Comparison

Scribbler vs Resum

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

Head to head
About

Scribbler

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Scribbler turns a video or an audio file into a document you can read, search, fix and export. Everything happens on your iPhone or iPad. The media never leaves your device. No account, no upload. Once the language pack is on your device, it works in airplane mode. A transcript you can work with. Tap any word to jump to the second it was said, and watch the text light up as the audio plays. Fix a wrong word in two taps. Search the whole document and move between matches. Read it in another language, still on device. Translate a finished transcript and read it in your language. Search, editing and export work on the translation too. Record or import. Record a lecture, a meeting or an interview and watch the text appear while you speak, within about two seconds in Fast mode. Or bring in a file you already have: voice memos, video, podcasts. A voice message or a video shared from another app is transcribed in a popup, without leaving that app. Export where you need it. Plain text, Markdown, PDF, and SRT subtitles, with or without timestamps. Free every day. The free plan comes with transcription minutes that renew every day, with every feature included. No trial, no account, no card. Pro removes the daily limit. Transcribes in English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Translates into around twenty languages, so a recording made in one language becomes a document you can read in yours. Your transcripts sync across your devices through your own iCloud account. The media stays on the device that made it. Requires iOS 26 and a device that supports on-device speech recognition. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Resum

Features
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Some voice notes arrive at the worst possible moment. You are on a train, in a meeting, next to a sleeping baby, or simply not up for four minutes of someone thinking out loud. Share the voice note into Resum and read it instead. TRANSCRIPTS ARE FREE, ALWAYS Every voice note you share becomes text you can read, search, and copy. No minute counter, no account, no limit. Long messages are welcome: a six-minute note takes seconds. Got a burst of them? Share them all at once and they become one conversation, in the order they were sent. A SUMMARY WHEN THE MESSAGE IS LONG Resum also writes a short summary, gathers what you have been asked to do, and lists the questions waiting for an answer. Each task and question carries the speaker's own words, so you can see exactly where it came from. Anything Resum cannot find in the recording is marked as unverified rather than presented as fact β€” you should not have to answer a question nobody asked. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE The transcript and the summary are both computed on this device. Your audio is never uploaded. There is no server to leak it, because there is no server: that is how Resum is built, not a checkbox in its settings. AN ARCHIVE THAT STAYS USABLE Everything you share is kept and searchable by any word that was spoken β€” accents and case included, so "reunion" finds "reuniΓ³n". Notes are grouped by day and can be filtered down to favourites, to the ones carrying tasks, or to where they came from. Rename any note; star the ones that matter. REPLY IN POINTS Resum drafts a numbered reply to the questions in the voice note, in the language it was spoken β€” not the language of your phone. It never writes the answers for you. RESUM PRO Transcripts stay free. Pro removes the limit on summaries. Β· Free: five summaries a week, unlimited transcripts. Β· Pro: unlimited summaries. Monthly or yearly, cancel any time in Settings. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY Β· Transcription works on any iPhone running iOS 26, in more than 50 languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and Catalan. Β· Summaries use Apple Intelligence and therefore need an iPhone that supports it. They are available in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese and Chinese. Russian is transcribed but not yet summarised β€” Apple's on-device model does not support it. Β· The first voice note in a new language downloads that language from Apple, which can take a few minutes. It happens once, and Resum shows the progress. Β· Resum has no recorder and no player: it turns voice notes other people sent you into text you can read. TERMS AND PRIVACY Resum Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly, at the price shown in the app for your country. It renews until you cancel it in your Apple ID settings, and the App Store handles the payment. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://resum-cyan.vercel.app/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Scribbler4 screens
Resum4 screens

Verdict

The call

Scribbler and Resum are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters β€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Scribbler sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Resum sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scribbler ships an update fortnightly, Resum weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Scribbler versus Resum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScribblerResum
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad β€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size8 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMassimo GolloMaksim Kuznetsov

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Scribbler

Subscriptions1
  • Scribbler Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Scribbler Pro Lifetime$34.99
2 purchases

Resum

Subscriptions2
  • Resum Pro β€” Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Resum Pro β€” Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Scribbler free?
Scribbler is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Resum free?
Resum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Scribbler or Resum have ads?
Neither Scribbler nor Resum shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scribbler or Resum?
Scribbler ships an update fortnightly, and Resum weekly. Most recently, Scribbler was updated on October 14, 2026 and Resum on October 24, 2026.

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