Comparison

AI Note Taker vs Nota

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

Head to head
About

AI Note Taker

This app records and transcribes voice to text, then uses AI to generate smart notes, summaries, and action points. It can process local audio/video files, web links, and even YouTube videos, offering various AI-powered text refinement and translation options.

Highlights
  • Voice to text transcription
  • AI-powered note summarization
  • Transcribe audio/video files
  • Record meetings and lectures
  • AI text rewriting and translation
  • Organize notes with folders
  • Integrations with Notion and Zapier
Features
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VoicePen is your AI note taker that records and transcribes voice to text, then summarizes it into smart, AI-powered notes. Skip the typing — record meetings, lectures, or voice memos and turn them into accurate speech to text transcriptions, summaries, action points, proofread texts and more. Transcribe and summarize any imported audio or video — from local files to YouTube videos, podcasts, and Zoom recordings. Works seamlessly on your iPhone, Watch, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro. # AI Note Taker for Lectures and Meetings: - Record unlimited meetings, lectures, interviews — up to 2 hours each - Record in the background and offline with Live Activities - Get fast, accurate transcriptions with speaker labels and timecodes powered by OpenAI Whisper - Get AI notes in multiple formats: Summary, Takeaway, Action Points, Study Note, Definitions, Quiz and more - Export notes and recordings to PDF or DOC and share via any app - Organize notes into folders and quickly search through them to recall anything # AI Note Taker for Personal Notes: - Skip typing - record quick notes and voice memos on the go and turn them into clear text - Capture ideas fast with recording widgets and Siri voice commands - Convert to accurate transcripts instantly with OpenAI Whisper - Rewrite using AI styles like Clear Text, Proofread, Journaling, and more - Organize your notes into folders like in any note-taking app - Automate your workflow with integrations to Notion, Zapier, and Make # Voice Typing for Emails and Messages: - Dictate messages instead of typing, then refine with AI to your preferred style - Start dictating with widgets or by saying “Siri, Dictate in VoicePen” - Enhance text with AI styles: Proofread, Professional, Casual, Short, Elaborated - Instantly translate dictations to any language - Copy, paste, send, or share final output in any app # Transcription and Summaries for any Audio and Video Files, YouTube, Podcasts, Zoom: - Upload any audio or video file, or paste a link - Get accurate transcriptions, AI summaries and key points in seconds - Build your second brain — store and organize all audio / video content from the internet ---- ** Multiplatform Access - Works on iPhone, Watch, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro - Sync between devices securely with your private iCloud - One subscription covers all your Apple devices ** Features - Long recordings up to 2 hours each - Speaker separation and transcript time codes - Off-screen and Offline recordings with Live Activities - Widget and Siri commands for quick recordings - Files, Audios, Videos, Web Links, YouTube, Podcasts support - Over 25 built-in ai rewrite options - Personal rewrites with custom prompts - Over 80 languages, translations, multi-language notes - Folders and Search through all notes - Share and export to other Apps, Pdf, Doc - Zapier, Notion, Make, n8n integrations via webhooks ** Accessibility Built In - Voice typing for motor difficulties - Live transcription for hearing difficulties ** Privacy First: - No audio or transcripts are stored on our servers - Your recordings stay in your private iCloud - We only collect anonymous usage analytics (like button taps) ** Supported languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh. ** Up to 2-hour recordings and imports available with a Premium subscription ** Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Nota

Features
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Nota is a canvas notebook. Write by hand, type, draw diagrams and annotate PDFs — all on the same page, all saved to your device as you go. HANDWRITING THAT BECOMES TEXT Ink with a pen or your finger. Pause, and what you just wrote turns into an editable text box. Recognition runs entirely on your device, so your writing never leaves it. English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. A CANVAS, NOT A PAGE OF LINES • Pen, highlighter and eraser, with a press-and-hold straight-line snap • An endless canvas, or real pages: Letter and A4 through A7, portrait or landscape • Blank, ruled or grid paper in six colours • Pinch to zoom, drag to pan, undo and redo across everything TEXT THAT THINKS IN MARKDOWN Type # for a heading, - for a bullet, [] for a checkbox, > for a quote. Bold, italic, size, colour, alignment, font and rotation, all from one ribbon. DIAGRAMS, NOT DOODLES More than 80 shapes across Standard, Flowchart, Containers and UML — class, use case, state and sequence. Connectors snap to ports and keep following a shape when you move or rotate it, with arrowheads, labels and UML relationship presets. PDFs IN, PDFs OUT Import a PDF and every page becomes a page you can write on. Reorder, duplicate, insert or delete pages. Export the whole note, the current page or a range as a PDF or as PNG images, then share it or save it to Files. ORGANISED, AND OFFLINE Nested folders with cover images and a breadcrumb browser. Everything works with no connection at all — notes are written to your device the moment you stop typing. No analytics, no ads. NOTA PRO • Google Drive backup and sync — every note, folder, image and PDF page, in a folder you own • Automatic background sync, or Sync now on any single note • Your whole library back on any device you sign in on • Signatures — draw or type one, style its ink, rule and footer, then place it on any page • A library of up to three saved signatures, ready on every device Everything else is free, with no time limit. Terms of Use: https://nota-solution.quantyr.co/terms Privacy Policy: https://nota-solution.quantyr.co/privacy

Screenshots

AI Note Taker4 screens
Nota4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: AI Note Taker at 5 against Nota's 3. Nota's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. AI Note Taker sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Nota sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
AI Note Taker versus Nota: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAI Note TakerNota
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (525 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings525 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimur KhairullinNANDAPRIAN RAJASEKARAN

Bugs and requests

AI Note Taker

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Transcription issues with multiple speakers
  • App crashing or not loading
  • Incorrect language transcription

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to combine/continue recordings
  • Speaker identification in transcripts
  • More customization options
  • Sync between devices
  • Export transcripts by date range

Nota

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

AI Note Taker

Subscriptions8
  • Premium Access$1.997 Days
  • VoicePen Premium$2.997 Days
  • VoicePen Premium2 variants$4.997 Days
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  • VoicePen Premium2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Unlimited AI Voice Notes$9.991 Month
  • VoicePen Premium3 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • VoicePen Premium7 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • Unlimited AI Voice Notes7 Days trial$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$149.99
2 purchases

Nota

Subscriptions2
  • Nota Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Nota Pro Monthly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is AI Note Taker free?
AI Note Taker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nota free?
Nota is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do AI Note Taker or Nota have ads?
Neither AI Note Taker nor Nota shows ads.

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