Comparison

Meeting Rewind vs Rubato

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

Head to head
About

Meeting Rewind

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Meeting Rewind is built for anyone who needs to catch every wordβ€”executives in back-to-back meetings, students in lectures, support agents on calls, interviewers, and anyone in fast-paced conversations. What it does - Record β†’ Transcript β†’ Save or Discard: Tap the floating button to start recording; tap again to stop. A transcript (on-device speech recognition) is shown; you can save the recording to the app’s library (Core Data) and share it, export to Notes, add to Reminders, or discard it. - Instant rewind: The app continuously buffers the last 15 seconds to 3 minutes of audio (configurable). When you miss something, trigger replay to hear that segment again without saving. The buffer is overwritten in real time. Use it anywhere - Floating button β€” Draggable overlay: tap to start or stop recording (Step 1); after stop, transcript sheet (Step 2) with Save/Discard (Step 3). Long-press to expand menu (Settings, Accessibility) or to rewind when recording. - Saved β€” Button on the main (Root) screen opens the saved recordings library: play, view transcript, share, export to Notes, add to Reminders, or delete. - Widgets β€” Home screen widget (Start/Stop/Replay), Control Center widget, and Live Activity (iOS 18). - Apple Watch (Wrist Rewind) β€” Start/stop buffering and trigger replay from your wrist via WatchConnectivity. - Keyboard β€” Meeting Rewind keyboard: Rewind, Start/Stop, Open App. - Share sheet β€” Start/stop buffering or replay from the system share menu. - Siri / Shortcuts β€” β€œHey Siri, start Meeting Rewind” or β€œStop Meeting Rewind”; App Intents support optional buffer length per shortcut. - Automation β€” In Settings, instructions to auto-start when Meeting focus is on or when a calendar event starts (via Shortcuts).

About

Rubato

Features
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Rubato is a daily planner that stacks your events vertically and lets you clear them from the top. Instead of pinning everything to a time, you stack them in order. β€’ A plan that flows Stack what you want to do and it lines up from the top. Run late and everything after shifts; finish early and it moves up. You always see the whole day. Meetings and appointments become "fixed-time" events, and flowing events split around them. β€’ Stack and clear Tap a frequent event in the History palette to stack it, or drag it into place. Complete it and it bursts away; the next one becomes current. Completion sounds and haptics are designed in-house. β€’ Usual Rubato predicts what usually comes next, based on the time of day, the weekday, and what came before, and puts it first in the palette. It gets smarter as you use it. β€’ Your day ends when you sleep Past midnight, the timeline keeps counting: 25:00, 26:00. Night owls' days stay in one piece. β€’ Live mode The current time stays near the top, with only the current event and the next one shown large. Insert a break or a gap with one tap. Notifications arrive when an event starts, 10 minutes before a fixed-time event, and at the planned end. β€’ Works with your calendar Events from your iPhone calendars (including Google) appear in the header; tap one to place it at a fixed time. Mark an event "Show in Calendar" and it's written to the calendar you choose, follows the flow as it moves, and settles into the actual time when completed. Subscribe to calendars by URL (iCal). β€’ All-day events and to-dos Add all-day events and undated to-dos to any day. Tap a to-do to finish it; unfinished ones carry over to tomorrow. Place them on future days from the month view. β€’ iPhone and Mac On Mac, Rubato lives in the menu bar and can be pinned as a standalone panel. It syncs through iCloud. There's no server: your data stays in your own iCloud. β€’ Pricing Free to download. Try every feature free for 14 days (started by a Β₯0 in-app purchase; it isn't a subscription and you'll never be charged automatically). To keep going, a single one-time purchase (Β₯2,200 in Japan; local price shown in the app) unlocks Rubato on both iPhone and Mac, forever. After the trial, viewing, completing, and syncing keep working.

Screenshots

Meeting Rewind3 screens
Rubato4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Meeting Rewind at 18 against Rubato's 26.5. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Meeting Rewind sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Rubato sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Meeting Rewind versus Rubato: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeeting RewindRubato
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18 β€” better26.5
Further details β€” not scored
Size9 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDarryl ReedYujiro Yonetsu

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Meeting Rewind

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
2 purchases

Rubato

One-time2
  • 14-Day TrialFree
  • Rubato (One-Time Purchase)$12.99

Questions

Is Meeting Rewind free?
Meeting Rewind is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rubato free?
Rubato is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meeting Rewind or Rubato have ads?
Neither Meeting Rewind nor Rubato shows ads.

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