Dictation Notes vs SubcueAI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dictation Notes
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Turn meetings, lectures, interviews and spoken ideas into notes you can revisit. Dictation Notes brings together iPhone audio recording, live speech-to-text and optional AI meeting summaries. • Record on iPhone, pause and resume, then transcribe with Apple speech recognition. • Record with Apple Watch Pro, mark key moments and transfer to your paired iPhone for review. • Read a compact transcript preview or open the full text; edit saved text and titles. • With Pro, search titles and transcripts, and jump to marked moments or transcript timestamps. • Use your chosen AI service for full-recording summaries, takeaways and action items; open cited source text to check the result. • Pro exports transcripts, summaries, recordings and backups. Restoring an existing backup is free. Basic features are free. Claim one optional 7-day Pro trial with no automatic charge when it ends. Try all available Pro features. After the trial, search, precise playback, new AI actions, sharing and backups require purchase. Basic recording, viewing and editing saved content, normal playback and backup restoration remain free. This is a one-time purchase, not an auto-renewing subscription. AI and cloud transcription require your own API. Provider fees are separate; the app supplies no keys or credits. The trial lasts 7 consecutive days from a successful claim. Reinstalling or restoring does not restart it. Already purchased? Restore with the same Apple Account; no second purchase is needed. Apple speech recognition prefers on-device processing; unavailable languages or offline models may use Apple’s speech service. Notes and recordings are stored on your device; inclusion in system backups depends on your device settings. API credentials are stored in Keychain. Optional cloud and AI requests send the required audio or text to your chosen provider after recipient disclosure and consent. Obtain required consent before recording and check AI results. Watch recording requires Pro activation on the paired iPhone; no fixed battery life is promised. Supports iPhone, iPad and 13 interface languages.
SubcueAI
This AI-powered tool assists with interview preparation and live interviews. It transcribes questions, drafts answers in real-time, and provides feedback on your responses. Supports multiple languages and integrates with your resume and job descriptions.
- AI-powered mock interviews
- Live interview transcription and answer drafting
- Resume and job description integration
- AI-generated interview scorecards
- Multi-language support
- Session saving and review
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SubcueAI is an AI interview assistant. It listens to the question, transcribes it as it is asked, and drafts an answer you can read while you speak — in live interviews and in mock interview practice. Listen mode — your second screen in a live interview Take the interview on your computer (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams) with the speaker on and keep your iPhone next to it. SubcueAI listens through the microphone, transcribes what is said, and drafts an answer whenever you tap Generate — off camera and outside any shared screen. iOS does not let an app hear a call running on the same phone, so the interview always plays on another device. Practice with an AI interviewer Mock mode plays the interviewer: it asks an opening question grounded in your resume and the job description, listens to your spoken answer, and follows up on what you actually said. Questions keep coming until you end the session — no fixed script. Know what to fix Every session is saved with its full transcript and an AI scorecard: an overall score, what landed, and the gaps worth closing before the next interview. Your material, in context Upload your resume as a PDF and paste the job description. Both feed the questions you are asked and the answers you are given. You can also build a resume from scratch in the app and export it. 27 languages Ask in one language and answer in another, or let SubcueAI detect the interviewer's language for you. The whole interface is translated too. Built to be disclosed Before a Listen session starts, SubcueAI asks you to confirm that you will tell the interviewer you are using a live captioning and AI assistance tool. Use it the way you would any other assistive tool — openly. Privacy Before your first session, SubcueAI shows you exactly what leaves your device, which AI providers receive it, and asks for your permission. Audio is streamed to cloud speech-to-text providers for transcription and is not retained after the session. No video is ever captured. Everything travels over TLS. Transcripts are stored in your account only so you can review them, and you can delete your account — and everything in it — from Settings at any time. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at purchase. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions. - SubcueAI Pro — monthly or yearly - SubcueAI Premium — monthly or yearly Prices are shown in your local currency before you subscribe. Terms: https://subcue.ai/terms Privacy Policy: https://subcue.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SubcueAI at every 5 days against Dictation Notes's every 2 months. Dictation Notes's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Dictation Notes sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and SubcueAI sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $20.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dictation Notes ships an update every 2 months, SubcueAI every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dictation Notes | SubcueAI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shanghai Qishan Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. | Subcue AI LLC |
In-app purchases
Dictation Notes
- 7-day TrialFree
- Lifetime Unlock$9.99
SubcueAI
- SubcueAI Pro$20.001 Month
- SubcueAI Premium$75.001 Month
- SubcueAI Pro (Annual)$191.991 Year
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- SubcueAI Premium (Annual)$719.991 Year
- 500 Credits$12.00
- 1,000 Credits$22.00
- 2,500 Credits$50.00









