Loominote

What Loominote is

Loominote is an AI notetaker and daily planner built natively for the Apple ecosystem, running on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac (Apple silicon) and Vision Pro. You capture in four ways, record live audio, scan a page or whiteboard with OCR, upload a PDF, or type, and it transcribes, summarizes, and pulls out key points and prioritized action items.

Unlike bot-based meeting tools, it captures audio on the device itself rather than joining your video calls, which also makes it useful for in-person meetings, lectures and voice memos. A built-in todo layer with priorities and push reminders turns extracted action items into scheduled tasks without a separate app.

Where Loominote is the strongest pick

Loominote is strongest for people who live on Apple devices and capture on the go: recording an in-person meeting or lecture from a phone or watch, scanning handwritten notes or whiteboards, and getting organized summaries and tasks back in seconds. Because capture happens on-device rather than via a meeting bot, it covers situations that Zoom-bot notetakers miss entirely.

Pricing

Free tier: Free to download and start using on all supported devices; a premium subscription unlocks the full set of AI features. Exact free-tier limits are not published by the vendor

• Free: $0. Download and start using the app; core capture with limited AI features.
• Premium Weekly: $9.99/week (auto-renewing). Full AI feature set on a short commitment.
• Premium Monthly: $14.99/mo (auto-renewing). Full AI feature set.
• Premium Yearly: $49.99/yr (auto-renewing). Full AI feature set at the lowest effective monthly rate.
• Lifetime: $129 one-time (one-time purchase). Permanent access without a subscription.

Pricing verified July 2026 from the official site. Confirm current pricing before purchase.

Best for

Students, mobile-first professionals and creators in the Apple ecosystem who want voice, scan and document capture turned into organized notes, summaries and scheduled tasks automatically. Less suited to teams that need a web app, shared workspaces, CRM pushes or video-platform integrations.

Key features

• Four capture modes: record live audio, scan pages or whiteboards with OCR, upload PDFs, or type
• Speech-to-text transcription supporting 50+ languages with speaker labels
• AI summaries, key points and prioritized action items from any capture
• Turns notes into mindmaps, quizzes, flashcards, translations, emails, and blog or social drafts
• Built-in todo management with priorities and push reminders, no separate task app needed
• Exports and integrations: Notion, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders, PDF and TXT
• Native Apple Watch app for hands-free capture and task checks from the wrist
• On-device capture with no meeting bot, works for in-person meetings, lectures and calls

Pros

• Genuinely Apple-native across iPhone, iPad, Watch, Mac and Vision Pro with synced capture
• No meeting bot: records ambient audio on-device, so it covers in-person meetings and lectures
• Unusually broad output range, from action items and tasks to flashcards, mindmaps and email drafts
• Built-in planner layer means extracted action items become scheduled, reminded tasks in the same app
• Flexible consumer pricing with weekly, monthly, yearly and lifetime options

Cons

• Apple-only: no web app or Android, which rules out mixed-platform teams
• No team workspaces, CRM pushes or Zoom/Meet/Teams bot integrations that B2B notetakers offer
• Young app with a small public review base, so long-term reliability is less proven than Otter or Fireflies
• Weekly billing is convenient but expensive if left running (about $40/month equivalent)

Best-fit use cases

• Recording and summarizing in-person meetings or lectures from an iPhone or Apple Watch
• Scanning handwritten notes or whiteboards and turning them into study material
• Generating flashcards and quizzes from lecture notes for revision
• Drafting follow-up emails from a meeting summary
• Turning voice brain-dumps into scheduled, prioritized tasks

FAQ

How much does Loominote cost?

Loominote is free to download and start using, with premium plans unlocking the full AI feature set. Premium is $9.99 per week, $14.99 per month, or $49.99 per year, and a one-time Lifetime purchase is listed at $129 on the App Store. The yearly plan is by far the best value at roughly $4.17 per month equivalent, while weekly billing is the most expensive way to use the app if it renews for long stretches. Prices are charged through Apple as in-app purchases, so they may vary slightly by region.

Does Loominote have a free plan?

Yes. Loominote is free to download on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and Vision Pro, and you can start capturing and organizing notes without paying. The vendor describes the free experience as a starting tier, with a premium subscription unlocking the full set of AI features such as unlimited AI processing. Exact free-tier limits are not published on the website, so expect caps on AI summaries and transcription before you are prompted to upgrade.

What platforms does Loominote run on?

Loominote is built natively for the Apple ecosystem. It runs on iPhone (iOS 18.6 or later), iPad, Apple Watch (watchOS 9.6 or later), Apple silicon Macs (macOS 15.6 or later) and Apple Vision Pro, with notes and tasks syncing across devices. The Apple Watch app supports hands-free capture and task checks from the wrist. There is no web app and no Android version, which is the main limitation for mixed-platform teams considering it.

How is Loominote different from Otter or Fireflies?

Otter and Fireflies are meeting-bot tools: they join your Zoom, Meet or Teams calls, transcribe them in the cloud, and serve web-first team workflows with CRM integrations. Loominote takes the opposite approach. It captures audio on the device itself, like Granola does on Mac, but phone-and-watch-first, which means it also covers in-person meetings, lectures and voice memos that call bots never see. It adds OCR scanning, study outputs like flashcards and quizzes, and a built-in planner, but it lacks team workspaces and call-platform integrations.

Can Loominote turn notes into other formats?

Yes, this is one of its distinguishing features. From a single captured note, Loominote can generate mindmaps, quizzes and flashcards for studying, translations, follow-up emails, and blog or social media drafts. It also extracts prioritized action items that flow into its built-in todo manager with push reminders. For getting content out, it exports to Notion, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders, PDF and TXT, or shares via the standard iOS Share Sheet.

What are the best Loominote alternatives?

It depends on how you work. If your meetings happen on Zoom, Meet or Teams and you want a bot to join and transcribe them, Otter and Fireflies are the established picks, and Fathom is a strong free option. If you like the no-bot, on-device capture philosophy but work mainly on a Mac, Granola is the closest match. Loominote's edge over all of them is mobile-first Apple capture, scanning with OCR, study outputs and a built-in planner in one consumer-priced app.