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Auri AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI keyboard and assistant for Apple devices offering writing, translation, chat, transcription and smart notes in any app.

3.1K visits/mo
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Otter AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes conversations in real time and generates action items.

7.0M visits/mo29K saves
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Speechify
✓ verifiedFreemium

Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.

6.7M visits/mo17K saves
Pricing
Free: $0 (near-full features with daily limits)

No public pricing

Free: $0/month (10 robotic voices, up to 1.5x speed)
Premium: $29/month (1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, dictation, podcasts)
Core features
  • AI keyboard: write, translate, fix grammar
  • AI chat with multiple characters
  • Voice recorder and transcriber
  • Smart notes: summarize and paraphrase
  • 80+ keyboard languages
  • Privacy-first, syncs across Apple devices
  • Real-time speech-to-text transcription
  • Automated meeting summaries
  • Speaker identification
  • Live integration with Zoom/Meet/Teams
  • Searchable, shareable notes
  • AI chat over transcripts
  • 1,000+ natural-sounding AI voices in 60+ languages
  • Adjustable playback speed up to 5x
  • Text highlighting synced to audio
  • Scan-and-listen photo-to-speech
  • Voice dictation/typing across apps
  • AI podcast generation from documents
  • Voice AI assistant for Q&A on read content
  • Cloud storage integrations (Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive)
Use cases
  • Writing and replying in any app
  • Translating text on the fly
  • Transcribing meetings and voice memos
  • Drafting essays and emails
  • Capturing and sharing meeting notes
  • Transcribing interviews and lectures
  • Generating action items from calls
  • Searching past conversations
  • Listening to long articles, PDFs or emails hands-free
  • Studying by having textbooks or lecture notes read aloud
  • Dictating text faster than typing across apps
  • Turning documents into podcast-style audio
  • Reducing eye strain from extensive reading
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