Comparison

Handled vs TalkMemo

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

Head to head
About

Handled

Features
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Handled (formerly Zephr) is a calm, private daily planner that brings your tasks, notes, calendar, and habits into one beautiful place โ€” and works fully offline, on every Apple device. No account required. Everything lives on your device by default. Sign in only if you want to sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. โ€” PLAN YOUR DAY โ€” โ€ข A single Today view: your next meeting up front with a live countdown and one-tap Join, the rest of the day stacked neatly behind it. โ€ข Browse any day, jump back to today in a tap. โ€ข Tasks with folders, due dates, reminders, subtasks, and drag-to-reorder โ€” overdue tasks reschedule in one tap. โ€ข Habits to build the routines that matter. โ€” NOTES THAT DO MORE โ€” โ€ข A rich, Notion-style editor: headings, checklists, quotes, code, and drag-to-reorder blocks. โ€ข Turn a checklist item into a real task automatically. โ€ข Record a voice note and get a clean, on-device AI summary โ€” overview, action items, and key points. Your audio never leaves your device. โ€” MEETINGS, HANDLED โ€” โ€ข Meeting notes with transcripts, summaries, and proposed follow-up tasks you approve. โ€ข Connect the tools you already use โ€” Fathom, Fireflies, Granola โ€” and their meeting notes flow in automatically. โ€ข Import your tasks and pages from Todoist and Notion. โ€” YOUR CALENDAR, CONNECTED โ€” โ€ข Two-way sync with your device calendar and Google Calendar. โ€ข Day and week views, a fast month picker, and your meetings right on the Today screen. โ€” ON EVERY SCREEN โ€” โ€ข Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: today's schedule, the date, a today + tomorrow agenda, a morning summary, and your to-dos. โ€ข A Live Activity that counts down your next meeting on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island โ€” and rolls to your next task when you're free. โ€ข An Apple Watch app for your day at a glance. โ€” PROFILES โ€” โ€ข Keep Work, Personal, and Freelance separate. Switch context in a tap and see only what's relevant. โ€” PRIVATE BY DESIGN โ€” โ€ข Local-first: your planner works with no account and no network. โ€ข Voice transcription and AI summaries run entirely on-device. โ€ข If you choose to sync, your data goes only to your own private account โ€” never sold, never used for tracking. โ€” HANDLED PRO โ€” Handled is free to use on a single device. Handled Pro unlocks secure cloud sync across all your devices and meeting-tool connections. โ€ข Monthly or yearly subscription with a free trial. โ€ข Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://myhandled.app/privacy Consider it handled.

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TalkMemo

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Speak while the thought is fresh. Find it when you need it. TalkMemo turns voice notes into organised memos and helps you manage tasks and dated items. Choose Korean or English in Settings. PERSONALISATION THAT REFLECTS YOUR CORRECTIONS Start with useful default categories and keywords. If a memo belongs somewhere else, move it to the right category. TalkMemo remembers the expressions and categories you correct and uses them in later classification. Repeated title corrections can also become text-correction rules. Store up to 20,000 personal classification rules. Learning does not stop at the limit: new corrections are applied while less-confirmed, older rules are retired. This is not a limit on saved memos. Review, edit or remove learned patterns and pronunciation corrections in Settings. YOUR CATEGORIES AND KEYWORDS Create categories for your work, shopping, ideas or personal projects. Add the words you use most often to help classification. A dated action may be treated as a task; say the destination category explicitly or choose it on the save screen when you want a particular folder. DATES AND REMINDERS Try 'Add dentist tomorrow at 3 pm to my calendar', then check the recognised date. TalkMemo distinguishes alarms from ordinary notifications and asks you to check invalid or ambiguous dates. Reminder delivery depends on device support and permissions. An ordinary notification may be used when an alarm is unavailable. Sync to Apple Calendar manually from the calendar screen when you choose. QUICK CAPTURE AND EDITING โ€ข Capture, Quick View, Calendar and Library views โ€ข Search, edit titles, change categories and mark items complete โ€ข Quick capture with Siri โ€ข Voice capture on Apple Watch with transfer to iPhone โ€ข A detailed in-app guide in Korean and English GETTING STARTED Names, accents and background noise can affect early results. Personalisation adapts to the categories and expressions you correct; it does not retrain Apple's speech recognition model or remove every recognition error. Check important content and dates, and correct anything that is wrong. Personal rules are stored on your device. Speech-to-text may use Apple servers depending on your device and connection, so recognition is not always offline. Korean and English are selected separately.

Screenshots

Handled4 screens
TalkMemo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TalkMemo at none against Handled's 2. Handled's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Handled sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. TalkMemo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Handled ships an update every 3 days, TalkMemo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Handled versus TalkMemo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandledTalkMemo
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days โ€” betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size32 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAkhil Krishnansunkyu song

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Handled

Subscriptions2
  • Zephr Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Zephr Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
None

TalkMemo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Handled free?
Handled is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TalkMemo free?
TalkMemo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Handled or TalkMemo have ads?
Neither Handled nor TalkMemo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Handled or TalkMemo?
Handled ships an update every 3 days, and TalkMemo every 4 days. Most recently, Handled was updated on October 13, 2026 and TalkMemo on October 8, 2026.

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