Comparison

Voice Notes vs Askive

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

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About

Voice Notes

Features
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Hit record on a meeting, a lecture, or a thought in the car, and get back a full transcript and a short, structured summary โ€” not another audio file you will never open again. AI Note Taker does the transcribing and the thinking on your iPhone. Speech becomes text through Apple's on-device speech engine, and that text is then analyzed with Apple's Natural Language framework to surface the parts you actually needed: what was decided, who has to do what, what the conversation was about, and how it felt. No account, no sign-up, no note server holding your recordings. WHAT YOU GET - A readable transcript of any recording, in 20 language options including English (US/UK), Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Hindi and Vietnamese - A short summary that pulls out the key sentences, so a long meeting reads in under a minute - Action items, decisions, topics, participants and overall sentiment extracted from the transcript automatically - Text lifted off paper, whiteboards and slides with the camera scanner, page by page, ready to copy - Audio and video you already have (m4a, mp3, wav, mp4, mov) turned into notes without playing them back - Notes filed into folders, searched by any word in the title, summary or transcript, and shared as clean text to Mail, Messages, Notes or anywhere else PERFECT FOR - Managers and consultants who leave every call owing someone a follow-up - Students turning a 90-minute lecture into revision notes the same evening - Journalists and researchers who need the exact quote, not a vague memory of it - Anyone who thinks out loud and wants those voice memos to become something readable WHY NOT JUST USE VOICE MEMOS? Voice Memos gives you a waveform. Two weeks later you still have to scrub through 47 minutes of audio to find the one sentence that mattered. Here the recording is transcribed, summarized and broken into action items and decisions as soon as it stops, and the whole archive is searchable by word. PRIVACY Recordings, transcripts and notes are stored in the app on your device. Transcription runs on-device through Apple's Speech framework whenever the model is available for the language you pick, and the summary and analysis are computed locally on your iPhone. There are no accounts and no ads. The only time the app reaches the internet is when you paste a video link and ask it to pull that video's public captions. FULL ACCESS AI Note Taker is unlocked with a single purchase. Full access includes unlimited recording and transcription, the complete AI breakdown (summary, action items, decisions, topics, participants, sentiment), unlimited folders, document scanning with OCR, audio and video file import, video caption import, and text export and sharing. Choose the weekly plan, the yearly plan, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled in your Apple Account settings; the lifetime option is a one-time purchase with no renewal. Record your next meeting and read the summary before everyone has left the room. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? tphuc.work@gmail.com

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Askive

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Askive is a private library for everything you save: photos, videos, audio recordings and documents. Add a file and Askive works out what's in it. Then just ask. ASK IN PLAIN LANGUAGE "What did the contractor say about the kitchen deadline?" "Which photo has the Wi-Fi password on the router?" Askive answers in a sentence or two and shows exactly where the answer came from. ANSWERS WITH PROOF Every answer cites its sources. Tap a citation to open the file at the right second of the video or recording, or the right page of the document. UNDERSTOOD AUTOMATICALLY Each item you add gets a clear title, a short summary, tags and key points. Audio and video also get a timestamped transcript you can read and tap to jump around. ONE PLACE FOR YOUR MEDIA โ€ข Photos and screenshots โ€ข Videos and screen recordings โ€ข Voice memos, meetings and lectures โ€ข PDFs and other documents PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your library is visible only to your account. No ads and no tracking. Delete any item, or your whole account, from inside the app whenever you want. Sign in with just your email: no password to remember.

Screenshots

Voice Notes4 screens
Askive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Askive at none against Voice Notes's 3. Askive also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Voice Notes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days. Askive asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Voice Notes versus Askive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoice NotesAskive
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS18.015.1 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhuc PhamSMBDM

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Voice Notes

Subscriptions2
  • Meeting Minutes Weekly$8.997 Days
  • Lecture & Dictation Yearly$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Document Scan, Pay Once$89.99
None

Askive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Voice Notes free?
Voice Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Askive free?
Askive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Voice Notes or Askive have ads?
Neither Voice Notes nor Askive shows ads.

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