Audio Notebook vs Audio Notes Voice Recorder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audio Notebook
Record lectures, meetings, or thoughts with this voice recorder and note-taking app. Features include 2x playback speed for faster review and a wide-screen editor for comfortable note-taking on your iPad. Try the free edition with limited notes.
- All-day audio recording
- 2x playback speed
- Wide-screen text editor
- Note-taking for lectures and meetings
- Free edition available
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All-Day Audio Recorder, 2x Playback, and Wide-Screen Text Editor. Audio Notebook is perfect for: - Students: To record all your lectures, and take notes on all your classes, - Professionals: For every meeting and interview, - Everyone else: To capture your thoughts and ideas for all of life's projects. 2x Playback Speed Saves you Precious Time. Imagine if you can review your notes twice as fast. This is built-into Audio Notebook. You'll never want to go back. Comfortable Wide-Screen Editing Use your iPad as a note-taking machine, with or without an attached hardware keyboard. TRY AUDIO NOTEBOOK RISK FREE! We're confident you'll find Audio Notebook to be the best and easiest to use audio note system for your iPad, so we've prepared a special Free Edition you can use right now. Download the Free Edition and try it risk free. It has all the features of the Full Edition, but is limited to 4 notes at a time.
Audio Notes Voice Recorder
Record high-quality audio for extended periods with intelligent silence skipping. Save space by recording hundreds of hours of audio in MP3 format. Manage, playback, and share your recordings easily with a simple interface.
- High-quality long-time sound recording
- Skips relative silence on-the-fly
- Records audio in MP3 format
- Runs in background service
- Pause function for recording/playback
- Easy management and playback of recordings
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Stop losing key details in meetings and voice notes. Record clearly, pause when needed, mark important moments, and find what matters later without digging through messy audio files. Voice Recorder Audio Notes helps students, professionals, and everyday users record audio notes, organize recordings, and play back important moments with less hassle. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Record with start, pause, resume, and stop controls so you can capture a full meeting memo or quick voice recorder note without starting over. - Pick the right capture profile for the moment: Studio for a neutral sound, Meeting for steadier in typical room noise, or Studio mastered in Pro to reduce low rumble after recording. - Turn on Smart Silence in Pro to pause automatically during quiet stretches and continue when returns, helping you keep recordings focused. - Add bookmarks while recording with the volume button or your earbud control so you can flag action items, quotes, or key decisions as they happen. - See your active input source before you record, so it is easy to tell whether you are using the built-in mic or a wireless microphone. - Play back with a waveform scrubber, 15-second skip controls, and speed options up to 2x so you can review a lecture, interview, or meeting recording faster. - Organize your library with favorites, search, sort options, pinned folders, tags in Pro, and trim silence to save a clean copy without long gaps. PERFECT FOR Weekly meetings where you need a reliable meeting recorder and searchable notes later. Classes and lectures when you want audio notes plus bookmarks for important parts. Interviews and conversations that need careful playback and easy sharing. Personal reminders, ideas, and voice notes you want to keep organized. WHY Voice Recorder Audio Notes This voice recorder keeps your recordings on your device, and transcript features are processed on your device too. You can record in the background, control playback from the Lock Screen, and use a widget or shortcuts for quicker access to your latest recording. Pro adds folders, tags, app lock, trim and cut tools, append recording, live transcript while recording, saved transcripts, chapter creation, and export options for text, subtitles, and a memo PDF. Optional weekly reminders are local to your device. Microphone access is needed to record, access is needed for transcripts, and notifications are only needed if you turn reminders on. Try it for voice notes, audio notes, and meeting recordings you can actually find and use later. Terms of Use (EULA) - http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Audio Notebook at 50% against Audio Notes Voice Recorder's 0%. Audio Notebook also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Audio Notes Voice Recorder sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Audio Notebook asks for nothing beyond the download.
Audio Notebook holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Audio Notebook's written reviews are positive against 0% of Audio Notes Voice Recorder's.
Audio Notebook ships an update every 3 months, Audio Notes Voice Recorder every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audio Notebook | Audio Notes Voice Recorder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | Sandeep Bhandari |
Customer experience
Audio Notebook
Audio Notes Voice Recorder
In-app purchases
Audio Notebook
No in-app purchases
Audio Notes Voice Recorder
- Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
- Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
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- Yearly Subscription Sale$14.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription Discount7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription Special$19.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Forever Pro Discount$79.99
- Forever Pro$99.99
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