WatchMinutes vs Stilo Markdown Editor

WatchMinutes is a voice recorder and life log app designed for Apple Watch and iPhone. Start and stop an iPhone microphone recording directly from the “Meeting” mode on Apple Watch—without taking out your phone or searching for a recording app. Use “Memo” mode to record with the Apple Watch microphone whenever you want to capture a thought, mood, action, or idea. LIFE LOG • Organize Apple Watch memo recordings by day, week, or month • Choose Balanced, Activity, Mood, Ideas, or a Custom reflection style • Copy a structured reflection prompt for ChatGPT • Paste the response back into WatchMinutes and save it on your device • Review daily status markers on a monthly calendar • Swipe between visual boards for each reflection style • Export saved reflections as Markdown RECORDING AND TRANSCRIPTION • Remotely control iPhone recording from Apple Watch • Record personal memos with the Apple Watch microphone • Select the iPhone microphone or a connected external microphone • Continue recording in the background • Transcribe Japanese, English, or mixed Japanese and English • Show an approximate city for new recordings • Select and delete multiple recordings • Export PDF and audio files The free version can transcribe recordings up to five minutes. WatchMinutes Pro unlocks long-recording transcription and additional export features with a one-time purchase. No monthly subscription is required. WatchMinutes does not automatically send recordings or transcripts to ChatGPT, OpenAI, or any other third-party AI service. Reflection text is copied to the clipboard only after an explicit user action, so you can review it before manually pasting and sending it. Transcription accuracy depends on the recording environment, microphone, speaker volume, and language mix. Please review important meeting notes before sharing them.

What you write stays a file. Stilo is a Markdown editor for iPhone and iPad. It keeps no library of its own. It opens the .md files already sitting in Files and iCloud Drive, and saves them right back. The same file still opens on your Mac and in every other app. WHAT IT DOES Your files stay yours. Edit Markdown on this iPhone, in iCloud Drive or on another cloud service. Nothing to import, nothing to export. The name and location of the open file sit at the top of the screen, and you can rename the file without leaving the editor. EAST ASIAN TYPOGRAPHY - Vertical text preview. Read your work in vertical columns, just as it appears in print - Ruby annotation. Write |北海道《ほっかいどう》 and it renders as ruby text above the base characters: furigana, zhuyin, pinyin or Korean readings - Tate-chu-yoko. Two-digit numbers stay upright inside vertical text - Page counts. Count in 400-character manuscript sheets, Taiwanese gaozhi, Korean wongoji or 250 words per page, or set your own grid - Writing goals, with progress on the status line A SCREEN THAT STAYS OUT OF THE WAY - Markdown syntax is drawn in a lighter colour so the text itself stays readable - A tag toolbar above the keyboard inserts headings, bold, quotes and ruby with one tap. Reorder it, add to it, or cut it down - Find and replace, with a match count, previous and next, and a Match Case switch - Characters, characters excluding spaces, the full-width and half-width split, lines and words EXPORT HTML export is free. PDF export keeps the vertical layout and the ruby exactly as you see them. Choose A4, Letter, Legal and other paper sizes. PRIVACY Stilo collects no personal information. There are no analytics SDKs and no advertising. The developer runs no servers, so the only place your writing goes is the cloud you chose yourself. ABOUT STILO PRO Editing, preview, find and replace, reading and writing files, character and word counts, and HTML export are free. Vertical text preview, ruby conversion, page counts and goals, PDF export, and themes with font import come with Stilo Pro. It is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Buy it once and it works on every iPhone and iPad signed in with the same Apple ID. If the free version covers what you need, keep using it. Stilo Pro isn't required for writing; it's for reading and publishing your work in typeset form. ABOUT REPOSITORY ACCESS (sold separately, one-time purchase) Open the Markdown files in your GitHub repositories as they are, edit them, and save with a commit message. If a file changed elsewhere first, Stilo tells you instead of overwriting it. This is not a Git client: no branching, merging, history or diffs. It is focused on writing the manuscripts that live in your repository. Repository Access is independent of Stilo Pro; you can buy either one on its own. Your GitHub access token is stored only on your device.