Notabe vs Notion

Notabe is an iOS, voice-first notes app for capturing spoken or typed thoughts and finding them by meaning. Apple’s on-device speech recognition transcribes voice notes on iPhone or iPad, and the audio is never uploaded. Notabe can automatically title and tag notes, with suggestions that users may edit or ignore. Notes can be spoken, typed, or shared from another app through the iOS share sheet. No sign-up is required; notes sync between Apple devices through iCloud and CloudKit. The Free plan is billed Free forever at free and includes voice and text capture, on-device transcription, automatic titles and tags, five AI summaries per month, and iCloud sync. Pro costs $9.99 a month and adds semantic search, unlimited summaries, a graph of connected notes, collection suggestions, similar notes, tag normalization, asking questions about notes, and daily resurfacing. Users can disable AI processing. Notabe says it has no ads or third-party trackers, does not sell data, and does not use notes or embeddings to train AI models.

Notion is a cloud workspace for organising personal projects and coordinating work. Its pages, blocks, and databases support note sharing and real-time collaboration, and offline access is available. It runs on the web, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, with a Chrome extension also listed. Connections include Slack, Google Drive, Figma, GitHub, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Notion supports semantic search, AI search or answers, and version history. The Free plan costs $0 per member per month and includes trial AI capabilities and a trial of Notion AI. Free uploads are limited to 5 MB per file, multi-member Free workspaces have a limited number of blocks, and external guests are limited to 10. Plus costs $10 per member per month, and Business costs $20 per member per month; yearly payment saves up to 20%. Paid plans list unlimited guests. Notion says data is encrypted and private, and that Notion AI does not use customer data to train models unless users opt in. Enterprise workspaces get zero data retention with LLM providers.