Smart Recorder Transcriber AF vs Take Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Recorder Transcriber AF
Easily create audio recordings and transcribe them with high-quality machine transcription. This app offers advanced features for managing, editing, and exporting your audio files, making it ideal for professionals and students alike.
- Background recording and playback
- iTunes file sharing and Dropbox support
- Multiple export formats (CAF, WAV, AIF, MP4)
- Variable speed playback with pitch correction
- Machine transcription of recordings
- Searchable transcriptions and tags
- Geo-tagging of recordings
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Smart Recorder allows you to easily create recordings and then transcribe them using the high quality dictate2us. Smart Recorder is a full featured recorder and transcriber offering many features beyond what is available in the built in voice memos app. The Smart Recorder family of products has over 1,000,000 device installs. It has been actively marketed and updated for seven years. Use it to record meetings, interview, lectures, classes, todo lists, shopping lists or even your kids voices. What ever the task, Smart Recorder is the ideal tool. Check out these great features: - A large record button makes it easy to start and pause recordings - A main screen with the list of recordings created, each with a play button for easy playback - Tips and a comprehensive help system to get you up to speed quickly - Background recording and playback (other apps can run while Smart Recorder is recording or playing or your device can be sleeping during recording or playback) - iTunes file sharing - Flip mode for putting iPhone microphone on top - Email/export short recordings - Support for Dropbox if Dropbox app installed - Multiple supported mail/export formats including CAF, WAV, AIF and MP4. - iCloud support - Generation of ringtones for the iPhone - Add tags or pictures to mark positions in a recording - Time slider/forward/back buttons to quickly navigate through your recordings - Bluetooth and external headset support - Auto pause/voice activated recording - Variable speed playback with optional pitch correction - Many system settings to control the behavior of Smart Recorder - Stereo support - Append to existing recordings - Categorize/sort recordings - No time limit on recordings - Universal app for both iPhone and iPad - Geo tagging of recordings allows you to keep track of the location where they were created - Search allows you to search for conversations in a recording (based on the machine transcription) or for tags (or recordings with specific words in the title) Extra features (for purchase): - Disable advertising - Email/export long recordings - Voice enhancement - Trimming/editing - Machine transcription Buy now and you will get free upgrades with many new features!!! If you like this product, check out the Mac Smart Recorder at http://itunes.apple.com/app/smart-recorder/id412615645?mt=12 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smart-recorder-lite/id420266239?mt=12
Take Note
This app offers a minimalist writing experience for iPhone and iPad users. It provides a distraction-free interface with essential tools for jotting down thoughts, writing stories, or composing essays. Easily manage, search, and share your notes.
- Distraction-free interface
- Easy note creation
- Word count display
- Adjustable font sizes
- Export notes as PDFs
- Built-in search engine
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We often find it very difficult to concentrate when we try to write something on iPhone & iPad. Because most of the text editors that we use are full of buttons and tools that we don’t need, which results into distraction. TakeNote is an app which provides you with an easy layout wherein you can write down your thoughts and save them for ever. Just tap on the add button and you are ready to go. It offers you a distraction free interface with features that are needed the most. The app is not cramped with too much information or tools which makes it suitable for story writing, essay writing and writing notes in general. App Features: - Simple app UI with helpful tools. - Easy to create notes with single click. - See word count at the right bottom corner of the app. - Change font sizes of Title, Heading and Body of a note. - Share your saved notes via email or print them by exporting PDFs. - Easily access your notes using the built-in search engine. TakeNote is definitely going to be your favorite note taking app. This app is ideal for those people who are looking for an easy solution to distraction free writing. It is light weighted, responds quickly and works like a pro. So, download TakeNote now and jot down your thoughts right away.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Take Note at Free against Smart Recorder Transcriber AF's $13.99. Take Note also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). Smart Recorder Transcriber AF's advantage is review sentiment (35% vs 0%) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On 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
Take Note is free to download; Smart Recorder Transcriber AF costs $13.99 up front. Smart Recorder Transcriber AF sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Take Note asks for nothing beyond the download.
Take Note holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of Smart Recorder Transcriber AF's written reviews are positive against 0% of Take Note's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Smart Recorder Transcriber AF | Take Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $13.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.9 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roe Mobile Development | Sudip Bag |
Customer experience
Smart Recorder Transcriber AF
Take Note
In-app purchases
Smart Recorder Transcriber AF
- Transcription $1.00$0.99
- Machine Transcription for 30 days$3.99
- Transcription $10.00$9.99
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- Siri transcription$9.99
- Donate Money$24.99
- Transcription $100.00$99.99
Take Note
No in-app purchases





