Comparison

Murble vs Countdown

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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Free and unlimited: 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 • Summaries in your language: English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese • 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, and folders that collect the notes of the categories you pick • Import and export (PDF, Markdown, SRT and more), also a whole folder as one file • 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 • Prefer to pay once? Choose the lifetime option, no subscription needed 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 14-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 Privacy: https://getmurble.com/privacy.html

About

Countdown

Features
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Countdown helps you keep track of the moments that matter - and everything you need to prepare for them. Create beautiful countdowns for holidays, birthdays, trips, deadlines, launches, celebrations and more. Each event can include checklists, links, file attachments and notes, so the details stay together instead of being scattered across different apps. Add Countdown widgets to your Home Screen to keep upcoming events visible at a glance, and personalise each countdown with its own theme and emoji. With Countdown you can: - Create countdowns for any upcoming event - Track days, hours, minutes and seconds - Create checklists for things you need to get done - Attach useful files directly to an event or checklist item - Save important links alongside your plans - Add countdown widgets to your Home Screen - Customise events with themes and emoji - Share files directly into Countdown from other apps Countdown includes 3 free event slots with access to all core features. Unlock Unlimited with a single one-time purchase to create unlimited events - no subscription.. Whether you're counting down to something exciting or keeping an important deadline on track, Countdown keeps the date and the details in one place.

Screenshots

Murble4 screens
Countdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Murble at 18.0 against Countdown's 26.0. 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. Murble sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Countdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Murble ships an update every 2 weeks, Countdown monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Murble versus Countdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMurbleCountdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLukasz MajdaLiam Watts

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Murble

Subscriptions2
  • Murble Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Murble Pro Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Murble Pro Lifetime$59.99
1 purchases

Countdown

One-time1
  • Unlimited Events$3.99

Questions

Is Murble free?
Murble is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Countdown free?
Countdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Murble or Countdown have ads?
Neither Murble nor Countdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Murble or Countdown?
Murble ships an update every 2 weeks, and Countdown monthly. Most recently, Murble was updated on October 31, 2026 and Countdown on October 31, 2026.

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