SmartNote vs Facets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartNote
This app automatically records and transcribes conversations, meetings, and lectures. It uses AI to summarize long notes, simplify complex text, and even condense YouTube videos. Share your transcripts easily with others.
- Automatic audio recording
- Accurate transcription
- AI-powered summarization
- Text simplification
- Multi-language support
- Easy transcript sharing
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SmartNote - AI Note Taker: Assistant for Effortless Notes SmartNote automatically captures notes during your conversations, meetings, lectures, doctor visits, interviews or brainstorm, freeing you to focus on the moment. Key Features: 1/ Audio Recording & Transcription * Runs in the background, capturing conversations effortlessly without disrupting your workflow - perfect for meetings, lectures, brainstorm, doctor visit, personal notes and more. * Convert recorded conversations into accurate, shareable transcripts. Ideal for meetings, interviews, and team update. 2/ Smart Summaries * AI Summarizer instantly condenses long notes for quick insights. * Summarize YouTube videos and local audio files effortlessly. * Text Simplifier makes complex topics easy to understand. 3/ Privacy & Security Your safety is our priority. With SmartNote, your recordings and transcriptions stay completely secure. 4/ Easily Share Transcription Data Easily share transcripts with colleagues, friends, and family via messages and chat platforms, ensuring seamless communication. 5/ Supports multiple languages Perfect for international meetings, this feature helps users grasp unfamiliar terms and enhance their language skills. SmartNote is great for: * Professionals can effortlessly capture meeting minutes and discussion summaries, allowing you to stay focused and engaged. * Multilingual speakers or students learning new languages. * Students and educators can record and transcribe lectures, classroom discussions with ease. * Journalists can capture high-quality interview audio and convert it into text for efficient editing and article writing. Let AI take notes for you! Privacy: https://spartanstudioinc.netlify.app/policy Term Of Use: https://spartanstudioinc.netlify.app/terms
Facets
Create multiple digital contact cards for different aspects of your life. Easily share specific information and files via QR code, image, or contact file. Organize and manage cards received from others.
- Multiple customizable contact cards
- Attach files directly from cloud storage
- Share via QR code, image, or contact file
- Organize received cards
- Private cards with PIN protection
- Offline sharing via local radio
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You are not the same person to everyone. Facets keeps each version of you on its own card, ready to hand to someone in about two seconds. Day job. Side gig. The band. The freelance thing. Each card gets its own look, its own details, and its own files. No more digging through Contacts. No more hunting for that QR code in your camera roll. No more "let me find my LinkedIn." MAKE A CARD FOR EACH THING YOU DO Start from scratch or pull from an existing contact. Add only what that card needs. A DJ card can be a name, a photo, and an Instagram handle. Your work card can carry the full set. Nothing is required except a name, and Facets never nags you to fill in a phone number you did not want to give out. Six starting looks that share nothing visually, so your accounting card and your club flyer never look like they came from the same app. Premium adds a designer for colour, fonts, and saved themes, plus a pattern designer. ATTACH YOUR ACTUAL WORK Link files straight from the Files app. Your EPK. A portfolio PDF. A rate sheet. Work samples. The files stay where they are, in Files, in your iCloud Drive, wherever you keep them. Facets just remembers where, and sends them along with the card. This is the part that matters at 1am when someone asks for your press kit and you are scrolling past four thousand photos. HOLD OTHER PEOPLE'S CARDS TOO Cards you receive land in an inbox. Keep them, group them, hand them on. If you manage artists, you can carry your roster. If you are at a conference and someone needs the right person, you have their card ready instead of "let me find their email and get back to you." Groups let you build a roster of cards and press kits and share from it. SHARE IT HOWEVER SUITS THE MOMENT QR code, big and bright, for someone across a loud room. An image, so it works in any messaging app and can go straight to a Story. A contact file, so it lands in their Contacts properly. AirDrop, Messages, WhatsApp, email, whatever they use. And Facets to Facets, phone to phone, over local radios. No internet involved. That one is always free, for both of you, forever. KEEP THE SIDES APART Some of what you do is nobody else's business. Private cards sit behind a PIN. Cards you keep out front stay out front. You decide which is which. WHAT WE DO NOT DO No account. No login. No server. No analytics. Facets cannot read your cards because it never receives them. They live on this phone. Turn on backup and your cards are copied to your own iCloud, which we have no access to either. We do not track who scans your card. Other apps sell that as a feature. We think an app that watches you on your own behalf is still an app that watches you. PRICING One card free, with one file link. Everything on that card works. One purchase unlocks unlimited cards, the private PIN vault, unlimited file links, groups, the theme and pattern designers, saving received cards to Contacts, starting a card from Contacts, opening on a card you choose, and backup to your iCloud. One purchase. Not a subscription. Not a trial. You buy it once and it is yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Facets at 100% against SmartNote's 50%. Facets also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2). SmartNote's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). 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. SmartNote sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days and Facets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Facets holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartNote has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of SmartNote's written reviews are positive against 100% of Facets's.
SmartNote ships an update every 5 days, Facets weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartNote | Facets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thao Dang | Manish Sehgal |
Customer experience
SmartNote
Facets
In-app purchases
SmartNote
- Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$9.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$17.991 Month
- Special Offer$103.991 Year
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- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$119.991 Year
- Auto-Renewing yearly3 Days trial$119.991 Year
- Life Subscription$199.99
Facets
- Facets Premium$0.99









