AI Note Taker vs Offhand
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AI Note Taker
This app transforms audio recordings into searchable transcripts, concise summaries, and actionable notes. It allows you to ask questions about your recordings and extract key information like action items and decisions. All processing happens directly on your device for enhanced privacy.
- Record audio notes
- Private AI transcription
- Smart summaries
- Ask questions about recordings
- Timestamps and markers
- Import audio files
- Export notes as PDF/Word
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Loki Notes is a private AI note taker that turns audio into transcripts, summaries, and searchable notes directly on your iPhone. Record meetings, lectures, interviews, thoughts, and conversations. Loki captures the details, creates a transcript, summarizes the important points, and helps you ask questions about your recordings later. No model downloads required. No account required. No ads or tracking. Just open the app, record, and let Loki turn your audio into useful notes. WHAT LOKI CAN DO Record Audio Notes Start recording quickly and capture meetings, classes, ideas, interviews, and everyday voice notes. Private AI Transcription Loki turns speech into readable transcripts on your device. No separate model download is required. Smart Summaries Loki reads your transcript and creates clear summaries, key points, decisions, and follow-ups. Ask Loki Ask questions about a recording and Loki helps you find action items, names, dates, decisions, and important moments. Timestamps and Markers Add markers while recording and return to the exact parts of the transcript that matter. Import Audio Bring in existing audio files and let Loki transcribe and summarize them. Export and Share Copy or share summaries, transcripts, and audio. Export generated notes as PDF or Word-compatible documents. WHY CHOOSE LOKI NOTES? Private by Design Your recordings, transcripts, summaries, notes, and recording chats are processed and stored on device. Offline First Core recording, transcription, notes, summaries, and recording chat are designed for an offline workflow. No Model Downloads Start using Loki without downloading a separate AI or transcription model. No Account Required Open the app and start taking notes without signing in. BUILT FOR - Meeting notes - Lecture notes - Voice memos - Interviews - Study notes - Personal thoughts - Daily reflections - Action items - Private audio notes Loki Notes helps you record less manually, remember more clearly, and turn spoken information into useful notes you can act on.
Offhand
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You talk. You get a note with a title, headings and action items. Record a meeting, a lecture or a thought on a walk, and when you stop, Offhand turns it into a transcript and a structured note you can read, search and share. All of it happens on your iPhone with on-device AI. No cloud, no account, no subscription needed. VOICE MEMO TO TEXT, MEETING TO NOTES Offhand does not shrink a two hour meeting into three sentences. The on-device AI rewrites your transcript into a readable note that keeps the details, with headings, bullet lists and action items, and gives it a short title. A meeting becomes a document with decisions and next steps. A lecture becomes notes with sections. ALREADY HAVE RECORDINGS? Import any audio or video file and it becomes a note like any other. Voice Memos, Zoom recordings, screen recordings, lectures, interviews, and calls. For a video, Offhand takes the audio track and does the rest. Pick it with Import in Settings or share it from another app, up to two hours each. Your first three imports are free, one file at a time. After that, import is part of Offhand Pro. BUILT FOR LONG RECORDINGS Record up to about two hours. Transcription runs while you are still speaking, so even long meetings are ready moments after you stop. Recording continues when you lock the screen or switch apps. Transcription is saved as it goes, so if the app is interrupted, Offhand picks up where it stopped. Finishing a note keeps running after you leave the app, fully in the background on iOS 26 and newer. FREE TO USE - Unlimited recordings and notes - Transcript plus a structured Summary note for every recording - Search every word of every note - Two folders - Copy any section, share or save notes as text, recordings as WAV - Encrypted backup and restore to move notes to a new iPhone - App lock with Face ID, Touch ID or passcode - Start and stop a recording from the Shortcuts app - Three audio or video imports to try OFFHAND PRO, PAY ONCE One time purchase, or yearly with a 14 day free trial. No monthly plan. Pro adds: - Meeting notes, Visit report and Legal note styles, plus your own styles, built from headings or described in plain words - A different style for any note, and a style per folder, so everything recorded there comes out the same way - Unlimited folders - PDF and Word export, ready for clients and email - Smart suggestions, calendar events and follow ups found in your notes - Unlimited audio and video import, several files at once - Backup with the recordings included - Every new Pro feature as it ships Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The yearly subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. WHY YOU CAN TRUST IT Most voice to text and AI note apps upload your audio to a server and promise to be careful with it. Offhand cannot leak your recordings, because there is no server. Speech recognition (OpenAI Whisper) and note writing run as on-device AI, 100 percent offline. Turn on Airplane Mode and everything still works. Notes are stored in an encrypted database protected by your iPhone, usage and crash reports can be switched off in Settings, and the full source code is public, so you can check all of this yourself. GOOD FOR - Meetings and stand ups, decisions and action items captured - Doctors, lawyers and consultants with confidentiality obligations - Students turning lectures into notes - Journalists and researchers WHAT IT NEEDS On-device AI needs a recent iPhone with enough memory and about 3 GB of free storage for a one time download. Offhand checks your iPhone at first launch and tells you honestly if it will not run well. Notes in English, German, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian. Terms: https://dmytrosamoilov.com/offhand/terms-and-conditions.html Privacy: https://dmytrosamoilov.com/offhand/privacy-policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AI Note Taker at none against Offhand's 2. Offhand's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Offhand sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. AI Note Taker asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AI Note Taker against 5.0 for Offhand. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
AI Note Taker ships an update weekly, Offhand every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AI Note Taker | Offhand |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RADIX IT TECH INC | Dmytro Samoilov |
Customer experience
AI Note Taker
Offhand
In-app purchases
AI Note Taker
No in-app purchases
Offhand
- Offhand Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
- Offhand Pro Lifetime$59.99









