Voice Memos vs Notebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Voice Memos
Record, transcribe, and manage your audio with this powerful voice management tool. Features include live transcription, editing, translation, and organization into folders. Perfect for capturing ideas, meetings, or lectures.
- Live transcription
- Audio editing (crop, cut)
- Playback speed adjustment
- Folder organization
- Transcript translation
- Selective fragment replacement
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A powerful audio recording management application that offers many features to work with voice content conveniently. You can organize your recordings into folders, rename, delete and move them with ease. The application supports the creation of recordings with the functions of live transcription, pause and continue recording, as well as selective replacement of individual fragments. It allows you to edit recordings, including cropping and cutting pieces, as well as speeding up playback. Built-in transcription converts your recordings into time-lapse cards or creates solid text that can be easily edited, duplicated and moved. In addition, the application offers the ability to translate transcripts from various languages, which makes it an ideal tool for multilingual users. This application contains auto-renewable subscriptions and In-App Purchases 1 week - Weekly - $4.99 1 month - Monthly - $12.99 1 year - Yearly - $39.99 Lifetime - $59.99 Privacy Policy Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pv42_bm3pnAYC_71mYLmcDaLU_NFgkcF3-y2vAmD0uY/edit?usp=sharing Terms of Use Link: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Notebook
Create, organize, and manage text notes with a rich editor and powerful search. Capture ideas, scan documents, and attach files. Features include AI content generation and Face ID protected content.
- Rich text editing
- Folder organization
- Customizable tags
- Powerful search
- Document scanning (OCR)
- AI chatbot for content generation
- Face ID protected content
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Our app is your all-in-one solution for creating, organizing, and managing text notes with ease. Effortlessly create and edit notes, organize them into folders, and sort everything using customizable tags. Favorite your most-used folders for instant access right from the main screen. Find any note quickly with powerful search by title or content. Capture ideas on the go or scan documents using built-in OCR technology. Edit your notes with a rich text editor supporting bold, italics, headings, lists, and quotes. Easily move, delete, or create new text blocks for flexible note structuring. Attach images, links, files, and scanned text directly into your notes. Enjoy privacy features like hidden content protected by Face ID.Our app also features an integrated AI chatbot to help generate content based on your notes. Access to all features requires a subscription, which you can cancel anytime via your device's subscription settings. This application contains auto-renewable subscriptions and In-App Purchases. 1 week, Weekly: $4.99 1 month, Monthly: $12.99 1 year, Yearly: $39.99 Lifetime: $59.99 Privacy Policy Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15nvT5fRS7fD0jBpBiiDUw7_AAUvIinyR3Gd3h54Wb2w/edit?tab=t.0 Terms of Use Link: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Voice Memos at free with in-app purchases against Notebook's subscription. Voice Memos also leads on ratings volume (272 vs 18). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Voice Memos sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Notebook sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Voice Memos holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Voice Memos has 272 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Voice Memos ships an update every 3 weeks, Notebook every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Voice Memos | Notebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (272 ratings) — better | 4.2 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 272 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alberta Blose | Christopher Martin |
Customer experience
Voice Memos
Notebook
In-app purchases
Voice Memos
- Weekly3 variants$4.997 Days
- Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly$12.991 Month
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- Monthly3 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Yearly$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$59.99
Notebook
- Weekly$4.997 Days
- Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly$12.991 Month
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- Yearly$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$59.99
