Comparison

Obywatel Bielik vs VAYS

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

Head to head
About

Obywatel Bielik

Features
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Obywatel Bielik to aplikacja do współtworzenia jakościowych danych dla rozwoju polskich modeli AI. W aplikacji możesz: • dodawać zdjęcia do zbioru, • opisywać i uzupełniać informacje o zdjęciach, • śledzić swoją aktywność, • działać w zespole i porównywać postępy w rankingach. Aplikacja została zaprojektowana tak, aby szybko przechodzić od logowania do realnej pracy z materiałami. Dzięki prostemu interfejsowi łatwo dodasz treści i sprawdzisz swój wkład.

About

VAYS

Features
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Vays is a FOREVER FREE voice notes app built around your voice and your privacy. Record a thought, a meeting, a task, or a conversation with multiple people. Vays transcribes directly on your device, using models tuned for Polish and English. Your audio is not sent to the cloud. Built for people who think out loud: • Construction and site managers capturing decisions in the field • Medical and clinical professionals, where accurate Polish transcription matters • Product managers turning meetings into tasks • Anyone whose best ideas come while walking, driving, or moving between meetings What’s inside • On-device transcription: your audio stays on your phone unless you decide otherwise • Sessions (BETA): multi-speaker recordings with speaker recognition. Your own voice is recognized from a one-time voice profile, and other speakers can be named with a single tap • Vays Dictation Keyboard: dictate in any app with on-device transcription • Local Gemma AI: chat with your notes offline, without an account • Polished transcripts: turn messy spoken language into clean, readable text • Voice tasks: dictate a task and Vays turns it into a title, notes, and category • Improve transcript: re-transcribe a memo using a larger Whisper model • Device sync: notes from your iPhone can appear on your Mac • No ads, no tracking, no account Privacy by default Vays is designed so your recordings stay yours. Recording, transcription, speaker separation, transcript polishing, and AI chat all run locally on your iPhone. There is no external AI service in the iOS data path. AI runs locally using Apple Neural Engine and the Gemma model. The only network features are optional iCloud sync, without audio recordings, and optional pairing with your own Mac running Vays on your local network. Optional companion: Vays for Mac Vays for Mac is a paid desktop companion for people who want richer analysis, support for long recordings, and system-wide dictation mode. Notes recorded on your iPhone can automatically appear on your Mac. Vays is built by one developer. Every piece of feedback is read, and every bug report is taken seriously.

Screenshots

Obywatel Bielik4 screens
VAYS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Obywatel Bielik at none against VAYS's 3. Obywatel Bielik also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). VAYS's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. VAYS sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Obywatel Bielik asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Obywatel Bielik ships an update every 3 weeks, VAYS weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Obywatel Bielik versus VAYS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterObywatel BielikVAYS
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB39 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFundacja SpeakleashARVIND JUNEJA OUMM

In-app purchases

None

Obywatel Bielik

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

VAYS

One-time3
  • Hi five$1.99
  • Buy me a coffee$3.99
  • Patron$9.99

Questions

Is Obywatel Bielik free?
Obywatel Bielik is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is VAYS free?
VAYS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Obywatel Bielik or VAYS have ads?
Neither Obywatel Bielik nor VAYS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Obywatel Bielik or VAYS?
Obywatel Bielik ships an update every 3 weeks, and VAYS weekly. Most recently, Obywatel Bielik was updated on October 31, 2026 and VAYS on October 31, 2026.

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