Yantra vs Murmel

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.

Said, noted. Speak an idea and the entry is ready. Murmel records, writes along and files a clean entry: title, note, due date and the right category. No account, no sign-in, no subscription. Transcript and sorting run on your iPhone, with Apple's speech recognition and Apple Intelligence. TALK INSTEAD OF TYPING One tap on the microphone and you're recording. The text appears live while you speak. You can also record with the Action button, Siri, the Shortcuts app or the quick menu on the app icon. Done before the processing is? Drop the recording in the queue and keep talking. TASK, REMINDER OR IDEA, RECOGNIZED BY ITSELF Apple Intelligence sorts and phrases each kind differently: a task gets an action as its title, a reminder keeps names and numbers word for word, an idea stays as open as you said it. After recording you see the result and save it with a tap, or change it first. DUE DATES FROM WHAT YOU SAID "Next Tuesday" becomes a date. The app does the math, the model doesn't guess. TAGS THAT ARE RECOGNIZED Create a tag for a project, a person or a place once, and next time it's set automatically. RECORD ON YOUR WRIST Complication, Control button or the Watch app. If the iPhone is away, the recording waits on your wrist and goes as soon as it's back. MANY LANGUAGES Murmel understands the languages Apple's speech recognition knows on your iPhone, and you choose with a single setting. MURMEL PRO Murmel is free: unlimited recording, transcript, sorting, tags, Watch and Shortcuts. A one-time purchase, no subscription, unlocks two things: • Your own server: your own Whisper server transcribes, on your home network or over the internet. More accurate with dialects. • Reminders: every entry also lands in Apple Reminders, one list per kind, and the checkmark works both ways. WHAT STAYS ON YOUR IPHONE No account, no analytics, no ads, no tracker. Without your own server, no recording and no text leaves your device. With your own server, the recording goes only there, never to us. REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 26, Apple Watch with watchOS 26. Apple Intelligence is recommended; without it Murmel keeps working with simpler rules. Privacy: https://murmel.bognar.net/en/privacy/ Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/