Comparison

NovaNote vs Open Caption

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

Head to head
About

NovaNote

This app merges your digital life and ideas with advanced rich text formatting, image and PDF attachments, and voice recording. Seamlessly integrate maps and calendars into your notes for effortless organization and task management.

Highlights
  • Rich text formatting
  • Map integration
  • Calendar integration
  • Image and PDF attachments
  • Voice recording
  • Color-coded categories
  • iCloud sync
Features
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NovaNote is your space to write, organize, and create without interrupting the flow of your ideas. Take notes, create notebooks, add images, scans, drawings, PDFs, audio recordings, tasks, events, and locations: everything stays together in one simple, complete app designed to support your everyday work and creativity. With notebooks, you can organize pages and notes more naturally, keeping projects, study, work, and personal ideas separate and easy to find. Rich text tools let you format text, create lists, adjust alignment, and structure every note with clarity. NovaNote also helps you preserve context. Add locations to notes, connect calendar events, record multiple audio clips in a single note, import attachments, and turn images, scans, and drawings into resources that are always within reach. Attachments are a core part of the experience: add photos, PDFs, images, scans, and drawings, then edit, annotate, crop, and export them whenever you need. Color-coded categories make it easier to quickly find what matters. iCloud sync keeps your content updated across your Apple devices, while improvements to performance, zoom, gallery, scanner, and overall stability make the experience smoother and more reliable. NovaNote is built for anyone who wants functionality and creativity in one place: notes, ideas, documents, and memories, always with you.

About

Open Caption

Features
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Open Caption is a continuous speech to text app that uses both Apples and your devices speech recognizer to transcribe spoke word.

Screenshots

NovaNote4 screens
Open Caption4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NovaNote at none against Open Caption's 1. Open Caption's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Open Caption sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. NovaNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NovaNote ships an update every 9 days, Open Caption fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
NovaNote versus Open Caption: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNovaNoteOpen Caption
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancesco SalvatiJOHN BURKE

In-app purchases

None

NovaNote

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Open Caption

One-time1
  • Buy Transcription Sharing$0.99

Questions

Is NovaNote free?
NovaNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Open Caption free?
Open Caption is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do NovaNote or Open Caption have ads?
Neither NovaNote nor Open Caption shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NovaNote or Open Caption?
NovaNote ships an update every 9 days, and Open Caption fortnightly. Most recently, NovaNote was updated on November 6, 2026 and Open Caption on November 3, 2026.

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