BabelMe vs BLISS Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BabelMe
This app offers real-time voice translation and chat for multilingual conversations in various settings. It features modes for live chat, text translation, speech transcription with AI formatting, and group messaging. Designed for accessibility, it helps users communicate and feel included across language barriers.
- Live voice translation
- Face-to-face multilingual chat
- Text translation for signs and menus
- Speech transcription with AI formatting
- Group messaging across languages
- Broadcast mode for guided tours
- Party room for shared multilingual rooms
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Sit in a lecture given in a language you are still learning, and walk out with notes you can read in your own. BabelMe listens to the room, turns speech into clean structured notes, and translates them into your language — on your phone, and on a laptop screen while your phone keeps recording. TRANSCRIBE — Capture a lecture, class, or meeting as clean, structured notes, then play back the recorded audio to check what was actually said. Your transcription stays when you switch modes, until you clear it, and capture recovers on its own if a call or your keyboard's dictation key interrupts the microphone. Choose a document type and let AI formatting shape it (paid plans): - Lecture: organized notes from a class or talk. - Meeting: decisions, action items, and follow-ups. - Recipe: a spoken cooking walkthrough becomes a clean recipe card with ingredients and steps. - Medical Appointment: a structured DRAFT of visit notes for the clinician to verify, with a consent step before recording. Not a medical record and not medical advice. - General: clean notes from any dictation. CONNECT LAPTOP — Share one link and follow your live transcript in a browser on a bigger screen while your phone keeps recording. Your original recording and the raw transcript stay untouched as your record of what was said. LIVE CHAT — Talk face-to-face across languages. Speak or type; BabelMe translates and can speak replies aloud in the listener's language. TRANSLATE — Fast text translation for signs, menus, homework, and quick questions, with playback voices where supported. MESSAGES — Message friends across languages; each side reads and hears the conversation in their own language. BROADCAST — Guide a group in their preferred languages: tours, announcements, classrooms. PARTY ROOM — A shared live room where everyone can speak at once in their own voice, and each person follows along in their own language. Built for real multilingual life: study and lectures, travel moments, school events, tours, parties, classrooms, and clinics. Pick the mode that fits the moment. Accessibility is part of the design: BabelMe starts with text when needed and uses audio when it helps, with large high-contrast type and everything readable aloud. Optional voice features personalize playback, while Standard device voices keep a free local fallback available where the phone supports it. Your words stay yours. People join shared rooms by choice. BabelMe helps more people feel included in the moment. Plans: Lite, Plus, Voice Pro, and Heavy monthly plans add Premium Listen minutes, translations, AI notebook formatting, and Premium/My Voice audio. One-time add-on packs are available. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
BLISS Note
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One pencil across every note. Ink on text notes, annotate PDFs, and keep notes inside notes — an all-in-one notebook for iPad, iPhone and Mac, built for Apple Pencil. ■ One pencil, every note • The same pen, highlighter and tools on text notes, PDFs and drawings — ballpoint, fountain pen and more • Handwriting and annotation right over your typed notes — page breaks keep ink on its page as you edit • Free-form canvas and A4 landscape, Letter, Square and B5 pages, lasso select & move, vector shapes • Convert handwriting to text, and write note titles in your own hand • Write small text comfortably in a magnified zoom-write strip ■ Planner & tasks • Task management — keep your to-dos in one place • Planner notes — add your schedule to a handwritten diary, sync with your iCloud calendar, and link a note to every event • Recurring events & lunar anniversaries — repeat daily to yearly or by the lunar calendar, and edit or delete this one, the following, or all ■ Exam prep & memorization • Question bank & wrong-answer notes — split an exam PDF into individual questions to drill; the ones you miss collect automatically and return on a 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30-day review schedule • Vocabulary flashcards and a memorization sheet (red sheet) — hide highlights and tap to reveal • D-day countdown — the days left until an exam or deadline, on the Home screen and inside notes ■ Record, transcribe & translate • Record meetings & lectures and turn them into text — organize & summarize with your AI • Live translation — transcripts and notes translated on-device, so it works offline (59 languages) • Play a recording from the note header, and save a transcript with its translation as a new note • Recording-handwriting sync — tap ink you wrote while recording to play from that moment, in a floating mini-player ■ Search anything • Full-text search across text and PDFs — plus your handwriting and recordings (transcripts) • In-note search — find text right inside the open note ■ Notes inside notes • Embed PDFs, drawings and other notes inside a text note • Organize a list of notes within one note using Shelves • List, Thumbnail, Bookshelf, Tabs, Tiles and Pinned view modes • Page grid view — all pages of PDF & drawing notes as thumbnails • YouTube playlist embed — play a playlist inside a note and track your watch progress • Split view — two notes side by side, to copy across and compare ■ Papers & documents in PDF • Import PDFs and mark up with pen, highlighter, underline • Reading mode — Sepia, Dim and Night soften the glare of white pages, while ink and annotations keep their colors • Automatic paper citations — title, authors, year & journal detected, with APA, MLA, IEEE & BibTeX ready to copy; use the detected title as the note title • Export original or with annotations (text stays selectable) ■ Annotate the web • Open a web page in the app, highlight it, add notes, and write on top with your pen • The original page is never stored — only your own annotations, kept on your device ■ Make it your own • Add a cover page to the front of a note and draw or write on it • Use your own images as note covers, or as the paper (background) for drawing notes • Turn any image into a sticker or washi tape to decorate your notes • Place your own drawing behind the Home screen — position, size and opacity ■ A powerful editor • Headings, lists, tables, checklists, code blocks • Clean paste from anywhere — AI answers and web pages keep their Markdown & HTML formatting ■ Privacy first • No sign-up to start — your notes live on your device • No note servers of ours — optional cloud sync goes only through your own iCloud or Google Drive • Available in 24 languages Study notes, research, lecture notes, planning, quick sketches — all in Bliss Note. Terms of Service: https://blissnote.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://blissnote.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: BLISS Note at 4 against BabelMe's 2. BLISS Note also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. BabelMe sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and BLISS Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BabelMe ships an update every 4 days, BLISS Note every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.
| Parameter | BabelMe | BLISS Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BabelMe LLC | BLISS AI Inc. |
In-app purchases
BabelMe
- BabelMe Lite$4.991 Month
- BabelMe Plus$9.991 Month
- BabelMe Voice Pro$19.991 Month
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- BabelMe Heavy$29.991 Month
- 1 cloned voice setup$4.99
- 200 min Premium Listen$4.99
- 30 min Premium Voice$4.99
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- 30 min My Voice$6.99
BLISS Note
- Bliss Note Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Bliss Note Pro (Yearly)$3.991 Year









