Roam Mobile vs Whittle

As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.

Whittle is a voice notes app that writes while you talk. Tap record and speak. Your words appear as you say them, and when you stop, the note is ready to read. Everything happens on your iPhone: no account, no servers. HOW IT WORKS Tap record and talk. The transcript keeps pace with you, written by Apple's on-device speech engine. When you stop, you get the note and the full transcript. Tap any sentence to hear it. Tap a word to fix it, and Whittle remembers the spelling next time. FEATURES - Live, on-device transcription, no internet needed - Notes and the exact transcript, side by side - Marks while you record, and Keep talking to add to a note later - Search every word you have said - Notebooks and tags - Translate a note on-device - Playback at up to 2x, 15-second skips, Lock Screen controls - Words Whittle should know: names and jargon you use RECORD FROM ANYWHERE Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Control Center, the Action button, Siri, a long press on the app icon, and the Apple Watch. Recordings from the Watch are sent to your iPhone and written out there. You can also import audio files, or share them to Whittle from Voice Memos, Files and other apps. WITH APPLE INTELLIGENCE On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence turned on, Whittle also: - tidies each note and gives it a title - suggests tags - rewrites a note as an email, a message, a journal entry, meeting minutes, a blog post, bullet points or your own style - answers questions from your notes, on your iPhone Everything else works without it, and your notes are finished for you if you turn it on later. YOURS, AND PRIVATE - Lock Whittle with Face ID - Export as text, Markdown, PDF or audio, or keep a folder of Markdown files up to date (Obsidian works) - Optional sync through your own private iCloud; recordings sync only if you turn that on - iPad layout, dark mode and VoiceOver PAY ONCE Your first 25 notes are free, with everything included and recordings of any length. Whittle Pro is a single purchase, never a subscription: notes without end, forever. Family Sharing included.