Active Voice! User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience56.0% of reviews
Neutral4.0% of reviews
Negative experience40.0% of reviews

~ Based on 50 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Active Voice! Safe?

Active Voice! appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Active Voice! is 81/100.

This assessment is based on 1,206 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.0/5.

Safety Analysis

75.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
19.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 1,206 App Store ratings for Active Voice!.

Is Active Voice! Legit?

Active Voice! is no longer available in the App Store. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Active Voice! is 35/100.

Based on 35 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Score capped because this app is no longer listed.

Top reviews

Active voice

Sound translation is great, I wish there is a way to break up the sentences.

Lying sacks of sh**

Icelandic my a**! Y’all are liars. In the description list it says Icelandic, but once paying for this and looking, it was not an option. I’m looking to be able to voice to text Icelandic, and you just took my money for nothing. There are free apps that do better. Disappointment.

I want my money back

Had high hopes for this app but was disappointed as the voice to text failed multiple times. Paid the $8.99 to transcribe and then submit weekly reports without having to write it out. Attempt after attempt I was received “null” errors and finally gave up. There’s an app on my phone called voice recorder that said it something similar to what I was looking for if I upgraded (with a free trail period) which I did and that worked perfectly. So I’m out the money for Activate Voice but at least I solved my new. Buyer beware of this app!
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Stopped working correctly no response from developer

I started using the free version, liked it quite a bit went to the paid version and it was working fine for many months and then all of a sudden stopped taking transcriptions longer than one minute. It just give me an error. I contacted the developer twice via their email app and still not have heard back after several weeks. frustrated that is not working correctly and no one will respond to my request for help.
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Siri are you listening

This is what Siri should be like. The dictation in this app is mostly flawless. It’s so much better than Siri. I wish there was a way to integrate this in the apps and replace Siri on my phone with this app. Rather than copy and paste

Needs Update for new IOS.

This is the best voice to text app ever. I gave it one star because it seems to need an update in order to work with the new iPhone IOS. It simply won’t record and reports problems with the cloud. I’ve used it for years and love the app, so its very discouraging that it stopped working. I’ve become dependent on it to do all my writing work.
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Please update this app.

I’ve used this app for 2 years now. It came it handy for writing blogs and important stuff. Now I’m mad that this app stopped working for like the past two weeks now. But who ever runs this app. Do use a favor and please just update it. Honestly I’m tried seeing the “Cloud transactions reported an error” popping up on my screen. Plus you deserve one star for not updating this app and for paying attention to what your users are trying to tell you online.
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Worked great for a few days

I though this was just what I needed to be able to talk to my mom, who can no longer hear without having to type things. Worked great for a few days and she loved it. It was more like having a conversation. Now I continue to get a cloud error message! I’ll be looking for a different app.

So much more accurate than iPhone’s basic.

This is my go to app for dictation. You can’t see the text building while you’re dictating, so it’s a leap of faith to keep talking. I’d prefer to see the text but... such is life.

Perfect!

Best voice to text app available that I have found it and I have gone through pretty much all of them. This actually picks up everything clearly and dictates it correctly.

This app unlike others rarely if it all messes up words or phrases unlike others where I have to constantly go back and correct them which defeats the purpose of voice to text (and it's frustrating to fix half of everything that you’ve dictated).

It's nice to that it works with commands for dictating text that That are for dictating text on Mac but also work for iOS. Some of the commands I'm still figuring out and they might be because of enhanced dictation but overall they work. With iPhone 8 I don't have an option for enhanced dictation but on X there might be an option for enhanced dictation.

Don't waste your money on any of the other dictation apps. They're completely useless and will frustrate you to no end. I have wasted way more money than I would care to admit on those and this has been best app that I have found and I always come back to it.
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Good at it's core, rough on the edges

The speech recognition in this application is good. For me, it seems to be some of the best I've used. I particularly like that it will process large blocks of speech, rather than halting in the middle when I pause to gather my thoughts.

But, saving text is precarious. I've accidentally deleted long passages by closing the application or just the document. I must be very diligent about saving blocks of text promptly. It's like the olden days of hitting CMD-S every few sentences when writing in Word so that a crash wouldn't wipe out much work. And, "yes, I walked five miles to school uphill both ways... in the snow. So you kids better stay off my lawn!" Yeah, the aspects of this application for saving text do make me feel like the grumpy old man I've become. And, even though this application is updated frequently, this significant downside has not been addressed.

The core speech recognition function is great.
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Not for me

If u constantly want your train of thought interrupted every 3 seconds or so to restart this thing.... go for it! If u are serious about recording your thoughts to ward off writers block later get a DIFFERENT APP! I have to find the on I had before that I could talk and actually have it convert to a written document. 3rd grade level
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I loved it until it let me down horribly

Why the functionality on this app is fantastic, it’s tendency to loose connections and lose large patches of text me that it is simply not worth using it until they find a way to properly buffer or stop you from recording if the text is not going to be recorded.

Poor

Downloaded this app in hopes of using it for work. The first time I used it and it worked great. The second time I used it- it would continue “recording” and the when I clicked done it said that it hadn’t finished recording at all. Instead of letting me know beforehand that it wasn’t receiving it at all. It simply crashed each time. Now I use notes app from Apple to dictate what I need for work. I tried to get a refund from Apple and they didn’t allow it. Lame. Don’t buy this app- waste of $9.99.
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Low functioning app

I’ve been very disappointed with this app. I used Dragon for a long time and I loved it in every way. It never failed to understood my speech, get the spelling, punctuation and grammar correct. This app has been very disappointing. This app offers very little considering the time it takes to correct the errors. I could’ve manually typed the piece. I’ve found it to be undependable and too much effort to edit all the errors.
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Indispensable

As my blog activity grows and I generate more and more posts in order to stay up to date, I find that this app is absolutely indispensable. My iMac is an older one (2014) so the equivalent app won’t work properly on it anymore. This was a happy find, seeing that it works almost perfectly on my iPhone 8 Plus. I’m very happy with it!
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Love the app!

This app is great for dictating memos when typing is too long or not practical. I use it a lot and it is indispensable!

Mixed emotions

I love the app and it’s functionality. I like speaking and seeing what I said on screen. Then being able to edit any mistakes or mis-interpreted words, then being able to continue. However, the app easily loses connection then freezes up and loses everything you have written. I learned this the hard way losing my daughter’s whole wedding speech that I had written. It was a masterpiece if I do say so. I never had a bigger kick in the gut then when the app froze and I lost everything. Fortunately, I had most of it in my heart and I winged it. I was told it was beautiful. But I still feel the one I wrote was better. I was bitterly disappointed. There needs to be a save feature as you write so you don’t lose everything if you are accidentally get disconnected. It could be an awesome product if this could be done.
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Only one thing is wrong

Only problem was that I was 5 minutes in to a text and the phone fell asleep and deleted my 5 minutes of rambling.

Extremely useful but freezes and crashes

The app is extremely useful as my job is busy and fast paced. The more you use the app the another it becomes as in terms of dictation and voice recognition. However, 1/4 times of its use the app freezes then crashes deleting what was already dictated. I’m using a iPhone 7plus. Hope this issue gets resolved as it has the potential to be a 5 Star application.
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