Harvest vs Capture Your Thoughts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Harvest
Instantly condense long articles, videos, and discussions into concise summaries with key takeaways. Choose from multiple AI models and sync your saved summaries across devices. Perfect for research, news catch-up, and managing your digital content overload.
- One-tap sharing from any app
- Summarize articles, videos, and threads
- Choice of AI models (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
- Save and search summaries
- Cross-device sync (iPhone, iPad, web)
- Summarize content in multiple languages
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One tap from Share — Safari, YouTube, Messages, anywhere. Long articles, podcasts, and 1-hour talks become a concise summary + key points. Pick your AI: Claude, GPT, or Gemini. Save, scrap, and search every summary across iPhone, iPad, and the web. How it works 1. Find a long article, video, or thread anywhere on iOS 2. Tap Share → choose Harvest 3. Get a concise summary, key points, and a quick "is this worth reading?" verdict — in seconds What you can summarize • Long-form articles — Medium, Substack, news sites, blogs • YouTube videos — including 1-hour talks, lectures, and podcasts • Reddit threads, X/Twitter discussions, forum posts • Newsletters and email links • Korean, Japanese, English content (input in most languages) • Anything with a Share button on iOS Why people switch to Harvest • One tap from the Share Sheet — no copy-paste, no new tab • Pick your AI — Claude, GPT, and Gemini all available • Save what matters — favorite summaries and save key sentences as scraps • Find it again, fast — search across every summary you've ever made • Read across languages — English content, Korean summary (or vice versa) • Cross-device sync — iPhone, iPad, web. Your library follows you Perfect for • Research and study — get a quick read on a paper before committing • Daily news catch-up — scan the day's headlines as concise summaries • YouTube backlog — clear your "watch later" without watching every minute • Newsletter overload — quickly get the gist of every issue • Team links — know what someone shared before you click • Long Reddit/forum threads — see the gist before scrolling Privacy and trust • Summaries are generated by your selected AI provider (Claude, GPT, or Gemini). Source content is sent to that provider strictly to produce the summary. • Your library is private by default. Public sharing is opt-in, scoped to a single summary, and revocable. • For full details, see harvest.pub/privacy-policy. FAQ Q. Which sites are supported? A. Anywhere with an iOS Share button — Safari, YouTube, news apps, Reddit, Medium, Substack, Slack/Discord links, RSS readers, and more. Q. How long can a video be? A. Most 1–2 hour talks, podcasts, and lectures work fine. Q. Can I switch AI models per summary? A. Yes. Pick the default model in Settings; switch any time without losing your library. Q. What if a page is paywalled or login-required? A. Harvest summarizes whatever it can fetch from the shared URL. Pages behind a login may return a partial result; sharing the rendered article view from Reader Mode usually works. Q. What about my data? A. Summaries are generated by your selected AI provider. For details on what we collect and how it's used, see our privacy policy at harvest.pub/privacy-policy. Q. Do I need an account? A. Sign in once with Apple or Google to sync across devices. That's it. Sign in with Apple supported.
Capture Your Thoughts
Record your thoughts and get instant, private transcriptions offline. This app organizes your ideas and allows easy sharing to other applications.
- One-tap recording
- Offline AI transcription
- Private and secure
- Searchable text notes
- Organized idea storage
- Easy sharing
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Capture Your Thoughts turns speech into text wherever you can use a custom keyboard. Use the Capture keyboard in Messages, Mail, Notes, Safari, and other apps to dictate without losing your place. Choose Transcribe to keep the spoken language, or Translate to English for supported speech. VOICE TO TEXT, ANYWHERE • Start and stop a capture from the custom keyboard • Insert the finished transcript at the cursor exactly once • Choose Original, Rewrite, Email, List, Note, or one of your own rewrite styles PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE PROCESSING • Whisper transcribes or translates speech on your iPhone • Temporary audio is deleted after processing • No account is required • Internet is needed to download your selected speech model before first use MAKE EACH CAPTURE USEFUL • Optional Apple Intelligence rewrite styles clean up wording or format the result on supported devices • Quick Notes keep captured ideas organized and searchable • A personal dictionary preserves the spelling of names and specialized terms • The untouched original transcript remains available when a rewrite is applied iOS requires the containing app to handle microphone recording, so tapping the keyboard microphone briefly opens Capture. Return to the previous app while recording, stop from the keyboard, and the completed text is inserted into the active field.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Harvest at 4.4 against Capture Your Thoughts's 3.0. Harvest also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Harvest holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Harvest ships an update every 3 weeks, Capture Your Thoughts every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Harvest | Capture Your Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tab0 Inc. | Shivasubramaniam Kavindpadi |
Customer experience
Harvest
Capture Your Thoughts
In-app purchases
Harvest
No in-app purchases
Capture Your Thoughts
No in-app purchases








