Comparison

ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) vs Archives Scanner

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

Head to head
About

ARNote (Quick Voice Notes)

Features
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ARNote is an AI-powered voice notes and transcription app built for fast, private, and organized note-taking. Record your voice in seconds, convert speech into text, and keep every note automatically organized by date in a clean notebook-style interface. Key Features: • Fast voice recording with tap or press-and-hold controls • Quick Record directly from the Home Screen widget • On-device speech recognition for supported languages • Downloadable offline language packs for multilingual transcription • Support for English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Bengali, Urdu, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and more • Automatic organization of notes by date • Calendar navigation for quickly finding previous notes • Edit or delete saved notes anytime • Smart reminder detection from spoken notes • Local notification reminders for important tasks and events • Adjustable recording duration for regular and widget recordings • Secure subscription verification • Backup support for your ARNote data • Clean, simple, and distraction-free interface How It Works: Tap the microphone and speak naturally. ARNote converts your speech into text, saves it under the current date, and checks whether your note contains a reminder. For supported languages, transcription can be processed directly on your device. Additional language models can be downloaded when needed. ARNote is useful for capturing: • Ideas and thoughts • Meetings and discussions • Lectures and study notes • Tasks and reminders • Daily events • Personal notes • Important conversations Premium Subscription: An active premium subscription is required to access AI-powered processing, multilingual transcription, reminder detection, and extended transcription features. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gi31m93rmykiua-5000.proxy.runpod.net/privacy

About

Archives Scanner

Transform your physical notebooks into a digital, searchable library. Capture pages with automatic correction, recognize handwriting in over 25 languages, and organize your content into custom archives. Syncs seamlessly across devices.

Highlights
  • Automatic page detection and correction
  • On-device handwriting recognition
  • Organize scans into custom archives
  • Bookmark pages with notes
  • Export to PDF (Pro feature)
  • Sync across devices via iCloud
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Archives — Digitize your notebooks Turn your notebooks, sketchbooks, cookbooks, and journals into a searchable digital library. Point your camera at a page and Archives captures it with crisp, document-quality results — then keeps every page organized, searchable, and synced across your devices. Page detection with auto-correction Automatic edge detection finds your page and straightens the perspective, so every scan comes out flat and clean — even when you shoot it at an angle. Search everything, including handwriting On-device text recognition reads your handwritten notes, so you can find any page in seconds. Works across 25+ languages, with matches highlighted right on the page. Organize into archives Group your scans into notebooks and browse your whole collection at a glance. Jump straight to the page you need, whether it's recipe 12 from Cookbook 2022 or a sketch buried in your field notes. Bookmarks with notes Flag your favorite pages and add notes to keep track of what matters — recipes to try, sketches to revisit, ideas to come back to. Export to PDF (Pro) Turn any notebook into a multi-page PDF, then share it, save it to Files, or send it to iCloud Drive. Sync across devices With iCloud integration, your library stays up to date on every iPhone and iPad, automatically. Your notebooks, finally searchable. Download Archives and start digitizing today. -- Privacy Policy: https://and.notion.site/Archives-Scanner-Privacy-Policy-37deb9a83adb80718c65d672a46d9fff EULA: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

ARNote (Quick Voice Notes)4 screens
Archives Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Archives Scanner at every 3 days against ARNote (Quick Voice Notes)'s weekly. ARNote (Quick Voice Notes)'s advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 6 months and Archives Scanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) ships an update weekly, Archives Scanner every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) versus Archives Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterARNote (Quick Voice Notes)Archives Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAbhijit KotwalAndriy Gordiyenko

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ARNote (Quick Voice Notes)

Subscriptions2
  • ARNote Premium 6 Months$0.996 Months
  • ARNote Premium Yearly$1.991 Year
3 purchases

Archives Scanner

Subscriptions2
  • Archives Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Archives Pro Annual$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Archives Pro Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) free?
ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Archives Scanner free?
Archives Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) or Archives Scanner have ads?
Neither ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) nor Archives Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) or Archives Scanner?
ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) ships an update weekly, and Archives Scanner every 3 days. Most recently, ARNote (Quick Voice Notes) was updated on October 1, 2026 and Archives Scanner on October 5, 2026.

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