Comparison

ESSI vs Lokas

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

Head to head
About

ESSI

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Avec l'application espace client du groupe ESSI propreté vous pouvez : - Accéder à l'ensemble de vos documents - Faire des nouvelles demandes - Consultez l'historique des travaux périodiques

About

Lokas

This app records conversations, automatically transcribes them into text, and identifies individual speakers. It's designed to help you easily capture, review, and share important discussions like meetings or interviews.

Highlights
  • One-click audio recording
  • Automatic AI transcription
  • Voice diarisation (speaker identification)
  • Respect for privacy
  • File export (TXT, SRT, M4A)
  • Future translation and summary features
Features
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Lokas is a mobile application that lets you record your conversations, transcribe them into text and automatically separate each speaker's contribution. Whether it's a meeting, an interview or an informal chat, Lokas helps you capture your exchanges with ease. Key features One-click audio recording: Start a recording quickly and effortlessly. Automatic transcription: Thanks to an artificial intelligence tool for voice recognition, Lokas quickly transforms your recordings into text, making it easy to track, review and share your important discussions. Voice diarisation: Lokas automatically identifies who is speaking. This makes it possible, in particular, to compile statistics on the amount of time each person speaks. Respect for privacy: Your data belongs to you. The recordings processed by Framasoft are neither used nor kept after their analysis. File export: Easily retrieve your transcripts and audio files in different formats (TXT, SRT, or M4A). Share them with colleagues, friends or clients in just a few clicks. And in future versions... Translation: Lokas can transcribe your audio recording into the language of your choice, producing a text file (e.g. in German) corresponding to your vocal exchanges (e.g. in French). Discussion summary: Let Lokas summarise the important points of the discussion for you to make it easier to transmit, and identify the discussion you were looking for straight away. The Lokas application and service are provided by the Framasoft association, a well-known player in the digital ethics field. Our business model is based almost entirely on donations from individuals. As such, we seek to minimise the data we collect about you, and your records are always deleted from our servers directly after processing. Examples of use General assemblies, meetings, group discussions: avoid having always the same person taking notes, Lokas records the audio while you concentrate on the discussion. Discussions with gender bias: identify who is speaking and obtain statistics to illustrate the disparity in the distribution of speaking. Business meetings: Easily record and transcribe your meetings so you don't forget anything and can quickly share an accurate record with your colleagues. Why choose Lokas? Time saving: Get ready-to-use transcripts quickly, without having to listen to hours of recordings. Data security : Unlike other applications with business models based on extracting personal data as part of surveillance capitalism, Framasoft is (genuinely) committed to protecting your privacy. Data is therefore only used for the purposes requested and is immediately deleted from our servers. Free service and application: we are completely transparent about how this application and the transcription server work, and you are free to look at its source code and modify it to suit your needs, while respecting its licence. Who is behind Lokas? Lokas is a project developed by Framasoft, a French not-for-profit association committed to popular education in the digital commons. Framasoft is known for its many initiatives aimed at raising public awareness of alternatives to large centralised platforms and encouraging digital practices that are more respectful of privacy and individual freedoms. This is done in particular through the De-google-ify Internet campaign, which proposes some fifteen services as alternatives to those of the net giants.

Screenshots

ESSI3 screens
Lokas3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ESSI at 10.0 against Lokas's 12.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
ESSI versus Lokas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterESSILokas
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClic-droitFramasoft

In-app purchases

None

ESSI

No in-app purchases

None

Lokas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ESSI free?
ESSI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lokas free?
Lokas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ESSI or Lokas have ads?
Neither ESSI nor Lokas shows ads.

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