[011]Worth copyingApple Watch · iOSOne-time purchase + bring your own API KeyData as of 2026-11-02
Add all-day recording to existing watchOS audio apps, $9.99 one-time purchase
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Wait: don't build another Chinese-language Auday; the demand is real, but the one-off money from this wave is mostly goneThe signal to watch is whether English-market users of the old tables pay for third-party tools once Siri Recap launches; existing watchOS audio apps can add "all-day mode" as a featureWorth studying · grade and title derived from the full text · next review 12-15
| Background | Apple 9-09 shipped Siri Recap, English-only and for new tables only; 10-01 Auday sold out first with the old tables at a $9.99 one-time purchase |
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| Upside | Outside the line: people with old watches, non-English users, and those who want original audio and transcripts. Apple drew the picture but isn't selling to them yet. |
| Demand | 125 reviews: don't cut out (calls / Siri interrupts), must sync, notifications can't be useless, separate speakers, allow deletion, don't make me bring my own API |
| Competition | Three weeks, 4 Chinese followers, priced at ¥28 / ¥19.9 / ¥9 / ¥38. The English market has Just Press Record, which has been recording audio on watches for 2015 years. |
| Revenue | Auday has 2,000–6,000 paid copies to date, at ¥15–400K one-time; followers making tens of thousands; subscription money sits with Plaud ($100M ARR) |
| Growth | Xiaohongshu / WeChat Official Accounts / Japanese AI bloggers on X, plus developers who already have a name; PH with 4 votes; no ads visible in the Meta ad library, so it's mostly organic traffic. |
| Window | Until Apple ramps up: the window closes once watchOS 27.3 ships or Recap expands to older devices or Chinese/Japanese; China store Top Paid overall chart 13 → 37 is already on the decline |
| Who it's for | Developers who already have a watchOS audio app and can make background recording and large file sync reliable. Skip this if you want monthly revenue. |
Latest
- 11-08After Auday's 1.0.8 update, its China Top Paid overall rank jumped from 58 to 25, and it's back to #164 on the US Top Paid overall chart. The new version adds editable transcription and desktop AI sync.
- 11-07Auday's 1.0.8 update (editable transcripts, incremental sync to desktop AI, Doubao voiceprint) pushed its China store Top Grossing from #58 back to #25, and its US store Top Grossing re-entered at #164; but the China store rating dropped to 3.71★ (51 ratings), and word of mouth is sliding. Over the same period, Omi and Plaud increased Meta spending, so the recording-hardware category is still buying users, not in retreat.