Comparison

Voiceliner vs Funnel

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

Head to head
About

Voiceliner

Quickly capture and organize thoughts using voice. This app transcribes your spoken notes, allows for hierarchical structuring, and lets you play back audio. It also automatically tags notes with your location.

Highlights
  • Voice-to-text transcription
  • Hierarchical note structuring
  • Audio playback
  • Automatic location tagging
  • Local data storage
  • Cloud backup options
Features
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The fastest way to capture and structure your thoughts: through voice. Hold record, say what you want, and release. Just like you'd expect from an outliner, create hierarchies and rearrange. Notes are auto-transcribed and searchable, but you can always play back the audio. Automatically attach location to notes. Remember walks you took, and which places sparked what ideas. This app is open source and available on GitHub. Everything is local to your device. You can back up to Google Drive and iCloud.

About

Funnel

Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.

Highlights
  • Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
  • Send notes and photos to PKM apps
  • Capture sketches and calendar events
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
  • Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
  • Built-in document scanner
  • Song capture via Shazam integration
Features
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Voiceliner4 screens
Funnel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Voiceliner at none against Funnel's 4. Voiceliner also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Voiceliner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Voiceliner holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 47 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Voiceliner's written reviews are positive against 80% of Funnel's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Voiceliner ships an update monthly, Funnel every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Voiceliner versus Funnel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoicelinerFunnel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (39 ratings) — better4.6 (47 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3947 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB36 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPocket Computing Laboratories, LLCNoteSight Labs ApS

Customer experience

Voiceliner

All ratings39 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Funnel

All ratings43 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral2.3%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.0%

In-app purchases

None

Voiceliner

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Funnel

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
  • Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Voiceliner free?
Voiceliner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Funnel free?
Funnel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Voiceliner or Funnel?
Voiceliner is rated higher. Voiceliner averages 4.8 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Funnel averages 4.6 from 47 ratings.
Do Voiceliner or Funnel have ads?
Neither Voiceliner nor Funnel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Voiceliner or Funnel?
Voiceliner ships an update monthly, and Funnel every 6 weeks. Most recently, Voiceliner was updated on October 24, 2026 and Funnel on October 24, 2026.

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