Web Canvas vs Sotto
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Web Canvas
Organize your online research on an infinite canvas. Instead of managing browser tabs, visually connect websites, images, and notes in a single workspace. Pan, zoom, and arrange your findings to understand complex topics.
- Infinite zoomable canvas
- Visual organization of websites and notes
- Spatial navigation instead of tabs
- Connect research items with lines
- Save and share research sessions
- Full web browsing capabilities
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Drowning in browser tabs? Web Canvas gives the web room to breathe. Instead of juggling tabs, create an infinite canvas where websites, images, and your own notes live together in your own visual workspace; pan, zoom, and connect everything you're researching in one place. WORKING CANVAS • Pan and zoom freely across your workspace • See all your research and browsing at a glance • Navigate spatially instead of linearly through tabs • Turn on a canvas grid to stay oriented as you pan and zoom • Recenter with one tap to snap back to where you started • Sessions: name, save, and reload your canvases; return to your research anytime • Share a saved session link; tap it to reopen that canvas on your device VISUAL BROWSING • Add multiple browser windows to your canvas • Images show in your workspace • Sticky notes: jot a thought right next to the site it belongs to • Connect any two items with a line to map how your research fits together • Color-code anything: give windows a color to group by theme, priority, or status • Arrange everything exactly how you think DESIGNED FOR RESEARCH & EXPLORATION Whether you're researching a project, planning a trip, or diving deep into a topic, Web Canvas lets you organize the web your way. Keep related websites close together, leave yourself a note about why something matters, create visual clusters of information, and never lose track of that one tab again. NATURAL GESTURES • Drag windows anywhere on the canvas • Pinch to zoom in and out • Pan with one finger to navigate and the canvas glides to a smooth stop • Two-finger trackpad swipe to pan on iPad • Full-screen mode for focused reading • Read Mode / Lock: follow links in place without new windows POWERFUL FEATURES • Share a URL from another app and open it on your canvas in one step • Full web browsing and your favorite search engines • Search history that remembers your journey • Dark mode support • Optimized for both iPhone and iPad • Smooth 60fps animations MAKE IT YOURS • Pin and reorder the toolbar buttons you use most • Choose your primary color and theme • Pick your default search engine • Start of RTL handling and translations Perfect for: • Research projects and deep dives • Visual learners and thinkers • Anyone drowning in browser tabs • Students organizing study materials • Designers collecting inspiration • Writers gathering references Your research deserves more than a list of tabs. Give it space to breathe.
Sotto
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Sotto is the notetaker that starts itself. Tap Start before a meeting (or a day full of them) and put your phone away. Sotto keeps listening in the background, notices when people actually start talking, and records only those moments. Every conversation becomes a clean transcript with meeting notes, written entirely on your iPhone. After you tap Start, Sotto records audio in the background until you stop it. While it listens, iOS shows the orange microphone indicator and Sotto keeps a Live Activity on your lock screen. WHY SOTTO • Starts itself — on-device voice detection opens each recording the moment speech begins and closes it when the conversation ends. • Private by default — audio and transcripts never leave your iPhone unless you choose otherwise. Transcription and notes are generated on-device using Apple Intelligence. • Plain files, no lock-in — every conversation is a Markdown file you can open in the Files app. No account. No subscription. • Tidy by default — once a transcript is safely written, the audio is deleted. Prefer to keep recordings? Choose 7 days or forever. WEAR IT (OPTIONAL) Pair an Omi wearable and Sotto records from its microphone over Bluetooth instead of the phone's. If the wearable disconnects or runs down, your iPhone microphone takes over automatically. NOTES, YOUR WAY Summaries are generated on-device by default. Want a bigger model? Bring your own API key for OpenAI, Anthropic, or OpenRouter — or point Sotto at a server you run yourself (Ollama works). Only transcript text is ever sent, never audio, and only under your own account. SYNC & BACK UP (OPTIONAL) • iCloud Drive — transcripts mirror automatically to iCloud. Audio stays on the phone. • WebDAV — back up transcripts (and, if you choose, audio) to your own server, such as Nextcloud. RECORDING RESPONSIBLY Recording conversations is a legal responsibility that varies by place — some regions require everyone's consent. Sotto explains this before your first session and asks you to accept that responsibility, and its always-visible indicators help you stay honest with the people around you. REQUIRES iOS 26 or later. Transcription works fully offline after a one-time speech-model download. On-device transcription and notes need an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence; on other devices Sotto still records and saves conversations for you. Omi wearable optional.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Web Canvas at 16.4 against Sotto's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Web Canvas | Sotto |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Curious Cat Consulting, LLC | decanlys |
In-app purchases
Web Canvas
No in-app purchases
Sotto
No in-app purchases








