Yantra vs VoiceNote

Yantra is your second brain — a private place to capture what matters, find it again later, and act on it. Now on iPhone and Apple Watch. Everything you save lives on your device. Capture, transcription, search, tasks and your calendar run on-device for free — no account, no subscription, no server in the middle. AI works with no key at all using on-device Apple Intelligence, or bring your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini key for larger models. Then requests go straight from your device to the provider you chose. CAPTURE ANYTHING • Voice memos, transcribed on-device as you speak • Quick text notes and a daily journal • Photos, PDFs and scans — with on-device text recognition • Saved links, summarized for you • Meetings — long-form recording with speaker labels • Share anything into Yantra from any app APPLE WATCH • Tap to record a voice note, or dictate a quick text note, right from your wrist • Add the complication to start recording from your watch face • Notes land in Yantra on your iPhone, transcribed on-device YOUR DIGEST A short daily or weekly recap of what you saved, what's due, and older notes worth another look — on the Notes tab, as a widget, or as an optional notification. ASK YOUR NOTES Chat with everything you've saved. Yantra finds the most relevant notes on-device and answers with citations back to your own words. Ask in the app, or ask Siri. TASKS, BUILT IN • To-dos with due dates and priorities • Overdue, Today and Upcoming at a glance • Turn any note or meeting into tasks ALL OVER YOUR IPHONE • Find notes in Spotlight • Start recording from Control Center or the Action Button • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • A Live Activity while you record YOUR CHOICE OF AI • On-device Apple Intelligence — free, private, no key • Your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Gemini key — pay the provider directly, no markup • Optional Deepgram and Sarvam keys for speaker-labeled meetings and Hindi/Indic speech PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Notes and tasks stored only on your device • API keys kept in the secure Keychain • No tracking, no ads, no analytics • Export everything to one backup file, or to Markdown for Obsidian Your thoughts are yours. Yantra just helps you find them again — and get them done.

VoiceNote is the fastest way to get a thought out of your head. Tap record, say it out loud, and you have a clean note in seconds. No typing, no setup, no account. When you stop recording, VoiceNote writes down what you said, tidies up the rambling, and gives the note a title and a short summary. If you mentioned something to do, it pulls that out as a to-do, and any event you mention is one tap away from your calendar. The part people like most: you can ask your notes questions. Open the chat and type something like "what did I decide about the trip?" or "what have I been meaning to read?", and VoiceNote finds the notes that matter and answers from them. It shows you exactly which notes it used, so you can check its work. Everything happens on your iPhone. Your recordings, your transcripts, and your questions never leave the device. There is no server, no account to create, no API key to paste in, and nothing to pay for. It works on a plane with the wifi off. That is possible because VoiceNote runs entirely on Apple's own on-device speech and intelligence frameworks. What you can do: - Record a thought and get a clean, titled note back - Replay the original audio any time, or add more to a note later - Read and edit the transcript yourself - Ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in your notes - Turn spoken to-dos into reminders and calendar events with a tap - Search and browse everything by date VoiceNote is small on purpose. It does a few things and tries to do them well: catch the thought, clean it up, and let you find it again later just bye asking. Free, private, and yours.