Comparison

Voice Recorder AI vs SmartBreakdown

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

Head to head
About

Voice Recorder AI

Record, transcribe, and translate audio in real-time. Generate summaries, notes, and answers from your recordings. Dictate text in any app with a custom keyboard. Works offline and across multiple Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Live transcription and translation
  • AI-generated summaries and notes
  • Voice keyboard for dictation
  • Offline recording and transcription
  • Speaker detection
  • Export in multiple formats
  • Cross-device sync
Features
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See your words appear as you speak, translate them live, and turn every recording into a summary, notes and answers. Free to try. No account needed. ThinkScribe records and transcribes meetings, lectures, calls and ideas on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, and adds a voice keyboard to every app. Recording and transcription happen on your device and work offline. --- WHAT YOU CAN DO Live Text Your words appear while you record, sentence by sentence, on your device and offline. Turn on Your name and ThinkScribe marks it whenever someone says it. Translate Live See each sentence translated under the original while you record. Translate a finished transcript too, and export subtitles in both languages. Translation is provided by Apple. AI for Your Recordings Summary, Meeting Minutes, Executive Brief, Mind Map, Clean Transcript and Translate, one tap each. Chat with a recording or a whole collection and get answers that point to the moment in the transcript and the audio. Ask, in its own tab, is a general assistant. ThinkScribe AI runs on your device; Apple Intelligence is provided by Apple. A Summary When You Stop With Pro, each new recording gets its summary as soon as it is transcribed. Its key moments show up as dots on the player. Voice Keyboard: Type Anywhere Switch to the ThinkScribe keyboard and dictate in any app: Messages, Mail, Notes, WhatsApp, Safari. Your speech is transcribed on your iPhone, even with no connection. Word suggestions and autocorrect follow your language, and with Apple Intelligence you can tidy rough speech with one tap. Record and Transcribe - Record meetings, lectures and ideas with your microphone - Import audio from Voice Memos, WhatsApp, Telegram or any app through the share sheet - Transcription in 90+ languages - Word-synced playback: tap any word to hear that moment Know Who Said What Speaker detection gives every voice its own color. Name a voice once and ThinkScribe can recognize that person in later recordings. Mind Maps, Drawn as a Map Topics branch out from the title. Tap one to jump to where it was said. Mind maps need iPhone 15 Pro or newer, or an iPad with 8 GB of memory or more. Export and Share TXT, SRT, VTT, JSON, Markdown and PDF. Optional iCloud sync keeps your transcripts on all your devices. App Lock ThinkScribe can ask for Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode when it opens. Recording and voice typing keep working while it is locked. --- ON ALL YOUR DEVICES Works with iPhone Duo Closed or open, it fits: the same recordings on both displays. Open iPhone Duo, hold it sideways and choose Side by Side to read a transcript beside its summary. The voice typing keyboard works on iPhone Duo too. iPad On iPad, your Library sits beside the open transcript, with keyboard shortcuts and drag and drop. Apple Watch Record from your wrist. Recordings go to your iPhone for transcription. --- PRICING Free to download. Try the Pro features for free, then choose ThinkScribe Pro: monthly, yearly, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. One purchase covers all your devices. Requires iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or later. Best on iPhone 12 or newer. --- No account. Your recordings and transcripts are never sent to us. Terms of Use (EULA): https://thinkscribe.ai/en/terms Privacy Policy: https://thinkscribe.ai/en/privacy

About

SmartBreakdown

Features
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SmartBreakdown turns a screenplay into a breakdown your department can work from — prepared on Mac, worked on iPad with scenes, script and notes side by side, checked on iPhone between set-ups. Nothing leaves your device. No account, no cloud, no uploads — even the semantic search runs locally. For unreleased material under NDA, that is not an extra. It is the condition. NEW: MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Unfold iPhone Duo and the scene splits at the fold: the screenplay on the left page, departments, notes and costs on the right — like pages beside a notebook. Fold it between set-ups and your scene is still open. READ THE SCREENPLAY Import a PDF and SmartBreakdown finds the scenes: headings, scene numbers, length in eighths, DAY/NIGHT and INT/EXT. Dialogue stays dialogue and action stays action, so the screenplay reads the way it was written. Scans work too, and any heading the app is unsure of is shown for you to check, not quietly guessed. BREAK IT DOWN YOUR WAY Name your own departments, give them your production's colours and a symbol, and assign them to any scene. Write notes per department — with formatting — attach reference images and videos, and highlight passages in the screenplay itself. Each department sees what concerns it, and nothing else. MARK UP WITH APPLE PENCIL On iPad, draw across the screenplay with Apple Pencil — a highlighter on paper, except that what it leaves behind can be filtered and exported. Double-tap to switch department; write notes by hand with Scribble. COST IT Put an estimate on any note — two phones, a rain bar, three doubles. Totals add up per scene, per department and across any scenes you choose, go into the PDF and Excel exports, and the app always shows what still has no amount. SCRIPT, STORY DAY AND CONTINUITY Every scene carries a running time, a story day and the clock time it plays at. Running times start as estimates from the scene's length and give way to the times you measure. See every scene of story day 2 at a tap, and know what the phone in shot or the watch in costume has to show. A NEW DRAFT KEEPS YOUR WORK Read in a revision without starting over. Departments, notes and markings hang on scene numbers, not on page positions. Coloured stripes in the margin show what each draft changed — blue pages, pink pages, as on paper — and you mark them as reviewed as you go. THE SHOOTING SCHEDULE Import a Movie Magic one-line schedule and the shooting days are linked to their scenes. Open a day to see its scenes in shooting order, with page count, running time, story days and your department's workload. FIND SCENES BY MEANING Search for "phone screen" or "someone gets a message" and find the scenes, even where the screenplay puts it in other words. EXPORT WHAT IS NEEDED, NOTHING MORE PDF and Excel reports filtered by department, scenes, episode or shooting day: the full breakdown, one department, a handful of scenes or a day sheet. Send a production — or one department's work alone — to a colleague as a single file, by AirDrop or any other way, and merge their changes back when it returns. YOUR WORK STAYS YOURS A production is a single file: save it, move it between devices, carry on where you left off. Open, read, print and export it — always, with or without a subscription. TRY IT FREE No screenplay to hand? Open the demo production: a fictional episode with a finished breakdown. 14 days with every feature unlocked, no account required. SMARTBREAKDOWN PRO Auto-renewing subscription: EUR 12.99 per month or EUR 99.99 per year; prices vary by region. A one-off purchase is also available. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smart-app.dev/SmartBreakdown/support/privacy.html

Screenshots

Voice Recorder AI4 screens
SmartBreakdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SmartBreakdown at 18.6 against Voice Recorder AI's 26.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Voice Recorder AI sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and SmartBreakdown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Voice Recorder AI ships an update every 2 weeks, SmartBreakdown every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Voice Recorder AI versus SmartBreakdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoice Recorder AISmartBreakdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSejalben Bahadursingh BiholaStefan Hollekamp

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Voice Recorder AI

Subscriptions2
  • ThinkScribe Pro — Monthly$9.991 Month
  • ThinkScribe Pro — Annual1 Year trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • ThinkScribe Pro — Lifetime$99.99
  • ThinkScribe Pro — Lifetime$199.99
3 purchases

SmartBreakdown

Subscriptions2
  • Pro — monthly$11.991 Month
  • Pro — yearly$89.991 Year
One-time1
  • SmartBreakdown Pro — one-off$229.00

Questions

Is Voice Recorder AI free?
Voice Recorder AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SmartBreakdown free?
SmartBreakdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Voice Recorder AI or SmartBreakdown have ads?
Neither Voice Recorder AI nor SmartBreakdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Voice Recorder AI or SmartBreakdown?
Voice Recorder AI ships an update every 2 weeks, and SmartBreakdown every 3 weeks. Most recently, Voice Recorder AI was updated on November 13, 2026 and SmartBreakdown on November 10, 2026.

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