiently recognize text from images. It offers a simple workflow: capture, recognize, correct, and translate, all offline for enhanced privacy. The focus is on providing a straightforward, free tool for users.
- Offline text recognition
- Image to text conversion
- Text correction
- Translation
- Privacy-focused
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Private OCR Scanner turns photos, receipts, invoices, contracts, lecture notes, and documents into editable text with an offline-first workflow. OCR is designed to run on your iPhone or iPad with no cloud OCR fallback. Recognize, edit, copy, share, export, and save local history while keeping sensitive work on device. Made for finance teams, office work, students, researchers, and anyone who handles private text. Use it for invoices, receipts, contracts, notes, forms, study materials, and long documents. Download language packs for offline recognition across major scripts and languages. One-time purchase. No subscription, no recurring fees, and no in-app purchases.
Audio Recording:Audio Notes
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Audio Recorder brings audio recording, speech to text and AI summaries together for meetings, classes, interviews and everyday ideas. Capture the conversation, keep the transcript with your audio and turn the text into useful notes. Record and Find Key Moments Pause and resume recording, add markers to important moments and revisit them during playback. Choose a recording preset or adjust the format, channels, audio quality and sample rate. Live and Saved Audio Transcription See timestamped text as you record, or transcribe saved recordings and imported audio. Transcripts stay with their audio records, making it easier to listen and review the text in one place. Copy or share the transcript when you need to use it elsewhere. AI Meeting Minutes and Text Summaries Generate meeting minutes from your transcript, including a topic, discussion points and action items identified in the source. Create a concise text summary and extract keywords to help you review longer content. Copy or share the generated results. Video to Text and Voice Notes Import a video from Photos or Files and turn its speech into text. Add typed notes or voice input alongside the converted text. Save the extracted audio together with its transcript, or save a text-only note when no video is attached. Audio Conversion and Editing Extract audio from videos and export audio as M4A or WAV. Trim recordings, merge multiple clips, split audio at silent passages or reduce background noise. Use text to speech to preview written content and save it as an audio file. Organise Your Library Search and filter audio and text files, rename items and share your recordings. Recover deleted items from the recycle bin or permanently remove them, and clean up unused files to free storage. Some features require a subscription. Transcription languages and availability depend on your device and system. Speech recognition may require an internet connection; AI minutes and summaries require an internet connection. AI-generated content should be checked against the source. Premium Account Pricing and Terms $9.99/week* $39.99/year* *Prices are shown in USD. Actual charges may be converted to your local currency depending on your country or region. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be provided. Subscriptions may be managed by the user. Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Cancellation of the current subscription is not allowed during the active subscription period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bamboodawn.xyz/yinpinluzhi/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Safe Scanner at fortnightly against Audio Recording:Audio Notes's every 2 months. Safe Scanner also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Safe Scanner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Audio Recording:Audio Notes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Safe Scanner ships an update fortnightly, Audio Recording:Audio Notes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Safe Scanner | Audio Recording:Audio Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (52 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 97.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 280 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 洪霞 刘 | HK JIAHAO INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED |
Bugs and requests
Safe Scanner
Reported bugs
2 issues- Images become blurry after loading
- App not working
Requested features
1 request- Permanent free usage
Audio Recording:Audio Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Safe Scanner
- 永久解锁$2.99
Audio Recording:Audio Notes
- Weekly Plus3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Yearly Plus$39.991 Year
Questions
Is Safe Scanner free?
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Do Safe Scanner or Audio Recording:Audio Notes have ads?
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