ownCloud Gallery Free vs Stenographer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ownCloud Gallery Free
View images from your ownCloud instance with generated previews. This free version allows testing your connection and thumbnail generation before upgrading. It optimizes bandwidth and loading times for a faster viewing experience.
- View ownCloud images
- Generates preview images
- Caches thumbnails on phone
- Optimized bandwidth usage
- Faster image loading
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This app shows you your images on your ownCloud instance with preview images. It makes use of the preview feature introduced in ownCloud version 6. This is the free version for testing the connection to your ownCloud 6 instance. If you are able to successfully connect to your ownCloud instance and can generate thumbnails, you are ready to go for the real version! If using https, make sure you have a valid SSL certificate or import the certificate before using this app. It generates thumbnails and caches them on your phone. This makes this app perfect for showing your latest holiday pictures. The bandwidth usage should be lower than transferring the original image and loads it faster. Make sure you have a ownCloud Version 6 (!) otherwise you will need to upgrade your ownCloud installation to get this app to work! This app ONLY previews your images as squares (limitation of the ownCloud API). Of course you can then show your original image as well anyways! If you have any feature request just drop me an email. I would love to implement it and improve the app. If you encounter a bug please send me as much details as possible that I will be able to fix it! This is the first version, so more features to come (suggest me some ...)! Have fun!
Stenographer
This app offers on-device audio recording and transcription, ensuring complete privacy as your data never leaves your device. It utilizes advanced AI for accurate speech processing, summarization, and multilingual support, with a one-time purchase for unlimited use.
- 100% on-device processing
- No subscriptions, one-time purchase
- Discreet background recording
- AI-powered transcription and summarization
- Intelligent search and tagging
- Multilingual transcription and translation
- Cross-device synchronization
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Your conversations are valuable. They should also stay private. Stenographer records, transcribes, identifies speakers, summarizes, and organizes audio directly on your iPhone or iPad. Capture from your phone or Apple Watch, then turn hours of audio into a readable, searchable record without sending your conversations to a transcription service. NEW IN STENOGRAPHER 2.0 • Seamless Transcript Read recordings as one continuous, newspaper-like conversation. Stenographer hides file splits and processing chunks while preserving the original audio behind every turn. • Know who said what Private, on-device speaker diarization separates conversations into natural speaker turns. Name a speaker and Stenographer can use an on-device voice profile to recognize that person in other recordings when there’s a confident match. • Private AI summaries On supported devices, summaries and labels use Apple’s on-device Foundation Models. An optional downloadable local fallback is available, and your transcripts remain on your device. • Record from your wrist Start recording from Apple Watch when reaching for your phone would interrupt the moment. Finished recordings remain queued on Apple Watch and retry until iPhone safely receives them for private transcription and analysis. MORE WAYS TO WORK • Continue recording in the background from iPhone or Apple Watch • Import existing audio files • Automatically detect supported languages • Transcribe speech or translate supported languages into English • Search across transcripts, summaries, and labels • Add labels and optional timestamps • Select exact transcript turns to share • Merge recordings and export all transcripts as JSON • Customize transcript fonts, speaker display, processing concurrency, and recording limits • Return to the classic per-recording layout at any time PRIVATE BY DESIGN Transcription, speaker identification, summaries, and labels run on your device whenever available. Nothing is uploaded unless you explicitly choose to share it. Speaker and optional fallback models may download when needed; your audio and transcripts are not uploaded for processing. ONE PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Record and transcribe without monthly fees, usage quotas, or cloud transcription charges. Ideal for meetings, lectures, interviews, research, personal notes, and private lifelogging. App icon designed by aaatelier.ch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stenographer at 88% against ownCloud Gallery Free's 7%. Stenographer also leads on rating (4.3 vs 1.4) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). ownCloud Gallery Free's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17.5). On ratings volume, ads, 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
ownCloud Gallery Free is free to download; Stenographer costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stenographer holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 7% of ownCloud Gallery Free's written reviews are positive against 88% of Stenographer's.
ownCloud Gallery Free ships an update every 2 weeks, Stenographer every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ownCloud Gallery Free | Stenographer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 1.4 (5 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.1% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 575 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wolfgang Steuer | Caleb Phillips |
Customer experience
ownCloud Gallery Free
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In-app purchases
ownCloud Gallery Free
No in-app purchases
Stenographer
No in-app purchases
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