Comparison

Wave vs Tri Clipper

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

Head to head
About

Wave

Features
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Wave adds a private dictation keyboard to your iPhone. Tap the Wave keyboard in any text field, speak in the Wave app, and send the finished transcript back to paste wherever you were typing. Features: - Custom keyboard mic button - On-device speech-to-text - Local speech model choices - Optional filler word cleanup - Clipboard copy and optional transcription history - English translation output option Wave is built for quick drafts, messages, notes, and any place you want speech to become text without sending audio to a transcription service.

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Tri Clipper

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Tri Clipper saves web pages into your own Trilium server, straight from Safari. It reads the article, drops the navigation and the clutter around it, and files what is left as a proper Trilium note: HTML, with the title, author, publication date and address already attached as labels. WHAT YOU CAN CLIP โ€ข The article, found for you โ€ข Only what you selected โ€ข Passages you highlighted, and nothing else โ€ข The whole page โ€ข A link with its description, when the page itself is not worth keeping TEMPLATES A template decides four things: where the note goes, what it is called, which labels it carries, and what its body looks like. Give a template the sites it should claim, and clipping from those sites picks it by itself. Titles and labels are written with variables โ€” the page title, its author, the publication date, any meta tag, any JSON-LD field, or the text of any element you name. Filters shape them: format a date, take the first author out of a list, cut a long title down to size. HIGHLIGHTS Turn on highlight mode, mark the passages worth keeping, and clip those. Clip the same page again later and the new passages join the note you already made, instead of starting a second one. BEFORE ANYTHING IS SENT The popup shows the note that is about to be written: the real title, the real labels, the real body, rendered. Change any of them there and that is what Trilium receives. YOUR SERVER, YOUR NOTES Point it at your own Trilium and paste an ETAPI token. That is the only place anything is ever sent. There is no account to make, no service in between, and nothing is collected. ON MAC, IPHONE AND IPAD One purchase covers all three. The Mac version puts a button in Safari's toolbar; on iPhone and iPad the clipper lives in Safari's page menu. Templates and settings are entered per device. REQUIREMENTS A Trilium server with ETAPI enabled that the device can reach. Built and tested against Trilium 0.105. A server on your own network can be plain http; one reached from further away โ€” which is what a phone away from home needs โ€” has to be https. Tri Clipper is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Trilium project.

Screenshots

Wave4 screens
Tri Clipper3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Wave at Free against Tri Clipper's $1.99. Tri Clipper's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Wave is free to download; Tri Clipper costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Wave versus Tri Clipper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWaveTri Clipper
PriceFree โ€” better$1.99
Update frequencyโ€”Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS17.016.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSantiago Alonso AlexandreJustin Meyer

In-app purchases

None

Wave

No in-app purchases

None

Tri Clipper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wave free?
Wave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tri Clipper free?
Tri Clipper costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wave or Tri Clipper have ads?
Neither Wave nor Tri Clipper shows ads.

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