Scriben vs Ragondin Assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scriben
This AI-powered pen records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations in real-time. It offers full transcripts with speaker labels, concise AI summaries, and automatically extracted action items, all without needing to interact with your phone.
- Real ink pen with integrated AI recorder
- Automatic transcription with speaker labels
- AI-generated meeting summaries
- Extracted action items
- Multilingual support and real-time code-switching
- Automatic syncing to the app
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Your pen captures it. Vera remembers it. The work gets done. Scriben is an AI pen for professionals. It writes with real ink — just like any pen you've used for years. The difference: while you're writing, it's also listening, understanding, and turning the conversation into finished work. Your meeting ends. Your notes are done, your follow-ups are drafted, and nothing has been forgotten. No new habits. No awkward devices on the table. No explaining to a client why you're recording them. Just your pen, doing more than a pen ever has. IMAGINE YOUR NEXT MEETING You walk into a meeting. You carry your pen. By the time you walk out, you have a full transcript, a summary, the action items — and the follow-up email already written, waiting for you to send it. You never touched your phone. That's Scriben. BUILT FOR PROFESSIONALS WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS A WORD • Attorneys — every deposition, client meeting, and negotiation • Founders — never lose a board meeting, investor call, or brainstorm • Physicians — document patient visits and clinical notes hands-free • Financial Advisors — a full record of every client conversation • Consultants, Therapists, Real Estate Agents, and anyone whose work lives in conversation IT CAPTURES Full Transcript A clear transcript with speaker labels, and multilingual support with real-time code-switching for mixed-language meetings. AI Summary What was discussed, what was decided, and the context you need. Readable in under 60 seconds. Action Items Commitments and follow-ups pulled out automatically — what needs to happen, and who said they would do it. IT REMEMBERS Meet Vera, the assistant that actually remembers. Ask her anything from any conversation you've ever had. Last Tuesday's pricing call. That hiring decision from March. What you promised the client in the hallway. She answers from what was actually said, and shows you where. She looks forward, too — what's coming, what you committed to, what's about to slip. IT WORKS FOR YOU Vera writes the follow-up email. She stages the calendar invite. She lines up what comes next. Then she stops and waits for you. Nothing is sent, booked, or shared until you read it and approve it. Every action is a proposal, never a surprise. BUILT FOR THE ROOM, NOT THE CALL Most AI note-takers listen to your laptop. They need a video call to exist. Scriben listens to the table — the in-person meeting, the client lunch, the conversation in the hallway afterward. The ones that were never being recorded at all. The pen that remembers everything you don't. YOUR CONVERSATIONS ARE YOURS Encrypted on your device. Never sold, never used for advertising, never used to train anyone else's models. Delete your account and it all goes with it. Terms of Service: https://scriben.ai/policies/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://scriben.ai/policies/privacy-policy Recording laws vary by location. You are responsible for obtaining consent where it is required.
Ragondin Assistant
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Ask questions, summarize, and draft messages with an AI that runs on your iPhone. It keeps answering with no internet, no account, and nothing sent to a server. Ragondin Assistant downloads an AI model to your phone once, then runs it right there: on a plane, on the subway, or in airplane mode. BEFORE YOU START • The first launch downloads one model, picked to fit your iPhone: about 0.5 to 1.6 GB. Use Wi-Fi and keep the app open until it finishes. The download pauses if you leave the app and picks up again when you come back. • Answers are made by your iPhone’s own chip: quick on recent iPhones, slower on older ones. A model small enough for a phone knows less than a large cloud chatbot. • You can add bigger models later, up to about 4 GB each. The model list shows which ones fit your phone’s memory. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Ask questions and think ideas through • Summarize text, notes and PDFs • Draft and rewrite emails and messages • Dictate instead of typing (speech-to-text also runs on the phone) • Ask about a photo: a menu, a receipt, a screenshot. This needs the photo-reading model, about 4 GB with image understanding • Make pictures right on the phone, offline, on an iPhone with 8 GB of memory (iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 or newer). It takes a one-time download of about 6 GB, and a 512-pixel picture takes a few minutes. With a linked Core, the Core makes your pictures instead. • Save your own instructions and reuse them in any chat • Let it remember useful facts from your chats; you can read, edit or delete every memory • Use the app in English, French or Chinese PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Out of the box, your messages, photos and conversations are processed and stored on your iPhone. There is no account, no sign-up and no analytics in the app. Three optional features use the internet. All three are off until you turn them on: • Web Search sends your search query from your phone to DuckDuckGo. • Web Scraping opens the web pages the AI asks to read, straight from your phone, so those sites see the request. • Linking a Ragondin Core (a computer you or your team runs) sends your chats to that Core, so you can use its bigger models and find your conversations on your other devices. WORKS OFFLINE Once your model is downloaded, chatting needs no connection at all. Use it while traveling, on flights, or anywhere without a signal. PRICING Try every feature free for 7 days, with no payment to start. To keep using the app after the trial, unlock it with a single in-app purchase. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription: no recurring charges. REQUIREMENTS • iOS 16.4 or later • Free storage for the model you choose: 0.5 GB to about 4 GB, plus about 6 GB for making pictures on the phone • The largest models need an iPhone with 6 to 8 GB of memory • Making pictures on the phone needs 8 GB of memory: iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 or newer Terms of Use: https://assistant.ragondin.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://assistant.ragondin.ai/privacy-policy OPEN-SOURCE MODELS Ragondin Assistant uses Gemma and Qwen open-source models. “Gemma” is a trademark of Google LLC. “Qwen” is a trademark of Alibaba Cloud. Ragondin Assistant is independently developed and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google or Alibaba.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Scriben at daily against Ragondin Assistant's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Scriben sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $12.99 per month and Ragondin Assistant sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Scriben ships an update daily, Ragondin Assistant fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scriben | Ragondin Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SleepMind, Inc. | Ragondin Dev |
In-app purchases
Scriben
- Scriben Monthly1 Month trial$12.991 Month
Ragondin Assistant
- Ragondin Assistant Premium Lifetime$19.99









