Comparison

YYProbe vs Offline Dictation

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

Head to head
About

YYProbe

This app transforms your meeting conversations into searchable text, offering real-time transcription and analysis. It helps improve online meeting efficiency by visualizing discussions, tracking participant contributions, and providing a searchable history of past meetings. Enhance your productivity by automating note-taking and gaining insights from your discussions.

Highlights
  • Real-time speech-to-text transcription
  • Automatic keyword categorization
  • Participant speech and word frequency analysis
  • Searchable conversation history
  • Edit and share transcribed meetings
  • Supports multi-user video calls
Features
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■ Recommended for those who: • Want to make better use of meeting conversations • Need to visualize and analyze conversations or store them as organizational knowledge • Want to improve online meeting efficiency • Struggle with unclear audio in online meetings, making communication difficult • Want to hold meetings without being restricted to specific devices (smartphones, PCs, etc.) • Want to enhance meetings with audio, video, and subtitles • Have trouble recalling what was said in meetings, leading to unclear follow-up actions • Spend too much time creating minutes for long meetings • Need an alternative to transcription or note-taking • Manually type and record interview or meeting discussions on the spot • Use an IC recorder as a substitute for taking notes ■ Key Features of YYProbe Lite: • Supports multi-user video calls • Converts speech into text in real-time using voice recognition • Automatically categorizes registered keywords within conversations • Aggregates spoken content within a meeting, showing participant speech counts and frequently used words • Allows users to listen to and edit transcribed speech • Enables sending transcribed meeting conversations via email • Lets users search past recorded meetings using keywords • Provides access to conversation history for meetings you’ve attended • Improves speech recognition accuracy by registering frequently used words (such as names, company names, product names, or internal abbreviations) ■ Additional Features in the Enterprise Version of YYProbe: • Removes Lite version restrictions (usage time, video calls, etc.) • Integrates with the online whiteboard “YYKnowledgeboard” • Connects with the knowledge analysis system “YYAnalytics” • Links to the video-sharing app “YY Video Share” • Enhanced security and management features Note: The enterprise version requires a separate contract and a “Corporate ID” provided by our company. YYProbe brings you valuable insights! Start recording your conversations today!

About

Offline Dictation

Transcribe speech to text securely and privately, even without an internet connection. This app processes all dictation locally on your device, ensuring no data is sent to the cloud. It supports numerous languages and offers convenient features like automatic scrolling and clipboard copying.

Highlights
  • Offline transcription
  • Secure and private processing
  • Supports multiple languages
  • Automatic scrolling
  • Copy to clipboard
  • Timestamp display
Features
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You can transcribe safely and securely even in places where radio waves do not reach or in meetings with important content! A network is essential for general transcription apps because it is linked with cloud services, This application does not require a network because the processing is completed within the iPhone. Therefore, you can comfortably transcribe without any transcription failure or delay due to network connection failure. In addition, you can use it safely at work without being involved in information leakage on the cloud service side. (If you are worried, you can use it by blocking communication by switching to airplane mode etc.) Also, the function to save data is not added. (There is only a copy function to the clipboard) *Usage* - Tap the red circle button to start dictation. - To stop dictation tap the red square button. - Turn on "Date", Timestamp of dictation is displayed - Turn on "scroll", scroll automatically - Tap "Copy" button, the result of dictation is copied to clipboard *Support Language* - English - Chinese - Spanish - Italian - Brazilian - Portuguese - Japanese - Korean - German - French - Arabic - Hindi - Indonesian - Russian - Vietnamese - Turkish - Thai - Ukrainian This app contains artifacts distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 license. [Apache License, Version 2.0] http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Screenshots

YYProbe3 screens
Offline Dictation3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: YYProbe at none against Offline Dictation's shown. YYProbe also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Offline Dictation's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 67%). On price, in-app purchases, 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

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

YYProbe ships an update every 2 days, Offline Dictation fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
YYProbe versus Offline Dictation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterYYProbeOffline Dictation
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.514.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size139 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer株式会社エクォス・リサーチYasuhiro Suzuki

Customer experience

YYProbe

Written reviews18 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

Offline Dictation

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

YYProbe

No in-app purchases

None

Offline Dictation

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is YYProbe free?
YYProbe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Offline Dictation free?
Offline Dictation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do YYProbe or Offline Dictation have ads?
Offline Dictation shows ads; YYProbe does not.
Which is updated more often, YYProbe or Offline Dictation?
YYProbe ships an update every 2 days, and Offline Dictation fortnightly. Most recently, YYProbe was updated on October 7, 2026 and Offline Dictation on September 29, 2026.

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