Comparison

シンプル文字起こし vs Lightning Notes

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

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シンプル文字起こし

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シンプル文字起こしは、マイクで拾った音声をリアルタイムで文字に変換するアプリです。 主な特徴: ・完全無料(広告もありません) ・リアルタイム文字起こし(タイムスタンプ付き) ・スピーカーからの音声も認識(リモート会議に対応) ・完全オンデバイス処理でネット接続不要 ・セッション履歴の保存・閲覧 ・文字起こし結果の編集・共有 ・録音中の画面スリープ防止 会議、打ち合わせ、インタビュー、講義など、さまざまな場面でご活用いただけます。開始ボタンを押すだけで、すぐに文字起こしが始まります。 音声データはすべてデバイス上で処理されるため、機密性の高い会議でも安心してお使いいただけます。

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Lightning Notes

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Record. Transcribe. Summarize. All on your device. Transcription and speaker separation run entirely on your iPhone — no audio ever leaves your device. Stop the recording and on-device AI works out who said what, producing a speaker-labeled transcript. Then choose local AI or Cloud AI to write the meeting notes. Supported by ads, with all core features available without a subscription. ------------------------ Key Features ------------------------ ■ Accurate Transcription — On-Device Apple's speech recognition engine processes your audio entirely on-device. Meetings, lectures, interviews — transcribed without sending audio anywhere, and reliable even for long recordings. ■ Automatic Speaker Separation Speaker separation runs automatically on your iPhone once recording stops, identifying who said what across multi-participant conversations. Voice fingerprints are learned over time, so names get assigned automatically in later meetings. Manual editing is always available. ■ AI Meeting Notes — Your Choice of AI · On-device AI: No internet required; nothing leaves your iPhone. Needs 6 GB RAM or more (iPhone 13 Pro and later). · Cloud AI: DeepSeek V4-Flash via OpenRouter, streamed in real time. API data is not used for model training, and only Zero Data Retention (ZDR) endpoints are used, so the provider does not store your data to disk. ■ Speaker Summaries & Person Profiles (Cloud AI) See each participant's role, key points, and behavior in the meeting. Across up to 30 past meetings, AI builds a profile of a person's role, communication style, and projects. ■ Action Items, Extracted (Cloud AI) Cloud AI meeting notes also pull each person's action items into the Tasks tab. Set yourself among your people to see your tasks apart from everyone else's. Each task keeps the line it came from and links back to its meeting; move it from Needs confirmation to In progress to Completed, also right on the meeting's screen. Tasks stay on your device. ■ Dictionary Correction (Custom Terms) Register company names, product names, and jargon, and the app fixes where speech recognition misheard them — "Tower Electric" becomes "Towa Electric". An on-device language model checks each fix reads naturally in context, so unrelated passages are left alone. Fixes can be reviewed, reverted one at a time, and applied to past meetings. ■ Audio & Video File Import Import external audio or video recordings and run them through the same transcription and speaker separation pipeline. ■ Share & Export Export as PDF, choosing which sections to include (summary, speaker summaries, transcript). Speaker colors and tables are preserved. Text and audio sharing are also supported. ■ Privacy-First Architecture Transcription, speaker separation, and local summarization all run on-device. Cloud AI is opt-in — leave it off and no recording content ever leaves your iPhone. ■ Folder Organization Organize meetings into folders by project, client, or topic. ■ Full-Text Search Search titles, summaries, and transcripts. Find any meeting by keyword in seconds. ■ Edit Transcripts Fix recognition errors directly in the app and save an accurate record. ■ Control From the Lock Screen Elapsed time appears on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island while recording, with pause, resume, and stop right there. Add the Control Center button to start recording without launching the app. ■ Backup & Restore Export meetings, transcripts, and speaker data to a file and restore it on another device or after reinstalling. You keep the file; nothing goes to an external server. ------------------------ Requirements ------------------------ · Transcription, speaker separation, file import: iPhone 12 or later (A14 chip), or iPad with M1 or later · Local AI summarization: 6 GB RAM or more (iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 14 series, iPhone 15 and later) · Audio/video formats: WAV, M4A, MP3, MP4, and other common formats --- Take back your meetings. No subscription required.

Screenshots

シンプル文字起こし2 screens
Lightning Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: シンプル文字起こし at none against Lightning Notes's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
シンプル文字起こし versus Lightning Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterシンプル文字起こしLightning Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDDR8 Co., Ltd.Chihiro Otsuki

In-app purchases

None

シンプル文字起こし

No in-app purchases

None

Lightning Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is シンプル文字起こし free?
シンプル文字起こし is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lightning Notes free?
Lightning Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do シンプル文字起こし or Lightning Notes have ads?
Lightning Notes shows ads; シンプル文字起こし does not.

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