Cleft vs Whispr Notes

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.

Whispr Notes turns voice recordings into searchable transcripts that can be refined with AI. Start a recording in the app or from the lock screen with one tap. The product says it produces readable transcripts in seconds and is designed for noisy settings. Semantic search ranks notes against a question or keyword by intended meaning. Its AI tools can summarize, polish, correct grammar, clean transcripts, and brainstorm within notes; users can also clean up or export groups of notes in batches. Recordings and transcripts are stored in the user's Google Drive, not on Whispr Notes' servers. Whispr Notes says its Drive access is limited to its own files and can be withdrawn in Google settings, and that recordings and transcripts are not used to train AI models. Its privacy policy lists Google account name and email, usage diagnostics, and crash logs as collected data. It runs on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. The free plan includes 10 hours of transcription each month. Unlimited costs $4.17/mo billed annually at $49.99/year, or $5.99/mo when billed monthly.