Comparison

Offline Note vs Furigana Notepad

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

Head to head
About

Offline Note

Features
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In an era where everything is in the cloud, we are completely returning your privacy to you. "Offline Voice to Text" is an AI voice memo app that runs entirely locally on your iPhone. Whether you are recording highly confidential business negotiations, in-depth journalist interviews, or private inspiration diaries, all your audio and text will never leave your phone. ■ Core Features • Powered by Whisper AI: Integrates the advanced Whisper large speech model, putting a smart stenographer right inside your phone. Accurate recognition, smart sentence segmentation, and automatic punctuation. • Supports 100+ Languages: Natively supports accurate recognition and transcription of over 100 major and minor languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, and German, easily handling multinational meetings and foreign language learning. • Intuitive Calendar View Management: Say goodbye to cluttered file lists. All recordings are automatically archived by date. Through an elegant calendar interface, you can easily trace back every important meeting and flash of inspiration from any month or year, just like flipping through a diary. • True Offline Capability: No internet connection is required. Even in the extreme state of removing your SIM card and turning on Airplane Mode, it still provides you with 100% complete transcription services. • Exclusive NAS Private Cloud Backup: We understand the pain points of geeks and business professionals. The App natively supports the local network SMB protocol, allowing you to back up massive audio and text files directly to your NAS (like Synology, QNAP, etc.) with one click. Reject cloud drive kidnappings and achieve a perfect data closed-loop. • Versatile Export Formats: Record anytime, anywhere, and supports running in the background. After transcription, you can not only export as plain text (TXT) for meeting minutes but also natively export as standard subtitle files (SRT, VTT). This perfectly preserves timeline information and seamlessly integrates with various video editing software, greatly enhancing creators' efficiency. ■ Flexible Pricing Options Why do most transcription apps on the market charge exorbitant "cloud service fees"? Because they have to pay for cloud server costs. However, we solely utilize your phone's own chip processing power for transcription. We offer flexible unlocking options: you can choose a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase for unlimited usage. No hidden costs; the processing power is yours, and so is your data. ■ Frequently Asked Questions Q: Does the transcription process secretly upload my data? A: Absolutely not. We have not deployed any servers to receive your recordings; the app runs entirely within a local sandbox. As developers, we know absolutely nothing about the content of your recordings. Q: Why don't you support AI automatic summarization? A: At this stage, high-quality AI summarization must rely on cloud-based large model APIs (which means your text must be uploaded to a third party). To uphold our absolute bottom line of "Absolute Privacy," we would rather forgo this gimmick. You can export your safe, plain text and decide how to process it yourself. Q: Is there a recording time limit? A: No limits at all! As long as your phone has enough storage space, you can record hours of meetings continuously. After recording, just let your phone process for a while, and the complete transcript will be automatically generated. Q: Are there device requirements? A: Because AI processing demands high hardware performance, we recommend using an iPhone 12 (A14 chip) or newer for the smoothest transcription experience. ■ Privacy & Legal Privacy Policy: https://speech.chaoxitime.workers.dev Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ■ Contact Us If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at: speech@chaoxishiguang.com

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Furigana Notepad

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Furigana Notepad is a notepad that lets you give any word in your notes the reading (furigana / ruby text) you like, and keeps it. Creative readings such as 約束《ちかい》, or readings for kanji you cannot read yet: you decide. Built for novel and script drafts, dialogue readings, and Japanese study. Select text and add a reading. Register readings you use often in a dictionary, and they appear automatically from then on. Assign a dictionary per folder to switch readings by project or by textbook. ■ Manual ruby Select any range of text and give that one spot its own reading — useful when the same kanji is read differently depending on context, such as a character's line in a novel. You can register it to the dictionary from the same dialog. ■ Automatic furigana Register a word and its reading, and matching text in your notes gets ruby text automatically. Assign a dictionary per folder to keep multiple stories or study sets separate. Words in the Shared Dictionary apply to every memo regardless of folder settings. ■ Live ruby preview while editing Split the editor into two panes. The lower pane shows your text with ruby applied as you type, so you can check the result without switching to view mode. ■ Select and copy in view mode Select the body text and copy it as plain text. When you want ruby text included, use the novel-site notation export instead. ■ Novel-site ruby notation export Supports four formats: Narou-style (|kanji《ruby》), pixiv, Alphapolis, and HTML. Converts your text so it can be pasted straight into novel submission sites. ■ Import from novel-site notation Paste text written in Narou-style, pixiv, Alphapolis, or HTML ruby notation, and it becomes a note with ruby text applied. The format is detected automatically, and the readings it contains can be registered to a dictionary in one go. ■ PDF export with furigana Create a PDF with ruby text, choosing vertical or horizontal writing, paper size (A4 / B5), typeface (Mincho / Gothic), font size, characters per line, line spacing, and margins. Share, save, or print it (Premium feature). ■ Note management Full-text search, pinning, a trash (auto-deletes after 30 days, with undo), and autosave are all built in. Folders can be nested without limit. ■ Your data and Premium No account required. Memos are stored on your device and never uploaded to our servers (OS backups follow your device settings). The free version shows ads. Watch a video for 24 hours ad-free, or buy Premium once for permanent ad-free use and PDF export. See the privacy policy for how ads and crash reporting handle data. Whether you're writing a novel or studying Japanese, the readings are yours to decide. Service names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.

Screenshots

Offline Note4 screens
Furigana Notepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Offline Note at none against Furigana Notepad's shown. Furigana Notepad's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Offline Note sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Furigana Notepad sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Offline Note ships an update every 3 days, Furigana Notepad daily. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Offline Note versus Furigana Notepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOffline NoteFurigana Notepad
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size632 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWuxi Chaoxi Shiguang Technology Co., Ltd.QuickServe Corporation

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Offline Note

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pro$2.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$7.99
1 purchases

Furigana Notepad

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99

Questions

Is Offline Note free?
Offline Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Furigana Notepad free?
Furigana Notepad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Offline Note or Furigana Notepad have ads?
Furigana Notepad shows ads; Offline Note does not.
Which is updated more often, Offline Note or Furigana Notepad?
Offline Note ships an update every 3 days, and Furigana Notepad daily. Most recently, Offline Note was updated on September 24, 2026 and Furigana Notepad on September 26, 2026.

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