Comparison

Circleback vs Turnabee

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

Head to head
About

Circleback

This app automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings, turning conversations into searchable, actionable notes. It highlights key decisions and action items, and integrates with popular productivity tools.

Highlights
  • Automatic meeting recording
  • AI-powered transcription with speaker identification
  • Key decision and action item highlighting
  • Searchable meeting transcripts
  • Integration with productivity tools
  • Multi-language support
  • Apple Watch recording
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

Turnabee

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Share plans with anyone. They don't need the app. Turnabee is a shared calendar for the people in your life: family, your partner, a sitter or carer, your team at work, friends you travel with. What you plan shows up in the calendar they already use on their phone (Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and more). They subscribe once. No app, no account. ■ What makes it different Most shared calendars only work when everyone installs the same app and makes an account. With Turnabee, only you use the app. On their side, plans simply appear in the calendar they already check every day, and they never pay. ■ Who it is for ・Family: the school notice, who does pickup, what is due when ・Your partner: dinners, trips, who handles what ・Caring for parents: check-ups, medicine and bills, shared with siblings and carers ・Work teams: meetings, shoots and deadlines, each in the right person's calendar ・A sitter: what to bring today, when the medicine is due ・Friends travelling together: when to meet, who brings what ■ What you can do ・Easy to use: tabs along the bottom switch in an instant, and pages slide in from the right ・Board: see today, tomorrow and this week at a glance, and tick things off when done ・Repeating tasks: trash night every week, a new filter every three months; the next one is scheduled when you tick it off ・Events: classes, dinners, appointments, with clear dates and times ・Find a time: Turnabee suggests a time when everyone is free ・Stickers: spot plans at a glance; they show up in their calendar too ・Group calendar: month, week and day views; tap a day to add, drag to move. Just right for a shared iPad ・AI reads notices: snap a notice or paste some text, get a list of tasks, and give each one to the right person ・Forward emails automatically: set a rule once in your email, and school or work emails turn into plans on their own ・AI assistant connection: connect your own ChatGPT, Claude or Grok Bot (in its app or on its website) and check, add and change plans just by asking. With Grok Bot you can also set up automatic reports, like a daily rundown of your plans. Turnabee has no built-in chatbot; it works with the assistant you already use ・Notifications: know right away when something is overdue or someone reports it done ・Widgets: today, tomorrow, this week, a week view and the group calendar on your Home Screen (the group calendar can show several groups at once); today's count, the next plan and tomorrow on your Lock Screen. The AI assistant can go on your Lock Screen too, or touch and hold the app icon to jump straight in ・Keep it secret: hide a surprise party from the person it's for, or show them just "Busy" ・Birthdays: a reminder 3 weeks ahead, with a time everyone is free already picked ・Helpers: someone else can manage the same group with you ■ Plans The free plan never expires. It is not a trial. Subscribe in the app when you need more people or more groups. The people you plan for never pay. Subscriptions are charged to your Apple Account and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple Account's Subscriptions settings. ■ Privacy The people you plan for never give us any personal information, and they never see ads. Privacy policy: https://turnabee.com/privacy Terms of use: https://turnabee.com/terms

Screenshots

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Turnabee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Circleback at none against Turnabee's 4. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Turnabee sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Circleback asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Circleback ships an update every 2 days, Turnabee daily. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Circleback versus Turnabee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCirclebackTurnabee
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (273 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings273 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCircleback AI, IncLi Kuei Chen

In-app purchases

None

Circleback

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Turnabee

Subscriptions4
  • Turnabee Basic (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Turnabee Plus (Monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Turnabee Basic (Yearly)$54.991 Year
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  • Turnabee Plus (Yearly)$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Circleback free?
Circleback is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Turnabee free?
Turnabee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Circleback or Turnabee have ads?
Neither Circleback nor Turnabee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Circleback or Turnabee?
Circleback ships an update every 2 days, and Turnabee daily. Most recently, Circleback was updated on November 4, 2026 and Turnabee on November 6, 2026.

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