DayVo vs Gravity Notes

DayVo is a lightweight voice memo and diary app for people whose thoughts move faster than they can type. Tap once, speak freely, and watch your words turn into searchable text in real time. DayVo helps you capture ideas, reflections, and decisions the moment they appear—without breaking your flow. Why DayVo feels different 1. One-tap recording, zero friction A single, clean recording flow. No setup, no modes, no pressure. Just tap and talk—whether it’s a quick idea, a journal entry, or a random thought. 2. Live speech-to-text See your voice turn into text instantly as you speak. Edit, copy, or search your thoughts anytime. 3. Searchable by nature Every recording becomes text you can search. Find ideas, keywords, and moments across all your voice notes in seconds. 4. Built for busy, fast-moving minds Designed for people with racing thoughts, short attention spans, or anyone who finds typing exhausting. Capture ideas while walking, cooking, commuting, or working out. 5. Simple reflection, no overwhelm Review your thoughts by time range—yesterday, last 7 days, last month, or custom. Get a clear summary of themes and patterns without manual work. 6. Themes and modes that match your mood Switch between carefully designed themes and day/night modes to match different moments, seasons, or states of mind. A calmer interface helps you stay present while thinking out loud. More themes are on the way. 7. One-tap PDF export Turn your recordings into clean, shareable summaries. Export to PDF with branding and save or share via iCloud, email, or chat. How people use DayVo • Capture ideas without stopping what you’re doing • Keep a private voice journal with minimal effort • Think out loud instead of typing notes • Review decisions, patterns, and recurring thoughts • Create quick summaries from spoken notes or meetings Core features • One-tap voice recording • Real-time speech-to-text • Playback with waveform and progress • Full-text search across recordings • Guided reflection with summaries • Theme packs and day/night modes • PDF export • Multi-language support: English/Chinese/Japanese/Korean/French/Spanish • Local-first, offline-friendly design • Full iPad Support Privacy by design All transcription and analysis run on your device using Apple frameworks. Your recordings stay local unless you choose to export them. No accounts. No cloud sync. No tracking. Purchases are managed by Apple via StoreKit and tied to your Apple ID. Who DayVo is for • People who think better by speaking • Creators, founders, students, and busy professionals • Anyone who wants a calm, low-friction way to capture thoughts • Users who value speed, simplicity, and privacy Try DayVo today. Tap. Speak. Capture your thoughts before they disappear. Save the sound of your ideas. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.dayvo.app/privacy-policy.html

Gravity keeps all your notes in one list, with the newest at the top. As you add more, older notes sink down the list. When one of them still matters, swipe it right and it comes back to the top. The idea comes from Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note: write everything in one place, read back through it now and then, and move up whatever you still care about. Gravity has no folders, so there's nothing to file. Writing The cursor is waiting at the top when you open the app. Type your note and press Return twice, or tap the add button. A half-written draft stays where you left it. Rescuing and tidying Swipe right on a note to rescue it. Swipe left to archive, delete, share or copy. Archived notes have a page of their own, and deleted notes stay in Deleted Notes until you restore them or clear them out. Markdown and checklists Headings, bold, italics, lists, links and quotes show formatted in the list. Start a line with "- [ ]" to make a checklist, then tick items off without opening the note. In the editor the formatting appears as you type, and a small bar above the keyboard adds headings, bold, lists and checklists. Everything is saved as plain Markdown text. Tags Start a note with todo:, idea:, read: or any word followed by a colon, and it gets a colour of its own. Type todo: into search to see only those notes. There's no tag manager to look after. Search Search covers every note on your phone, archived ones too, and works offline. It finds what you mean as well as what you typed: "sofa" finds your note about the couch. Typos, plurals, accents and shorthand like appt still find the note, and dates, phone numbers and amounts match however you write them. Getting notes in The Home Screen widget starts a new note or pastes in whatever you last copied. You can also share text or a link from another app, and it becomes a new note at the top of the list. Privacy Your notes are stored on your iPhone. Gravity has no ads, and you don't need an account. If you want your notes on your other Apple devices, turn on iCloud sync; it also works with Gravity for Mac, which is sold separately. Gravity Sync (Beta) syncs with Android too, free during the beta. You can export everything as JSON or Markdown at any time. Looks Choose light, dark or OLED black, or follow the system, and pick from six text sizes. There's a stats page too, worked out on your phone, of course. Price You pay once. There's no subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads. Privacy policy: https://www.gravitynotes.app/privacy-policy