Comparison

Capture Your Thoughts vs Pulse

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

Head to head
About

Capture Your Thoughts

Record your thoughts and get instant, private transcriptions offline. This app organizes your ideas and allows easy sharing to other applications.

Highlights
  • One-tap recording
  • Offline AI transcription
  • Private and secure
  • Searchable text notes
  • Organized idea storage
  • Easy sharing
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Capture Your Thoughts3 screens
Pulse4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Capture Your Thoughts ships an update every 7 months, Pulse every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Capture Your Thoughts versus Pulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCapture Your ThoughtsPulse
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.4 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShivasubramaniam KavindpadiVladimir Bykov

Customer experience

Capture Your Thoughts

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pulse

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Capture Your Thoughts

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pulse

Subscriptions1
  • Exclusive themes$0.991 Month

Questions

Is Capture Your Thoughts free?
Capture Your Thoughts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pulse free?
Pulse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Capture Your Thoughts or Pulse have ads?
Neither Capture Your Thoughts nor Pulse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Capture Your Thoughts or Pulse?
Capture Your Thoughts ships an update every 7 months, and Pulse every 4 days. Most recently, Capture Your Thoughts was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pulse on October 24, 2026.

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