Cleft vs Easy Voice Recorder

Cleft is an iOS and macOS app that turns spoken thoughts into notes with main points, actions, summaries, and transcripts. Its built-in output styles are Structured, Structured Prose, and Clean Transcript; Plus users can also save custom styles. Cleft says it works offline and supports 99 languages, including switching languages mid-sentence. Transcription runs locally using Whisper, and temporary audio is deleted afterward unless Keep Audio is enabled. Optional cloud formatting sends transcript text, not audio, to OpenAI, with Groq as a backup. Cleft lists support for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and CarPlay. Its Basic plan includes recordings up to five minutes, on-device transcription, tags, search, and export. Plus raises the recording limit to 30 minutes and adds attachments, Notion and Zapier integrations, and Family Sharing for up to five. Plus costs $6.99 per month or $39.99 per year through the App Store, with automatic renewal unless canceled. Cleft says notes are encrypted at rest and in transit.

Easy Voice Recorder records meetings, classes, personal notes, songs and other audio without time limits. It is available on Android, iOS and macOS, with platform-specific features described for Android and iOS. On Android, recordings can use PCM or MP4, or AMR to save space; the app can record in the background and use widgets and shortcuts. Android also supports Wear OS recording with an included watch tile. Pro adds automatic Google Drive or Dropbox uploads, MP3, FLAC and AAC recording, Bluetooth microphones, trimming, folders and notification-bar controls. On iOS, recordings can be transcribed, shared by email or other apps, saved to the device or iCloud Drive, trimmed, and turned into videos with photos. Recordings are stored locally rather than in the cloud and do not automatically transfer to a new device. Digipom says it does not collect, share or copy recordings or transcriptions. The free plan has ads and in-app purchases. Easy Voice Recorder Pro costs $4.99, paid once; other listed one-time purchases range from 0.99 USD to 1.99 USD.