What's Different Per Platform
A capability-by-capability comparison of Prismical on Mac, Windows, web, iOS, and Android.
Prismical is one product on five platforms, and your notes are the same notes on all of them. Your plan doesn't change what you can do anywhere — every plan includes every app. See Plans & limits.
What does differ is what each device can hear, and what makes sense on a phone versus a desk.
The One That Matters: System Audio
If you only read one thing here, read this.
| Records your microphone | Records what your computer plays | |
|---|---|---|
| macOS 14.2+ | Yes | Yes |
| macOS 13–14.1 | Yes | No |
| Windows | Yes | No |
| Web | Yes | No |
| iOS, Android | Yes | No |
On a video call, your microphone only gets your half — the other people come out of your speakers. Capturing them takes system audio, and that's a Mac running Sonoma 14.2 or later.
For an in-person conversation this doesn't matter at all: one microphone in the room hears everyone, and your phone does that as well as anything.
This is the honest reason to install the desktop app on a Mac. Everything else is convenience; this is a capability nothing else has. See System audio.
Meetings Noticing You
The desktop app watches for meeting apps and offers to take notes when a call starts — a floating widget that a browser tab and a phone have no way to do. See Meeting detection.
Where Each App Is Best
The full thing. Records both sides of a call, notices your meetings, and does everything the web app does — it's the same app underneath.
Also here: launch at login, the floating widget, and diagnostics under Settings → Advanced.
Everything the web app does, plus meeting detection and the floating widget.
Recording captures your microphone. For both sides of a video call, that's a Mac.
Nothing to install. Notes, folders, tags, sharing, calendar, Ask AI, skills, settings — all of it, in a tab, on any machine you can sign in from.
Records your microphone through the browser.
Capture, wherever you are. Talk and it becomes a note — recording keeps running when you lock the phone or leave the app.
The best one with no signal: your notes list and anything you've opened before are on the device, so you can read, write, and search offline. It syncs when you're back.
Capture, wherever you are. Talk and it becomes a note — recording keeps running when you lock the phone or leave the app.
The best one with no signal: your notes list and anything you've opened before are on the device, so you can read, write, and search offline. It syncs when you're back.
Desk Work Lives on Desk Machines
The phone apps are built around capture and recall: make a note, talk, search, ask.
The things you'd do sitting down — filing into folders, sharing with people, connecting a calendar, managing your organization, and the developer settings — are on the web and desktop apps.
Everything you capture on your phone is waiting for you there.
Offline
The phone apps keep your notes on the device, so they work with no connection and sync when you're back. Open the notes you'll want before you lose signal — that's what puts their text on the phone.
Web and desktop need a connection to open a note, though one that's already open survives a brief drop. On desktop, a recording that's already running is safe through a disconnection: the audio goes to disk and transcribes when you're back. In the browser it isn't — a recording lives only in the tab. See Sync & offline.
Requirements
| macOS | Apple Silicon or Intel. System audio needs macOS 14.2 or later. |
| Windows | Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. |
| Web | Any modern browser. |
| iOS / Android | The current app from the App Store or Google Play. |