Comparison

Private AI Note Taker vs QuickRecap

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

Head to head
About

Private AI Note Taker

This AI-powered app transforms long podcast episodes into concise summaries with natural-sounding narration and transcripts. It helps users save time and quickly grasp key insights from any podcast, making learning and discovery efficient.

Highlights
  • AI-powered podcast summaries
  • Natural-sounding AI narration
  • Detailed transcript generation
  • Podcast search and discovery
  • Organized queue manager
  • Full archive of summaries
Features
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Private Notes is an AI note taker that never sends your words anywhere. Record a meeting, a lecture or a quick thought, and get a transcript, a summary and your tasks, all made on your iPhone. 100% private, and it works offline. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR IPHONE Your recordings, transcripts and notes stay on your device. There is no account to create and no cloud AI: the speech recognition and the AI that writes your notes both run on your iPhone. No ads, no tracking. RECORD, THEN READ • One tap to record meetings, classes, interviews, calls on speaker and voice memos • A full transcript of everything that was said • A short summary, the key points and a checklist of tasks • Play back the audio, copy or share any part IN YOUR LANGUAGE • Transcripts in 99 languages, with automatic language detection • The app itself in 25 languages TWO ON-DEVICE ENGINES • Apple Intelligence: fast, built into supported iPhones and languages, nothing to download • Private AI: open models that run entirely on your iPhone and cover all 99 languages, downloaded once, then fully offline MAKE IT YOURS Pick from three looks (Paper, Studio and Bold), in light or dark. PLANS Unlock Private Notes with a weekly or yearly subscription, or pay once for lifetime access. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. Requires an iPhone with 6 GB of memory or more. Apple Intelligence requires a supported iPhone and language. Terms of Use: https://shortcast.me/notes/terms Privacy Policy: https://shortcast.me/notes/privacy

About

QuickRecap

Features
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Paused a long podcast and lost the thread? Share the episode to QuickRecap, choose how much to recap, and get the gist in one scroll, with every key point linked to the moment it was said. RECAP ANY EPISODE • Share an episode link from Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or paste one in the app. • Recap the whole episode or just part of it: the first or last minutes, or everything up to where you stopped when your link has a time in it. • Read the gist, key points, quotes and action items in one scroll. • If a recap could only read part of an episode, it says so. CHECK AND GO BACK • Key points and quotes carry the time they were said. Tap a time to open the episode near that moment. ASK ABOUT IT • Ask questions about any recap and get answers from the episode. Stop an answer at any time. ALWAYS AT HAND • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: your latest recap, a saved insight, or a one-tap new recap. • Siri and Shortcuts: "Ask QuickRecap to summarize a podcast". • Send recaps to Notion or Obsidian, or copy them as Markdown or plain text (Pro). PLANS • Free: recaps with no monthly limit (fair use: up to 12 hours of audio a day), the gist and key points with times, and Ask. • Pro adds every quote and action item, read-aloud, four more recap styles, Notion and Obsidian, and hours of high-accuracy transcription each month. • Premium doubles the high-accuracy hours and adds every visual a recap has. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. GOOD TO KNOW • You need an account: sign in with Apple, Google, Facebook or email. Your recaps sync to your account. • English-language episodes work best. • Recaps and answers are written automatically from automatic transcripts and can be wrong. The times are there so you can check. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://quickrecap.site/privacy

Screenshots

Private AI Note Taker4 screens
QuickRecap4 screens

Verdict

The call

Private AI Note Taker and QuickRecap are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Private AI Note Taker sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and QuickRecap sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Private AI Note Taker ships an update every 6 days, QuickRecap every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Private AI Note Taker versus QuickRecap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrivate AI Note TakerQuickRecap
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRLabs d.o.o.Basam Ismaeel

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Private AI Note Taker

Subscriptions5
  • Weekly Plan7 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Monthly Plan + Free Trial3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Plan1 Month trial$10.001 Month
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  • Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Plan + Free Trial3 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Private Notes Lifetime$49.99
4 purchases

QuickRecap

Subscriptions4
  • Basic$4.991 Month
  • Premium$6.991 Month
  • Basic Yearly$39.991 Year
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  • premium(yearly) plan$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Private AI Note Taker free?
Private AI Note Taker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is QuickRecap free?
QuickRecap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Private AI Note Taker or QuickRecap have ads?
Neither Private AI Note Taker nor QuickRecap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Private AI Note Taker or QuickRecap?
Private AI Note Taker ships an update every 6 days, and QuickRecap every 10 days. Most recently, Private AI Note Taker was updated on October 25, 2026 and QuickRecap on October 28, 2026.

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