Comparison

aira vs Deforget

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

Head to head
About

aira

This app helps you take notes and record meetings. It transcribes audio, summarizes content with AI, and allows you to link notes and ask questions about your data. All information is stored locally and encrypted for privacy.

Highlights
  • Rich text notes
  • Tagging and note linking
  • Embedded meeting recordings
  • AI transcription and summaries
  • Offline search and Q&A
  • Encrypted local storage
Features
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aira is a note-taking app that's also good at meetings. Write notes with headings, lists, and formatting. Tag anything with # to organize your way, and link notes together with @ so related ideas stay connected. When you need to record a meeting, add a recording block right inside your note, like embedding audio inline. aira transcribes the recording and labels who said what. An AI running on your iPhone reads the transcript and pulls out a summary with action items. No server, no account, no uploads. Audio, transcripts, and notes live in an encrypted database on your device. Nothing leaves your phone. You can also ask aira questions. It searches across everything you've written and recorded to answer, all without the internet. • Rich text notes with headings, bold, italic, and lists • #tags to organize and filter notes • @mentions to link notes together • Meeting recordings embedded inside notes • Transcription with speaker labels • AI summaries and action items • Ask questions about any note or meeting • Encrypted local storage • No account required

About

Deforget

Features
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Deforget is a diary that remembers for you. Write about your day the way you'd tell a friend. On-device intelligence quietly picks out the things you'd hate to forget - commitments, plans, decisions, open questions, and the people they involve - and turns them into something useful: • Promises become reminders in Apple Reminders, right on time • Plans land in your calendar - and meeting notes attach themselves to their meeting • People get pages: the Index gathers everything you've ever written about anyone • Decisions and open questions stay findable, months later • Repeats and relative times work the way you say them: "every Friday", "in 20 minutes" No tags. No forms. No filing. You just write. A two-minute tutorial shows you how on your first page, and you can change your mind about any highlight from its card. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything happens on your device, powered by Apple Intelligence. Your words are never sent anywhere - Deforget runs no servers and collects nothing. Sync happens through your personal iCloud, invisible to everyone but you. Siri and Spotlight see your pages only if you switch that on. THE DIARY IS FREE FOREVER Writing, reading, syncing, and export are never locked. The intelligence - extraction, the Index, automatic reminders and events - is free for your first 7 days, then available with Deforget Pro: monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Deforget requires an Apple Intelligence-capable device (iPhone 15 Pro or newer, M-series iPad, M-series Mac). With Apple Intelligence switched off, Deforget is still a beautiful, private, free diary. The intelligence understands English today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

aira4 screens
Deforget4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: aira at none against Deforget's 3. aira also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). Deforget's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Deforget sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. aira asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
aira versus Deforget: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterairaDeforget
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB8 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJohn LimKaloyan Lachezarov

In-app purchases

None

aira

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Deforget

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is aira free?
aira is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Deforget free?
Deforget is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do aira or Deforget have ads?
Neither aira nor Deforget shows ads.
Which is updated more often, aira or Deforget?
aira ships an update every 2 weeks, and Deforget every 2 weeks. Most recently, aira was updated on November 5, 2026 and Deforget on October 31, 2026.

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