Comparison

Offhand Typewriter vs Offhand

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

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About

Offhand Typewriter

Features
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Every time you open Offhand, a blank page is waiting. Write down a moment. Compose your work. Be your first reader. Here, words become Moments. Each one begins on its own, then finds its place. Move them. Reorder them. Return to them. As you keep writing, Moments grow into pages, chapters, acts, and stories. You compose with your words, and Offhand stays out of the way. Writing begins with the relationship between you and your words. Your words stay yours Everything stays on your device. Export a full backup anytime, in a single tap. Import and export Markdown, Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain, so you can bring in work you've already started and keep going. You can also open these files with Offhand straight from the Files app. Fiction and non-fiction Write dialogue. Add scene headings. Give your screenplay a cover. The same structure becomes headings and secondary text for essays, journals, and everything in between. Arrange and read • Paper colors: hold a card still to give a collection or a moment a different paper. Tap a color dot at the top of the Collection Page to filter by paper. • Views: pinch to switch between Single, Large, Small and Spines. • Search: tap Offhand at the top of the Collection Page to search your moments and collections. • Appearance: follow the system, or keep it Light or Dark. • Five languages: English, 中文, Français, Español, 日本語. On iPad and Mac • iPad: write in portrait or landscape, with Split View and Stage Manager. Collections lay out to fit your window. • Keyboard shortcuts (iPad with a keyboard, and Mac): ⌘[ goes back, ⌘] goes one level deeper. ⌘F to search, ⌘+ / ⌘− to change text size on the Writing Page, ⌘0 to reset it. • Set your page: six text sizes on iPhone and iPad, and on wider screens a narrow, medium or wide line width. On the Mac: 15 text sizes from 13 to 40, an extra-wide line width, and a choice of font (sans or serif) and line spacing (compact, standard or relaxed). • Only on the Mac: a live word count at the bottom of the Writing Page, and every shortcut in the View and Go menus. Membership Offhand Membership is a yearly subscription that unlocks the full writing experience on iPhone, iPad and Mac: • An Offhand First Edition · 2026 badge • Unlimited Moments (the free plan includes 50) • iCloud Backup: every collection and moment is saved to iCloud Drive as a plain Markdown file • Export to PDF, EPUB, Markdown, Final Draft and Fountain • PNG layouts: Magazine, Moment and White on black, with no watermark • More cursor colors Offhand. Put a moment into words. Terms of Use: https://offhand.ink/terms Privacy Policy: https://offhand.ink/privacy Support: https://offhand.ink

About

Offhand

Capture tasks and notes using your voice and have them automatically organized. This app leverages on-device AI to process your spoken input, creating actionable tasks or simple notes without sending data off your phone. Optional Pro features enhance integration and convenience.

Highlights
  • Voice-to-task conversion
  • Automatic task categorization
  • Note-taking and searching
  • Scheduled task reminders
  • Task and note organization
  • Optional Calendar and iCloud sync
  • Multi-language support
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Say it Offhand. Press the Action Button, say what you have to do, tap Save. A model on your iPhone reads the note and files each task under Morning, Afternoon, Tonight or Anytime. If you named an hour, the task gets it. Not everything you say is a task. A thought with nothing to do stays a note. Notes are kept by day, and search finds them by the words you said. BEFORE YOU BUY: IT NEEDS AN iPHONE 15 PRO OR NEWER Offhand runs on Apple Intelligence. That needs an A17 Pro chip or newer. It is a separate requirement from iOS 26, and it is the one that matters. On an iPhone 14 or an iPhone 15, Offhand still records and transcribes, and files each note as one task with the time it named. It does not split a note into several tasks, mark what they are about, or offer groups. WHAT IT DOES • One note becomes separate tasks. "Call the dentist first thing, then pick up the dry cleaning this afternoon" is two tasks in two parts of the day. • A task that names a clock time alerts you at that time. A task that names only a day waits quietly on that day. • It marks what each task is about, like Groceries or Work. When five tasks of one kind pile up, it offers to make a group. Nothing moves until you tap. • Drag a card to another part of the day, or to another day. • Lists shows everything in one place: open tasks, completed tasks, notes, and a month of days. Search reads the whole note, not just the title. • After each capture, a receipt shows the words it heard. When it cannot find a task in what you said, it saves the note and says so. It does not invent one. NOTHING LEAVES THE PHONE, EXCEPT TWO SWITCHES YOU CAN TURN ON No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no third-party SDKs, no advertising. Offhand makes no network request of its own. Speech recognition, the model, your recordings, your transcripts and your list all stay on this device. The app works with the network off. Two optional switches, both off until you turn them on, hand data to Apple's own apps rather than to us: • Show in Calendar puts scheduled task titles into an "Offhand" calendar. If your iPhone syncs calendars to iCloud, those titles go where your calendar already goes. • iCloud Sync mirrors your list into your own private iCloud database. Your Apple account, nobody else's servers, no third party. Recordings have a second switch of their own, also off by default. Both switches are part of Pro. We do not run a server that could receive your data. THREE LANGUAGES, ONE AT A TIME Offhand listens in English, Spanish or Brazilian Portuguese. You pick one in Settings. It does not work out which language you are speaking, and it does not hear two at once. The app's own interface is translated into all three. PRO Offhand is free to download. Speaking, the Action Button, your list, notes and search stay free. Pro is an optional subscription, Monthly or Yearly, and it unlocks: • The Home Screen widget, the Lock Screen button and the Control Center control. Each shows or starts a note without opening the app. • Show in Calendar and iCloud Sync, the two switches above. • A second pass over each recording. Measured on a Mac over 620 recordings in Offhand's own format, it made about 12% fewer mistakes. The upgrade page names the price before anything is charged. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://offhandapp.com/privacy YOUR RECORDINGS Audio stays on this iPhone and is kept until you delete it. If you prefer, set it to be deleted after a week, 30 days or a year. The transcript is kept either way. Deleting an entry removes the note and its audio from the phone, and that cannot be undone.

Screenshots

Offhand Typewriter4 screens
Offhand4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Offhand Typewriter at 4 against Offhand's 1. Offhand Typewriter also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 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. Offhand Typewriter sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and Offhand sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Offhand Typewriter ships an update every 10 days, Offhand every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Offhand Typewriter versus Offhand: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOffhand TypewriterOffhand
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer浩 赵BunnyHop, LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Offhand Typewriter

Subscriptions1
  • Offhand Membership$19.991 Year
2 purchases

Offhand

Subscriptions2
  • Offhand Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Offhand Pro Yearly7 Days trial$21.991 Year

Questions

Is Offhand Typewriter free?
Offhand Typewriter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Offhand free?
Offhand is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Offhand Typewriter or Offhand have ads?
Neither Offhand Typewriter nor Offhand shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Offhand Typewriter or Offhand?
Offhand Typewriter ships an update every 10 days, and Offhand every 6 days. Most recently, Offhand Typewriter was updated on October 31, 2026 and Offhand on October 25, 2026.

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