Bubble Notes App vs Bolkit

Bubble Notes is a fast, private place to capture what's on your mind. Write thoughts as bubbles, then thread replies right onto your own notes — so a single idea can grow into a conversation with yourself. Organize everything with collections and tags, and find anything in seconds. Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no cloud required — your notes are yours. FEATURES • Quick capture — get an idea down before it's gone • Threaded replies — branch off any note to expand a thought • Collections — group related notes your way • Tags — flexible, fast filtering • Pin & hide — keep what matters up top, tuck away the rest • Rich text & images — add photos from your library or camera • Export — save your notes as PDF or text whenever you want • Light & dark — comfortable in any setting • Private by design — local-first storage, nothing leaves your phone Bubble Notes is free to use. If you'd like to support development, there's an optional Tip Jar — and a one-time option to tidy the feed. No subscriptions, ever.

Bolkit turns speech into text entirely on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is logged, and there is no account to create. Most dictation apps stream your voice to a server. Bolkit does not. The speech models run locally, so it works on a plane, in a basement, or with the network off, and your audio stays where you said it. FREE, WITH NO CATCH There is no subscription, no usage cap, no API key, and no paid tier. Bolkit is open source under the MIT license. CHOOSE YOUR MODEL Download only the models you want, each labelled by size and accuracy: Whisper, Nemotron, Parakeet, Canary, Moonshine, and Zipformer. Small models are fast and light. Larger ones are more accurate. Swap between them any time. Models load on demand and unload after five minutes idle, so Bolkit stays light on memory. HINGLISH THAT LOOKS RIGHT Hindi speech comes back in English letters, the way people actually type it, not in Devanagari you then have to convert. Pick plain Hindi instead if you want the script. SPOKEN COMMANDS Say "next line", "new paragraph", "point one" to number a list, "bullet" for dashes, or "scratch that" to drop the last line. IMPORT AUDIO Bring in an existing m4a or mp3 and get a transcript, with punctuation restored. OPTIONAL AI CLEANUP An optional on-device Gemma model tidies filler words and can summarise what you said. Like everything else here, it runs locally. PRIVACY No telemetry. No analytics. No accounts. Bolkit has no server, so your voice is never sent to us. Download any model and transcription is fully offline; the no-download default uses your phone's own speech recognizer, which stays local when your language pack is installed.