# Live Transcribe - Speech Text — user reviews

> 96 indexed App Store user reviews of Live Transcribe by Aleksei Metelkin, rated 4.60/5 from 143 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/live-transcribe-speech-text/id1527734828/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/live-transcribe-speech-text/id1527734828.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 121 · 4★ 8 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 11

## What do users think of Live Transcribe?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- ✅ Useful voice-to-text conversion functionality
- ⭐ Good for academic purposes
- 🎯 Helpful for accessibility needs
- 💬 Works well for short audio clips

**Cons**

- 🐛 App crashes and freezes frequently
- ❌ Poor transcription accuracy
- 💰 Misleading free trial to paid conversion
- 🚫 Paid features don't work after purchase
- ⏱️ Severe time limitations on transcriptions
- 📱 Text font size too small
- 🔌 App stops working mid-transcription
- 💳 Unauthorized charges and billing issues
- 📵 No customer support or refund responses
- 🗑️ Data loss and file deletion without warning
- 📊 Inaccurate speech-to-text conversion
- 🔗 Cannot process URLs or file uploads
- 📢 Intrusive ads even after paid subscription

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App freezes after 10-20 minutes of transcription
- Credits not released after payment
- Audio files fail to load
- Free trial restrictions persist after paid subscription
- Text deletion upon app restart
- Transcription stops mid-audio
- Keyboard navigation causes data loss
- Recording playback doesn't sync with transcription
- App crashes when processing files over 15 minutes
- Subscription status not updating after payment
- Ads appearing despite active subscription
- Unable to copy transcribed text
- Microphone stops recording unexpectedly

**Most requested features**

- Larger, adjustable font sizes for accessibility
- Pause and resume functionality
- Ability to edit text during recording
- Support for longer audio files
- YouTube link transcription support
- Reduced pricing for academic users
- Better speaker identification for multi-person meetings
- Data recovery options

## Newest reviews (18 of 96)

### 2/5 — 課金

*2026-02-05*

無料って書いてたから入れてみたけど無料じゃないし文字も正確じゃない

### 1/5 — Screwed me

*2025-04-28*

I tried this for one day on a trial and hated it. Then they charged me 19.99 anyway and will not refund or reply to my messages. Looks like a total scam and a rip off.

### 1/5 — Péssimo

*2025-04-11*

Cancelei a assinatura por que não consegui usar e mesmo assim me cobraram, além do aplicativo não funcionar ainda fazem isso.

### 1/5 — 연간구독 후 계속 결제하라고 나오는건..

*2025-03-19*

연간구독을 한 이후에도 계속 결제를 하라고 올라오는데 뭐 어디 문의할데도 없고.. 어떻게 하라는 거임.. 구독취소 신청했는데 취소도 1년뒤에 되서 환불도 안되고 어쩌라는 거임

### 1/5 — Не вартує уваги.

*2025-03-10, version 2.9.7*

Дуже погано. Все фактично треба переписувати.

### 1/5 — Nefunguje

*2025-03-06, version 2.9.7*

Nefunguje

### 3/5 — Maravilhoso

*2025-03-05*

Cade a versao gratuita???

### 1/5 — horrible

*2025-01-25*

horrible

**Developer response:** Could you please email us at 3859555@gmail.com with more details about what you disliked in the app?

### 1/5 — abbonamento

*2025-01-23, version 2.9.6*

prima dicono che puoi fare la prova gratis e poi quando vuoi disdire l’abbonamento e poi non te lo fanno disdire e ti addebitano i soldi
Voglio la disdetta!

### 1/5 — Anjing aplikasi goblokk

*2025-01-10, version 2.9.6*

Saya sudha bayar tapi gabisa

### 2/5 — Não funciona

*2024-12-09*

Infelizmente não capta adequadamente os áudios. Transcreve algumas palavras soltas e trava. Não conseguiu pegar mais do que uma frase sem sentido num áudio de 60seg.

**Developer response:** Obrigado pelo seu feedback!

### 1/5 — Hrozny přepis

*2024-12-06, version 2.9.5*

Neumí správně přepsat text na řec a i když jsem měl aktivovaný 3denni zkušební režim peníze si strhli a už mi je nevrátí . Nedoporučuji

### 1/5 — Quá dởm

*2024-11-29, version 2.9.5*

Cùi bắp

### 1/5 — Total useless

*2024-11-09, version 2.9.3*

I bought it and it really does not work at all.

### 1/5 — SCAM

*2024-10-29, version 2.9.3*

cant getting back my money for a year subscription. when open it, the app doesn't work! tottally scam!!!!!!!!

### 1/5 — Do not recommend

*2024-10-16*

Has massive bugs. Only gets a handful of words and has been know to delete entire pages. Definitely don’t recommend, save the effort

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback. I hope that the updated version fixed that issues.

### 1/5 — Très compliqué et il faut toujours payé plus

*2024-10-16*

Très compliqué et il faut toujours payer payer encore et encore
Impossible de résilier dans les 3 jours gratuits

**Developer response:** Merci pour votre avis.

### 1/5 — Dab 😡😡

*2024-10-10, version 2.9.1*

👎👎👎👎

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Cobrança injusta

*2026-04-19*

Debitou direto no cartão, ignorando o período de teste de 3 dias, indicado na App Store

### 1/5 — Fraude

*2026-02-27*

Comprei a assinatura de um mês , o valor já foi debitado da minha conta e não consigo usar! Diz que já usei minha cota gratuita ─ não consegui usar nem pagando ─ e vem a mensagem
De que devo comprar novamente!!!

### 1/5 — Socorrrrrro

*2026-01-24*

Não consegui comprar

### 1/5 — Não gostei

*2025-09-09*

Agente paga o aplicativo daí só pode transcrever um áudio por dia pq fala que está em versão gratuita 🙄🙄🙄

### 1/5 — Paguei e não usei.

*2025-09-03*

Paguei e deu BuG não permite
Meu uso

### 1/5 — Não funciona

*2025-08-09*

Paguei a assinatura, mas o app não libera os créditos e não carrega os arquivos de áudio para transcrever.

### 1/5 — Paguei e o aplicativo não libera para uso

*2025-08-06*

Fiz o pagamento e continua dizendo que estou em período de teste, pedindo para contratar novamente os serviços.

### 1/5 — Nao funciona

*2025-07-25*

Paguei e toda vez que tento transcrever aparece que ja passou o limite gratuito (?) sendo que nao foi feita nenhuma transcrição

### 1/5 — Scam

*2025-06-19*

I paid for a monthly subscription then when I went to use it, it wouldn’t let me claiming I’m on the free trial period and can only use 15 minutes a day. I then cancelled my subscription (it says I still have access for the the month I’ve paid but it now has adverts! And I still can’t transcribe my file because it’s longer than 15 minutes

### 1/5 — Screwed me

*2025-05-13*

I tried this for one day on a trial and hated it. Then they charged me 19.99 anyway and will not refund or reply to my messages. Looks like a total scam and a rip off.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Áudio texto

*2025-11-23*

Bom muito

### 5/5 — Welcome

*2025-02-27*

Helpful

### 5/5 — Jelek

*2024-08-09, version 2.9*

Sudah beli masih juga ada iklan dan gak fungsi dengan benar

### 5/5 — Coolest app

*2024-08-05, version 2.9*

Useful app for the voice transcribing, like apple notes but with voice!
thanks guys!

### 5/5 — App Interessante

*2024-08-04*

Excelente App. Usei e adorei.

**Developer response:** Obrigado pelo seu feedback!

### 5/5 — Maravilhoso

*2024-06-26*

Consegui converter um áudio de 8 minutos 
Obrigada pessoal!

### 5/5 — Não transcreve

*2023-10-09, version 2.3*

Estou usando a versão paga e não consigo a transcrição. Para em média depois de 1 minuto e não avança

### 5/5 — Mohssin ammour ammour

*2022-03-01, version 1.8*

Le prueba pero cuando se graba no escribe las letras bien tenía que currejer muchas palabras. Lo ciento no puedo seguir en otra ocasión

### 5/5 — Oportunidade

*2022-02-25, version 1.8*

Excelente

### 5/5 — การใช้งาน

*2021-08-19, version 1.7*

การบันทึกเสียงให้เป็นตัวอักษรใช้ได้ดีมาก

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