Cleft vs PlancyAI

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.

PlancyAI is a voice-first notes app for capturing spoken or typed notes, transcribing audio, and turning memos into summaries, details, and follow-ups. Users can record from a home-screen widget with a single tap, review transcripts, replay audio, and refine generated notes. Projects and filters organize notes; search can find them by text, meaning, or project, and the app can summarize across notes. It can extract action items, turn memo details into to-dos, set reminders, and archive completed items. Users may connect Google Sheets to export selected content, or save notes to local phone storage. The Free plan costs nothing and allows 5 voice memos or notes per day and 100 voice minutes per month, including a 7-day Pro trial. Pro costs $20 a month, billed monthly, and allows 50 per day and 1000 minutes per month, with spreadsheet and local exports. PlancyAI is available on Android and the web; access is rolling out in waves, with a waitlist for early access. Its privacy policy says content may go to OpenAI and Anthropic for AI and speech features, but is not intentionally used to train generalized AI models.