Diktator! vs WizardNote

Turn your voice into notes, messages and emails with the Diktator! keyboard on iPhone and iPad. Tap Listen, speak, and return to your text. DICTATE AND TRANSLATE Choose the language for your translated text and use a Diktator model or Apple Translation. Save up to three favorite translation languages and switch between them by holding the translation button on the keyboard. Try your language pair with different models and choose the result you prefer. LOCAL MODELS, YOUR CHOICE Diktator speech models process audio on your device. Download a model once and use it for offline dictation. Choose from Base, Small, Medium, Large, Turbo Compact and Turbo to suit your device and pace. Base and Small are free; the other four are available with Pro or its trial. A MULTILINGUAL KEYBOARD The interface and keyboard support 13 languages: English, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Arabic and Turkish. Download the language packs you use for typing suggestions, phrase input and text tools. MADE FOR YOUR WORKFLOW Find languages, translation, models and proofreading in dedicated Settings sections. With Pro, run a proofreading pass after dictation and review the original and revised text. FREE AND PRO — NO SUBSCRIPTION Start with Base or Small, or choose the optional 21-day Pro trial. Pro is a one-time universal purchase for iPhone, iPad and the Mac App Store version. The trial does not renew or charge automatically. Requires iOS/iPadOS 26 or later. Guided setup helps you download a speech model and enable the keyboard with Full Access for dictation and translation. Apple Translation uses separate language packs. No Diktator account is required.

WizardNote turns your voice into finished notes. Tap once to capture a thought, meeting, or idea — the app transcribes it right on your iPhone and saves it as a markdown note to a folder you choose. A perfect companion for Obsidian. NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO ACCOUNT • Transcription runs entirely on device (Whisper) — works offline • Recordings, transcripts, and notes stay with you; no telemetry • Pro is a one-time purchase FREE FEATURES • One-tap recording that keeps going with the screen locked • On-device transcription with background queue • Markdown notes, player, archive, audio sharing • Action Button, Control Center, widget, Siri, Live Activity WIZARDNOTE PRO (one-time) • AI summaries with action items — Apple Intelligence, your own server (LM Studio/Ollama, incl. Tailscale), OpenAI, Anthropic, or Azure AI Foundry (your own keys, stored in Keychain only) • Tasks: action items from summaries as a checklist • More accurate transcription models • Save directly to your own folder — e.g. an Obsidian vault on iCloud • Custom summary prompt; share note/transcript/summary • Shortcuts: find a note (searches transcripts, not just titles), pull its transcript, summary, tasks or whole markdown note, stop a recording, hand an audio file over for transcription • Notes label AI content: provider and model in the frontmatter, and a line under the summary stating that a model wrote it