Comparison

Cortona3D Viewer vs Ear Transcript

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

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About

Cortona3D Viewer

View interactive 3D and 2D product catalogs, work instructions, and maintenance guides. Immerse yourself in 3D procedures and VRML scenes with augmented reality on your iPhone and iPad. Supports legacy 2D and interactive 3D content derived from CAD.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality support
  • Interactive 3D and 2D content
  • Multi-touch gestures for navigation
  • Exploded views and bill of materials
  • Part search and hide/show
  • Step-by-step instructions
  • Content upload and sharing
Features
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Cortona3D Viewer is your tool for interactive 3D and 2D product catalogs, work instructions, maintenance guides, and manuals created using Cortona3D RapidAuthor. With this tool, you can immerse yourself in 3D procedures and VRML scenes through augmented reality on your iPhone. Many equipment manufacturers are now enhancing their technical documentation. The Cortona3D Viewer supports AR, 3D interaction, full-text search, and interactive 2D elements, making it compatible with both legacy 2D and interactive 3D content derived from CAD. Interactive 3D streamlines complex maintenance and assembly communication, aids part identification, and facilitates mechanical skill training. It can also serve as a sales tool for product feature demos. Cortona3D Viewer on iOS complements RapidAuthor tools. RapidAuthor generates comprehensive technical documents with text, 2D, and 3D graphics from CAD and bill of materials data. Even if your company doesn't use Cortona3D RapidAuthor, you can still install Cortona3D Viewer to access sample content featuring 3D, legacy 2D graphics, and AR elements. Features: — AR support for procedures and VRML scenes — Multi-touch gestures for navigation — Exploded views and full bill of materials hierarchy — Part-specific additional information on touch — Various selection modes for parts — Part search, hide/show — Order parts using the shopping cart — Detailed Parts List with Part Number, Nomenclature, etc. — Links from IPC and procedures to other documents — Comprehensive viewing of 2D images in SGM and SVG formats — Inspect sheet transition animations in parts catalogs — Playback or scrub through animated install/remove sequences — Step-by-step instructions as text overlay — Dynamic cross-section and distance measuring — Navigation cube — Universal app for iPhone and iPad — Content upload and sharing via iCloud — Examples of ESA astronaut training content.

About

Ear Transcript

Effortlessly convert spoken words into text. Capture meetings, lectures, or interviews and get searchable, editable transcripts. AI-powered features provide concise notes, summaries, or bullet points from your recordings.

Highlights
  • Real-time transcription
  • AI meeting notes and summaries
  • Speaker separation
  • Tap-to-play timestamps
  • Full-text search
  • Multiple export formats
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Hit record. The words write themselves. Meetings, lectures, interviews, calls with a source — press record, and when you're done you have a transcript you can read, search, and edit. No more dragging the scrubber back and forth hunting for that one line. 【Features】 · Recording to text: Transcribes as you record, with the full transcript ready the moment you stop. You can also import audio files already on your phone. · AI meeting notes: Turns a long recording into proper notes — what was discussed, what was decided, who owns what. Prefer something shorter? One tap gives you a summary or a bullet list instead. · Speaker separation: Multi-person meetings are split by speaker automatically, so you can see who said what. Rename speakers to their real names anytime. · Tap-to-play timestamps: Tap any line to jump to that moment in the audio. Check the exact wording instead of guessing. · Full-text search: Every transcript is searchable. One keyword brings back that meeting from three months ago. · Export and share: Export as plain text, Word, or SRT subtitles — or just copy and paste straight into whatever notes app you use. · Multi-language: Transcribes Chinese, English, Japanese and more. Handles mixed Chinese-English speech without tripping up. 【Made for】 · Meetings you can't take notes in, but still have to write up afterwards · Lectures that move too fast to follow, and need a second pass later · Interviews and user research that need a word-for-word transcript · Recorded interviews that have to become a written piece · Ideas you'd rather say out loud now and tidy up later —— Subscription details Pro unlocks unlimited recording and transcription, AI meeting notes, speaker separation, and all export formats. · Payment: Charged to your Apple Account once the purchase is confirmed. · Auto-renewal: Subscriptions renew automatically. Unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, your Apple Account is charged for the next period within 24 hours of the renewal date, and the subscription is extended by one period. · Manage or cancel: Go to Settings on your iPhone, tap your Apple Account at the top, then Subscriptions. Cancellation must be completed at least 24 hours before the current period ends; the current period is non-refundable. One-time purchase: · Pro Lifetime: Pay once. No auto-renewal, no further charges. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-meeting/support/user Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-meeting/support/privacy Subscription Terms: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-meeting/support/subscribe

Screenshots

Cortona3D Viewer4 screens
Ear Transcript4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ear Transcript at Free against Cortona3D Viewer's $2.99. Ear Transcript also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 7 months) and rating (3.3 vs 3.0). Cortona3D Viewer's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ratings volume, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Ear Transcript is free to download; Cortona3D Viewer costs $2.99 up front. Ear Transcript sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Cortona3D Viewer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ear Transcript holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Cortona3D Viewer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Ear Transcript's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cortona3D Viewer ships an update every 7 months, Ear Transcript daily. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cortona3D Viewer versus Ear Transcript: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCortona3D ViewerEar Transcript
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (4 ratings)3.3 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperParallelGraphicsMinutes AI LLC

Customer experience

Cortona3D Viewer

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%

Ear Transcript

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cortona3D Viewer

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Ear Transcript

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Weekly — Voice to Text$4.997 Days
  • Pro Yearly — Meeting Notes AI$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime — One-Time Purchase$69.99

Questions

Is Cortona3D Viewer free?
Cortona3D Viewer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ear Transcript free?
Ear Transcript is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cortona3D Viewer or Ear Transcript?
Ear Transcript is rated higher. Cortona3D Viewer averages 3.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Ear Transcript averages 3.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Cortona3D Viewer or Ear Transcript have ads?
Neither Cortona3D Viewer nor Ear Transcript shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cortona3D Viewer or Ear Transcript?
Cortona3D Viewer ships an update every 7 months, and Ear Transcript daily. Most recently, Cortona3D Viewer was updated on October 23, 2026 and Ear Transcript on October 29, 2026.

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