Comparison

Offline Notes AI vs Sotto

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

Head to head
About

Offline Notes AI

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Your private, all‑in‑one conversation and visual‑note recorder – 100 % offline. The meeting is more than a simple audio call—it enables interactive dialogue among participants. Your whiteboard sketches and notes are as valuable as the spoken conversation. The application seamlessly integrates voice transcription and camera captures into the meeting transcript, then generates a comprehensive summary that incorporates both forms of information. Why pay for a subscription when your device already works like a mini‑supercomputer, transcribing and summarizing everything locally? Offline Notes AI works entirely on your device, transforming spoken conversations and whiteboard drawings into accurate, searchable notes with zero internet connection. Just fast, private AI working for you. Never miss a detail—without sacrificing privacy. Perfect for Chalk Talk, Meetings, Interviews, Lectures, and anytime, anywhere. Key Features Transcribes spoken words in near real time and automatically separates each speaker. Analyzes photos with a Vision‑powered Large Language Model. Instead of traditional OCR, the app looks at the image, recognizes objects, handwritten sketches, diagrams, and any text, and produces a natural‑language description that captures the full meaning of the picture. Creates a single, searchable record that combines the spoken transcript and the Vision‑LLM description of every photo you captured. Summarizes the entire session—both the conversation and the visual content—into a concise overview you can read in seconds. Exports audio recordings, full transcripts, or summaries whenever you need them. Zero cost, zero limits - The app is completely free, with no in‑app purchases, subscriptions, or usage caps. Record as many meetings as you need, capture unlimited photos, and ask unlimited questions. How It Works 1. Record - Tap “Mic” button to start a recording. At anytime, tap the "Camera" button to add a photo 2. Transcribe - Speech and photo are transcribed to text automatically. 3. Summarize - Generate a clean, bullet-point summary. 4. Ask - Query the conversation or a photo to find key details fast. 5. Export - Save or share audio, transcripts, or summaries. Alternatively, you may tap the "Camera" button to transcribe a single photo Why Choose Offline Notes AI? Privacy-first by design -Your data stays on your device. Free forever - Full features with no hidden costs. Everything in one app -Record, transcribe, summarize, and search effortlessly. Compatibility Transcribing Photo feature works only on iPhone/iPad with at least 6GB RAM, such as iPhone 12 Pro and later iPhone 14 and later iPad (A16) iPad Air M1 and later iPad mini (A17 Pro) iPad Pro 12.9‑inch (4th generation and later) iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation and later) Download now and experience the fast, private, and truly offline notes AI for your meetings.

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Sotto

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Sotto is a chat app for language models that run on your own device. There is no account, no server and no analytics. Your conversations stay in the app’s own container on your Mac, iPhone or iPad. TWO WAYS TO RUN A MODEL • Apple’s on-device foundation model. Nothing to download; start chatting straight away on a device that supports it. • Open-source models. Download a GGUF model from a curated catalog, or import a .gguf file you already have. Sotto runs it with llama.cpp, using Metal on device. Once a model is on the device, Sotto keeps working with the network off. TOOLS THE MODEL CAN CALL Twenty-five built-in tools run entirely on your device: dates and time zones, a calculator and unit converter, percentages and number bases, text rewriting, find-and-replace, extraction, sorting, word counts and diffs, JSON and CSV, descriptive statistics, encoding, hashing, random numbers, and a search of your own past chats. Four are on out of the box; the rest are one switch away. You can add two of your own: a web search that uses your own API key, or an HTTPS request you define. Both stay off until you set them up, and each asks for approval before it runs. MAC, IPHONE AND IPAD • A menu bar item on the Mac: ask a question from the status bar, reach your last five chats, and open any window in one click. • Compare two models side by side on the same prompt. • Personas: saved system prompts and sampling settings. A local-only persona never sees a tool that uses the network. • Export any conversation to Markdown or JSON. • Optional Face ID, Touch ID or passcode lock. PRIVACY Sotto’s developer collects nothing. No sign-in, no identifier, no usage statistics, no third-party SDK. The only outbound requests are a model download you start, an optional weekly check of the model catalog (off by default), and any tool you set up yourself. Settings › Privacy shows a live count of the bytes the app has actually sent. FREE Sotto is free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no ads and no paid tier. A NOTE ON GENERATED TEXT Sotto runs models locally and does not filter, review or fact-check what they produce. Models invent things, get facts wrong, and can produce mature language or themes. Treat an answer as a draft and check anything that matters.

Screenshots

Offline Notes AI4 screens
Sotto4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sotto at none against Offline Notes AI's shown. Offline Notes AI's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.5). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Offline Notes AI versus Sotto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOffline Notes AISotto
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB12 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperYang LiEonix (Pvt) Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Offline Notes AI

No in-app purchases

None

Sotto

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Offline Notes AI free?
Offline Notes AI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sotto free?
Sotto is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Offline Notes AI or Sotto have ads?
Offline Notes AI shows ads; Sotto does not.

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