Comparison

VoiceScriber AI vs Lyonesse

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

Head to head
About

VoiceScriber AI

This app converts spoken audio into text directly on your device, ensuring privacy and offline functionality. Record new audio or import existing files to generate transcripts for meetings, lectures, and more. Share or export your notes and recordings easily.

Highlights
  • Offline transcription
  • Import audio files
  • 100+ languages supported
  • High-quality recording
  • Background recording
  • No account needed
  • Search and export notes
Features
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VoiceScriber AI: Voice to Text Record or import audio and turn it into text on your iPhone. Transcription runs on the device, works in Airplane Mode, and needs no account. Your recordings, transcripts, and notes stay on your iPhone unless you choose to share them. Built for meetings, lectures, interviews, voice memos, and journaling, when you want a transcript without sending your audio to a server. Key Features: - Offline Transcription: Convert speech to text entirely on your device with on-device AI. No Wi-Fi or cellular signal needed. - Import Audio Files: Transcribe existing M4A, MP3, and WAV files, up to 90 minutes each. Nothing is uploaded. - 100+ Languages: Pick the spoken language in Settings or let VoiceScriber detect it automatically. - High-Quality Voice Recording: Record clear audio with the built-in recorder, up to 90 minutes per recording. - Background Recording: Keeps recording when your screen locks or you switch apps. Control it from the Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island. - Phone Call Recovery: An incoming call pauses your recording. Resume when the call ends without losing what you already recorded. - No Account Needed: No sign-up and no login. Open the app and start recording. - Search, Share, and Export: Search your notes, share the transcript or the original audio, or print a note and save it as a PDF. - App in 10 Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Arabic, and Japanese. Plans: - Weekly: full access, renews automatically every week until you cancel. - Lifetime: a one-time purchase, no subscription. VoiceScriber is free to download and try before you choose a plan. What Users Love: - "I love that it works entirely offline; no Wi-Fi is needed, so my recordings stay on my device. I am impressed that the transcription is so accurate for an offline app." - "The app functions entirely offline and the transcription is surprisingly accurate. Even I activated the airplane mode and it still do the job. Sharing recording is easy." Manage or cancel your weekly subscription anytime in your Apple account settings. Privacy Policy: https://voicescriber.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://voicescriber.com/terms

About

Lyonesse

Record meetings or lectures and get instant transcripts and summaries. Ask questions about your content and find information quickly with on-device AI processing. Organize notes and documents privately without needing an internet connection.

Highlights
  • On-device transcription and AI processing
  • Summarize recordings and documents
  • Ask questions across your entire library
  • Private workspace for notes and documents
  • Speaker labeling and live captions
  • Export notes to PDF or text
Features
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Record a meeting or lecture and read the words as people speak. Ask a question about what was said, get a summary in seconds, and find any moment later with search. The transcription and AI run on your device. Lyonesse is a private workspace for the things you record and the documents you read. Recording, transcription, summaries, speaker labels, and Q&A happen locally. There is no cloud transcription provider, so it keeps working with no internet and your audio is not uploaded to be processed. No account to create. Optional iCloud sync is on by default and can be switched off in Settings. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Transcribe live recordings, or import an audio or video file you already have. On Mac you can also capture system audio from any app, call, or video playing on your device. - Get AI summaries in the style you want: concise, bullets, action items, or a structured outline. - Ask Lyonesse: chat across your whole library. Notes, transcripts, PDFs, and images, with follow-up questions and citations back to the source. - Read your documents. Import a PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint file or an image, then summarize it, pull out the key points, or ask it questions. - Run a private meeting assistant: link your calendar, see full-screen live captions, get on-device speaker labels, and turn a recording into drafted minutes with action items. PICK YOUR ENGINE Lyonesse ships Apple Speech and a downloadable Parakeet model for transcription, plus Apple Intelligence and a downloadable Qwen 3 model for on-device AI. Auto picks the best one available for your language and device. In our published LibriSpeech benchmark, Apple's Speech API outperformed the Whisper models Lyonesse used to ship (read it at lyonesse.app/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html). BUILT FOR STUDY AND WORK - Turn a recording into study sheets, meeting minutes, or follow-up notes with Smart Drafting. - Organize notes into Projects that file themselves, then ask questions across a whole project. - Export to PDF or text with an optional summary, Q&A, and full transcript. Send action items to Apple Reminders. - Full-text search across recordings, transcripts, documents, and action items. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your recordings, documents, and transcripts stay on your device. Recording, transcription, summaries, speaker labels, document analysis, and Q&A run on-device, with no cloud AI provider in the loop. A private alternative to cloud tools like Otter, Fireflies, Rev, and ChatPDF. Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with transcription and summaries in 15 languages. Lyonesse is free to download and there is a free tier. For unlimited use, choose a subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. No per-minute fees. Privacy Policy: https://lyonesse.app/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://lyonesse.app/terms.html

Screenshots

VoiceScriber AI4 screens
Lyonesse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Lyonesse at 100% against VoiceScriber AI's 60%. Lyonesse also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and rating (3.8 vs 3.5). VoiceScriber AI's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, 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. VoiceScriber AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and Lyonesse sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lyonesse holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of VoiceScriber AI's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lyonesse's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VoiceScriber AI ships an update monthly, Lyonesse every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
VoiceScriber AI versus Lyonesse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoiceScriber AILyonesse
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (11 ratings)3.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better5
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSUPER NOVA ASJOSIP MARKOVIC

Customer experience

VoiceScriber AI

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral18.2%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

Lyonesse

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

VoiceScriber AI

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly plan$5.997 Days
  • Monthly plan$9.991 Month
  • Annual plan$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime plan$49.99
3 purchases

Lyonesse

Subscriptions2
  • Lyonesse Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Lyonesse Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lyonesse Unlimited$59.99

Questions

Is VoiceScriber AI free?
VoiceScriber AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lyonesse free?
Lyonesse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, VoiceScriber AI or Lyonesse?
Lyonesse is rated higher. VoiceScriber AI averages 3.5 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Lyonesse averages 3.8 from 5 ratings.
Do VoiceScriber AI or Lyonesse have ads?
Neither VoiceScriber AI nor Lyonesse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VoiceScriber AI or Lyonesse?
VoiceScriber AI ships an update monthly, and Lyonesse every 3 days. Most recently, VoiceScriber AI was updated on November 5, 2026 and Lyonesse on November 6, 2026.

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