Mintofu vs Dictation Notes

One app for every idea — from a quick note to a marked-up PDF to a sprawling mind map. Mintofu brings your notes, tasks, PDFs, mind maps, and calendar together in one beautifully designed app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Capture a thought, mark up a PDF, manage your to-dos, plan your day, map out a project, and stay focused with a built-in timer — all in one calm, private place, with no clutter and no account required. Start free today and bring your whole world into one app. WHY MINTOFU Your thinking doesn't stay in neat boxes — but most apps do. You end up juggling a notes app, a to-do app, a PDF reader, a mind-mapping tool, and a calendar, copying between them and losing context at every hop. Mintofu was built the other way around. Everything lives in one place, and every piece of content can become any other. Your tools finally move at the speed of your thinking. PRIVATE AI, BUILT IN Apple Intelligence works right inside your notes, tasks, mind maps, and calendar — draft and brainstorm, proofread, rewrite, and summarize, or translate in a tap — and it powers the conversions between them. Everything runs on your device, so your ideas never leave your hardware. FREE FEATURES - Notebooks to organize your notes, ideas and plans by project or topic - Rich-text notes with live Markdown, custom fonts, highlights, drawing, and attachments - One-tap translation for any note or selection - Audio Notes — record voice memos, keep typing while you record, and transcribe them to text - PDF Documents — read and mark up PDFs in any notebook: highlight, write with Apple Pencil, or fill in forms; scans become searchable - Full calendar — month, week, day, and timeline views, plus a productivity heatmap - Public holidays for your region, shown across every calendar view - Live sync with your device calendars; export events as .ics - Tasks with priorities, due dates, subtasks, tags, time tracking, and reminders - Natural-language dates like "next Friday at 3pm" - Smart Lists, Eisenhower Matrix, Focus Queue, and burndown charts to stay on track - Built-in Focus timer and achievement badges - Mind maps on an infinite canvas — import Markdown, convert to notes or tasks in a tap - Kanban boards and dashboards (Overview, Kanban, and Post Board) - Widgets for Quick Capture, Notes, Mind Maps, Calendar, Tasks, and Dashboards - Version History — Mintofu keeps earlier versions of your notes, mind maps, tasks, and events, private on your device - Private, on-device AI throughout, via Apple Intelligence - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — fully offline-first - Export to PDF, Markdown, and PNG, or share anywhere - Available in 40 languages, with right-to-left support, VoiceOver, and keyboard shortcuts MINTOFU+ Everything above is free. Upgrade only if you want more: - Unlimited notebooks, mind maps, and audio notes - Unlimited AI generations and translations - Public holidays for multiple regions - Compare and restore any earlier version - Unlimited PDF documents - Monthly, annual, or one-time lifetime PERFECT FOR - Students capturing lectures and planning study sessions - Professionals juggling projects, meetings, and deadlines - Writers and researchers organizing notes, ideas, and drafts - Visual thinkers who brainstorm and plan with mind maps - Anyone building a daily-planning and focus routine that sticks - Privacy-conscious people who want no account and no tracking - Apple users who want one beautiful app across iPhone, iPad, and Mac Bring every idea, task, and plan into one place. Privacy Policy: https://www.mintofu.ai/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.mintofu.ai/terms

Dictation Notes turns meetings, interviews, and sales calls you are actually in into live text — and suggests a short line you can say next. Use it for conversations you take part in, and only with any consent the law requires. This is a personal meeting notebook and reply coach, not a tool for recording others in secret. You bring your own speech-to-text and AI API keys. Keys, history, and recordings stay on your iPhone or Mac. The app has no hosted AI credits, no developer backend, and no built-in keys. On-device dictation works without an API key and stays free. Cloud transcription, optional live translation, and AI replies can be tried 20 times, then a one-time lifetime unlock. This is not a subscription. What you can do • See the conversation as text while you stay in the room • Ask for a reply, a summary, a critique, an explanation, or a quick prediction • Set a goal, background notes, and speaking style for this session • Keep history and local recordings on the device • Use 13 interface languages on iPhone and Mac • Connect common AI and speech providers, or your own compatible chat completions API Please record, transcribe, or summarize only where it is legal and you have any required consent. Audio and text may be sent to the providers you configure.