LumenDoc vs Lightning Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LumenDoc
Transform your paperwork into a searchable digital library. Scan documents, extract key information with AI, and ask questions to find details instantly. Set reminders for important dates and track spending without linking bank accounts.
- Scan documents with AI Vision
- Ask questions about your documents
- Track spending from receipts
- Set reminders and calendar events
- Private iCloud backup (Pro)
- On-device OCR fallback
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LumenDoc turns receipts, bills, medical letters, warranties, contracts and everyday paperwork into a searchable document library. Scan a page, let AI Vision extract the details, track what you spend, and turn important dates into reminders or calendar events. WHY LUMENDOC SCAN PAPERWORK FAST Capture receipts, bills, IDs, school forms, appointments and important letters with your iPhone camera. LumenDoc extracts text, dates, amounts, vendors and document categories so your library is useful from the first scan. ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS Instead of digging through folders, ask questions like: - When is my appointment? - How much did I spend at Coles? - Where is the warranty for my appliance? LumenDoc answers from your own scanned documents and links back to the source. TRACK SPENDING FROM RECEIPTS AND BILLS Receipts, invoices, bills and fines can feed a spending dashboard automatically. See totals, merchants, categories and trends without connecting a bank account. REMINDERS AND CALENDAR INTEGRATION Turn due dates, appointments, renewals and expiries into reminders or calendar events so bills, warranties, appointments and important follow-ups do not get lost. DESIGNED FOR PRIVACY Your scanned page images stay on your device after AI Vision OCR. LumenDoc sends document images to Google Gemini through our private backend only when AI Vision is used for scanning. Library Ask sends relevant OCR text excerpts, not your page images. Your data is not used to train AI models. FREE AND PRO Free includes 5 lifetime AI Vision scans and 15 lifetime Library Ask questions. Free counters do not reset. LumenDoc Pro includes 100 AI Vision scans per subscription cycle, unlimited Library Ask, full spending history and private iCloud backup. After a Pro user's AI Vision quota is used, scanning continues with on-device OCR until the quota resets on the billing anniversary. Subscriptions are managed by Apple through the App Store. Cancel any time in iOS Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lumendoc.net/privacy
Lightning Notes
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Record. Transcribe. Summarize. All on your device. Transcription and speaker separation run entirely on your iPhone — no audio ever leaves your device. Stop the recording and on-device AI works out who said what, producing a speaker-labeled transcript. Then choose local AI or Cloud AI to write the meeting notes. Supported by ads, with all core features available without a subscription. ------------------------ Key Features ------------------------ ■ Accurate Transcription — On-Device Apple's speech recognition engine processes your audio entirely on-device. Meetings, lectures, interviews — transcribed without sending audio anywhere, and reliable even for long recordings. ■ Automatic Speaker Separation Speaker separation runs automatically on your iPhone once recording stops, identifying who said what across multi-participant conversations. Voice fingerprints are learned over time, so names get assigned automatically in later meetings. Manual editing is always available. ■ AI Meeting Notes — Your Choice of AI · On-device AI: No internet required; nothing leaves your iPhone. Needs 6 GB RAM or more (iPhone 13 Pro and later). · Cloud AI: DeepSeek V4-Flash via OpenRouter, streamed in real time. API data is not used for model training, and only Zero Data Retention (ZDR) endpoints are used, so the provider does not store your data to disk. ■ Speaker Summaries & Person Profiles (Cloud AI) See each participant's role, key points, and behavior in the meeting. Across up to 30 past meetings, AI builds a profile of a person's role, communication style, and projects. ■ Action Items, Extracted (Cloud AI) Cloud AI meeting notes also pull each person's action items into the Tasks tab. Set yourself among your people to see your tasks apart from everyone else's. Each task keeps the line it came from and links back to its meeting; move it from Needs confirmation to In progress to Completed, also right on the meeting's screen. Tasks stay on your device. ■ Dictionary Correction (Custom Terms) Register company names, product names, and jargon, and the app fixes where speech recognition misheard them — "Tower Electric" becomes "Towa Electric". An on-device language model checks each fix reads naturally in context, so unrelated passages are left alone. Fixes can be reviewed, reverted one at a time, and applied to past meetings. ■ Audio & Video File Import Import external audio or video recordings and run them through the same transcription and speaker separation pipeline. ■ Share & Export Export as PDF, choosing which sections to include (summary, speaker summaries, transcript). Speaker colors and tables are preserved. Text and audio sharing are also supported. ■ Privacy-First Architecture Transcription, speaker separation, and local summarization all run on-device. Cloud AI is opt-in — leave it off and no recording content ever leaves your iPhone. ■ Folder Organization Organize meetings into folders by project, client, or topic. ■ Full-Text Search Search titles, summaries, and transcripts. Find any meeting by keyword in seconds. ■ Edit Transcripts Fix recognition errors directly in the app and save an accurate record. ■ Control From the Lock Screen Elapsed time appears on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while recording, with pause, resume, and stop right there. Add the Control Center button to start recording without launching the app. ■ Backup & Restore Export meetings, transcripts, and speaker data to a file and restore it on another device or after reinstalling. You keep the file; nothing goes to an external server. ------------------------ Requirements ------------------------ · Transcription, speaker separation, file import: iPhone 12 or later (A14 chip), or iPad with M1 or later · Local AI summarization: 6 GB RAM or more (iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 14 series, iPhone 15 and later) · Audio/video formats: WAV, M4A, MP3, MP4, and other common formats --- Take back your meetings. No subscription required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lightning Notes at none against LumenDoc's 2. Lightning Notes also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). LumenDoc's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price 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. LumenDoc sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Lightning Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
LumenDoc ships an update every 3 months, Lightning Notes every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LumenDoc | Lightning Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Mendez | Chihiro Otsuki |
In-app purchases
LumenDoc
- LumenDoc Pro7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- LumenDoc Pro Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Lightning Notes
No in-app purchases









