Comparison

Circleback vs Noodle

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

Head to head
About

Circleback

This AI-powered tool enhances meeting productivity by automatically recording, transcribing, and summarizing discussions. It identifies speakers, assigns action items, and allows you to search across all your meetings for specific information. Integrations with popular productivity apps and support for over 100 languages make it a versatile solution.

Highlights
  • AI-powered meeting transcription
  • Automatic speaker identification
  • Action item assignment
  • Searchable meeting history
  • Integrations with productivity apps
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Circleback records, transcribes, and turns every conversation into clear, actionable notes you can search in seconds. Stop worrying about taking notes, missing decisions, or forgetting follow-ups. Circleback captures your meetings, online or in-person, and gives you a transcript and notes you can trust. What Circleback does for you • Record meetings automatically with high-quality audio, online or in-person. • Get accurate AI-powered transcripts with automatic speaker identification. • Get notes that highlight key points, decisions, and action items. • Turn meetings into to-dos and follow-ups so next steps are never lost. • Import phone call recordings, voice memos, and audio from other apps to get a transcript and notes. • Ask questions across your meetings, like "What did we decide about pricing last week?", and get answers with cited sources. • Search everything by keyword, speaker, topic, or decision in seconds. Apple Watch Record in-person meetings straight from your wrist, no iPhone required. Add the Circleback complication to your watch face and start recording with one tap. When the meeting ends, you'll get a transcript and notes in Circleback, just like any other meeting. Built for how you work Circleback fits into your existing tools and workflows. It works great for 1:1s, team meetings, customer calls, interviews, standups, project reviews, talks, and conferences, and it's ideal for founders, product teams, sales, customer success, recruiting, and operations. Automations and integrations Use Circleback's automations to push insights where your work happens. Send notes to Slack, Notion, Linear, monday.com, Zapier, and more, and sync meeting outcomes to Salesforce, HubSpot, Attio, Zoho, and other systems of record. 100+ languages supported Circleback can transcribe and take notes in over 100 languages, including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, Russian, and more. Privacy and security you can trust Your data is private and secure. Circleback is SOC 2 Type II and EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework certified, HIPAA and GDPR compliant, and uses industry-leading practices to protect customer data, including encryption at-rest and in-transit. Circleback does not use customer data to train models. Learn more at security.circleback.ai.

About

Noodle

Features
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Less scrolling. More living. A healthier little brain. Meet Noodle, your screen time companion, app blocker and focus timer. Noodle gets healthier when you put your phone down, making every focused minute feel like progress. Answer a few honest questions to see what your phone habits cost you. Then start taking that time back. BLOCK DISTRACTING APPS Create block lists with Apple’s Screen Time picker. Turn a list on to put distracting apps behind a gentle Noodle screen. Give yourself space to study, work or enjoy time away from your phone. BUILD FOCUS. HEAL NOODLE. Choose a 15, 25 or 45 minute focus session. Every focused minute heals Noodle. With Noodle Pro, your block lists stay locked while you focus. UNDERSTAND YOUR SCREEN TIME See today’s screen time, phone pickups and top apps right on the home screen. Make your habits visible so you can decide what to change. YOUR HABITS STAY PRIVATE No accounts. No servers. No tracking. Apple keeps your Screen Time data on your iPhone. Noodle never sees which apps you use. GO FURTHER WITH NOODLE PRO Get unlimited block lists and focus sessions that block your apps. Spend less time on your phone. Give Noodle, and yourself, a little room to grow. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Manage or cancel your subscription in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms: https://noodle-screentime.vercel.app/terms.html Privacy: https://noodle-screentime.vercel.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Circleback4 screens
Noodle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Circleback at 3 against Noodle's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Circleback versus Noodle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCirclebackNoodle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (270 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings270 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCircleback AI, IncStock Alarm, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Circleback

No in-app purchases

None

Noodle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Circleback free?
Circleback is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Noodle free?
Noodle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Circleback or Noodle have ads?
Neither Circleback nor Noodle shows ads.

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