Open Spoken vs NaNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Open Spoken
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Open Spoken is an open-source app to transcribe audio from the microphone into text. It's designed to help communicating with the hearing impaired by showing transcribed text on the device screen. It uses Apple’s speech recognition so it supports any language supported by Apple’s Speech Recognition engine. Supported languages (as of iOS 16): - Arabic - Chinese - Croatian - Danish - Dutch - English - French - German - Greek - Hebrew - Hungarian - Hindi - Indonesian - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Malay - Norwegian - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Slovak - Spanish - Swedish - Thai - Turkish - Ukrainian - Vietnamese
NaNote
Quickly create and display essential notes, reminders, or tasks directly on your Home Screen or Lock Screen. Schedule notes to appear automatically when needed, ensuring important information is always visible and accessible.
- Lock Screen widgets
- Home Screen widgets
- Scheduled note display
- Instant note access
- Simple note management
- Customizable visibility
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NaNote keeps the notes that matter close at hand — exactly when you need them. Create quick notes, reminders, tasks, ideas, or anything you don’t want to forget. Keep important notes visible on your Home Screen with widgets, or pin them to your Lock Screen with Live Activities for instant access. Need a note only at a specific time? Schedule it for a time range and NaNote can automatically surface it in your widget when it becomes relevant. You can also receive a notification when a scheduled note starts, so important things don’t quietly slip by. Create as many notes as you need, switch between them anytime, and decide which ones deserve your attention right now. NaNote is designed to stay simple: no complicated folders, no bloated productivity system, and no endless setup. Just lightweight notes that appear where and when they’re useful. Use NaNote for: * Daily priorities * To-do items * Shopping reminders * Motivational notes * Meeting details * Travel information * Temporary reminders * Anything you want to keep visible Your notes shouldn’t disappear inside an app. Keep them where you’ll actually see them. Privacy Policy: https://getnanote.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NaNote at daily against Open Spoken's every 14 months. Open Spoken's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Open Spoken ships an update every 14 months, NaNote daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Open Spoken | NaNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tal Aviram | Erik Bogdn |
In-app purchases
Open Spoken
No in-app purchases
NaNote
No in-app purchases
