Dexter vs PiggyNotebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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Capture a thought the moment you have it. Raise your wrist, record a voice note on Apple Watch, and find it waiting on your iPhone. On iPhone, your words appear as you speak with a live transcript, and Dexter turns what you said into a to-do list. CAPTURE FROM YOUR WRIST • Record voice notes on Apple Watch. They arrive on your iPhone with the audio, ready to play. • Dictate or scribble a quick note or task on the Watch in a couple of taps. • No phone in reach? Watch captures wait and sync when your iPhone is back in range. RECORD WITH A LIVE TRANSCRIPT • Record on iPhone and read the transcript as you talk. Pause, resume, and fix any word before you save. • Every recording stays with its note, so you can replay what was said. • Speech recognition follows your Apple device settings. TURN TALK INTO ACTION • AI Creations turn a note into a to-do list, a summary, meeting notes or an email draft. • Add the to-dos to your task list in one tap. Each task links back to the note it came from. • Tasks with priorities, due dates and reminders. Complete or snooze them from your wrist. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE • The Watch shows your top tasks, anything overdue and your latest notes. • A Daily Digest notification each morning. EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE • Folders, tags, pins, categories and a calendar of what you captured. • An Inbox for new captures, sorted into categories in one tap. • Search across your notes and transcripts. Ask AI Chat about anything you saved. • Notes sync between your iPhone and Apple Watch. No sign-up to start; add an email to use your notes on another device. DEXTER NOTES PRO Free: unlimited notes, tasks, recordings and transcripts, the Apple Watch app, and 100 AI actions every 24 hours. Pro: unlimited AI Chat and AI Creations, AI transcript clean-up, and AI inbox organizing with tag suggestions. Monthly and Annual subscriptions start with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Lifetime is a one-time purchase that includes Family Sharing. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. PRIVACY • Cloud AI is off until you turn it on, and only the text you choose to process is sent. • Notes and tasks are stored on Dexter's servers so they can sync. See the Privacy Policy for details. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://notes.heywrist.com/privacy
PiggyNotebook
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100% Free! PiggyNotebook is an AI-powered note-taking app that helps you capture scattered thoughts and gradually turn them into structured knowledge. Ideas often come to us when we don't have time to organize them. With PiggyNotebook, you can quickly capture your thoughts using text or voice. AI understands your notes and automatically organizes them into relevant topics. As you add more notes, AI uses the previous content within each topic to organize and summarize your thoughts, gradually turning scattered ideas into more complete and useful knowledge. Key Features • Quickly capture thoughts with text or voice • Automatically organize notes into relevant topics with AI • Build up ideas under the same topic over time • AI-powered summaries based on your previous notes • Great for learning, work, ideas, and everyday thinking You don't need to decide how to organize everything in advance. Just capture your thoughts and let AI handle the rest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PiggyNotebook at none against Dexter's 3. PiggyNotebook also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Dexter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. PiggyNotebook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dexter | PiggyNotebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ranju Jha | Yuan Wan |
In-app purchases
Dexter
- Dexter Notes Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Dexter Notes Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Dexter Notes Pro Lifetime$79.99
PiggyNotebook
No in-app purchases









