XNote AI vs Annovate

Write on paper, keep it digital. The XNote app works with the XNote smart pen and XNote paper: what you write by hand appears in the app as you write, ready to search, summarize and share. What you can do • Handwriting-to-text: Turn your handwritten pages into text you can search, copy and edit, including tables and diagrams. • Write without your phone: The pen keeps the pages you write and sends them to the app the next time it connects. • AI summaries and chat: Get a summary of a page, ask questions about your notes and turn them into tasks. AI chat is included, with usage limits. • Meetings and recordings: XNote can join your Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams meetings to record, transcribe and summarize them (paid plans). Or tap record in the app to capture a lecture or a voice note on your phone, and link recordings to your notebook pages. • Organize and find: Notebooks, tags and search keep every page easy to find. • Printable pages: Print free pages from the app's template catalog, such as planners and meeting notes, on a laser printer (US Letter or A4). • Share and export: Share a page with a link, share a recording with its summary, or export pages as PDF, Word, Excel, Markdown, text or images. • Send notes where you work: Automations send your notes and summaries to Notion, Slack, Todoist and Zapier. • Sketch to image: Turn a quick sketch into a finished image. • Phone and web: Your notes sync to your account, so you can open them on your phone and on the web. Good to know • The pen captures handwriting only on XNote paper: XNote notebooks, or pages you print from the app. • The XNote smart pen and notebooks are sold separately at xnote.ai. • The pen has no microphone. Recordings come from your phone or the meeting bot. • The Free plan includes 150 audio minutes a month.

Annovate lets you add voice or text annotations directly to any image or markdown/plain text file (.md or .txt). Tap to place a numbered marker, record your thoughts, and share annotated images with easily editable voice-to-text transcripts. I built Annovate to give design feedback on my phone without having to type, and to easily edit before sharing with others. With the new 2.0 version, I can now review markdown and plain text files on the go, without needing to type. The annotations save into the text as inline comments. Export your text into a new file for later review. While other annotation apps are loaded with features and are difficult to use while mobile, Annovate is optimized for quick annotations, anytime and anywhere. How It Works 1. Import any image from your photo library or files OR a markdown or plain text file (.md or .txt) 2. Tap anywhere to place a numbered annotation 3. Tap the record button to capture multiple voice notes (up to 60 seconds per note) 4. On-device speech recognition automatically transcribes your audio 5. Easily edit your transcript and listen to voice notes 6. Share your Annovate document with other users, or export as PDF if an image 7. For text-based Annovate documents, you can export your text with your annotations embedded as inline comments Use Cases - Give design feedback on mockups and wireframes - Mark up markdown files while on the go, then export and share with others - Mark up photos to document feedback for edits or issues - Annotate photos from your photo library or files - Provide critique and revision notes for any image or plain text file - Take a screen shot of a map, then annotate image for step by step direction - Take a picture of a paper checklist, then annotate image with completion checkmarks Key Features - Voice recording with automatic transcription - On-device speech recognition for complete privacy - Unlimited audio clips per annotation - Smart move mode allows for precise placement of markers - Tag annotations as alert, resolved, or question - PDF export with numbered transcript list - Native document format with AirDrop sharing - Smooth pinch-to-zoom and pan navigation Pricing All features are available in the free version, with up to 3 annotations per document. Upgrade with one-time purchases, only when you need more annotations. Basic: 10 annotations per document Pro: 99 annotations per document