Comparison

Evolith vs DocNavy

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

Head to head
About

Evolith

Features
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Speak, and Evolith turns your words into a clean Markdown noteβ€”transcribed entirely on your iPhone. No account. No servers. Nothing leaves your device. Evolith is a voice notes app for people who want to keep their own words. Tap record, talk, and watch the text appear in real time. Review it, and Evolith saves a tidy Markdown file wherever you keep your notes. WHY EVOLITH β€’ On-device transcription. Your voice becomes text using Apple's on-device speech recognition. Audio is never uploaded, and it is never stored after it's transcribed. β€’ Your files, your storage. Keep notes on this iPhone, in iCloud Drive, or in a folder you choose. They are ordinary .md files that you fully own. β€’ Made for your AI. Evolith writes to a plain folder your desktop AI can read. Point an assistant on your Mac (such as Claude Code) at it and let it work with your real notes. β€’ Opens anywhere. Because notes are plain Markdown, they open in any Markdown editor, including an Obsidian vault. β€’ No account, no tracking. No sign-in, no analytics, no ads. HOW IT WORKS 1. Tap record and speak. Transcription runs live, on your device. 2. Review and lightly edit. Evolith can add a title and summary for you. 3. Save. Your note becomes a dated Markdown file with clean frontmatter. 4. Find it later in the Journal, searchable by keyword. PERFECT FOR β€’ Voice journaling and daily notes β€’ Capturing ideas and thoughts on the go β€’ Feeding your own AI a folder of your real notes β€’ Anyone who wants private, portable, plain-text notes EARLY ACCESS Evolith is free and unlimited while in early access. Paid plans arrive in a later update β€” and if you install now, unlimited on-device recording and transcription stay free for you, permanently. Optional cloud features that cost money to run will be a separate paid add-on. REQUIREMENTS Evolith needs iOS 26. Live transcription works on every iPhone that runs it. The AI clean-up β€” tidying the transcript, adding a title and summary, and applying your vocabulary list β€” uses Apple Intelligence and runs only on iPhone models that support it. On other iPhones, your note is saved as the transcript itself. PRIVACY Evolith has no servers and collects no data. Everything happens on your device. Privacy policy: https://antsline.github.io/evolith-legal/privacy/

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DocNavy

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Turn PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and 10 more formats into clean Markdown β€” entirely on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. Your documents never leave the device. No server, no account, no upload. WHAT IT CONVERTS β€’ PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, ODT, EPUB β€’ XLS, XLSX, XLSB, ODS, CSV β€’ PPT, PPTX, ODP WHAT SURVIVES THE CONVERSION Tables, merged cells, footnotes, headings, bold and italic, nested lists, math formulas as LaTeX, embedded images written out next to the Markdown, and β€” when you convert a whole folder β€” the folder structure itself. SCANNED PAGES, HANDLED PROPERLY Pages with no text layer go through on-device OCR. The language is detected automatically, so a Japanese invoice and an English contract in the same batch both come out right. Nothing is sent anywhere to make that happen. HONEST ABOUT QUALITY Every conversion comes with a per-page report: how many pages were read directly, how many needed OCR, how many failed, and why. Most converters hand you a file and hope you do not check. DocNavy tells you what it actually managed to read. BUILT FOR MARKDOWN PEOPLE Made for Obsidian, Logseq, Bear and plain-text vaults. Preview the result, read the raw Markdown side by side, then save the .md file wherever you keep your notes. PRIVACY YOU CAN VERIFY DocNavy makes no network requests at all. You do not have to take our word for it: turn on Settings β€Ί Privacy & Security β€Ί App Privacy Report, use the app for a few days, and the domain list for DocNavy will stay empty. The App Store privacy label says Data Not Collected because that is literally what happens. FREE AND PRO The free tier is the whole app: all 14 formats, on-device OCR, whole-folder conversion, zip export and the full diagnostics report β€” every page of every file, however long. One limit applies: 5 documents a day. Pro removes it and changes nothing else: no extra features, no watermark, no upsell. Take it monthly at $2.99 with a 3-day free trial, or pay $29.99 once and keep it. Either way it is a Universal Purchase, so buying on iPhone unlocks iPad and Mac too. Privacy Policy: https://docnavy.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://docnavy.com/terms

Screenshots

Evolith4 screens
DocNavy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Evolith at none against DocNavy's 2. Evolith also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. DocNavy sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Evolith asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Evolith ships an update every 5 days, DocNavy weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Evolith versus DocNavy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEvolithDocNavy
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days β€” betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac β€” better
Requires iOS15.1 β€” better17.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size32 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJunichi NaraThi Thanh Van Do

In-app purchases

None

Evolith

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

DocNavy

Subscriptions1
  • DocNavy Pro - Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • DocNavy Pro - Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Evolith free?
Evolith is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is DocNavy free?
DocNavy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Evolith or DocNavy have ads?
Neither Evolith nor DocNavy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Evolith or DocNavy?
Evolith ships an update every 5 days, and DocNavy weekly. Most recently, Evolith was updated on October 12, 2026 and DocNavy on October 4, 2026.

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