Comparison

Rosetta vs As Told

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

Head to head
About

Rosetta

Capture and organize notes, reminders, and links in a focused workspace. An AI assistant answers questions from your saved content and integrates with tools like ChatGPT and Claude. Connect ideas visually and manage your personal knowledge base.

Highlights
  • AI-powered note analysis
  • Markdown note-taking
  • Link saving and organization
  • Visual graph exploration
  • Calendar integration
  • Apple Reminders import
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Capture voice notes, write Markdown notes, organize bookmarks and manage to-do lists with habit tracking—all in one place. Ask Rosetta, your built-in AI assistant, to help you find and use what you’ve saved. One personal memory for your AI apps. Keep your notes, bookmarks and reminders connected, and share the context you choose with compatible AI assistants. CAPTURE IDEAS BY VOICE Dictate a thought on your iPhone or Apple Watch, or import audio, and turn it into a structured note or reminder. Keep recording while you use another app, so an idea does not have to wait. WRITE AND CONNECT MARKDOWN NOTES Write and edit Markdown with headings, images and your choice of editor font. Link directly to a note section, connect notes to reminders and saved links, and explore related notes in a visual graph. Reuse note templates with date and time variables. Export notes as Markdown or PDF. YOUR BOOKMARK MANAGER Share a link from your browser to Rosetta to keep it with your notes. Read saved links without distractions, or choose “Import page as a note” to turn a page's main text and images into an editable note. Organize your reading in a list or gallery. TO-DO LISTS AND HABIT TRACKING Create reminders, break them into subtasks and set recurring routines. Use the built-in habit tracker to follow your routines and review completed and missed occurrences in a calendar. Import Apple Reminders and connect Google Calendar or Apple Calendar to keep events alongside your notes. GIVE YOUR AI ASSISTANTS CONTEXT Ask Rosetta, the built-in AI assistant, questions about your notes. Connect compatible AI assistants through MCP (Model Context Protocol) so they can use the personal knowledge you choose to make available. Keep your context together instead of rebuilding it in each conversation. FIND WHAT YOU SAVED Organize notes, reminders and bookmarks with categories and tags. Search across your memory, choose list or gallery views for notes and links, and use Home Screen widgets for quick access. From a spoken idea to a saved article or your next task, Rosetta keeps the things you want to remember connected.

About

As Told

Features
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Write it. Say it. Keep it. As Told is a quiet, private writing space for anything you want to put into words. Capture a passing thought. Write a note. Work through an idea. Draft something longer. Make a plan. Build a list. Or tap the microphone and simply say what's on your mind. Typing and speaking belong on the same page, so you never have to decide what kind of note you're creating first. WRITE NATURALLY A clean page, a title if you want one, and a small writing toolbar just above the keyboard. No block picker, no formatting ribbon, no setup. Give a thought as much structure as it needs and no more. SAY IT INSTEAD The microphone sits beside the new-note button on Home. Tap it and As Told is already listening — there is no note to create first. Pause when you need a moment and pick the same recording back up. When your words come back, they become an ordinary note like any other: no separate voice inbox, no transcript screen to visit. Speaking inside a note works the same way, and the words land at your cursor. MAKE IT WHATEVER YOU NEED Headings and subheadings. Bulleted and numbered lists. Checklists you tick in place — a circle beside each line. Paste a plan, a table or a block of code and it arrives with its shape intact: tables stay tables, links stay tappable, code stays code, monospaced and syntax-coloured with Copy Code one tap away. FIND IT AGAIN Home keeps the recent days in view — Today, then the previous seven — with a short preview under every note. Search when you remember a word. Open the calendar when you remember the day: dots show how much you wrote on each one, and tapping a day lists its notes right under the month. SPEAK THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY SPEAK As Told doesn't ask you to choose a language before you talk. Speak in one, or move between two in the same sentence — the transcript comes back in the languages you used, in the scripts you used, rather than translated into one. Voice transcription is tested most closely with English, Telugu, Hindi, and speech that moves between them. Your words are transcribed as you said them. Punctuation, capitalisation and paragraph breaks are added so a spoken thought reads like written language — and that is all. Nothing is summarised, rewritten, polished or translated. YOUR WORDS SHOULDN'T DISAPPEAR If a recording can't be transcribed — no signal, a connection that dropped — it is kept on your iPhone so you can try again. Nothing you said is thrown away because the network wasn't there. SHARE WHEN YOU NEED TO Tap Share and iOS takes over. A note goes to whichever apps and services are already on your iPhone, with its formatting where the destination can take it and plain text everywhere else. As Told creates no link and keeps no record of what you sent. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, ever. Your notes live on your iPhone. A recording leaves the device only when you choose to transcribe it, only after you agree the first time, and nothing else from the note goes with it. No ads, no analytics, no third-party SDKs. Lock the app with Face ID if you like — it is off unless you turn it on. Whatever you want to put into words — write it, say it, keep it.

Screenshots

Rosetta4 screens
As Told4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Rosetta at 4 against As Told's 1. Rosetta also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rosetta ships an update weekly, As Told every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Rosetta versus As Told: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRosettaAs Told
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGabriel Langon MaomyKrishna Sathvik Mantripragada

In-app purchases

None

Rosetta

No in-app purchases

None

As Told

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rosetta free?
Rosetta is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is As Told free?
As Told is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rosetta or As Told have ads?
Neither Rosetta nor As Told shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rosetta or As Told?
Rosetta ships an update weekly, and As Told every 3 days. Most recently, Rosetta was updated on October 31, 2026 and As Told on October 29, 2026.

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