Comparison

Lyonesse vs UniClip

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

Head to head
About

Lyonesse

This app offers on-device AI for transcribing audio and video, summarizing content, and answering questions about your recordings and documents. It provides a private workspace for notes and study materials, with features like smart drafting and project organization.

Highlights
  • On-device AI transcription
  • Summarize audio and documents
  • Ask questions about content
  • Private workspace
  • Smart drafting for notes
  • Project organization
  • Export to PDF/text
Features
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Record a meeting or lecture and read the words as people speak. Ask a question about what was said, get a summary in seconds, and find any moment later with search. The transcription and AI run on your device. Lyonesse is a private workspace for the things you record and the documents you read. Recording, transcription, summaries, speaker labels, and Q&A happen locally. There is no cloud transcription provider, so it keeps working with no internet and your audio is not uploaded to be processed. No account to create. Optional iCloud sync is on by default and can be switched off in Settings. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Transcribe live recordings, or import an audio or video file you already have. On Mac you can also capture system audio from any app, call, or video playing on your device. - Get AI summaries in the style you want: concise, bullets, action items, or a structured outline. - Ask Lyonesse: chat across your whole library. Notes, transcripts, PDFs, and images, with follow-up questions and citations back to the source. - Read your documents. Import a PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint file or an image, then summarize it, pull out the key points, or ask it questions. - Run a private meeting assistant: link your calendar, see full-screen live captions, get on-device speaker labels, and turn a recording into drafted minutes with action items. PICK YOUR ENGINE Lyonesse ships Apple Speech and a downloadable Parakeet model for transcription, plus Apple Intelligence and a downloadable Qwen 3 model for on-device AI. Auto picks the best one available for your language and device. In our published LibriSpeech benchmark, Apple's Speech API outperformed the Whisper models Lyonesse used to ship (read it at lyonesse.app/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html). BUILT FOR STUDY AND WORK - Turn a recording into study sheets, meeting minutes, or follow-up notes with Smart Drafting. - Organize notes into Projects that file themselves, then ask questions across a whole project. - Export to PDF or text with an optional summary, Q&A, and full transcript. Send action items to Apple Reminders. - Full-text search across recordings, transcripts, documents, and action items. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your recordings, documents, and transcripts stay on your device. Recording, transcription, summaries, speaker labels, document analysis, and Q&A run on-device, with no cloud AI provider in the loop. A private alternative to cloud tools like Otter, Fireflies, Rev, and ChatPDF. Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with transcription and summaries in 15 languages. Lyonesse is free to download and there is a free tier. For unlimited use, choose a subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase. No per-minute fees. Privacy Policy: https://lyonesse.app/privacy.html Terms of Service: https://lyonesse.app/terms.html

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UniClip

Features
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macOS forgets what you copied the moment you copy something else. Windows has had a clipboard history since 2018. UniClip is that, for the Mac — and it follows you to your iPhone and iPad. Copy on your Mac. Paste on your phone. Search everything you have copied, going back weeks. A KEYBOARD, NOT A PANEL UniClip's iPhone keyboard is a real keyboard — full QWERTY, emoji, autocorrect and glide typing — with your clipboard along the top. Leave it as your default and everything you have copied is one tap away, wherever you are typing. No switching keyboards, no opening an app. Start typing something you copied earlier and it appears beside the word suggestions. That is clipboard search, without a search box. PRIVATE IN A WAY YOU CAN CHECK Everything is encrypted on your device, with a key derived from a passphrase only you know, before it is uploaded. The server stores text it has no way to read. Search runs on your device, because there is nothing on the server worth indexing. IT REFUSES TO RECORD THINGS IT SHOULDN'T Anything an app marks as confidential is never stored — that one is not a setting, because the marker is another app asking not to be recorded. Password managers are excluded when you install it, and you can add your own. Anything shaped like an API key, a private key, a security code or a payment card stays on the device that copied it, masked in the list, and is never uploaded. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IPHONE CAN DO Your Mac captures everything you copy. iPhone and iPad save what you hand over — through the share sheet, or the paste button in the app — because iOS does not let any app read the clipboard on its own. Apple closed that in iOS 16, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Free. No account needed to use it on one device; sign in with UniAuth to sync.

Screenshots

Lyonesse4 screens
UniClip3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: UniClip at none against Lyonesse's 3. UniClip also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Lyonesse's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. Lyonesse sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. UniClip asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lyonesse ships an update every 3 days, UniClip every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lyonesse versus UniClip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLyonesseUniClip
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOSIP MARKOVICUniAuth Inc.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Lyonesse

Subscriptions2
  • Lyonesse Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Lyonesse Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lyonesse Unlimited$59.99
None

UniClip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lyonesse free?
Lyonesse is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is UniClip free?
UniClip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lyonesse or UniClip have ads?
Neither Lyonesse nor UniClip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lyonesse or UniClip?
Lyonesse ships an update every 3 days, and UniClip every 3 weeks. Most recently, Lyonesse was updated on November 6, 2026 and UniClip on October 25, 2026.

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