Comparison

A.Notes vs Prismical

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

Head to head
About

A.Notes

This app enhances PDF management with features like text recognition, voice-to-text, digital signatures, and password protection. It offers advanced data capturing using AI and supports over 50 languages for speech recognition and 35 for online translation.

Highlights
  • AI-powered data capturing
  • PDF annotation and signing
  • Voice-to-text and speech recognition
  • OCR and text recognition
  • Online translation
  • Password protection for PDFs
  • Calendar integration
Features
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New features: * Handy interpretation for communicating with people in different countries * Fast and easy to export ANotes' data in PDF format * Create your own audio book in PDF format * Create free text annotation (free drawing) if words cannot express your meaning * Sign your ink signature with date and your title, and drag your signature/image to where you like on the PDF file. * Add company stamp or picture to PDF file * Maintain watermark on your PDF file * Create remarks/comments on PDF file through voice to text function * Protect your PDF file by password/key * Share your PDF file with optional alert in your calendar, so that you can trace the file you have sent. * Your PDF summary/remarks can be saved/linked in ANotes's database, so that you can read/search the summary in ANotes instead of finding and opening the documents one by one. A.Notes is NOT just a notes app, it provides advanced data capturing functions using A.I. technologies based on Apple Machine Learning Models - Core ML. It supports iOS 14.0 or above, and 10 display languages are provided - English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese. - Capture image data through text recognition - Capture voice data speech recognition over 50 languages - Read text data using natural language processing In additions, due to providing more languages support on OCR, an open source solution - Tesseract is adopted. - Online translation functions support over 35 languages. - All data is captured and stored in database in your device for further processing. - when creating/modifying notes, the notes can be added to Apple Calendar. - The Notes can be categorized your own made icons.

About

Prismical

Features
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Talk freely. AI writes the notes. Prismical is a full AI note taker - not just a meeting recorder. Record a lecture, a client call, a voice memo on the walk home, or a two-minute brain dump. Prismical transcribes it while you talk, then writes it up: summary, decisions, action items. And it is a real notes app underneath. Type when you would rather type. Folders, tags, search and sync are all there - recording just means you never have to type out the part you already said. FREE AND PRO Every feature is free to use, including AI write-ups, Skills, Ask AI, sharing, and connecting your own AI provider key. What the Free plan limits is volume: 600 minutes of cloud transcription a month. Prismical Pro raises that limit for heavy users. Nothing else is locked behind it. Prismical Pro is US$14.00/month or US$119.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before that. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://prismical.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://prismical.ai/privacy GOOD FOR - Meetings and calls, in the room or on the phone - Lectures and classes you want to actually listen to - Voice notes and brain dumps, straight into your pocket - Interviews and user research - Research and reading notes - Tasks and project notes that start as a ramble WHAT IT DOES - Live transcript that appears while you are still speaking - An AI write-up of what was said: summary, decisions and action items - Ask questions across everything you have captured, with the source note attached - Keeps recording with the screen locked, and recovers long sessions after an interruption - Pause and resume a recording without losing a word - Search across every note and transcript - Folders, tags and favorites to keep it all in order - Choose from 100+ transcription languages, or let it detect the language for you YOUR AI, YOUR WAY - Skills: write your own AI actions and run them over a whole note or a single recording - Bring your own key - OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq and more - or just use ours - Vocabulary: teach it names, acronyms and jargon so they come out spelled right - Auto-transcribe every new note and auto-enhance after a recording, if you want them MEETINGS, WITHOUT THE BOT Nothing joins your call. No "a recording assistant has entered the meeting". Connect Google Calendar and your day appears on the home screen, so you can tap a meeting and start a note attached to it. Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or a kitchen table - Prismical records from your device, and nobody else sees a thing. SHARE IT - Invite people to a note by email, as a viewer or an editor - Publish a read-only public link when you just need to send someone the write-up - Organizations, so a team's notes live in one place ON EVERY DEVICE Your notes sync with the Prismical web and desktop apps. Start a note in the hallway on your phone and finish it at your desk. Notes are kept on the device too, so you can read and write with no connection and it catches up when you are back. PRIVACY - Recordings are sent to Prismical to produce your transcript. What is kept, and for how long, is set out in the privacy policy below. - AI write-ups, Skills and Ask AI send the note's text to OpenAI, which does not use it for training. Turn it off in Settings > Privacy. - No ads, and no advertising trackers - You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app at any time - Privacy policy: https://prismical.ai/privacy - Terms of Service: https://prismical.ai/terms Need a hand? Settings > Help & feedback reaches us from inside the app, or write to us at https://prismical.ai/contact

Screenshots

A.Notes4 screens
Prismical4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Prismical at Free against A.Notes's $9.99. Prismical also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months). A.Notes's advantage is iOS requirement (13.6 vs 16.4). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Prismical is free to download; A.Notes costs $9.99 up front. A.Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Prismical sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

A.Notes ships an update every 5 months, Prismical every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
A.Notes versus Prismical: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterA.NotesPrismical
Price$9.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.6 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size183 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShu Wai KwongExa Labs LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

A.Notes

One-time1
  • A.Notes version 1.3$18.99
2 purchases

Prismical

Subscriptions2
  • Prismical Pro Monthly$14.001 Month
  • Prismical Pro Yearly$119.991 Year

Questions

Is A.Notes free?
A.Notes costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Prismical free?
Prismical is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do A.Notes or Prismical have ads?
Neither A.Notes nor Prismical shows ads.
Which is updated more often, A.Notes or Prismical?
A.Notes ships an update every 5 months, and Prismical every 4 days. Most recently, A.Notes was updated on October 24, 2026 and Prismical on October 15, 2026.

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