Comparison

Murble vs Summarly

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

Head to head
About

Murble

This app transcribes voice recordings on your device, generating summaries and action items. It offers robust search, organization tools, and privacy-focused features. An optional Pro subscription unlocks advanced functionalities like iCloud sync and AI chat with your notes.

Highlights
  • On-device transcription and AI summaries
  • Automatic action item detection
  • Advanced search and filtering
  • Smart folders and note organization
  • Private iCloud sync (Pro)
  • Chat with your notes (Pro)
Features
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Murble turns your voice into organized notes privately on iPhone and iPad. Record a thought, a meeting or a lecture. Murble transcribes it on device, writes a clear summary and finds action items. When you return, search every part of the note, combine filters, save smart folders, mark important moments and add more audio to the same note. No account. No cloud processing. No tracking. WHAT YOU GET FREE • Unlimited recording and on-device transcription • AI summaries with key points and highlights, in the style you choose • Automatic action items you can check off • Live transcription preview while you speak • Anonymous speaker labels you can rename, merge or split • Text notes, Share Extension, Siri, Shortcuts, widgets and Control Center actions • Search that reaches summaries, action items, speaker labels and folder names • One View menu for sorting and combinable filters, plus smart folders that keep themselves current • Select several notes at once to pin, move or delete them together • Markers you drop with one tap while recording, and can add or move afterwards • Add a new take to an existing note instead of starting a second one • A Storage screen that shows what your recordings take up, and clears audio past an age you pick • Categories, import and export (PDF, Markdown, SRT and more) • Face ID lock and optional auto-delete of audio MURBLE PRO • Apple Reminders sync: send action items to Reminders, completion syncs back • Chat with your notes: ask questions, get answers grounded in the recording • Detailed multi-section reports with decisions and next steps • Translations of transcripts and summaries • Private iCloud sync across your devices: choose whether sync carries your recordings PRIVACY FIRST Transcription and AI run on your iPhone, using Apple Intelligence or a downloadable offline model. With iCloud sync on, data is stored only in your private iCloud database. We cannot read your notes. Ever. Murble Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. The yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Terms of Use (EULA): https://getmurble.com/terms.html

About

Summarly

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A forty minute meeting leaves you with a forty minute recording. Summarly leaves you with six lines. Record, and the app turns the speech into text on the iPhone itself. Then, if you want it, it pulls out what the recording was actually about: the points, the decisions that were settled, the questions nobody answered, and the things people said they would do. NOTHING LEAVES THE PHONE There is no account to create and no server of ours to sign in to. Recordings, their text and their summaries stay on the device. Speech recognition runs offline, so it works in a basement meeting room with no signal. If you want a backup you can turn on iCloud sync, and that is your own iCloud, not ours. RECORDING AND TRANSCRIPTION ARE FREE Apple's own Voice Memos records and transcribes for nothing, so charging for that would be dishonest. Recording, transcription, search and the archive are unlimited on the free plan, and always will be. Pro is for the summaries. WHAT IT DOES • One tap to record, and it keeps going when you leave the app or lock the screen • A live indicator on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island while it runs • Mark a moment while recording, name it later, jump back to it in one tap • On-device transcription in English and Turkish • Long recordings handled in pieces, so an hour-long lecture transcribes fully • Search every word you have ever recorded • Folders, for keeping a project's recordings together • Fix anything the recogniser misheard • Export as plain text, Markdown, SRT subtitles, or the audio file itself • Delete the audio and keep the text, when storage matters more than the voice • A Home Screen widget that starts recording without opening the app • Works completely offline ABOUT THE SUMMARIES On iPhone 15 Pro and later, Summarly uses Apple's on-device intelligence to read the transcript and pull out what mattered. Nothing is sent anywhere for this. On earlier iPhones the summary feature is unavailable, but recording, transcription, search and export all work exactly the same. The summary is built only from what was said. It does not add advice, opinions or conclusions of its own, and where the recording is unclear it leaves the passage out rather than guessing. Check anything you plan to act on, the same as you would with your own notes. FREE AND PRO Five summaries a month are free. Pro removes the limit and unlocks Markdown and subtitle export. Pro has one price, not a list: a yearly plan, or a single payment if you would rather never think about it again. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pinkontin.com/legal/summarly/

Screenshots

Murble4 screens
Summarly3 screens

Verdict

The call

Murble and Summarly are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Murble sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Summarly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Murble versus Summarly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMurbleSummarly
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLukasz MajdaMuhammed Furkan Kfrevi

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Murble

Subscriptions2
  • Murble Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Murble Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Murble Pro Lifetime$59.99
2 purchases

Summarly

Subscriptions1
  • Summarly Pro Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Summarly Pro Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Murble free?
Murble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Summarly free?
Summarly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Murble or Summarly have ads?
Neither Murble nor Summarly shows ads.

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