Comparison

MindNote vs SpeechBee

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

Head to head
About

MindNote

Features
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Welcome to MindNote, the simplest multimodal AI note taking app, designed to keep your ideas, thoughts, and memories organized and accessible wherever you go. Whether you're jotting down personal reflections, work, brainstorming ideas, or collaborating with others, MindNote offers everything you need to stay productive and creative. The app is ideal for students, researchers, entrepreneurs, working teams. Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TReffGavpro&t=43s Key Features: - Personalized Notes: Write and organize your notes just the way you like. Change colors, add media, and categorize them into custom groups for easy access. - Speech-to-Text: Dictate your ideas with the built-in speech-to-text feature. Speak freely, and MindNote will convert your words into written text instantly. - Text-to-Voice: Listen to your notes being read aloud with the text-to-voice feature. Perfect for multitasking or reviewing notes on the go. - Smart Editing with AI prompts: Use AI prompts, in any language to improve, organize, and refine your notes. Translate content into multiple languages, reorganize text alphabetically, transforms to tables, summarize ideas, correct grammar, complete notes with AI and more all with a simple tap. - Customizable Organization: Group your notes into folders, tag them, and set reminders to stay organized and never miss an important task or idea. - Collaboration: share your notes with others and work together in real-time. Edit, comment, and collaborate seamlessly on shared projects. - Embedded media (videos, images and sound). - Export as .pdf, .csv, .doc, .docx More Features Coming Soon: - Offline mode - Currently supporting ChatGPT and Gemini, more ML models to come. - And much more! Why MindNote? MindNote is designed for people who want more than just a simple note-taking app. With its easy-to-use interface, customizable features, and powerful AI-assisted tools, it's your perfect partner for work, study, travel and personal life. Stay productive, creative, and organized all in one place. Privacy policy: https://www.mindnote.online/privacy EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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SpeechBee

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Speak instead of typing. Listen instead of reading. SpeechBee turns what you say into clean text, right where you are writing, and reads any text back to you in a natural voice. Speech recognition and reading voices run on your iPhone and iPad. VOICE TO TEXT • Switch to the SpeechBee keyboard in Messages, Mail, Notes or any app, tap the microphone and talk • Filler words like “um” and “uh” are removed automatically • Say “new paragraph” or “new line” and it formats as you go • Teach it names and terms with your personal Dictionary • Snippets: say “my email” or “booking link” and get the full text TEXT TO SPEECH • Share text with SpeechBee or paste it into the Read tab • Natural local voices, adjustable speed, pause and skip between sentences • Listen to articles, messages and long notes while you walk, commute or rest your eyes PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your audio is never uploaded and never saved as a recording • After a one-time model download, dictation works offline • Text is read aloud on your device, not by a cloud voice service • No ads IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Your plan unlocks SpeechBee on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Optional private iCloud sync keeps your Dictionary and Snippets in step. Audio and transcripts are never synced. LANGUAGES Dictate in 99 languages and listen in 31. Dictation (99): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Māori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba Read Aloud (31): Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese PLANS Dictation and Read Aloud require a SpeechBee subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Without one, the 7-day free week is followed by a free plan with up to 1,000 dictated and 1,000 read words per week. Every plan includes every feature. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://speechbee.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://speechbee.app/terms

Screenshots

MindNote4 screens
SpeechBee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SpeechBee at every 2 days against MindNote's every 4 weeks. MindNote's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MindNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and SpeechBee sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MindNote ships an update every 4 weeks, SpeechBee every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
MindNote versus SpeechBee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMindNoteSpeechBee
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB41 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTomya MateoFat Pitch Ltd

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MindNote

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly$99.991 Year
4 purchases

SpeechBee

Subscriptions2
  • SpeechBee Monthly7 Days trial$9.001 Month
  • SpeechBee Annual7 Days trial$79.001 Year
One-time2
  • 7-Day TrialFree
  • SpeechBee Lifetime$99.00

Questions

Is MindNote free?
MindNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SpeechBee free?
SpeechBee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do MindNote or SpeechBee have ads?
Both MindNote and SpeechBee show ads.
Which is updated more often, MindNote or SpeechBee?
MindNote ships an update every 4 weeks, and SpeechBee every 2 days. Most recently, MindNote was updated on October 28, 2026 and SpeechBee on October 29, 2026.

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