Comparison

Apprent vs Scribo

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

Head to head
About

Apprent

Features
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Apprent is the pocket apprenticeship journal — a structured place to record the master craftsman next to you (electrician, plumber, woodworker, mason, welder, mechanic, HVAC tech, machinist, carpenter) explaining the why behind the work. It is the field notebook your boss wishes the apprentices kept five years ago. 75% of US manufacturers report a critical skills gap. The journeyman class that learned the trade in the 1970s is retiring. The apprentice next to them has 20 minutes between jobs to capture a technique that took 40 years to learn. Pencil and paper falls behind. Voice memos pile up unsearchable. There is no calm app structured around the apprenticeship. Apprent is that journal. Record the master speaking; Apple's on-device SFSpeechRecognizer transcribes; tag the entry by trade, technique category, and tool; review later by tag. No account. No cloud. No social feed. What ships in v1: — Mentor register: every journeyman you've worked under. Trade, years of experience, shop / employer, signature techniques. — Recording: one-tap voice capture with live on-device transcription (SFSpeechRecognizer, requiresOnDeviceRecognition=true). No upload, no third-party transcription. — Technique card: each recording becomes a card with title, mentor, trade, tool, technique category (joinery, soldering, pulling wire, layout, fitting, finishing, troubleshooting), and the full transcript. — Tool log: every tool you encountered with brand, model, year, and the technique cards that reference it. — Trade reference: bundled glossary of ~100 trade terms per major trade (electrical, plumbing, framing, HVAC, machining, welding) — common terms apprentices ask about in the first year. — Code corner: bundled summary of the most-cited code references — NEC chapters apprentice electricians actually look up; UPC fixture units; IRC stud spacing — pointers, not the codes themselves (always check the latest published edition). — Search: full-text across transcripts. Find every time a mentor mentioned 'wire pull tension' or 'soldering flux.' — No 'Pro,' no in-app purchases. Yours. Apprent is for the first-year apprentice, the journeyman who wants to leave a record before they retire, and the union local that wants its apprentices to learn from the most-experienced JATC instructors. Apprent is record-keeping software. The code references are general pointers; always consult the latest published code edition for the work you're doing. Privacy Policy: https://allthingsn.com/apps/apprent/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Scribo

Effortlessly save and remember new words encountered during reading, watching, or studying. Capture words instantly via handwriting or typing, with AI-powered organization providing definitions and translations. Build a personal vocabulary collection and review words to make them last.

Highlights
  • Instant word saving
  • Handwriting and keyboard input
  • AI-generated definitions
  • Personalized wordbook
  • Review and memory tools
  • Language learning support
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Learn the language. Keep the knowledge. Paste a link to an article or video, add a PDF or ebook, or paste any text. Scribo rewrites it in the language you're learning, at your level, in sections you can finish in about five minutes. There's no placement test and no level to pick. Scribo works out your level from what you do and writes the next piece to fit. Learn from what you care about Start from the articles, videos and books you actually want to understand, not a fixed course. Long books come in parts, so nothing is too long to begin. Get unstuck without leaving the page Tap any word to see what it means and save it with one tap. Select a sentence you don't follow and Ask Scribo about it. Make it yours At the end of a section, answer one question in your own words, typed or spoken. Putting it into words is what makes it stay. Practice in a few minutes a day Practice brings back the words you saved right before you'd forget them, and mixes in building sentences, listening to lines from your videos, speaking and writing. When you speak or write, Scribo shows what to fix and how it would sound more natural. Save words from anywhere Write a word with Apple Pencil, type it, point your camera at a page, or share it from another app. Scribo fills in the meaning and examples. A model of you that keeps growing Scribo measures five skills (reading, vocabulary, listening, speaking and writing) from what you actually do, maps the fields you learn in, and describes how you learn. That picture decides how your next piece is written. Free to start Scribo Pro gives you unlimited new readings, unlimited saved words, your full learning insights, and the freedom to switch the language yous renew automatically unless canceledat least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Terms of Use: https://scribo.cc/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://scribo.cc/privacy/

Screenshots

Apprent4 screens
Scribo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Apprent at none against Scribo's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Scribo sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $10.99 per month. Apprent asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Apprent versus Scribo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterApprentScribo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—87.5% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB53 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAll Things AI, IncDain Jung

In-app purchases

None

Apprent

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Scribo

Subscriptions3
  • Scribo Pro Monthly$10.991 Month
  • Scribo Pro Yearly$59.991 Year
  • Scribo Pro Yearly7 Days trial$89.991 Year
One-time1
  • Scribo Lifetime$69.99

Questions

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

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