SteelNote vs Outloud

SteelNote is a notes app built on one promise: your notes are plain Markdown files that you own. Every note is a real .md file on your device, openable in the Files app or in any editor you like, today and years from now. No proprietary database. Nothing locked away. Your notes, truly yours. Because every note is plain text, you are never trapped. Read and edit them in SteelNote, in Files, or in any other Markdown app. If you ever move on, you take your files with you as they are, in an open format that lasts. Native on all your Apple devices. SteelNote is built natively for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your notes sync across all of them through iCloud, with no third party account and no extra sign in. Start a note on your phone and finish it on your Mac. Find anything, instantly. A local full text index makes search immediate, even in large libraries. Link notes together, see backlinks, organize with folders and tags, and turn any line into a task. Private when you want it. Mark a note as private and it stays out of widgets and AI features. Your most sensitive notes remain yours alone. Bring everything with you. Import from Bear, Notion, Obsidian and Evernote, or from Markdown, TextBundle, Word, RTF, PDF and CSV files. Your folders and structure come along. Apple Notes works too, one note at a time, because Apple offers no bulk export. Everything you expect. Add images, PDFs and tables inline. Use checklists, footnotes and links. Reach your notes from Spotlight, Siri and widgets, and hand off between devices. An open format, now standard. Markdown is a first class type across Apple platforms, and SteelNote is built natively around it. Your files are open, portable and yours. Membership. SteelNote comes with a 14 day free trial, then a yearly plan or a one time lifetime purchase. You can cancel during the trial and pay nothing, or skip the subscription and choose the lifetime purchase instead. Sync is always included and never restricted. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. A yearly plan renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel anytime in your Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://steelnoteapp.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Your best thinking happens out loud. Outloud catches it. Talk for two minutes — rambling, messy, half in another language — and keep a clean, titled, searchable page. No typing, no tidying, no blank-page dread. HOW IT WORKS • Tap once and talk. No account, no setup. • Private AI turns the recording into a titled note: the gist in your own words, plus every to-do you said out loud as a checkable task list. • The original is never hidden — raw transcript and audio stay one tap away. • Forgot something? Tap "Add to this" and keep talking — the note rewrites itself. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGES Outloud understands 100+ languages — even sentences that switch mid-breath. The note comes back in the language you actually spoke. MARK THE LINE THAT MATTERS Say "mark that" (or tap the star) while you talk and the line lands at the top of the note, quoted and starred. Tap it to hear the moment again, or share just that line as a card — never the rest of your note. TASKS YOU SAID OUT LOUD "…and I have to call Marko about the roof" becomes a task you can check off, swipe to edit, or send to Reminders. Say your day; get your to-do list for free. A HABIT THAT STICKS A new question every evening, a streak that counts the days you talked, and a quiet look at your week — no guilt, no nagging. ASK YOUR NOTES "When did I first mention the studio idea?" Ask out loud or type it — answers come from your own notes, with sources cited. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Notes are transcribed and structured by private AI over an encrypted connection — never stored on our servers, never used to train models. • Offline? Recording still works, and the note is finished the moment you're back online. • Prefer fully on-device? One switch turns Cloud AI off. • No account, ever. Export everything, any time. • Optional iCloud sync — through your own private iCloud, invisible to us. FREE MEANS FREE Recording and transcription are free forever — no minute caps, no counters. Premium adds unlimited AI structuring, Ask, the Sunday letter, Threads, custom modes, and task export. Made for people who think faster than they type. Say it. Keep it. Privacy Policy: https://www.theoutloud.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/