Dictation App vs Deforget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Dictation App
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Capture a thought before it disappears. Echo is a focused voice-notes app for recording ideas, dictating text, and turning longer conversations into clear notes. RECORD, THEN FIND IT Tap once to start. Speak naturally. Echo keeps the audio with its transcript, so you can play it back, edit the text, and search for the exact line later. FOR QUICK NOTES AND MEETINGS ⢠Dictate a thought, task, reminder, or idea ⢠Record longer meetings and keep the complete transcript ⢠Create structured meeting notes after transcription ⢠Pause and resume a recording when you need to ⢠Search notes and transcripts instead of scrolling ⢠Listen back to the original audio ⢠Export or share a note when you choose PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your recordings and notes stay on your device. Echo uses on-device speech recognition when it is available for your language. If you choose to share a note as a webpage, only that selected note and its date are sent to create a link; shared links expire after 30 days. MADE FOR THE MOMENTS YOU CANNOT TYPE Use Echo for a thought while walking, a quick voice memo between tasks, lecture notes, interview follow-ups, or meeting decisions and next steps. The Home Screen widget and Siri Shortcuts let you begin a recording quickly. Echo is built to feel calm: no ads, no account required, and no clutter between you and the thought you wanted to keep.
Deforget
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Deforget is a diary that remembers for you. Write about your day the way you'd tell a friend. On-device intelligence quietly picks out the things you'd hate to forget - commitments, plans, decisions, open questions, and the people they involve - and turns them into something useful: ⢠Promises become reminders in Apple Reminders, right on time ⢠Plans land in your calendar - and meeting notes attach themselves to their meeting ⢠People get pages: the Index gathers everything you've ever written about anyone ⢠Decisions and open questions stay findable, months later No tags. No forms. No filing. You just write. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything happens on your device, powered by Apple Intelligence. Your words are never sent anywhere - Deforget runs no servers and collects nothing. Sync happens through your personal iCloud, invisible to everyone but you. THE DIARY IS FREE FOREVER Writing, reading, syncing, and export are never locked. The intelligence - extraction, the Index, automatic reminders and events - is free for your first 7 days, then available with Deforget Pro: monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Deforget requires an Apple Intelligence-capable device (iPhone 15 Pro or newer, M-series iPad, M-series Mac). With Apple Intelligence switched off, Deforget is still a beautiful, private, free diary. The intelligence understands English today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Dictation App at 18.6 against Deforget's 27.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Dictation App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Deforget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dictation App ships an update every 2 weeks, Deforget every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dictation App | Deforget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac ā better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 ā better | 27.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johanna Hoppe | Kaloyan Lachezarov |
In-app purchases
Dictation App
- Echo Pro$3.99
Deforget
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Annual$29.991 Year
- Lifetime$44.99









