FAQ
Answers to common questions about Notaria, privacy, platforms, and the core workflow.
Yes. The core app is free: your bookshelf, notes, quotes, reading sessions, quizzes, on-device OCR scanning, and on-device speech-to-text (where your device supports it). AI-powered features use credits, available through a Premium subscription or one-time credit packs.
New users start with 50 free credits to try the AI-powered features: cloud OCR costs 2 credits per scan, cloud speech-to-text costs 5 credits per minute, and AI actions like summarizing or exploring your notes also use credits. The standard on-device flows never need credits.
Standard OCR runs on-device and works on most clearly printed pages — no internet needed. For hard cases like small print, curved pages, or low light, AI-powered cloud OCR (2 credits per scan) gives stronger extraction and cleaner results.
Yes. You can record a thought while reading and transcribe it with on-device speech recognition for free on supported devices, or use AI-powered cloud transcription (5 credits per minute) for higher accuracy. Transcripts are saved to the book and become searchable.
The core experience is offline-friendly. Your notes, quotes, and books live on your device, and standard OCR and speech-to-text run locally. You only need a connection for cloud AI features and for looking up new books by ISBN.
Your source data stays on your device. When you choose a cloud or AI-powered feature, only the selected content needed for that request is sent for processing — and you can stick to local-only capture whenever you prefer.
You can turn any saved quote into a quote card and share it as an image (portrait, square, or story format) or as plain text. Notes and transcripts can be copied out of the app whenever you need them elsewhere.
Purchased credits can be protected and restored through Apple or Google after a reinstall or device change. Premium subscription credits renew with each billing cycle and do not roll over between cycles.
Notaria is a book notes app for iPhone. Save quotes, scan pages with OCR, transcribe voice notes, and remember what you read with quiz-based recall. Free.
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