Comparison

Local AI Notes vs Scribe AI

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

Head to head
About

Local AI Notes

This note-taking app organizes your thoughts by topic and sets reminders. It offers features like goal setting, task planning, and a smart mode for local language processing. All data is stored and processed on your device for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • Automatic note clustering by topic
  • Integrated reminders and calendar events
  • Goal and habit tracking with sub-goals
  • Local AI language model for smart features
  • Brain dump for quick note capture
  • Face ID lock and encrypted backups
Features
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local ai notes is a note app for your iPhone that thinks along, entirely on device. Write, paste or speak. Notes on the same topic gather into clusters by themselves, "remind me tomorrow at 9 to call the dentist" becomes a reminder, and /ask answers questions from your own notes. NEW: GOALS Set up projects and habits with sub-goals and checklist steps. Notes and tasks that fit sort in automatically. You decide what counts as progress, like three workouts a week or five hours on your thesis. Plan a weekly focus and look back on what you got done. ALSO • Reminders, calendar events and /plan, which fits your open tasks into today's free time • Brain Dump: say everything at once, get separate notes and reminders • Optional Smart Mode with a local language model • Face ID lock, encrypted backups, Siri and Shortcuts • A refined design, in light and dark No account, no cloud, no tracking. Everything runs on your iPhone, and your notes never leave it.

About

Scribe AI

Features
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Scribe AI is your private AI scribe: it turns voice, photos and documents into professional transcripts and minutes, privacy-first because everything runs on your device. FILL A NOTE ANY WAY YOU LIKE • App and Siri in 10 languages (EN, IT, ES, FR, DE, PT, JA, ZH, RU, HI) - Note: Siri isn't available in Russian or Hindi. • Record from the mic with live transcription • Import audio or video • Scan documents with the camera (multi-page OCR) • Capture text from photos in your library • Import documents: PDF, Word, txt, md and more • Type or paste by hand FROM VOICE TO MINUTES • On-device transcription with WhisperKit • Minutes with Apple Intelligence: summary, decisions and actions • Automatic chapters and important moments • One-tap text correction ASK & AUTOMATE • Ask your notes: on-device AI chat that searches across your notes • Siri & Shortcuts: open, create and find notes by voice TRANSLATE & EXPORT • Translate minutes and transcript into several languages • Export to PDF or Markdown, enriched with photos and videos • Send action items to Reminders, get titles from Calendar • Siri & Shortcuts: open, create and find notes by voice OTHER FUNCTIONS • Ask your notes: the AI chat now searches across all your notes • Text capture: scan documents (OCR), import photos and documents (PDF, Word, txt, md) • Light/dark theme and app language selectable in-app PRIVACY • Transcription and minutes run entirely on your device • No data sent to external servers • Private sync via iCloud FREE & PREMIUM Free: recording, OCR scanning, minutes and transcript, a number of free notes. Premium (one-time): import audio/video, photos and documents, translation, rich formatting, attached photos/videos, minutes templates, correction, unlimited notes and watermark-free export.

Screenshots

Local AI Notes4 screens
Scribe AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Local AI Notes at none against Scribe AI's 1. Scribe AI's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Scribe AI sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Local AI Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Local AI Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, Scribe AI every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Local AI Notes versus Scribe AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocal AI NotesScribe AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.226.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB13 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFlorian WachterAndy Soft

In-app purchases

None

Local AI Notes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Scribe AI

One-time1
  • Scribe AI Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Local AI Notes free?
Local AI Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Scribe AI free?
Scribe AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Local AI Notes or Scribe AI have ads?
Neither Local AI Notes nor Scribe AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Local AI Notes or Scribe AI?
Local AI Notes ships an update every 3 weeks, and Scribe AI every 8 days. Most recently, Local AI Notes was updated on October 23, 2026 and Scribe AI on October 25, 2026.

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