CourseNote vs Kizami 刻み

CourseNote is a study workspace for iPhone and iPad. Turn lecture videos, audio recordings, and PDFs into structured study notes with timestamps. You can also record audio directly in CourseNote. Tap a timestamp to jump back to that moment in the source video or recording. WHY COURSENOTE • Turn a long lecture into structured, searchable notes • Import a video or audio file, or record a lecture with your device microphone • Every section has a timestamp — tap it to jump back to the source material • Board writing, formulas, and tables are captured into the notes, not just a raw transcript • Generate self-test questions from your notes and grade them one by one • Ask questions about your notes, find related notes from a photo, and get AI explanations • Annotate directly on your notes with Apple Pencil • Optionally sync notes, folders, PDFs, audio, images, and handwriting across devices with iCloud; videos are excluded HOW IT WORKS 1. Add material: import videos, audio, or PDFs from Files, Photos, or other apps; you can also record audio in CourseNote 2. Process: speech is transcribed, board writing is recognized, and notes are organized by chapter 3. Study: read the notes alongside the source, tap timestamps to review, annotate, ask questions, and test yourself TWO WAYS TO PROCESS • Parsing subscription: enter and validate your own Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian/DashScope) API key. Model charges are paid by your own Bailian account and no CourseNote credits are deducted. • Pay-as-you-go credits: use the app-managed model service without the parsing subscription. Before each AI task starts, the app shows the estimated credit cost; if processing fails, credits are refunded in full. • One-time credit packs: 280, 900, or 1,600 credits; no recurring credit subscription • Video, audio, and PDF processing, plus photo search, AI explanations, note Q&A, self-test generation, and grading • New accounts include free trial credits PRIVACY • Sign in with Apple — no phone number needed • Content is sent for AI processing only when you start an AI feature and after you consent • iCloud Sync is off by default; when enabled, it uses your personal iCloud storage and does not sync videos • Delete your account and all data from within the app at any time • Data is processed on servers located in mainland China (see Privacy Policy) The app is available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Requires iOS 18.0 or later. AI features require an internet connection. Privacy Policy: https://coursenote.cn/privacy#en Terms of Use: https://coursenote.cn/terms#en

Kizami records whether you did it, at the time you set. What you kept and what you didn't are kept with the same weight. Neither can be deleted or rewritten afterwards. The app writes the misses, not you In most habit trackers, a day you missed is an empty square. An empty square can be filled in tomorrow. Kizami writes a line into the ledger — "missed" — once the deadline passes. Entries are accepted only from 30 minutes before the time until the deadline; after that, nothing can be added. Forgetting does not quietly become nothing at all. The stake is a record, not money There are services that charge you when you fail. They appear to work, but they need a card on file, a monthly payment, and trust in a third party. Kizami puts the same irreversibility in a ledger on your own device. Nothing is sent anywhere, and no one collects from you. It simply stays written. You can explain. You cannot rewrite. You can add a reason to a slot you dropped — forgot, no time, unwell, not up to it, other. But it is added as a separate line; the original line does not move. There is room to say your piece. There is none to change what happened. It cannot be erased. That is the design. Saying this first: the ledger has no delete and no edit, and the screens carry no path to one. If you record something by mistake, you add a note rather than remove the line. The ways around it are closed too. - Nothing can be backdated (30 minutes before, until the deadline) - Stopping a commitment does not remove its past entries - Lowering a goal does not change a past "18 / 30" — it stays partial - A pause can only be set for today or a future date - Entries made while the device clock looks rolled back are marked Recording itself stays free Today's screen, the ledger and the notifications all work without paying, and every single entry in the ledger is readable. One payment (no subscription) opens three things: - As many commitments as you want (free: up to 3) - Stats and monthly reports over the full history (free: last 30 days) - Recording from Apple Watch There is a 7-day trial. It starts when you tap to start it, so it does not run down while you are only looking. Also - Three ways to count: repetitions (30 reps), time (15 min), or simply done / not done - Not all-or-nothing: 18 out of 30 is kept as partial - On the 1st of each month, the previous month is sealed as a report. That does not change either - 日本語 / English / 简体中文 / 繁體中文 What it does not do - Notifications are local iOS notifications. Delivery is up to iOS, so they cannot be guaranteed. If one does not arrive, the slot past its deadline is still recorded the same way - The timed notification comes from the iPhone. If the iPhone is off, the watch alone will not sound (you can still record from the watch alone) - Data lives on the device. Nothing is sent to a server. There is currently no sync across devices - This is not an app that gives exercise, health or medical advice