Synopsule vs Daisy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Synopsule
This app transforms your iPhone and Apple Watch into a private transcription studio. It records conversations, provides live transcripts, and identifies speakers locally on your device. Optional AI summaries can be generated using your own keys or through a subscription.
- On-device recording and transcription
- Speaker identification and labeling
- Local AI summarization
- Time-anchored notes and flags
- Full-text search
- Multiple export formats
- Playback and editing tools
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CALENDARS & MEETING REMINDERS Choose Apple calendars, including synced Google accounts, for optional meeting reminders. Recording starts only when you choose Record. Synopsule turns your iPhone and Apple Watch into a private transcription studio. Record any conversation, see a live transcript as you talk, and when you stop, see who said what - all on your device. Everything runs locally by default. Your audio never gets uploaded. RECORD ON iPHONE OR APPLE WATCH Tap record on iPhone for live transcription while you talk. Start from Apple Watch when your phone is not in hand, pause or resume, add markers, and send the saved recording to your paired iPhone for local processing. TRANSCRIBES LOCALLY WITH WHISPER OpenAI's open-source Whisper model runs entirely on your iPhone, optimized for Apple silicon. It transcribes 100 spoken languages: choose one or let Automatic detect it, and optionally translate the speech into English. Accuracy is best for widely spoken languages and larger models. Synopsule itself is available in 41 languages. LABELS AND RECOGNIZES SPEAKERS When a recording finishes, Synopsule figures out who said which line and assigns colored speaker labels on device. Name speakers and reuse saved voices across recordings. Voiceprints stay on your iPhone. NOTES AND FLAGS, ANCHORED IN TIME Jot notes while you record or read. Each note is pinned to the moment, so tap to seek straight back, and your notes can feed into the AI summary as context. OPTIONAL AI SUMMARIES, ON YOUR TERMS Press Summarize, pick a template, and get a structured, speaker-aware recap with action items and open follow-ups. Then choose where it runs: - Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini key. Transcript text goes directly to that provider. - On an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone, summarize on-device when available. - Or subscribe to Synopsule Pro and run summaries without managing your own key. Synopsule names the destination and asks consent before any text leaves your phone. Your audio is never sent anywhere - only transcript text, only when you ask. SEARCH EVERYTHING Full-text search runs across every transcript. EXPORT ANYWHERE Export to Markdown, Word (.docx), plain text, SRT and VTT subtitles, or interactive HTML. PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY - iPhone microphone audio is captured and transcribed on your iPhone. - Apple Watch recordings are stored locally on the Watch until transferred to your paired iPhone for on-device processing. - Transcripts live in protected app storage. Delete any recording whenever you want. - No ads and no cross-app tracking. Optional anonymous product analytics can be turned off in Settings. SYNOPSULE PRO (OPTIONAL) Subscribe monthly ($9.99) or yearly ($99.99) to run AI summaries without managing your own API key. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled; manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. The same subscription works on Synopsule for Mac. Requires iOS 17 or later. Apple Watch recording requires watchOS 26 or later and a paired iPhone. Read the full privacy policy at synopsule.com/privacy. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Daisy
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PRIVACY AND CONTROL, FULLY ON-DEVICE: TRANSCRIPTION, SUMMARIES, SEARCH AND Q&A Daisy records meetings and voice notes, transcribes them, tells the speakers apart and writes the summary — on your iPhone or iPad. Audio, transcripts and voiceprints stay on the device. No vendor or 3rd party that receives your recordings unless you choose to. Planning a trip with friends? A conversation that could become a podcast episode? Customer discussing their needs? Record it once and use it for anything you need. And sometimes your name came up in a meeting, but you really needed to buy those shoes online right at that moment... You know who you are. Daisy is free for 30 days. After that, a subscription is required for new recordings. Everything you already recorded stays available. Languages supported: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE • Recording, live captions, transcription with on-device speech models, speaker identification and summaries that run on your iPhone or iPad • Works in airplane mode. • Built for confidential work: interviews, client calls and notes governed by HIPAA, legal privilege or an NDA stay on this device SUMMARIES, YOUR WAY Choose between Gemma 4 by Google, an open-weight model or Apple Intelligence on-device. Settings can point Daisy at 3rd-party AI providers with your own API key, or at LM Studio or Ollama running on your own computer. The transcript text goes to the provider you chose, and only then. ASK YOUR OWN MEETINGS Ask a question and Daisy answers from your own recordings, citing the moments it drew on. Search runs on the device across everything you have recorded. VOICES Enrol your own voice once and Daisy names you across meetings. Name the other speakers after a meeting and the transcript follows. NOTES AS YOU TALK Anything you note stays with the recording. FROM YOUR WRIST The phone records; Apple Watch shows the timer and carries the controls. YOUR DAY, READY TO RECORD Integrate to your calendars so that you can one-tap start recordings, titled and tagged. iPHONE, iPAD, MAC Record on the phone, finish at the desk. Daisy syncs with the Mac app over your own network, device to device. BUILT FOR THE ROOM Daisy was tuned on real meetings: several people around a table, one phone in the middle. It works as well for a voice memo dictated on a walk. RECORDING OTHER PEOPLE Recording-consent laws vary by place. Before the first recording Daisy asks you to acknowledge that you will get the consent the law and your participants require. Daisy is made by Small Bricktory. Privacy policy: daisylocal.app/privacy-ios
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Daisy at Free against Synopsule's $4.99. Synopsule's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On update cadence, 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
Daisy is free to download; Synopsule costs $4.99 up front. Synopsule sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Daisy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Synopsule ships an update weekly, Daisy every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Synopsule | Daisy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 214 MB | 263 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sunny Nagra | Small Bricktory |
In-app purchases
Synopsule
- Synopsule Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Synopsule Pro Yearly$99.991 Year
Daisy
- Daisy Monthly$9.991 Month
- Daisy Annual$99.991 Year
- Daisy Lifetime$169.99









