Comparison

Safety Note+ Pro vs HearFlow

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

Head to head
About

Safety Note+ Pro

Securely store personal notes, journals, and sensitive lists with advanced privacy features. Protect your writing with passcodes, Face ID, or Touch ID, and utilize decoy passwords for an extra layer of security. Organize with color-coded folders and optional cloud sync.

Highlights
  • Passcode, Face ID, Touch ID protection
  • Decoy password for alternate content
  • Intruder reports for failed access
  • Folder-level protection with colors/icons
  • Optional iCloud Sync and Cloud Backup
  • Auto-save and flexible organization
Features
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Some notes deserve a private space of their own. Safety Note+ Pro is the separately purchased Pro edition for personal notes, journals, sensitive lists and confidential ideas. Keep private writing apart from everyday notes, then unlock with Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode. A DEDICATED PRO EDITION Choose Safety Note+ Pro when you prefer a separate paid app for private notes. Optional iCloud Sync and Cloud Backup remain separate services and may require an in-app purchase or subscription. FLEXIBLE PRIVATE ACCESS • Protect the app with a passcode • Use Face ID or Touch ID on supported Apple devices • Choose PIN, password or pattern-style access where available • Return quickly to private writing without mixing it with ordinary notes DECOY AND INTRUDER FEATURES • Set a decoy password that opens alternate content • Review supported intruder reports after failed access attempts • Enable only the privacy features that suit your needs FOLDER-LEVEL PROTECTION • Add separate protection to selected folders • Use folder colors and icons • Organize personal, journal, work and other sensitive notes WRITE AND ORGANIZE • Create short notes, long-form writing and private lists • Search, sort, move and copy notes • Auto-save helps preserve changes as you write • Choose from available themes • Use one universal app on iPhone and iPad OPTIONAL SYNC AND BACKUP • Keep notes on your device for a local workflow • Enable iCloud Sync on supported Apple devices • Choose optional Cloud Backup where available • Confirm that backup has completed before changing devices or deleting the app IMPORTANT DATA SAFETY Deleting the app may remove notes stored only on the device. Before deleting, reinstalling, replacing or erasing a device, confirm where your notes are stored and that any enabled backup has completed successfully. Face ID and Touch ID are handled by Apple. Safety Note+ Pro does not receive or store your biometric face or fingerprint data. Feature availability may vary by device, operating-system version and region. Optional sync, backup and certain services may require separate in-app purchases or subscriptions. Visit us at: Website: https://sixbytes.io Twitter: https://twitter.com/SixbytesApp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sixbytesapp For more information, please refer to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy: Terms of use: https://sixbytes.io/products/safety-note/legal/terms Privacy policy: https://sixbytes.io/products/safety-note/legal/privacy-policy

About

HearFlow

Features
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Write with your voice, in any app. HearFlow is a keyboard that listens. Tap the microphone, speak, and clean text appears right where you were typing: WhatsApp, Mail, Notes, anywhere there is a text field. THE TEXT COMES OUT READY Not a raw transcript: HearFlow fixes punctuation and capitalization, applies your tone (formal, casual, very casual or excited) and gets your own words right. YOUR VOCABULARY Add names, acronyms and technical terms to the dictionary and HearFlow stops getting them wrong. With snippets, one spoken phrase becomes a full text. A FULL KEYBOARD QWERTY layout with shift, accented letters on long press, numbers and symbols. Type by hand when you want, dictate when it is faster. ON-DEVICE RECOGNITION Speech is recognized with Apple's Speech framework, on your iPhone whenever your language's iOS dictation model is installed on the device, so dictation keeps working offline. If that model is not installed, iOS uses Apple's speech recognition service for that dictation. Audio from the HearFlow keyboard never reaches HearFlow's servers. VOICE NOTES AND MAC DICTATIONS, IN ONE PLACE Share a voice note from WhatsApp, Voice Memos or Files to HearFlow and get its transcript, plus a short summary when you ask for one. Home also shows the dictations you make with HearFlow for Mac: play the audio, rename, share, or undo an AI edit. YOUR AUDIOS, YOUR CHOICE To keep your iPhone and Mac in sync, imported voice notes and Mac dictations, with their audio, are stored on HearFlow's servers for 90 days. You choose on first launch, and you can turn sync off or delete everything from Settings at any time. Optional AI cleanup and summaries send text only, never audio, and only after you agree. We never sell your data or use it for ads. YOUR NUMBERS Words dictated, real speed, day streaks: see how much time you are actually saving. Free trial, then Pro as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase. Auto-renewable subscription: it renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://hearflow.it/terms Privacy: https://hearflow.it/privacy

Screenshots

Safety Note+ Pro4 screens
HearFlow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HearFlow at Free against Safety Note+ Pro's $3.99. HearFlow also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Safety Note+ Pro's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

HearFlow is free to download; Safety Note+ Pro costs $3.99 up front. Safety Note+ Pro sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and HearFlow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Safety Note+ Pro ships an update fortnightly, HearFlow every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Safety Note+ Pro versus HearFlow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSafety Note+ ProHearFlow
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (744 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews77.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings744 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEightythree TechnologyManuel Rizzo

Bugs and requests

Safety Note+ Pro

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Notes not saving properly
  • Password not recognized after updates
  • App freezing or crashing on startup
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Cloud sync and backup options
  • Customizable themes and layouts
  • Improved cursor and text selection controls
  • Folder-level password protection
  • Keyword search

HearFlow

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Safety Note+ Pro

Subscriptions4
  • iCloud Sync Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Cloud Backup Monthly$1.491 Month
  • iCloud Sync Yearly$6.991 Year
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  • Cloud Backup Yearly$8.991 Year
One-time2
  • Reset Password$1.99
  • iCloud Sync Lifetime$49.99
3 purchases

HearFlow

Subscriptions2
  • HearFlow Pro Monthly$14.001 Month
  • HearFlow Pro Yearly$129.991 Year
One-time1
  • HearFlow Pro Lifetime$229.00

Questions

Is Safety Note+ Pro free?
Safety Note+ Pro costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is HearFlow free?
HearFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Safety Note+ Pro or HearFlow have ads?
Neither Safety Note+ Pro nor HearFlow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Safety Note+ Pro or HearFlow?
Safety Note+ Pro ships an update fortnightly, and HearFlow every 5 days. Most recently, Safety Note+ Pro was updated on November 1, 2026 and HearFlow on October 25, 2026.

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