Comparison

Lightning Notes vs シンプル録音文字起こし

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

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Lightning Notes

Features
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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.

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シンプル録音文字起こし

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「録音 → 自動文字起こし → AI 整形」がワンタップで完結。 iPhone の中だけで動く、完全オフラインの AI アシスタントアプリです。 完全オフライン / iPhone 完結 / プライバシー / 医療 / SOAP / 議事録 / AI 整形 / 文字起こし ■ できること ・高精度 AI で音声をテキスト化(WhisperKit large-v3) ・AI が SOAP・議事録・要約・ポイント整理に自動整形 ・自分のプロンプトを保存して使い回す「マイプロンプト」 ・録音を添付して AI と対話できる「AI チャット」 ・自作プロンプトを AI のペルソナにして会話する機能 ■ プライバシー設計 すべての処理が iPhone 内で完結します。 録音・文字起こし・AI 整形の内容が外部送信されることは一切ありません。 インターネット接続は初回モデルダウンロードのみ必要です。 ■ こんな方に ・記者・ライター(インタビュー書き起こし) ・ビジネス(議事録・要約) ・学生・研究者(講義記録) ■ 主な機能 ・ワンタップで録音開始、画面ロック中も継続 ・録音履歴をフォルダで整理 ・iCloud バックアップで機種変更も安心 ・AirDrop・メール・LINE で共有 ■ 動作要件 ・iOS 17.0 以降 / iPhone 15 Pro 以上推奨 ・初回起動時に AI モデル(合計約 4GB)の Wi-Fi ダウンロードが必要 ・録音・整形・チャットは全て端末内で完結し外部送信されません

Screenshots

Lightning Notes4 screens
シンプル録音文字起こし4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lightning Notes at Free against シンプル録音文字起こし's $19.99. Lightning Notes also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). シンプル録音文字起こし's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Lightning Notes is free to download; シンプル録音文字起こし costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lightning Notes ships an update every 5 days, シンプル録音文字起こし fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Lightning Notes versus シンプル録音文字起こし: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightning Notesシンプル録音文字起こし
PriceFree — better$19.99
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChihiro OtsukiShigefumi Takahashi

In-app purchases

None

Lightning Notes

No in-app purchases

None

シンプル録音文字起こし

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lightning Notes free?
Lightning Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is シンプル録音文字起こし free?
シンプル録音文字起こし costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lightning Notes or シンプル録音文字起こし have ads?
Lightning Notes shows ads; シンプル録音文字起こし does not.
Which is updated more often, Lightning Notes or シンプル録音文字起こし?
Lightning Notes ships an update every 5 days, and シンプル録音文字起こし fortnightly. Most recently, Lightning Notes was updated on October 31, 2026 and シンプル録音文字起こし on October 25, 2026.

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