Eduardo the maker of NotePlan has a sister app complementing NotePlan with Memo AI
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USD $79 a year!
Katie
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The developer makes great apps, but they are expensive. If you subscribe to both of his apps, the cost is approx. $200/year.
I’m currently using the Pocket hardware+app to accomplish this. I don’t love the app at all, but I think this concept (for me) works much better as a dedicated hardware device than it does as an app on my phone.
Of course, if you could map the action button to start a recording…hmm…
Value for money-wise, Setapp is better if anyone’s considering NotePlan.
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I’ve considered Setapp, but I don’t use enough subscription apps to realize a savings. I have only two app subscriptions that are available through Setapp: Ulysses and MindNode. I’d have to use a lot of subscription apps to break even at $150/year. 
@bmosbacker the high cost for Memo AI is from the AI. Most voice recording/transcription apps are in this range.
WhisprFlow is $144
Superwhisper is $84.99
Whisper Memos Pro is $69.99
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Run the math for me; how many apps (NotePlan plus how many others) would you have to use for it to make sense? I don’t see it.
NotePlan is $100 a year if you pay up front ($144 if you pay monthly). SetApp ranges from $120pa for one machine up to $180pa for 4 macs and 4 ios devices. So it won’t save you money on NotePlan alone, but if (like me) you also use CleanshotX Pro, Hookmark, Godspeed and a bunch of other apps from it, you quickly go past the break even point.
In response to a post on Reddit recently, I calculated up the apps I use in SetApp, and how much it would cost to buy outright, subscribe, or to keep buying 12 months worth of updates at a time. This is what I got. (assuming a 10% uplift on SetApp pricing each year).
So for me it saves a lot. For others it might not, depends on one’s choice of apps.
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Easy.
Setapp for Mac + iOS costs $134.88 per year.
NotePlan is $99.99 per year.
CleanShotX is $29 with one year of updates. While it will continue to work after the first year, assuming you want to update it for new features, you’d pay $29 again for the second year and so on…
These two almost cover the annual subscription cost of Setapp.
As you are probably aware, Setapp also includes:
- Supercharge ($18 one-time)
- Numi ($32.99 one-time, not sure if this is AUD or USD) and Soulver ($30 one-time for Mac and $20 one-time for iPad and $14 one-time for iPhone)
- Paste ($89.99 one-time)
- Downie and Permute ($26.99 one-time)
- Ulysses ($39.99 per year)
- Timing ($192 per year!)
- PopClip ($26 one-time)
- Craft ($96 per year)
and the list goes on and on and on…
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Just tried it out and it’s tempting. I’ve been having issues with using dictation on the Apple keyboard and Gemini does not have a good implementation of this yet.
For the amount of ideas I can capture accurately. It feels like it could be worth it.
If noteplan had window tabs, I would probably switch to it and leave obsidian. If Bear had tabs I would switch to that too.
The developer says there will be a discount for NotePlan subscribers, he’s currently trying to access the cost of the AI
Octarine has tabs.
Interesting, I’ll check back when they have shipped an iOS version. Looks promising though.
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There are developers who integrate AI and support BYO API keys, such as Tana, Tinderbox, etc., and those who don’t support BYO keys, such as Craft, Setapp, and, apparently, Memo AI.
On first blush, it seems to be a no brainer for a developer to support BYO keys – it shifts the burden to the user for what in some senses is a commodity cost. Sort of like, why would an app pay for your electricity and wrap the cost into the subscription fee?
I guess I don’t understand the economic preferences of developers who insist on either including a certain fixed level of use in the subscription or expect users to buy tokens from them. Are they making a few pennies off on top of the pass-through cost?
Donno.
Katie
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Agree in general, but in this case they’re specifically running Whisper Large 3, which is presumably on the server as well. I dont think iOS devices can run the large model locally yet. So even if they piped the transcribed text out to your API key, they’d still have server costs.
I wonder if Eduardo will add Memo AI to Setapp. I already use Noteplan via Setapp so I am not going to rush to use this until I see if it makes it into SetApp at this point.
He said no in Discord.
Even if it makes to SetApp at some point in the distant future the AI credits offered by SetApp are so less that the app would be of no use.