Comparison

eXtra Voice Recorder Pro vs visualOS

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

Head to head
About

eXtra Voice Recorder Pro

This app combines a high-quality audio recorder with a powerful editor and organizer. Easily add notes and photos to recordings, bookmark key moments, and share files instantly. It ensures your audio is always accessible and well-managed.

Highlights
  • Multi-level file manager
  • Add notes and photos to recordings
  • Bookmark important parts
  • Edit recordings (split, trim, delete)
  • Cloud sync (Dropbox, Google Drive)
  • Instant file sharing
  • Background recording
Features
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eXtra Voice Recorder is a combination of a high-quality audio recorder, a multi-functional audio editor and an easy-to-use audio files manager. With eXtra Voice Recorder all your recordings will be fully organized and available whenever you need them. You can add notes and photos to each recording, bookmark important parts for ease of navigation, continue recordings and save them directly to the cloud for universal accessibility. Moreover, the app offers a host of handy features for instant file sharing, so sharing your recordings will only be a matter of a couple of taps. eXtra Voice Recorder offers the following: • Multi-level file manager to keep your recordings organized • Resume previously created recordings • Supply your recordings with comments • Bookmark the most important parts of recordings • Add photos to your recordings • Keep photos synced with audio • Edit recordings with split, trim, and delete features • Keep your recordings synced across your iPhone, iPad and Mac • Keep your recordings synced with Dropbox • Share recordings via Wi-Fi, AirDrop, Messages, Email or iTunes File Sharing • Keep notes in recording Meta tags that are available for other apps • Adjustable quality of recording • Audio scrubbing with variable speed • The ability to change the playback speed • Built-in search to find recordings by title or comments • Record in the background mode even when the device is locked • Import recordings from other apps • Upload your recordings to Google Drive, Evernote and other apps • Record directly to high-quality m4a (AAC) files • 3D Touch Menu support • Designed for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad • It’s also available on Mac

About

visualOS

This app offers an infinite canvas for visual thinkers to organize notes, images, and sketches. It works entirely offline, saving your data as real files in a folder on your device, ensuring your information is always accessible and under your control.

Highlights
  • Infinite canvas for visual organization
  • Offline functionality
  • Saves to real files on device
  • Hierarchical boards within boards
  • Supports images, PDFs, and Markdown
  • Drawing and sketching tools
  • Export to JPG, PNG, PDF
Features
Currently charting
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visualOS is an infinite canvas for people who think visually — for moodboards, notes, images, to-do’s and sketches. It works fully offline and saves to real files in a folder on your device. YOUR DATA IS A FOLDER YOU CAN OPEN Connect any folder on your disk and visualOS mirrors your canvas into it — every folder on the canvas is a real folder, every document a Markdown file, every image an image. Put the folder in iCloud Drive and it syncs through your cloud, not ours. If you ever leave, everything stays readable. Forever. OFFLINE ISN'T A MODE. IT'S THE ARCHITECTURE. On a flight, on the train, in a studio with no signal — visualOS doesn’t care. Your work doesn’t live on our servers, so there is no sync wheel, no forced login. Your canvas opens instantly because everything is already here. BOARDS WITHIN BOARDS Any board can hold more boards. A project becomes a world: moodboards inside client boards inside your studio. Drag elements into a board to file them away; breadcrumbs keep you oriented; a double-tap takes you deeper. NO ACCOUNT. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Open it and work. There's nothing to sign up for, nothing to verify, nothing to cancel. Pay once and it's yours forever — one purchase unlocks every Apple device. FREE IN THE BROWSER, BUT THE APP GOES FURTHER Try visualOS free in your browser at visualos.app. When you're ready for it everywhere, the app adds what a browser can't: true offline access on the train or a plane, native pan-and-zoom gestures, Apple Pencil drawing, and your boards saved as real files that sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud. EVERYTHING ELSE • Grids that line up your cards in columns and rows • Frames for print, PDFs and social media formats • Mindmaps with three layouts • Remove a picture’s background in one tap, right on your device • Notes & rich text • Long-form documents stored as plain Markdown • Interactive to-do lists on the canvas • Images & PDFs — drag, paste or drop them in • Freehand drawing • Magnetic arrows that snap and bend • Search every board at once • Export as JPG, PNG or PDF, or print • Groups, locking and a snap grid Your ideas. Your files. ABOUT US As creatives, we’ve always relied on visual canvas tools to organize our thoughts, plan projects, and make sense of ideas. But one thing kept bothering us: our files and knowledge were always tied to cloud-based services. We wanted the freedom to access everything offline, without worrying about losing our work or giving up our privacy. So why can’t our own files on our device be visualized in the same intuitive way? And that’s how the idea for visualOS was born: a visual representation of your internal folder structure — offline, private, and secure. Your data stays on your device, where it belongs. We’re Sarah and Gerald, a husband-and-wife team who have been living, loving, and building things together for more than 20 years. Creating visualOS has been a ton of fun and thanks to AI we were able to push it further than we initially imagined. Now we’d love to hear what you think. If visualOS helps you work a little more creatively or makes your files easier to navigate, we’d be grateful if you shared it with others.

Screenshots

eXtra Voice Recorder Pro4 screens
visualOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: eXtra Voice Recorder Pro at $2.99 against visualOS's $12.99. eXtra Voice Recorder Pro also leads on ratings volume (243 vs 6) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). visualOS's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 38 months) and review sentiment (83% vs 61%). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

eXtra Voice Recorder Pro costs $2.99 and visualOS $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for eXtra Voice Recorder Pro against 4.5 for visualOS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: eXtra Voice Recorder Pro has 243 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 61% of eXtra Voice Recorder Pro's written reviews are positive against 83% of visualOS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eXtra Voice Recorder Pro ships an update every 38 months, visualOS weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
eXtra Voice Recorder Pro versus visualOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereXtra Voice Recorder ProvisualOS
Price$2.99 — better$12.99
Rating4.4 (243 ratings)4.5 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings243 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#99 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDenys IevenkoDorweiler & Reimertz GbR

Customer experience

eXtra Voice Recorder Pro

All ratings241 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews192 reviews
Positive60.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative32.8%

visualOS

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

eXtra Voice Recorder Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Recordings randomly stop or get deleted
  • App crashes frequently, especially after updates
  • Issues with syncing and accessing recordings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to loop/repeat recordings
  • Implement import/export audio feature
  • Improve file management and editing capabilities
  • Introduce background recording option

visualOS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

eXtra Voice Recorder Pro

No in-app purchases

None

visualOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is eXtra Voice Recorder Pro free?
eXtra Voice Recorder Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is visualOS free?
visualOS costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, eXtra Voice Recorder Pro or visualOS?
visualOS is rated higher. eXtra Voice Recorder Pro averages 4.4 out of 5 from 243 ratings, while visualOS averages 4.5 from 6 ratings.
Do eXtra Voice Recorder Pro or visualOS have ads?
Neither eXtra Voice Recorder Pro nor visualOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eXtra Voice Recorder Pro or visualOS?
eXtra Voice Recorder Pro ships an update every 38 months, and visualOS weekly. Most recently, eXtra Voice Recorder Pro was updated on November 6, 2026 and visualOS on November 12, 2026.

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