Comparison

Jin Mobile vs Fromly

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

Head to head
About

Jin Mobile

Features
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Talk, and Jin writes. Jin turns your voice into clean text on your iPhone, in any of 100+ languages. A voice keyboard, a voice library, and now a live translator, all in one app. A voice KEYBOARD that types into any other app on your phone. Mail, Messages, Slack, Notes, Safari, anywhere with a text field. A voice LIBRARY that catches your thinking and keeps it safe with photos, places, due dates, and links to your other thoughts. And TALK, your live translator. Two people, each speaking their own language, on one phone. On iPhone, now on Apple Watch too, and on iPad with the iPhone app. THE KEYBOARD • Tap the rainbow mic and speak. Jin types your words into the app you're already in. • 4x faster than typing. • 100+ languages. Jin picks the best speech model for each one, all running on your iPhone. • Magic Formatting writes times, dates, money, units, phone numbers, and math the right way. • Pick a tone before you speak: Verbatim, Formal, Casual, Texting, or Excited. One tap to switch. • Lasso any text in any app and translate it inline. • Filler Words: Jin trims the ums and uhs for you. Add your own in any language. • Vocabulary, Snippets, Replacements, and Dictation Shortcuts teach Jin your names, brands, and habits. • Say "Hey Jin" to start recording when your hands are full. • Hinglish, Tanglish, Banglish, and Singlish: speak the mixed way you talk, and Jin writes it in English letters, keeping words like lah and shiok. THE LIBRARY • Tap the big rainbow button on the Home tab and speak. Jin saves your thought and titles it for you. • Capture from your wrist. Tap the Jin complication on your Apple Watch, speak, and it lands on your iPhone. • Free Flow Mode for long-form thinking. Speak as long as you like, transcribed in the background, and Stop is instant. • Smart Suggest files each thought into the folder it best fits. One tap to keep its pick, or change it. • Karaoke playback. Every word lights up as you hear it. • Attach photos and files to any thought. Or share a web page from Safari, Mail, or Messages straight in. • Scan a document into a thought. Highlight, redact, or clean it up right in the app. • Pin a place to a thought. Jin pings you when you arrive or leave. • Set the Urgency on a thought and tag the People it is about, then filter your Library by either. • Share a thought as a link or a file, with its audio and attachments included. • Folders, sub-folders, tags, and pins keep your library tidy. • Summarize a batch of thoughts by folder, tag, or date. • Non-English thoughts get an English translation, automatic. TALK • Two people, two languages, one phone. Each person taps their side and speaks. • Jin shows the translation and reads it aloud, so the conversation keeps moving. • Apple's on-device translation handles English language pairs. Add a Google Gemini key for many more. • Save your language pairs as presets, ready the moment you open Talk. INTEGRATIONS • Notion. One tap to connect, no secret tokens to paste. Your titles, transcripts, photos, files, due dates, and tags all flow to a Notion page. • Apple Calendar. Set a due date on a thought, and Jin adds it to your calendar. • Apple Reminders. Set a reminder on a thought, and it rings on every Apple device you own. • Hundreds more apps through Webhooks: Make, Zapier, n8n, then Google Sheets, ClickUp, Asana, Obsidian, and the rest. EVERYTHING ELSE • Everything runs on your iPhone by default. Your voice stays with you. • Optional cloud features, like advanced translation and natural voices, use your own key and only when you turn them on. • App Lock keeps your library behind Face ID. • Audio Retention: choose how long Jin keeps each recording, from a day to a year, or forever. The transcript always stays. • Your library is backed up to iCloud, automatically. • Built for iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence on a supported iPhone. • One-time purchase. No subscription. • No account needed. • Works offline. Open Jin and start talking.

About

Fromly

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Fromly is your second brain with chat: write notes and tasks, and talk to an AI that actually knows them — because it can read and edit them for you. • Chat with memory: every note, task or document has its own AI conversation. It remembers the context and picks up right where you left off. • AI that really edits: ask it to add a paragraph, summarize a document, or pull tasks out of a note — and it does it directly, not just tells you about it. • Agenda & tasks: plan your day, week and month, with recurring tasks and reminders. • Contexts: group notes and tasks by project or area of your life, each with its own memory. • Agents: automate the processes you repeat. • Real-time sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac and web. Free to start. Pro unlocks unlimited AI. Your notes are yours: private and exportable any time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Jin Mobile4 screens
Fromly3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fromly at Free against Jin Mobile's $17.99. Fromly also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Jin Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and chart position (#194 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Fromly is free to download; Jin Mobile costs $17.99 up front. Fromly sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.00 per month. Jin Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jin Mobile ships an update fortnightly, Fromly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on August 28, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 3 level
Jin Mobile versus Fromly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJin MobileFromly
Price$17.99Free — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Best chart rank#194 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMurali BalaramanAlberto Lezaun

In-app purchases

None

Jin Mobile

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Fromly

Subscriptions2
  • Fromly Pro Monthly$6.001 Month
  • Fromly Pro Yearly$45.001 Year
One-time2
  • 5M AI tokens$4.00
  • Fromly Lifetime$129.00

Questions

Is Jin Mobile free?
Jin Mobile costs $17.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fromly free?
Fromly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Jin Mobile or Fromly have ads?
Neither Jin Mobile nor Fromly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jin Mobile or Fromly?
Jin Mobile ships an update fortnightly, and Fromly every 4 days. Most recently, Jin Mobile was updated on August 28, 2026 and Fromly on September 21, 2026.

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