ActionNote vs Mr Broccoli
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActionNote
Effortlessly transform spoken thoughts into organized tasks and summaries. This app uses AI to transcribe voice memos, meetings, or lectures into actionable checklists and key takeaways. It's designed for quick idea capture and efficient organization, even on the go.
- Voice to text transcription
- AI-powered summaries
- Automatic task list generation
- Searchable notes with AI
- Import audio from other apps
- Multi-language support
- Private, on-device storage
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Say anything. An idea, a task, your whole day, in any language or even two at once. ActionNote writes it down for you: a clean note with a title, a summary, key points, and real tasks with reminders that actually ring. No folders. No typing. No listening back. WRITTEN DOWN, PROPERLY • Every voice note becomes a titled note with a summary and key points • Tasks are pulled out automatically, with due dates and reminders • Your exact words are kept too, right under the summary, every um and every backtrack • Speak two languages in the same sentence and flip the finished note between them CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE • NEW: a home screen widget with today's tasks on one side and a record button on the other • Say "Hey Siri, record with ActionNote" to start and stop by voice, even when the phone is locked • Quick Record from the lock screen, home screen, or Action Button • Record on your Apple Watch, even offline. The note is waiting on your phone when you get back • Share WhatsApp voice notes straight in ASK YOUR NOTES, FREE FOR EVERYONE "What did I promise Sara?" Ask across everything you ever captured and get the answer with the source note attached. YOUR MORNING, BRIEFED One gentle brief every morning: your tasks, your deadlines, and your calendar. The same brief now sits on your home screen in the new widget. Follow ups nudge once a day. Mark them done, push them to tomorrow, or let them go. No streaks, no guilt. Free forever. IT DOES NOT LOSE WHAT YOU SAID If a note cannot be organized right now, your recording is safe and ActionNote finishes it by itself the moment your connection comes back. You just find the note done. YOURS. NOT OURS. Your notes live on your iPhone and your own iCloud. There is no ActionNote database anywhere. Audio is processed once and never stored. If you ever cancel, everything stays yours. FAIR PRICING Ten notes a month, free, and your first note each month does not count. Ask Your Notes and the Morning Brief are free forever. You only ever pay for the AI you actually use, and the free plan never expires. No trial games. Terms of Use: https://getactionnote.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://getactionnote.com/privacy.html
Mr Broccoli
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Mr Broccoli is a voice-first AI app for people who already have their own provider accounts. Add your keys, choose exactly which model answers, and listen to the reply. Nothing routes through a server of ours, because there isn't one. BEFORE YOU BUY Mr Broccoli is built around your own API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, OpenRouter or Alibaba Qwen. Your purchase gives you the app. It does not include AI usage — your provider bills you directly for what you use. TALK, DON'T TYPE • Speak, type or attach an image • Answers are read aloud, starting as soon as the first paragraph is ready • Skip by paragraph, pause, resume or restart playback • Drive Session for hands-free turns: it waits until you finish, counts down, sends, speaks the answer and listens again • Speech recognition using the system, an on-device model or your provider CHOOSE WHO ANSWERS • Save up to four routes — provider, exact model and reasoning effort • Switch between them mid-conversation without losing context • The home screen says who answers next and at what effort • Every answer records the route that actually produced it, including any fallback TUNE EACH CONVERSATION • Length: brief, normal or thorough • Tone: professional, casual, nerdy, concise, Socratic or ELI5 • Your own model and speech-delivery instructions • A specific voice per conversation Set defaults globally, override them per conversation. YOUR CONVERSATIONS • Kept in a local database on your device • Search, pin, archive, rename, share or delete • Fold and expand entries in one continuous transcript • Branch from any message to try another direction without losing the original • Lock individual conversations behind a password or biometrics MORE WHEN YOU WANT IT • Web search grounding, with sources attached to the answer • Council: several models answer, review each other, then one synthesises • Image prompts to compatible models • Optional recall from your past conversations, entirely on the device PRIVACY • No Mr Broccoli account and no Mr Broccoli server • Requests go straight from your device to the provider you chose • API keys stay in the operating system's secure storage — never in backups, logs or exports • A hosted provider still receives the request you send it YOURS TO KEEP • Full backups as readable JSON or passphrase-encrypted AES-256-GCM • Markdown archives to read anywhere or hand to another AI • Importing never overwrites what is already there 19 languages, including Arabic and Urdu right-to-left. Interface, dictation and answer language are set independently. Screen reader, large text, contrast and reduced-motion support throughout. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No cloud account, no cross-device sync, no hosted inference, no included credits, no silent switching of your chosen model or voice, and no autonomous actions on your behalf. AI output is not medical, legal or financial advice. No subscription. Because there is no account system, a purchase on one store does not unlock the app on the other.
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The clearest difference is update cadence: ActionNote at every 6 days against Mr Broccoli's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ActionNote ships an update every 6 days, Mr Broccoli every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ActionNote | Mr Broccoli |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Khaled Shemy | Tobias Winkler |
In-app purchases
ActionNote
No in-app purchases
Mr Broccoli
No in-app purchases









