Prismical vs visualOS

Talk freely. AI writes the notes. Prismical is a full AI note taker - not just a meeting recorder. Record a lecture, a client call, a voice memo on the walk home, or a two-minute brain dump. Prismical transcribes it while you talk, then writes it up: summary, decisions, action items. And it is a real notes app underneath. Type when you would rather type. Folders, tags, search and sync are all there - recording just means you never have to type out the part you already said. FREE AND PRO Every feature is free to use, including AI write-ups, Skills, Ask AI, sharing, and connecting your own AI provider key. What the Free plan limits is volume: 600 minutes of cloud transcription a month. Prismical Pro raises that limit for heavy users. Nothing else is locked behind it. Prismical Pro is US$14.00/month or US$119.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends, and renewal is charged within the 24 hours before that. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://prismical.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://prismical.ai/privacy GOOD FOR - Meetings and calls, in the room or on the phone - Lectures and classes you want to actually listen to - Voice notes and brain dumps, straight into your pocket - Interviews and user research - Research and reading notes - Tasks and project notes that start as a ramble WHAT IT DOES - Live transcript that appears while you are still speaking - An AI write-up of what was said: summary, decisions and action items - Ask questions across everything you have captured, with the source note attached - Keeps recording with the screen locked, and recovers long sessions after an interruption - Pause and resume a recording without losing a word - Search across every note and transcript - Folders, tags and favorites to keep it all in order - Choose from 100+ transcription languages, or let it detect the language for you YOUR AI, YOUR WAY - Skills: write your own AI actions and run them over a whole note or a single recording - Bring your own key - OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq and more - or just use ours - Vocabulary: teach it names, acronyms and jargon so they come out spelled right - Auto-transcribe every new note and auto-enhance after a recording, if you want them MEETINGS, WITHOUT THE BOT Nothing joins your call. No "a recording assistant has entered the meeting". Connect Google Calendar and your day appears on the home screen, so you can tap a meeting and start a note attached to it. Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or a kitchen table - Prismical records from your device, and nobody else sees a thing. SHARE IT - Invite people to a note by email, as a viewer or an editor - Publish a read-only public link when you just need to send someone the write-up - Organizations, so a team's notes live in one place ON EVERY DEVICE Your notes sync with the Prismical web and desktop apps. Start a note in the hallway on your phone and finish it at your desk. Notes are kept on the device too, so you can read and write with no connection and it catches up when you are back. PRIVACY - Recordings are sent to Prismical to produce your transcript. What is kept, and for how long, is set out in the privacy policy below. - AI write-ups, Skills and Ask AI send the note's text to OpenAI, which does not use it for training. Turn it off in Settings > Privacy. - No ads, and no advertising trackers - You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app at any time - Privacy policy: https://prismical.ai/privacy - Terms of Service: https://prismical.ai/terms Need a hand? Settings > Help & feedback reaches us from inside the app, or write to us at https://prismical.ai/contact

visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually. It is an infinite canvas for notes, folders, images, to-do’s and sketches. It works fully offline and saves to real files in a folder on your device. YOUR DATA IS A FOLDER YOU CAN OPEN Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your canvas into it — every folder on the canvas is a real folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud or Dropbox and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever. OFFLINE ISN'T A MODE. IT'S THE ARCHITECTURE. On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. There is no server to reach, so there is no spinner, no sync wheel, no login wall. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here. BOARDS WITHIN BOARDS Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-tap takes you deeper. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Open it and work. There's nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours forever — one purchase unlocks every Apple device. FREE IN THE BROWSER BUT THE APP GOES FURTHER Try visualOS free in your browser at visualos.app. When you're ready for it everywhere, the app adds what a browser can't: true offline access on the train or a plane, native pan-and-zoom gestures, Apple Pencil drawing, and your boards saved as real files that sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud. EVERYTHING ELSE • Notes & rich text • Long-form documents stored as plain Markdown • Interactive to-do lists on the canvas • Images & PDFs — drag, paste or drop them in • Freehand drawing • Magnetic arrows that snap and bend • Search every board at once • Groups, locking and a snap grid Your ideas. Your files. ABOUT US As creatives, we’ve always relied on visual canvas tools to organize our thoughts, plan projects, and make sense of ideas. But one thing kept bothering us: our files and knowledge were always tied to cloud-based services. We wanted the freedom to access everything offline, without worrying about losing our work or giving up our privacy. So why can’t our own files on our device be visualized in the same intuitive way? And that’s how the idea for visualOS was born: a visual representation of your internal folder structure — offline, private, and secure. Your data stays on your device, where it belongs. We’re Sarah and Gerald, a husband-and-wife team who have been living, loving, and building things together for more than 20 years. Creating visualOS has been a ton of fun and thanks to AI we were able to push it further than we initially imagined. Now we’d love to hear what you think. If visualOS helps you work a little more creatively or makes your files easier to navigate, we’d be grateful if you shared it with others.