Comparison

Formulab Pro vs I Dictate Notes

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

Head to head
About

Formulab Pro

A professional workspace for perfumers and fragrance creators to manage materials, formulas, and trials. It offers features for saving, searching, and importing materials, building formulas with precision, and running multiple trials. Export your creations to PDF or Excel for easy sharing and backup.

Highlights
  • Manage fragrance materials with detailed information
  • Build and scale perfume formulas with precision
  • Run multiple trials and track versions
  • Analyze formulas by category and olfactory pyramid
  • Export formulas to PDF or data to Excel
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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Formulab Pro is a professional workspace for perfumers and fragrance creators. Keep your materials, formulas, and trials in one place — and stop losing your best work to scattered notes and spreadsheets. MATERIALS • Save materials with full details and categories • Search by name or any detail • Add from a built-in repository of 20,000+ fragrance materials • Import your Excel file in any format — the app maps it for you • Auto-fill missing details and IFRA limits with one tap FORMULAS • Build formulas with precision, or import from Excel • View by section, absolute %, relative %, cost, or description • Scale any formula up or down — quantities recalculate automatically • Sort materials by category, dilution, amount, and more BATCH MODE • Run multiple trials of the same formula • See trial quantities next to the original • Add notes, browse versions, save any trial as its own formula ANALYSIS • Detailed stats per formula by category and olfactory pyramid • Compare formulas side by side REUSE & RESTRICTIONS • Convert any formula into a material to reuse as an accord or base • Keep IFRA restriction context when reusing formulas EXPORT & BACKUP • Export formulas to PDF, or all data to Excel • Full backup and restore • iCloud sync across your devices Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Free to download and try. Subscribe to unlock full features. Privacy Policy: https://formulabpro.online/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://formulabpro.online/terms

About

I Dictate Notes

Capture spoken thoughts and let AI transform them into organized, searchable notes. Transcribe, summarize, tag, and even chat with your entire note library to retrieve information instantly.

Highlights
  • Voice note recording
  • AI transcription and summarization
  • Automatic tagging and search
  • Chat with your notes
  • Share recorded notes
  • Microphone input selection
Features
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I Dictate Notes is an AI note taker that turns your spoken thoughts into organized, searchable notes. Record ideas, memos, meetings, reminders, or reflections wherever you are, and let AI transcribe, summarize, tag, and connect everything for you. No setup. No typing. No friction between a thought and capturing it. With I Dictate Notes, your voice becomes a personal knowledge base you can search, review, and chat with later. Ask questions in plain language and get answers drawn from your own recorded notes, with citations back to the exact memos they came from. ONE TAP TO CAPTURE. AI ORGANIZES THE REST. • Record voice notes anywhere Capture thoughts on a walk, in the car, between meetings, or whenever an idea appears. • Choose your microphone input Select the microphone you want to use before recording, so your audio notes sound the way you expect. • Transcribed and summarized Turn recordings into clean, readable transcripts with concise summaries, key insights, and filler words removed. • Auto-tagged and searchable Your notes are automatically categorized and easy to find. Search by what you said, not when you said it. • Share recorded notes Send or save your recorded notes whenever you need to pass along an idea, transcript, or summary. • Ask across every note Chat with your entire note library like it remembers everything. Ask about decisions, ideas, meetings, research, or past thoughts and get answers grounded in your own words. AN AI NOTE TAKER FOR REAL LIFE Use I Dictate Notes for quick ideas, meeting notes, voice memos, journaling, research thoughts, interview notes, project planning, reminders, and anything else you would rather say than type. HOW IT WORKS Tap and talk — Open the app and start speaking. Record a quick thought or a longer memo. AI makes sense of it — Your recording is transcribed, cleaned up, summarized, tagged, and added to your searchable library. Come back and ask — Read the summary, skim the insights, share the note, or ask your notes a question whenever you need the answer. Your next good idea is worth remembering. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Formulab Pro4 screens
I Dictate Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Formulab Pro at every 10 days against I Dictate Notes's monthly. On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Formulab Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and I Dictate Notes sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Formulab Pro against 5.0 for I Dictate Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Formulab Pro ships an update every 10 days, I Dictate Notes monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Formulab Pro versus I Dictate Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFormulab ProI Dictate Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBadr vc AlshammryGyunel Gadieva

Customer experience

Formulab Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

I Dictate Notes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Formulab Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Formulab Pro (monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Formulab Pro (Annual)$39.991 Year
6 purchases

I Dictate Notes

Subscriptions6
  • Starter Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Standard Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
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  • Starter Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Standard Annual7 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$199.991 Year

Questions

Is Formulab Pro free?
Formulab Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is I Dictate Notes free?
I Dictate Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Formulab Pro or I Dictate Notes?
Formulab Pro and I Dictate Notes are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Formulab Pro or I Dictate Notes have ads?
Neither Formulab Pro nor I Dictate Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Formulab Pro or I Dictate Notes?
Formulab Pro ships an update every 10 days, and I Dictate Notes monthly. Most recently, Formulab Pro was updated on October 30, 2026 and I Dictate Notes on October 17, 2026.

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