Comparison

Lecture Note Taker vs Steam Engines

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

Head to head
About

Lecture Note Taker

Transform audio, video, text, and images into organized notes with AI. Transcribe lectures, summarize videos, create flashcards, and generate essays. Streamline your study or work process for enhanced efficiency and productivity.

Highlights
  • AI-powered transcription
  • Video to text summarization
  • Flashcard generation
  • Quiz creation from notes
  • AI Chat for note comprehension
  • To-do list integration
  • Essay and outline generation
Features
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Note Genie is a note-taking app for students that turns lectures, recordings, PDFs, photos, and YouTube videos into organized, searchable notes. Record a class, meeting, or podcast and get an accurate transcript in minutes. Import a PDF, a photo of a whiteboard, or a YouTube link, and Note Genie turns it into clean, structured notes you can read, search, and edit. Study smarter with your notes - Ask questions in AI Chat and get answers pulled from your own notes - Generate flashcards from any note to review key facts before an exam - Build a quiz from your notes to test what you actually remember - Turn a note into an essay draft or outline when it's time to write Stay organized all term - Keep notes by class or subject and search across everything you've captured - Turn action items from a lecture into a to-do list with deadlines and reminders Getting started Record your first lecture or import a document, and Note Genie builds your notes right away. Core note-taking and transcription are available to try before you subscribe; a Pro plan with weekly, monthly, and yearly options unlocks unlimited AI chat, quizzes, flashcards, and essay generation. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/notegenieai/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://sites.google.com/view/notegenieai/eula

About

Steam Engines

Features
Currently charting
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Steam Engine Simulator is a teaching game about how a steam engine actually works. You build one part by part — boiler, cylinder, flywheel, slide valve, governor — and then you drive it. BUILD IT, THEN RUN IT A 20-level campaign begins with nothing but a fire and a pressure gauge and ends with compound expansion. Every level adds one real component and one real idea, in the order an engineer would meet them. NOTHING IS SCRIPTED The flywheel carries real rotational inertia. The crank-slider is a solved constraint system. The engine genuinely stalls on dead center when the ports close, so you bar it over by hand and learn to time the steam yourself. No cutscenes, no fake gauges — the machine does what the machine does. SEE INSIDE THE MACHINE A cutaway panel shows the slide valve and piston moving in step with the running engine, driven by the same numbers that produce the forces you feel on the flywheel. A HISTORY OF STEAM The back third of the campaign is the story of the real machines: Hero's aeolipile from 50 AD, Newcomen's atmospheric engine, Watt's separate condenser and flyball governor, and Stephenson's Rocket. BUILT FOR MUSEUM USE Every goal is something you make happen rather than a timer to beat or a control to hold steady, so a first-time visitor of any age can finish any level and walk away having built something. MADE FOR TOUCH Playable entirely by touch, with finger-sized controls along the workshop floor and genuine multi-touch, so you can stoke the fire and work the regulator at the same time.

Screenshots

Lecture Note Taker4 screens
Steam Engines4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lecture Note Taker at Free against Steam Engines's $0.99. Steam Engines's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#173 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Lecture Note Taker is free to download; Steam Engines costs $0.99 up front. Lecture Note Taker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Steam Engines asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lecture Note Taker versus Steam Engines: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLecture Note TakerSteam Engines
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank—#173 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlgoSoft Technologies LimitedPeter Benner

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Lecture Note Taker

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription$4.997 Days
  • Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Steam Engines

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lecture Note Taker free?
Lecture Note Taker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Steam Engines free?
Steam Engines costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lecture Note Taker or Steam Engines have ads?
Neither Lecture Note Taker nor Steam Engines shows ads.

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