Comparison

Dexter vs Captured!

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

Head to head
About

Dexter

Capture thoughts and tasks instantly from your Apple Watch with AI-powered organization and summarization. Seamlessly syncs across your Apple devices, offering smart nudges and a daily digest for clarity.

Highlights
  • Voice memos and dictated notes from Apple Watch
  • AI categorization and summarization
  • Automatic task and contact extraction
  • Built-in task management
  • Daily digest on Apple Watch
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Offline functionality on Watch
Features
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Your wrist just got smarter. Dexter Notes is the AI note-taking app that starts on your Apple Watch and follows you everywhere. No more pulling out your phone to jot something down — raise your wrist, speak, and move on. Your thought is captured, organized, and waiting for you. CAPTURE IN SECONDS • Raise. Speak. Done — voice memos and dictated notes from your Apple Watch. • Quick capture: one tap to save a note, task, or voice recording. • Live transcription as you talk, with paused-resume support. • Capture on Watch while your iPhone is out of range; WatchConnectivity queues delivery until a connection is available. AI THAT ACTUALLY HELPS • AI-categorizes notes into Work, Personal, Finance, Health, Ideas, and more. • Generates AI summaries so you get the gist in seconds. • Extracts tasks and contacts from your notes automatically. • Smart nudges remind you about stale tasks before they become problems. • AI Chat — ask your "second brain" questions in natural language and get answers across your notes. TASKS THAT KEEP UP WITH YOU • Built-in task management that lives alongside your notes — not in a separate app. • Swipe to complete or snooze, right from your Watch. • Priority levels with visual indicators and due-date alerts. • Tasks auto-linked to the notes they came from. DAILY DIGEST ON YOUR WRIST Every morning your Watch shows pending tasks, overdue items, recent notes, and a smart greeting. One glance to start your day with clarity. ORGANIZED YOUR WAY • Folders, tags, pins, categories, and a calendar view of everything you've captured. • Inbox triage — quickly review and organize new captures with one tap. • Search across notes, transcripts, and tags instantly. SYNCED EVERYWHERE • Dexter's backend stores notes and tasks and syncs supported clients. An anonymous device session starts automatically; sign in to use the same account elsewhere. • WatchConnectivity moves changes between Apple Watch and its paired iPhone; the iPhone relays them to the backend. • Create on Watch, edit on iPhone, pick up anywhere. BUILT FOR APPLE WATCH This isn't a phone app shrunk to fit a tiny screen. Every interaction is designed for your wrist — vertical page navigation, haptic feedback, glanceable layouts, and a UI that respects your time. DEXTER NOTES PRO Free to start, with unlimited notes, tasks, recordings, and 100 AI calls every 24 hours. Upgrade to Pro for: • Unlimited AI Chat and AI Creations • AI-enhanced transcripts (filler-word cleanup) • AI-powered inbox categorization and tag suggestions • 7-day free trial on Monthly ($4.99/mo) and Annual ($29.99/yr) plans • Lifetime tier ($79.99) with Family Sharing Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. You can cancel any time in App Store Settings, at least 24 hours before the renewal date. DATA & PROCESSING • Notes and tasks are stored on Dexter's backend to provide sync. See the Privacy Policy for handling details. • Speech recognition follows your Apple device settings. • AI features send selected text to our AI processing service only after you enable cloud AI processing. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://notes.heywrist.com/privacy

About

Captured!

This app acts as a universal clipboard, saving links, photos, videos, audio, files, and texts shared from other applications. It offers on-device processing for previews, AI descriptions, OCR, and transcription, with smart organization and full-text search capabilities.

Highlights
  • Universal content capture from any app
  • Automatic previews and AI enrichment
  • On-device OCR and transcription
  • Smart organization with folders and views
  • Full-text search and Spotlight integration
  • iCloud sync for selected folders
  • JSON backup and restore
Features
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Tired of losing links, photos, videos, audio, files or texts shared from your apps? Captured is your universal clipboard. Tap Share from any app and choose Captured — everything is instantly saved, previewed and enriched, on-device by default. UNIVERSAL CAPTURE Accepts URLs, photos, videos, audio, files and text from any app. Automatic source detection (Safari, YouTube, Instagram, X, Photos...). AUTO-GENERATED PREVIEWS Every item gets a thumbnail: web pages via live browser, photos/videos from first frame, files via QuickLook, audio as waveform, text as typographic render. Thumbnail gallery with on-demand regeneration. AI DESCRIPTION, OCR & TRANSCRIPTION AI image/video description: Apple Vision (free, on-device), OpenAI GPT-4 Vision or Anthropic Claude. Built-in OCR on photos and videos. Audio speech-to-text transcription — all on-device by default, no cloud required. SMART ORGANIZATION Folders with batch move/delete and drag-and-drop reorder. Smart Views: All, Recent (7 days), Unread, With Location, With AI. Configurable sort: manual, newest, oldest, title, source. Filter by type: URL, file, photo, video, audio, text. FULL-TEXT SEARCH & SPOTLIGHT Instant search across titles, URLs, notes, AI descriptions and transcriptions. All items indexed in system Spotlight — searchable from the home screen. RICH METADATA Auto-fetch of web page title and last-modified date (bold title signals updated content). Reverse geocoding of GPS coordinates in photos. WIDGET WidgetKit widget in small, medium and large sizes showing unread items in real time. BACKUP & RESTORE Full JSON export/import (items, folders, settings, thumbnails) with Replace or Merge mode. PRIVACY All your data stays on your device. No account, no server, no ads. Network calls only when you explicitly enable web fetching or AI description via your own API key. iCloud sync, folder by folder Choose exactly which folders you want to find on your other devices. A long press on a folder offers "Sync with iCloud": its photos, videos, files and links — including previews — automatically appear on your iPhone, iPad and Mac linked to the same Apple account. Folders that are not synced remain strictly local. A "Resync iCloud" option lets you reconcile state across devices in one gesture. Link previews: lock, zoom, crop You can now lock a link's preview so it never changes, or enlarge the preview by a factor of 2 to better see thumbnails from your favorite sites. A new setting automatically crops the white or black bands surrounding some previews. Organization: everything by drag-and-drop Reorganize your folders by dragging them in the sidebar. Move an item from one folder to another simply by dragging it onto the destination folder. No more drop-down menus. Paste a link from the clipboard A new menu entry lets you directly add the currently copied link, without going through another app's "Share" menu. Manage your space better The info panel now shows the space used in iCloud when sync is active. A long press on each line gives access to quick actions. The "Delete local data only" option frees up space while keeping your synced folders intact.

Screenshots

Dexter4 screens
Captured!3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Captured! at 5.0 against Dexter's 4.0. Captured! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Dexter's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Dexter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Captured! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Captured! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dexter ships an update every 3 days, Captured! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Dexter versus Captured!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDexterCaptured!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperRanju JhaAlexandre Fenyo

Customer experience

Dexter

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Captured!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Dexter

Subscriptions2
  • Dexter Notes Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Dexter Notes Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Dexter Notes Pro Lifetime$79.99
None

Captured!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dexter free?
Dexter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Captured! free?
Captured! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dexter or Captured!?
Captured! is rated higher. Dexter averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Captured! averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Dexter or Captured! have ads?
Neither Dexter nor Captured! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dexter or Captured!?
Dexter ships an update every 3 days, and Captured! fortnightly. Most recently, Dexter was updated on October 14, 2026 and Captured! on October 13, 2026.

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