Capture Your Thoughts vs Pulse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Pulse
Organize tasks and notes with flexible scheduling and reminders. Track your completed tasks to see your progress and easily reschedule items. All your data is stored locally and synced via iCloud.
- Organize tasks into custom lists
- Schedule tasks for specific dates
- Reschedule tasks easily
- Customizable reminders
- Integrated note-taking
- Search across tasks and notes
- Local data storage and iCloud sync
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Everything in its own time Organize tasks into lists: today, this week, someday — or pick a specific date. Tasks appear in the right place when their time comes. See what you've done Completed tasks stay in the list until the end of the day — appreciate your progress. The next day you'll find them in the Done list. Running behind — reschedule One move and the task shifts to tomorrow or next week. Notifications on your terms Reminders only for the tasks that matter to you. Notes are here too Thoughts, goals, ideas — no deadlines. Any note can be turned into a task, and vice versa. Nothing gets lost Built-in search and Spotlight support — across all your tasks and notes at once. Your records are yours alone Pulse collects no data. Everything is stored on your devices and synced via iCloud. Your progress Pulse has no AI features, but you can analyze your progress or learn about your productivity by sharing your records with your AI assistant and asking it to put together some stats. Pulse on all your devices On iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Capture Your Thoughts at none against Pulse's 1. Pulse's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Pulse sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Capture Your Thoughts asks for nothing beyond the download.
Capture Your Thoughts ships an update every 7 months, Pulse every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Capture Your Thoughts | Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shivasubramaniam Kavindpadi | Vladimir Bykov |
Customer experience
Capture Your Thoughts
Pulse
In-app purchases
Capture Your Thoughts
No in-app purchases
Pulse
- Exclusive themes$0.991 Month









