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Best Voice Note Taking Apps for iPhone (2026)
Quick answer
Otter Transcribe Voice Notes is the top-ranked of the 20 tiered voice note taking apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 120,062 ratings.
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Top 5
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★ 4.7 · 11.2K ratings · Free + IAP - 3
SpeakApp AI: Voice NotesS tier★ 4.6 · 15.5K ratings · Free + IAP - 4
★ 4.6 · 10.6K ratings · Free + IAP - 5
★ 4.8 · 3.8K ratings · Free + IAP
Key takeaways
- Otter Transcribe Voice Notes ranks #1 of the 20 tiered voice note taking apps, S tier with a score of 97 out of 100.
- Voice Recorder & Audio Editor has the most App Store ratings here: 695,938, averaging 4.7/5.
- 10 of the 20 tiered apps reach S or A tier.
- 2 apps carry Apple's Editors' Choice badge.
What belongs in this list
Capture notes by speaking and keep them as organized notes.
Not here: Voice journaling alone; A plain voice recorder alone; Meeting note-taking alone; Voice calling alone; A text-only note app alone
How we pick
For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Apps whose maker has verified ownership get a small score component, because an active maker is a sign the app is kept up to date. It never decides a tier on its own. Updated daily. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. Read the full method →
Compare every app
| # | App | Tier | Score | Rating | Ratings | Price | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otter Transcribe Voice NotesBest overall | S | 97.2 | 4.8 | 120,062 | Free + IAP | |
| 2 | S | 93.8 | 4.7 | 11,239 | Free + IAP | ||
| 3 | S | 93.0 | 4.6 | 15,455 | Free + IAP | ||
| 4 | A | 88.0 | 4.6 | 10,620 | Free + IAP | ||
| 5 | A | 87.4 | 4.8 | 3,753 | Free + IAP | ||
| 6 | A | 85.8 | 4.4 | 23,571 | Free + IAP | ||
| 7 |  Noted: Transcribe Audio NotesMost recently updated | A | 84.8 | 4.4 | 5,285 | Free + IAP | |
| 8 | A | 83.9 | 4.6 | 2,523 | Free + IAP | ||
| 9 | A | 82.5 | 4.8 | 8,891 | Free + IAP | ||
| 10 | A | 80.5 | 4.5 | 4,534 | Free + IAP | ||
| 11 | B | 79.9 | 4.6 | 3,058 | Free + IAP | ||
| 12 | B | 78.3 | 4.3 | 7,934 | Free + IAP | ||
| 13 |  Voice Recorder & Audio EditorMost rated | B | 78.2 | 4.7 | 695,938 | Free + IAP | |
| 14 | B | 77.3 | 4.6 | 10,889 | Free + IAP | ||
| 15 | C | 68.4 | 4.6 | 2,430 | Free + IAP | ||
| 16 |  Awesome Voice Recorderprovisional | C | 67.9 | 4.6 | 13,102 | Free + IAP | |
| 17 |  Unstuck AI Note Takerprovisional | C | 67.1 | 4.7 | 3,002 | Free + IAP | |
| 18 |  ToTextprovisional | C | 60.0 | 5.0 | 1 | Free + IAP | |
| 19 | D | 58.8 | 4.8 | 11,152 | Free + IAP | ||
| 20 | D | 57.7 | 4.8 | 6,124 | $19.99 |
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Questions people ask
What is the best voice note taking app for iPhone?
Otter Transcribe Voice Notes, S tier, ranked #1 of 20, rated 4.8 by 120,062 people.
Which voice note taking apps are free?
19 of 20 are free to download: Otter Transcribe Voice Notes (S), Voicenotes AI Notes & Meetings (S), SpeakApp AI: Voice Notes (S), Voice Recorder: AI Note Taker (A) and more. 19 of them sell in-app purchases.
Which voice note taking app has the best App Store rating?
SuperNote Notes Recorder+Photo at 4.8 from 6,124 ratings.
How many voice note taking apps reach S or A tier?
10 of 20.