Comparison

Mintofu vs Dictation Notes

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

Head to head
About

Mintofu

Features
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One app for every idea β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” draft and brainstorm, proofread, rewrite, and summarize, or translate in a tap β€” 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 β€” record voice memos, keep typing while you record, and transcribe them to text - PDF Documents β€” read and mark up PDFs in any notebook: highlight, write with Apple Pencil, or fill in forms; scans become searchable - Full calendar β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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

About

Dictation Notes

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Turn meetings, lectures, interviews and spoken ideas into notes you can revisit. Dictation Notes brings together iPhone audio recording, live speech-to-text and optional AI meeting summaries. β€’ Record on iPhone, pause and resume, then transcribe with Apple speech recognition. β€’ Record with Apple Watch Pro, mark key moments and transfer to your paired iPhone for review. β€’ Read a compact transcript preview or open the full text; edit saved text and titles. β€’ With Pro, search titles and transcripts, and jump to marked moments or transcript timestamps. β€’ Use your chosen AI service for full-recording summaries, takeaways and action items; open cited source text to check the result. β€’ Pro exports transcripts, summaries, recordings and backups. Restoring an existing backup is free. Basic features are free. Claim one optional 7-day Pro trial with no automatic charge when it ends. Try all available Pro features. After the trial, search, precise playback, new AI actions, sharing and backups require purchase. Basic recording, viewing and editing saved content, normal playback and backup restoration remain free. This is a one-time purchase, not an auto-renewing subscription. AI and cloud transcription require your own API. Provider fees are separate; the app supplies no keys or credits. The trial lasts 7 consecutive days from a successful claim. Reinstalling or restoring does not restart it. Already purchased? Restore with the same Apple Account; no second purchase is needed. Apple speech recognition prefers on-device processing; unavailable languages or offline models may use Apple’s speech service. Notes and recordings are stored on your device; inclusion in system backups depends on your device settings. API credentials are stored in Keychain. Optional cloud and AI requests send the required audio or text to your chosen provider after recipient disclosure and consent. Obtain required consent before recording and check AI results. Watch recording requires Pro activation on the paired iPhone; no fixed battery life is promised. Supports iPhone, iPad and 13 interface languages.

Screenshots

Mintofu4 screens
Dictation Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mintofu at weekly against Dictation Notes's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

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

Both are free to download. Mintofu sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Dictation Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mintofu ships an update weekly, Dictation Notes every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Mintofu versus Dictation Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMintofuDictation Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly β€” betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS18.017.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size167 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMintofu AI Inc.Shanghai Qishan Cultural Communication Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Mintofu

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$49.99
2 purchases

Dictation Notes

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • Lifetime Unlock$9.99

Questions

Is Mintofu free?
Mintofu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dictation Notes free?
Dictation Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mintofu or Dictation Notes have ads?
Neither Mintofu nor Dictation Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mintofu or Dictation Notes?
Mintofu ships an update weekly, and Dictation Notes every 2 months. Most recently, Mintofu was updated on October 31, 2026 and Dictation Notes on November 10, 2026.

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