Jot Transcribe vs PDF nano
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jot Transcribe
Dictate text in any application on your iPhone without needing an account or cloud sync. This app offers on-device transcription and AI-powered features to refine your spoken words into polished text, and allows you to search your past dictations with natural language questions.
- System-wide custom keyboard
- On-device transcription
- AI-powered text refinement
- Natural language search of transcripts
- Customizable rewrite prompts
- Five-minute warm microphone
- Vocabulary list
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A dictation keyboard for iPhone. Switch to Jot from any app — Messages, Mail, Slack — tap Dictate, and your voice goes into the text field you're in. No account. No cloud. Nothing leaves your iPhone. Speak Instead of Typing, in Any App You're in Messages, Mail, Slack, your browser — anywhere you'd normally type. Tap the globe key on your iPhone keyboard to switch to Jot, tap Dictate, and speak. Your voice goes straight into the text field you're already in. Keep Going When Life Interrupts Your phone rings mid-sentence. Someone hands you something. You jump into Calendar to check a date. Come back, and Jot's microphone is still warm — up to five minutes, ready to pick up where you left off. What you'd already said is saved as you said it. Even if everything drops, the part you'd already dictated is safe and waiting in the text field. Polish What You Said Into What You Meant You dictated something long and meandering. Open it in Jot and tap a built-in prompt: • Articulate — cleans up the prose • Action Items — pulls out the tasks • Email — formats it for sending Or write your own prompt — with your voice. "Turn this into bullet points." "Translate to French." "Make it sound more formal." Save it once, run it on any transcript with a tap. Ask Across Everything You’ve Said Every dictation becomes searchable by meaning, not just keywords. Ask Jot a real question — "What did I decide about the launch?" — and get a clear, written answer drawn from your own transcripts, with the exact notes it used cited as tappable sources. Ask in plain language, even by date — "what did I say last Tuesday?" Or just describe the note you're after — "the standup about channel config" — and Jot finds it for you. Answered on device with Apple Intelligence; your notes never leave your phone. What’s Inside • System-wide custom keyboard — works in any text field on iPhone • Ask Jot — natural-language questions and search across your transcripts, answered on device with Apple Intelligence • Recents strip — last 10 dictations one tap away to re-insert • Five-minute warm microphone across app switches and calls • On-device transcription using Apple's speech models, plus optional Parakeet 600M • On-device AI rewrite (optional 2.5 GB download) • Custom rewrite prompts you write once and reuse • Vocabulary list for names and technical terms • Light and dark mode — Jot follows your iPhone's appearance automatically • Action Button support and a "Transcribe Audio with Jot" Shortcuts action Your Data Transcription runs on device. Audio never leaves your iPhone. AI rewrites and Ask Jot run on device too. No account. No sign-in. No cloud sync. No analytics. No third-party SDKs. Transcripts live in the app, on your phone, until you delete them. Requirements iOS 26 or later. iPhone with A14 chip or newer. Optional AI rewrite: iPhone 15 Pro and later, 2.5 GB download. Ask Jot answers use Apple Intelligence (Apple Intelligence–capable iPhone required). English at launch. More languages to follow. Free to download. No subscription. No ads. No upsell.
PDF nano
Edit, translate, and manage PDF documents with a focus on on-device privacy. This app offers tools for scanning, converting, annotating, and organizing your files locally.
- Read, organize, and manage PDFs
- Offline PDF translation with layout preservation
- Scan documents and create PDFs
- Convert PDFs to Word, Excel, or images
- OCR for Arabic and English text
- Add signatures and annotations
- Remove hidden metadata for privacy
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PDF nano is a comprehensive, professional PDF reader, editor, translator, and manager engineered for speed and privacy. Combining powerful on-device tools with Apple Intelligence, PDF nano delivers a unified workflow tailored for iPhone, foldable iPhone Duo, and iPad—handling your contracts, reports, and paperwork with top-tier security. Key Features: 1. Foldable iPhone Duo & iPad Experience: • Seven Postures Adaptation: Automatic layout across foldable and dual-display devices. • Dual-Screen Book Mode: Side-by-side reading with automatic hinge isolation to prevent content clipping. • Tabletop Mode: Bottom screen transforms into a control deck for drawing, signing, and scrubbing without covering the document. • Dynamic iPad Sidebar: Instant browsing of thumbnails, outlines, and bookmarks beside your canvas. • High-Contrast Navigation Pill: Prominent back button for effortless touch accessibility and zero status-bar overlap. 2. AI Document Assistant (Beta): • Instant executive summaries of lengthy reports, extracting decisions and action items. • Precision risk analysis and contractual obligation detection. • Verifiable Q&A with answers grounded in direct textual citations from your document. • Encrypted Cloud Privacy: Powered by Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (PCC) to process documents securely without logging or storing data. *Note: AI features require Apple Intelligence-compatible devices. 3. Offline Document Translation (Beta): • Full-document PDF translation entirely offline while preserving layouts, fonts, and tables. • Batch approval to accelerate processing for files up to 100 pages. • Granular paragraph review with selective editing for each translated block. *Note: Translation operates fully on-device. Machine translations may contain errors. 4. Advanced Reading & Viewing: • Dual-Page Continuous View: True book-like reading with native RTL Arabic and LTR layout. • Distraction-Free Guard: Locks editing overlays during reading mode to prevent accidental markups. • Fast-Scrub Vertical Scroll: High-velocity thumb scrubber for jumping through hundreds of pages. • Full Interface Adaptation: Precision safe-area integration around the Dynamic Island and status bar. • Smart Double-Tap Zoom: Rapid focus scaling with an intuitive floating navigation capsule. • OCR Visual Search: Direct in-document search across scanned PDFs with fuzzy and multi-word query support. 5. Conversion & Smart Scanning: • High-Fidelity PDF to Word (.docx) conversion preserving tables and formatting. • Accurate Table Extraction to Excel (.xlsx) with automatic data type inference. • Camera Document Scanner to digitize receipts and paperwork into clean PDFs. • High-quality PDF-to-Image and multi-image-to-PDF conversion pipelines. 6. Editing, Signing & Organization: • Digital signatures: Create, position, and cryptographically sign contracts and forms. • Complete markup suite: Freehand drawing, highlighters, custom text boxes, and annotations. • Page management: Reorder, rotate, extract, or delete pages with fluid drag-and-drop. • Merge & Split: Combine multiple PDFs into one or split large documents into individual files. • Smart PDF Compression: Reduce file size for rapid sharing via email and messaging apps. 7. Industry-Leading Privacy & Security: • 100% On-Device Processing: Reading, editing, translation, OCR, and conversion run locally without uploading files to external servers. • Cryptographic Apple Privacy: AI Assistant requests are strictly restricted to Apple Private Cloud Compute (PCC). • Visual face and sensitive data blurring with hidden metadata sanitization. • Password encryption, native AirPrint support, and Home Screen widgets. Free tier includes daily tool quotas. Unlock unlimited access via in-app purchase. Standard Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PDF nano at 5.0 against Jot Transcribe's 4.2. PDF nano also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). Jot Transcribe's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. PDF nano sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Jot Transcribe asks for nothing beyond the download.
PDF nano holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jot Transcribe has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Jot Transcribe ships an update weekly, PDF nano every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jot Transcribe | PDF nano |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vineet Sriram | Thamer Mohammed |
Customer experience
Jot Transcribe
PDF nano
In-app purchases
Jot Transcribe
No in-app purchases
PDF nano
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