Comparison

ArcaNotes vs Hum Memo

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

Head to head
About

ArcaNotes

This app is designed for rapid note-taking with a focus on single ideas per note. It uses an AI-enhanced approach to help organize and retrieve information naturally through a feed-like interface. The app also encourages sharing knowledge by making it easy to follow and contribute to shared feeds.

Highlights
  • Rapid micro-note creation
  • AI-suggested topics
  • Natural feed-based review
  • Question-based note retrieval
  • Effortless knowledge sharing
  • Topic-based note organization
Features
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ArcaNotes is a different kind of note-taking app. It's designed for speed of entry ("micro-notes"), makes reviewing feel natural, streamlines sharing, and uses AI to help you organize and retrieve. ArcaNotes has a small mission and a big mission. The small mission is to make a great note-taking app that is fast, flexible, and aligned with how many of us work today. The bigger mission is for ArcaNotes to become your second brain, the place where you store all of your information. By making it effortless to retrieve, share, and review, your knowledge will be unlocked for you and others. How is ArcaNotes different? 1. It’s designed for rapid note-taking * Rather than taking long notes that cover several disparate topics, try using ArcaNotes to take “micro-notes” - short notes, each about one idea. * As soon as you have something you want to jot down, just enter it, and worry about organizing it (ie, assigning a topic) later. * The intention is for there to be nothing between your thought and the act of storing it - no friction. Capturing information is as simple as texting yourself. 2. Retrieval and review feel natural * Notes are displayed like a feed, similar to messaging apps. For many people, scrolling a feed is a more natural way to review and retrieve than clicking through nested folders. * Notes can be assigned one or more topics, and notes under that topic can be viewed, much like a channel. 3. It encourages you to share your knowledge * So much knowledge is trapped in our heads and apps. Often, we don’t share it because of the extra work required. * ArcaNotes aims to change that by making sharing and following feeds of other users’ notes easy. The intent is for a portion of your notes (the ones you want to share) to be opened up so others can quickly scan and review them. It’s a bit like how people routinely scan various message channels to catch up on other teams’ activities. 4. It leverages AI technology to help you be more productive * ArcaNotes suggests topics that best fit the content of your note, as you type. The goal is to help you work faster by doing some of the thinking about organizing for you. * Rather than searching by keyword, you can ask your notes a question. ArcaNotes will generate an answer based on the knowledge contained in your notes.

About

Hum Memo

This voice-first productivity app transforms spoken thoughts, conversations, and meetings into organized notes, actionable tasks, and calendar events. It offers advanced features like multilingual transcription, speaker separation, and AI-powered insights, all while prioritizing user privacy.

Highlights
  • Voice note and meeting recording
  • Speech-to-text transcription
  • Task and event extraction
  • Multilingual and speaker recognition
  • Searchable notes and folders
  • Calendar integration
Features
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Think out loud. Leave with a plan. Turn a passing thought, a meeting recap, or a brain dump into organized notes and clear next steps. Hum Memo brings voice capture to your iPhone and Apple Watch. CAPTURE THE MOMENT • Speak naturally. Turn recordings into transcripts, summaries, titles, and tags. • Record from your wrist. Save a voice note on Apple Watch and send it to your paired iPhone for processing. • Type when talking isn’t convenient, or save supported links alongside your notes. • Record in multiple languages, including conversations that switch between them. MAKE YOUR WORDS USEFUL • Find the next step. Hum Memo suggests tasks and calendar events from your notes for you to review and add. • Keep things organized. Search your notes and group them into folders. • Make it yours. Edit titles, summaries, and transcripts. • Take your work with you. Export notes to Notion or Obsidian, send tasks to Reminders, Todoist, or Things, and add events to your calendar. GO DEEPER WITH HUM MAX • Ask questions across your notes, with references back to the source. • Explore connections between people and topics. • Recognize enrolled speakers in your recordings. YOUR NOTES STAY YOURS No ads. Your content is never sold or used for advertising. Cloud features process recordings and text through our service providers. You can delete your account in Settings; see our Privacy Policy for retention details. MEMBERSHIP Hum Memo requires an account and an active Hum Pro or Hum Max subscription. Monthly and yearly plans are available, with free trials for eligible customers. Features and monthly usage allowances vary by plan. Current prices, allowances, and available trial offers are shown in the app before purchase. The Apple Watch companion requires Hum Memo on your paired iPhone. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://hummemo.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://hummemo.com/terms.html

Screenshots

ArcaNotes4 screens
Hum Memo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ArcaNotes at none against Hum Memo's 4. ArcaNotes also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Hum Memo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. ArcaNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ArcaNotes against 5.0 for Hum Memo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ArcaNotes versus Hum Memo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArcaNotesHum Memo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings37 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB771 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArcaNotes, LLCJZMB GmbH

Customer experience

ArcaNotes

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hum Memo

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ArcaNotes

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Hum Memo

Subscriptions4
  • Hum Memo Pro7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Hum Memo Max7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Hum Memo Pro7 Days trial$89.991 Year
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  • Hum Memo Max7 Days trial$149.991 Year

Questions

Is ArcaNotes free?
ArcaNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hum Memo free?
Hum Memo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ArcaNotes or Hum Memo?
ArcaNotes and Hum Memo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 7 ratings respectively.
Do ArcaNotes or Hum Memo have ads?
Neither ArcaNotes nor Hum Memo shows ads.

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