CatchNote AI Notes Note Taker vs WeaveNote

Save it in a tap. The AI files it. And brings it back right when you would forget. Every notes app is a graveyard of saved things. CatchNote is the one that resurfaces them. A second brain that does not ask you to maintain it. More CatchNote is an AI note taker, notepad and bookmark manager for people who save more than they read. Made for savers who forget You bookmark articles. You forward yourself links. You screenshot recipes. Most of it disappears into the drawer. CatchNote is the app for what happens after you save. It is a second brain, note taker and notepad in one, for people who liked the idea of Obsidian but not the maintenance. Key features AI note taker. From any app, share a link, a tweet, an article or a screenshot to CatchNote. The AI reads it, summarizes it, and tags it. Save with a share. Recall with a word. Notepad and notebook in one. Type a quick note, save a link, capture an idea. Everything lands in the same searchable notebook. No plugin to install. No folder tree to maintain. Bookmark manager reimagined. Traditional bookmarks let you save. CatchNote lets you save and then find it again. Full-text search across every note. Tag folders by topic. Filter by source (X, LinkedIn, Safari, YouTube). Resurfacing (the point of the whole app). When something you saved becomes relevant, the AI brings it back on its own. A weekly digest surfaces three cards from what you saved this week. A forgotten cards feed pulls back items you have not opened in a while. Serendipity connections show up when a new save relates to an old one. Second brain, without the maintenance. No plugins. No folder trees to build by hand. No links to draw. The AI does the filing. Only what you chose to keep. CatchNote does not watch your screen. It does not read your messages. It only knows the things you decided were worth saving. Yours to take out. Markdown export with YAML frontmatter. Your knowledge is not locked in. Made for Solo learners drowning in playlists, saved reels and unread bookmarks. Students overwhelmed by course materials. Professionals who want the knowledge to stick, not just be captured. People who tried Obsidian and gave up on the upkeep. People who tried Apple Notes and lost track. How it works 1. From any app, share to CatchNote. The share sheet is the whole interface. 2. The AI reads what you shared. It summarizes. It picks a category. 3. When you would have forgotten it, CatchNote resurfaces the card. In the weekly digest, in the forgotten cards feed, or when a new save connects to an old one. Privacy Your saved items live in an on-device database on your phone. The AI classification runs through anonymous cloud calls that do not carry your account. Your knowledge is yours. Export to Markdown at any time. Pricing CatchNote is free with a hundred saves and gentle ads. CatchNote Pro at $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year removes ads and lifts the save limit. No lock in. Cancel anytime through the App Store.

WeaveNote turns meetings, lectures, interviews and voice messages into notes you can search and organize: it transcribes as you record, then AI turns the transcript into a summary. Transcription and AI run on services and API keys you choose — or fully offline. ■ Transcribed as you record ・Splits automatically at pauses or after a set time, and sends each part off right away ・Keeps recording with the screen off or in another app; standby mode keeps the screen from locking ・Parts where nobody speaks are caught on the phone and never sent, so they cost you nothing ■ More than the microphone ・Discord voice notes: invite the WeaveNote bot to a voice channel and get a transcript per speaker ・Import recordings and videos ・Share a voice message from LINE or another app, and a card shows its transcript right there ■ Your choice of transcription ・Groq (free, set up in the app in 3 minutes), OpenAI Whisper, Google Gemini ・On-device Whisper: fully offline, recordings never leave the device ・Custom accounts: any OpenAI-compatible service, such as Cloudflare Workers AI, OpenRouter or Ollama on your own computer ・Set the transcription language per note, plus a second language mixed in ■ AI on top ・AI proofreading adds punctuation and fixes mistakes, with the original kept alongside ・Summary templates for meeting minutes, study notes, to-do lists… several summaries per note ・Works with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Groq, Cloudflare (free setup) and more, with fallback models ・Export summaries as PDF or images, share or print them ■ Easy to find and organize ・Attendees and presenters; Discord speakers are filled in for you ・Custom vocabulary for names, brands and jargon, with new words suggested from your corrections ・Search and replace across segments ■ Sync to other apps ・LINE group meeting records: put notes on a group's page, where members read them after signing in with LINE ・Discord channels and custom URLs (webhooks) ■ Privacy ・Recordings and notes stay on your phone; transcription and AI requests go straight from your phone to the services you choose, with your API key ・Only Discord voice notes and LINE group meeting records go through our server: Discord audio is deleted within 24 hours, and LINE keeps only the text of notes you choose to sync, never audio ・API keys are encrypted by the system (iOS Keychain) ・No third-party analytics SDKs; Google AdMob banner ads, which never get your recordings or text ■ App languages 繁體中文, 简体中文, English, 日本語 Great for meeting minutes, lecture notes, interviews, study groups, voice journals and LINE voice messages. Made independently by easierlife. No account to sign up for, no subscription.