Comparison

Book Notes vs VoiceToMD

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

Head to head
About

Book Notes

This app helps you retain information from your Kindle highlights using spaced repetition. Import notes from various sources and revisit them in short daily sessions to move them from passive reading to active knowledge.

Highlights
  • Import Kindle highlights
  • Spaced repetition review
  • Daily review sessions
  • Organize notes by life area
  • Search by book, author, or hashtag
  • Track progress and streaks
Features
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You highlight the best parts of a book, and a month later you remember almost none of them. Your Kindle highlights sit in a list you never open. Bloomind brings them back. Import your Kindle highlights in seconds, then revisit them in short daily sessions. Bloomind uses spaced repetition to bring each highlight back at the right moment, so it moves from "I read that somewhere" to "I know this". BRING YOUR HIGHLIGHTS IN - Kindle: export a book's notebook from the Kindle app on iPhone, Android or a Kindle e-reader, then share it to Bloomind. No Amazon login needed. - Pick the highlights worth keeping before you import them - Readwise: bring your whole library over with one CSV export, and choose which books to import - CSV: import notes from any other app - Share from anywhere: highlight text in any app, tap Share, then Bloomind - Every highlight is tagged with its book and author, like #meditations #marcusAurelius #book REVISIT THEM DAILY - Short review sessions: Bloomind shows a highlight and asks "Remember this?" - Answer honestly. Highlights you know well come back less often, and the ones you're forgetting come back sooner - Review everything, or revisit one book at a time - Keep a daily streak, so revisiting becomes a habit, not a chore - Watch your highlights become "mastered" and track your progress in every life area ORGANIZE THE WAY YOU THINK - Sort notes by life area (Mind, Growth, Career, Love, Body, Money and more) - Add your own notes, quotes and lessons from books, podcasts or your own reflections - Search by book, author or hashtag WHY SPACED REPETITION? Memory fades fast after we learn something new. Reviewing at increasing intervals is one of the most reliable ways to slow that forgetting down. Bloomind does the scheduling for you, so two minutes a day is enough. WHO IT'S FOR - Kindle readers with hundreds of highlights they never look at again - Readwise users looking for a simple, free way to review their highlights - Readers who want to remember and apply what they read - Anyone who collects lessons from books and podcasts FREE, NO SUBSCRIPTION Bloomind is free. Import a book tonight, review it tomorrow, and you'll be surprised how much stays with you. Kindle and Readwise are trademarks of their respective owners. Bloomind is not affiliated with Amazon or Readwise.

About

VoiceToMD

Features
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VoiceToMD is a voice note transcription app that bridges the gap between taking the note and your agents. Capture on iPhone, transcribe on-device, ship as markdown. The resulting markdown lands in iCloud, your email, your favorite notes app, your webhook, your SFTP server, or any iOS Shortcut—and you can send it to all of them at once. VoiceToMD isn't where your notes live. It's how they get there. — ON-DEVICE TRANSCRIPTION — Your iPhone does the work. Every transcription runs locally on the device in your hand—no servers, no API calls, no internet required once the app is set up. Audio stays where it was captured. Three transcription qualities to pick from, scaled to your iPhone. The app recommends the right one during setup; you can switch any time. — EVERY LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK — Speak any language. The app recognizes it automatically—Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and dozens more. All processed on your iPhone, never sent anywhere. — PRESS ONCE. DONE. — Bind the Action Button on iPhone 15 Pro or later. Press it on a locked phone. FaceID authenticates and recording starts before you finish raising the phone. The lock-screen Live Activity carries you through Pause, Stop, Send, and Hold—without ever opening the app. Also: Control Center widget, and iOS Shortcuts. All quick-capture surfaces deliver directly to your default profile's destinations. — YOUR DESTINATIONS — Five destination types: - iCloud Drive folder—markdown files land in any folder you pick - Email—your default mail client, transcript and attachment pre-populated - Webhook—HTTPS POST with bearer-token auth and a configurable body - SFTP—host, port, key or password authentication, base path you control - iOS Shortcut—pass the markdown to any Shortcut you've built Configure multiple destinations per profile. One capture fans out to all of them—your notes app and your automation pipeline, your inbox and your shortcuts—simultaneously, in one tap. — MARKDOWN ANY APP CAN READ — Every note ships with YAML frontmatter—title, created timestamp, profile, destination, duration, audio path. Paragraph breaks fall where the speech actually paused. Speaker labels appear when more than one voice is in the room. Drop into Apple Notes, Obsidian, Notion, or any other app or pipeline without preprocessing. — PROFILES — Configure multiple profiles, each with its own destinations, audio settings, transcription quality, vocabulary priming, and formatting rules. Quick-capture surfaces use your default profile; switch the active profile in one tap.

Screenshots

Book Notes4 screens
VoiceToMD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Book Notes at none against VoiceToMD's 2. Book Notes also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. VoiceToMD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Book Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Notes ships an update every 9 days, VoiceToMD every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
Book Notes versus VoiceToMD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook NotesVoiceToMD
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBan MarkovicChris Whitling

In-app purchases

None

Book Notes

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

VoiceToMD

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Book Notes free?
Book Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is VoiceToMD free?
VoiceToMD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Book Notes or VoiceToMD have ads?
Neither Book Notes nor VoiceToMD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Notes or VoiceToMD?
Book Notes ships an update every 9 days, and VoiceToMD every 3 weeks. Most recently, Book Notes was updated on November 4, 2026 and VoiceToMD on October 31, 2026.

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