Xumo Remote vs Almanack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xumo Remote
Control your compatible Xumo TV using your smartphone. Manage power, volume, playback, and navigation. Search for content, access settings, and personalize your viewing experience with dedicated controls.
- Power on/off
- Volume control
- Playback controls
- Navigation pad
- Number pad
- Keyboard for search
- Quick Access menu
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Note: This app works with Xumo Stream Box and select Xumo TVs. Some Xumo TVs use the Xumo TV app for remote control from a mobile device. To learn which app your Xumo TV is compatible with, visit support.xumo.com/hc/en-us/articles/22609794389012-Control-your-TV-with-the-Xumo-TV-app. Download the Xumo TV app here: apps.apple.com/us/app/xumo-tv/id1575377158. Meet the app that makes it even easier to control your Xumo TV and Xumo Stream Box — by letting you use your phone as your remote. No need to tear your house apart searching for lost remotes, run around looking for batteries or even put down your phone. Control your Xumo devices with the Xumo Remote app. There’s so much you can do with the Xumo Remote app. Access all your essential controls for streaming: Power your Xumo device on and off. Play or pause whatever you’re watching. Explore your Xumo device with the navigation pad. Select items with the OK button. Return to the previous screen with the Back button. Return to the home screen anytime with the Home button. Jump to specific channels or type in PINs with the number pad. Control the volume level (for Xumo TVs only). Find, categorize and personalize content faster with dedicated controls: Open a keyboard on your Xumo device to search for your next watch. Open the Quick Access menu to access quick settings and search. Open the Settings menu. Add content to My List with the Add button. The Xumo Remote app is made accessible, with you in mind: Screen reader supported Bold text High contrast Dynamic text sizing Light and dark mode responsive How to set up the Xumo Remote app: Download and open the app. Make sure your phone or tablet is connected to the same WiFi network as your Xumo device. Select your Xumo device from the list of available devices. The app will connect automatically. Start exploring with your Xumo Remote app.
Almanack
Capture fleeting thoughts and conversations with ten-second voice notes that are automatically transcribed, titled, and organized. Ask questions later to retrieve information from your own spoken words, and even integrate with other AI assistants.
- Ten-second voice note capture
- Automatic transcription and titling
- AI-powered question answering
- Meeting recording and summarization
- Multilingual support (99 languages)
- Note conversion to emails, tweets, etc.
- Integration with ChatGPT and Claude
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You have a hundred thoughts a day. You lose the best ones. Almanack catches each one in a ten-second voice note, then hands it back in your own words the moment you ask. HOW IT WORKS Talk. Almanack cleans up the ramble and files it for you. Ask. Weeks later, ask a question and get the answer, pulled only from what you actually said. That is the whole app. No folders to build, no notes to re-read, no system to maintain. ASK YOUR OWN MEMORY "What did I decide about pricing in March?" "What was that idea I had on the walk?" Ask, and Almanack answers in your own words, sourced only from your own notes. If you never said it, it says so instead of making something up. TALK, IT FILES ITSELF Hit record and think out loud. Almanack transcribes it, titles it, and organizes it in the background. You never sort anything into a folder. A messy ten-second ramble becomes a clean note you can actually find. Capture from your Lock Screen, a home-screen widget, or just by asking Siri, without opening the app. RECORD MEETINGS AND CALLS Hit record and set your phone down. Almanack captures the whole room, never loses it, and gives you a clean transcript, a summary, and the next steps. Ask the meeting anything later. No bot joins your call. SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE Talk in English, Spanish, Japanese, Hindi, any of 99 languages. Almanack writes it back in the language you spoke, not a forced translation. Mix two languages in one meeting and it keeps both. Need a note in another language? Turn it into dozens more. TURN A NOTE INTO ANYTHING A rambled note becomes a clean email, a tweet, a meeting brief, study notes, or a summary in seconds. Teach Almanack your writing style once and the drafts sound like you, not a robot. USE YOUR MEMORY FROM ANY AI Connect Almanack to the AI you already use, like ChatGPT and Claude, and ask your own notes from inside it. Your memory stops living in one app. Every assistant you use can draw on it, scoped to only what you said. YOUR COMMITMENTS COME BACK ON THEIR OWN Say "I need to send Dixon the deck Friday" and Almanack pulls it out, dates it, and reminds you Friday. The things you said you would do come back to you, instead of dying in a list you never reopen. BUILT TO BE TRUSTED Your capture is never lost. Almanack saves the second you speak, so a dead battery or a closed app never costs you the thought. Answers come from your own words, never invented. Your data is encrypted, yours to export or delete anytime, and never sold or used to train anything. WHO IT IS FOR People who think faster than they can write it down. Founders and makers juggling forty open loops, writers who work ideas out loud, anyone who has lost a good thought on a walk and wished they could get it back. WHY IT IS PAID Almanack works for you, not for advertisers. You can start free to see how it works. Every capture runs real AI, so unlimited capture and recall is a paid subscription, never a free tier funded by ads or your data. One subscription, and your memory stays yours. 95.99 dollars a year, about eight dollars a month. Talk it out. Ask it back. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Almanack is free to start, with limits on how much you can capture and ask. Almanack Premium unlocks unlimited capture, recall, meetings, and everything in the app. Reading and exporting your own notes is always free. Plans (US pricing, may vary by region): Yearly: 95.99 dollars per year, the best value at about 8 dollars per month Monthly: 14.99 dollars per month Weekly: 7.99 dollars per week Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Have feedback or ideas? Email support@echoforge.to, we'd love to hear from you. Terms of Use: https://usealmanack.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://usealmanack.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Almanack at 5.0 against Xumo Remote's 4.2. Xumo Remote's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). On price and review sentiment 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. Almanack sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Xumo Remote asks for nothing beyond the download.
Almanack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Xumo Remote has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Xumo Remote | Almanack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | XUMO Services LLC | Fabio Jonathan Arifin |
Customer experience
Xumo Remote
Almanack
In-app purchases
Xumo Remote
No in-app purchases
Almanack
- Almanack Weekly$7.997 Days
- Almanack Monthly$18.991 Month
- Almanack Yearly$95.991 Year
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