Comparison

Fire Notes vs Speech to Text

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Fire Notes

Features
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Some thoughts are meant to be written down. Not all of them are meant to be kept. Fire Notes is a private notebook with one unusual feature: you can burn a note. Fire, rendered live on your screen — the paper catches, chars and falls away as ash. When the flame goes out, the note is gone. It's oddly satisfying. It's also the point. WRITE ANYTHING • A fast, beautiful editor with rich text, checklists, headings and highlights • Choose your paper and your handwriting — from clean type to a looping script • Photos, shelves and compact pinned notes on a board you can rearrange by hand • Choose from 20 pin designs in one compact Settings gallery • Search notes and checklist items, duplicate a note, or shuffle loose notes with undo LET IT GO • Burn a note in a moment, or hold for the full cinematic ceremony • A slow, soft flame with drifting smoke, glowing embers and falling ash • Use the microphone or press and hold to light the flame • Set an auto-burn timer when a note is only for now • Ashes records released notes with a date and an optional one-word tag SCAN YOUR PAPER • Scan receipts, bills and letters, or import photos and PDFs into a multipage document • Find page edges, correct perspective, crop, rotate and adjust the image • Clean up the page with filters; duplicate a page or apply one filter to the whole document • Add pen marks, highlights or handwriting, with undo for page edits • Read and correct recognized text on your device, then find a scan by the words inside it • Export a searchable PDF, page images or plain text, with the current page order and markup • Keep documents in their own shelves, show one on Home, or move it to Shoebox when you're done CAPTURE YOUR VOICE • Record, pause, replay and seek through a voice note • Read, copy or retry its on-device transcript • Share the recording with its transcript, or keep it safely in Shoebox PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Notes and scans live on your device and in your own iCloud, never on our servers • Face ID app lock, plus a separate lock for the notes that matter most • Locked and sealed content stays out of previews and content search • No account. No ads. ALSO IN THE BOX • A gold capture button that catches the light as you tilt your iPhone • On-device AI to fix, rewrite or reshape your words on compatible Apple Intelligence devices • Export notes, checklists and drawings when you decide to keep them • Reduce Motion support and a readable menu for note actions FIRE NOTES+ A one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. It unlocks the document scanner, voice capture and dictation, AI writing tools on compatible devices, premium burn styles and clean, watermark-free exports. Buy it once and it's yours on every device you sign in with. The notebook itself stays free. Write as much as you like. Burn as much as you like. Write it down. Let it go.

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Speech to Text

Features
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Turn speech into text with Notto. Record or import audio, then create searchable, editable transcripts on your device. Keep lectures, meetings, interviews and personal voice notes ready to read. RECORD OR IMPORT AUDIO Start recording with one tap or import audio files such as MP3, M4A and WAV. Transcribe your recording after it ends, then keep your own notes alongside the text. OFFLINE AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION Download the speech model once, then transcribe audio offline on your device. Your recordings do not need to be uploaded to a server for transcription. No account required. READ, EDIT AND REPLAY Search saved transcripts, correct the text, copy what you need and share it. Replay the original recording whenever you want to check a detail. LECTURES, MEETINGS AND INTERVIEWS Turn a lecture recording into text and add your study notes. Revisit meeting details without typing everything from memory. Review interview transcripts or turn a personal voice memo into a written draft. YOUR TRANSCRIPT. YOUR NOTES. Add headings, checklists and handwriting in the same workspace. Organize notes with tags and favorites. Export as PDF or Markdown, and keep a copy with local backup and restore. Your audio and text stay on your device unless you choose to share or export them. The initial model download requires an internet connection. Transcription takes place after recording stops. Recording, playback and local notes are free. On-device transcription, advanced PDF and Markdown export, and local backup require a one-time Notto Pro purchase. No subscription. Record. Transcribe. Read, edit and share.

Screenshots

Fire Notes4 screens
Speech to Text4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Speech to Text at 3 against Fire Notes's 1. Speech to Text also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fire Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Speech to Text sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fire Notes ships an update every 2 months, Speech to Text every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Fire Notes versus Speech to Text: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFire NotesSpeech to Text
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan TrendafilovskiSEMIH YILDIZ

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Fire Notes

One-time1
  • Fire Notes+ Lifetime$9.99
1 purchases

Speech to Text

One-time1
  • Notto Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Fire Notes free?
Fire Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Speech to Text free?
Speech to Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fire Notes or Speech to Text have ads?
Neither Fire Notes nor Speech to Text shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fire Notes or Speech to Text?
Fire Notes ships an update every 2 months, and Speech to Text every 5 weeks. Most recently, Fire Notes was updated on November 10, 2026 and Speech to Text on November 6, 2026.

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