REC vs SoniNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
REC
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The intelligent AI recording pen based on Ai driver is an outstanding achievement developed by Siduo Ruiyun Technology with ingenuity. This recording pen utilizesAI powerful natural language processing capabilities and deep learning technology to achieve advanced features such as real-time voice transcription, precise recognition, intelligent editing, and multilingual translation. With its ultra-thin and portable body design, up to 480 hours of recording storage capacity, and up to 30 hours of continuous use, it has become an ideal partner for business people, educators, and professional creators.
SoniNote
This app records and transcribes meetings in real-time, offering AI-powered noise reduction and intelligent minute-taking. It supports multi-platform collaboration and ensures data security through encryption.
- Real-time audio transcription
- AI voice noise reduction
- Intelligent meeting minutes
- Cloud documents
- Encrypted sharing
- Multi-platform collaboration
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SoniNote is a meeting audio and text recording software that integrates functions such as real-time audio transcription and translation, ai voice noise reduction, intelligent meeting minutes, cloud documents, and encrypted sharing. It enables multi-platform collaboration including large screens, Pads, web, and mobile devices for meetings. By using SSL secure transmission encryption, cloud storage encryption and other methods to ensure information security, new scenarios for meetings and teaching that are information-based, interactive, intelligent and data-driven can be created.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: REC at 13.0 against SoniNote's 15.0. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. REC sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $7.90 per month and SoniNote sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
REC ships an update fortnightly, SoniNote every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | REC | SoniNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | shenzhen storycloud ltd | soninote |
In-app purchases
REC
- Monthly Subscription$7.901 Month
- Unlimit Monthly$15.901 Month
- Annual Package$59.001 Year
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- Unlimit Year$129.001 Year
- 10 minuts$0.99
- 120 Minutes Package$2.90
- 600 Minutes Package$15.90
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- 3000 Minutes Package$35.90
- 6000 Minutes Package$59.90
SoniNote
- 300 Minutes$2.99
- 600 Minutes$3.99
- Professional Monthly Plan$7.99
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- 3000 Minutes$14.99
- Unlimited Monthly$22.99
- Pro Annual$29.99
- Unlimited Annual$149.99







