Jin Mobile vs Moraine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Jin Mobile
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Talk, and Jin Mobile writes. Jin Mobile turns your voice into clean text as you speak, in any of 100+ languages, on iPhone, iPhone Duo, iPad, and Apple Watch. WHY JIN MOBILE ⢠Accuracy. 99%+, tracked for every speech model in Stats. ⢠Live transcription. Your words appear as you say them. ⢠100+ languages, each on the speech model that suits it best. ⢠Vocabulary. 4,000+ words built in, including 1,800+ professional and medical terms. ⢠Private. Speech runs on your device, and one switch keeps everything local. ⢠Every device. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch sync in seconds. Open an iPhone Duo and two pages sit side by side. ⢠Help is one tap away: a Guide, page tours, a Glossary, and Siri. DICTATION ⢠The keyboard types into any app: Mail, Messages, Slack, Notes, Safari. ⢠Edit as you speak. Say "scratch that" to drop a sentence. ⢠Magic Formatting writes times, dates, money, phone numbers, and math the right way. ⢠Tones: Verbatim, Formal, Casual, Texting, Excited, Email, and Document. Write Like Me sounds like you. ⢠Swipe typing, AutoCorrect, and suggestions that learn your words. ⢠Bolt. Copy text, say what to do with it, and paste the result. ⢠Dictation History keeps every take, audio included. ⢠Filler Words, Snippets, and Replacements. Say "Hey Jin" when your hands are full. ⢠Hinglish, Tanglish, Banglish, and Singlish, written in English letters. THOUGHTS AND LIBRARY ⢠Tap the rainbow button and speak. Your thought is saved and titled. ⢠Capture from Apple Watch, upload audio, or use Free Flow Mode for long-form thinking. ⢠Smart Suggest files each thought into Projects, Folders, and Sub Folders. ⢠Ask your Library out loud. Explore asks questions that take a thought further. ⢠Add photos, files, scans, places, reminders, Urgency, and People to any thought. ⢠Karaoke playback from 0.5x to 2x. Every word lights up as you hear it. ⢠Clippy keeps what you copy. ⢠Pending, Archive, Journal, Merge, Find & Replace, and summaries by folder, tag, or date. MEETINGS ⢠Record or upload a meeting, with speaker labels. You confirm everyone's consent before it records. ⢠Only your own voice is learned. Others are told apart in each meeting and not kept. ⢠Templates. Thirty summary layouts, or your own. Mark key moments live. ⢠Plaud. Your recordings arrive on their own. ⢠Auto recovery. An interrupted recording is saved and rebuilt from its audio. CALENDAR ⢠Speak to your calendar. Start a thought with "calendar" or "reminder" and Act makes it. ⢠Event Tasks. Speak tasks and sub-tasks onto any event, tick them off, move the rest. ⢠Deadlines, To-Dos, and projects that run over several days with one checklist. ⢠Your week hour by hour. On iPad held sideways, your day sits beside the month. ⢠Availability shows when you're free, with another city's clock. TRANSLATE ⢠Speak one language and read another. Lasso any text in any app to translate it. ⢠Talk. Two people, two languages, one phone, read aloud as you go. ⢠Apple translates English pairs on device. A Gemini key adds many more. STATS AND STREAKS ⢠Stats and streaks pool across all your devices. ⢠Speech Coach scores Pace, Fillers, Hesitation, Variation, and Clarity. ⢠Earn a daily badge, answer Quiz of the Day, and fill a six-month Consistency grid. INTEGRATIONS ⢠Notion, Apple Calendar, and Apple Reminders. ⢠Webhooks to Make, Zapier, n8n, and hundreds more apps. EVERYTHING ELSE ⢠Local: one switch, and nothing you capture leaves your phone. ⢠Cloud features use your own key, only when you turn them on. ⢠App Lock keeps your library, or any tab in it, behind Face ID. ⢠Audio Retention from a day to forever. Discarded recordings wait in Recovered Audio. ⢠Backed up to iCloud. Home Screen widgets, including a Calendar. ⢠One-time purchase. No subscription. No account needed. Works offline. Open Jin Mobile and start talking.
Moraine
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Moraine is where everything you notice goes. A thought at a traffic light. A link you'll want in a year. A voice memo on a walk. A journal entry at the end of the day. Moraine takes all of it through whichever door is nearest, and then does the filing for you. Each thing that lands gets a title, a short summary and a handful of tags, written on your device. You never have to name anything, file anything, or decide where it belongs. You just put it in. MORE DOORS THAN A NOTEBOOK NEEDS ⢠The app ā a note, journal entry, link or voice memo, with photos and video attached ⢠The share sheet ā from anywhere on iPhone or iPad ⢠Safari on Mac ā clips the readable article, not the page furniture ⢠Siri and the Action Button ā "Add a note to Moraine saying pick up oat milk" ⢠Widgets and Control Centre ā one tap to a blank note or a recording ⢠The Mac menu bar, a global hotkey, and drag and drop FIND IT BY WHAT YOU MEANT Search matches words and meaning together. Ask your library a question ā "what did I write about the move?" ā and Moraine gathers the entries that answer it and writes the answer from them, naming every one it used so you can check it. It is built for subjects rather than single moments, and says so plainly when it can't help rather than guessing: it doesn't count or compare, and can't see inside a photograph. Every entry also shows the ones nearest it in meaning, and old writing resurfaces on its own ā an anniversary, or something close to what you've been writing lately. WAYS BACK IN A calendar that runs both directions: what you captured on a day, beside what was in your diary. A map of where you were. A tag cloud. A photo wall. Stats. Separate journals for work, travel, or whatever you keep apart. BRING YOUR OLD JOURNAL WITH YOU Moraine imports a Day One export ā entries, dates, tags, places, weather, favourites, photos and video ā and Apple's Journal export too. Nothing is silently dropped. An export doesn't always contain every file it lists, so Moraine writes a note into your library naming each one and the entry it belonged to. Export again and it fills the gaps. Import is free and untimed. ON YOUR DEVICE, NOT OURS There is no Moraine account and no Moraine server. Titles, summaries, tags, the search index and voice transcription are all produced on your device. Your library lives on your devices and syncs through your own private iCloud database, which nobody else ā including the developer ā can read. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs. The handful of things that touch a server are off until you switch them on, and the privacy policy names every one of them. YOURS TO TAKE, ALWAYS Export writes plain JSON with your photos and recordings beside it as ordinary files, and a page that shows the whole library in any browser with Moraine deleted. The format is documented at hoardplovers.github.io/moraine-site/format.html, so someone else could read it back. Snapshot to Files keeps a copy on the device with one tap. Save as PDF sets a year, a journal or the lot as a book ā cover, contents, a chapter a month, photographs beside the writing ā at A5, 6 Ć 9 in or A4. Export always works ā during the trial, after it, bought or not. FREE FOR 14 DAYS Everything works for two weeks. After that, capture, browsing, keyword search, import and export keep working for good. The on-device intelligence ā generated titles, summaries and tags, search by meaning, asking your library, related entries and resurfacing ā is what unlocks with a single one-time purchase. No subscription and no account. One purchase covers your iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Family Sharing is on. Requires iOS 26 or macOS 26. Generated titles, summaries and tags are at their best on devices that support Apple Intelligence; without it, Moraine still titles and tags every entry using a simpler on-device method.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Moraine at Free against Jin Mobile's $24.99. Jin Mobile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.4 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads and device support 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
Moraine is free to download; Jin Mobile costs $24.99 up front. Moraine sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jin Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Jin Mobile ships an update fortnightly, Moraine every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jin Mobile | Moraine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24.99 | Free ā better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No ā better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 ā better | 26.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Murali Balaraman | Muhammad Rashid |
In-app purchases
Jin Mobile
No in-app purchases
Moraine
- Moraine Unlock$19.99









