Spokenly User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience83.9% of reviews
Neutral4.2% of reviews
Negative experience11.9% of reviews

~ Based on 168 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Spokenly Safe?

Spokenly: Audio to Text AI app appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Spokenly is 83/100.

This assessment is based on 53 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

84.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
15.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 53 App Store ratings for Spokenly.

Is Spokenly Legit?

Spokenly: Audio to Text AI app appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Spokenly is 83/100.

Based on 83 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Leider ist die Bedienung aus der Hölle

Mal ein Beispiel am iPad: Ich möchte im Safari Browser eine URL per Sprache eingeben.

iOS Spracherkennung:
1. Ich tippe auf das Mikrofon neben dem URL Feld, spreche die gewünschte URL ein, und die Seite wird aufgerufen

Spokenly:
1. Ich rufe die Spokenly Tastatur auf
2. Gehe auf Diktat starten
3. Es erscheint ein Pop-up ‚Wische zurück zu deiner App‘
4. Ich schließe das Pop-up
5. Ich wische zurück zu Safari
6. Ich beende die Aufnahme
7. Ich schicke die Eingabe mit Return ab
8. Ich blende die Tastatur wieder aus

8 Schritte statt 1 Schritt, nur um eine Webseite über Spracheingabe aufzurufen. Am iPad ist es viel zu umständlich.

Dazu kommt, dass es keinen Button gibt, um die Spokenly Tastatur wieder auszublenden. Bei manchen Apps z. B. OneNote kann man die Tastatur nicht wegwischen. Dann wird es extrem umständlich, weil man erst auf eine andere Tastatur umschalten muss um diese ausblenden

Beim iPhone gibt es zwar eine Aktionstaste, die man mit einem entsprechenden Kurz-Befehl belegen kann. Aber es geht immer den Umweg über die Zwischenablage. Das ist ja auch echt kompliziert, man muss dann immer zusätzlich aus der Zwischenablage den Text einfügen und kann nicht direkt in der App diktieren. Also so ist das alles viel zu umständlich.

Ein anderer negativer Punkt: Zahlen werden nicht als Zahlen geschrieben, sondern als Text. Auch Zeichen werden als Text ausgegeben, also nicht %, sondern Prozent. Ganz blöd: auch bei Satzzeichen ist das so. Also nicht ! sondern Ausrufezeichen steht dann im Text. Das können andere Apps und selbst die Apple Spracherkennung besser.

Aber für mich das größte Problem: das Mikrofon aktiviert sich immer irgendwie von selber. Es kommt dann das iOS Pop-Up-Live Aktivitäten, und weißt darauf hin, dass Spokenly aktiv ist. Das geht in meinen Augen gar nicht!
Im Übrigen gibt es in den Einstellungen auch keinerlei Möglichkeit, dass Hintergrund-Diktat komplett abzuschalten. Man kann nur wählen in welchem Modus, aber abschalten geht nicht.

Nicht unerwähnt möchte ich lassen, dass Spokenly auf einem Windows PC sehr gut funktioniert. Aber die iOS App ist eine Katastrophe.
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Yet another reviewer compelled to review.

Spokenly is one of the few speech-to-text apps on the App Store that handles AI transcription fairly. Its BYOK options are free, and so is local processing. If you pay Spokenly, it’s either out of gratitude or because you’ve chosen to have them process your voice on their own hardware. Most competitors don’t offer that choice, and next to Spokenly they look extractive and predatory.

As a sidenote: If you go the BYOK route, use Groq. The free tier allows 2,000 transcription requests and eight hours of audio per day, which is far more than one person will use dictating texts and longer messages. Free tiers don’t stay this generous forever, so take advantage of it.



Overall, I highly recommend Spokenly and feel like the team running this all deserves all the recognition. 5/5
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Records need to be accessible in finder

UNfortunately, no option after recording to directly access the file, always have to use the search function

Mandatory Paywall - Incredible app but so expensive and limited

firstly, yeah, this app is amazing. best one ive used by a country mile. problem is you get x amount of usage (barely any, actually) and you are hit with a £49.99 per 6 months mandatory fee. As far as I can tell, none of the models work until you pay this, and I am not paying £100 a year for a bloody audio transcription app!!!!! modern apps are so upsetting :( just put ads in the thing!
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Great app

I use this app a lot. The most important thing for me is using local models for privacy reasons. This app lets me use Nvidia Parakeet and Apple Intelligence. Both transcribe the audio on the device, and nothing is sent to a third party.

Delightful Time Saver!

Once you get used to using it, Spokenly is a joy to use.

Dropped transcriptions, short trial period

The app repeatedly dropped 1-2 minute voice inputs, causing lost ideas and frustration. On the day I deleted the app, I tried to record a 1-minute voice input once, Spokenly lost it. I tried AGAIN, it lost it again, then took me to the ‘you are out of free use’ screen. So, goodbye.

Brilliant app held back by intrusive prompts

This app is fantastic, and being able to use your own API key is a massive plus. But despite using a third-party key, I am still forced to sit through irrelevant premium nag screens once or twice a day.

There is no reason to upgrade when using your own API, so these constant interruptions are just frustrating enough to make me consider deleting it.

I did email the developer suggesting a monthly option (say £3) to remove the pop-ups while keeping my own key - a win-win for their revenue and our user experience, but didn't hear back.

Currently, it's just too intrusive.
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Limited (not the song)

I’m using this to paste into an email. The speech to text is accurate and immediate.

Seems great!

I've been using Spokely for a way to write text that's alternative to typing. I find it more natural to simply speak and unfortunately the standard Mac dictation doesn’t really transcribe my voice well.

So Spokenly and some other apps have been a bit of a game changer. Spokenly has been working reliably and it's convenient. It offers multitude of models to choose from, and many of them were great. Therefore, I’m really happy about this app being accessible and allowing me to express myself through voice.
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Amazing Tool

One can really improve the productivity of working by using Spokenly, the amount of time it saves from typing to simple dictation is the killer, the accuracy is very good.

Perfekt für iPhone und MacBook

Ich benutze es auf meinem iPhone und MacBook und finde das Abo‑Paket fair, wenn ich die anderen Preise anschaue. Außerdem gilt das Abo für alle Geräte. Man zahlt 10 Euro im Monat für MacBook und iPhone, das finde ich extrem praktisch. Man wird nicht abgezockt. Bisher bin ich sehr zufrieden und gespannt, wie sich die App positiv entwickelt. Ich sehe viel Potenzial
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Awesome local Speech to Text app

I’m using it all the time with the combination of Nvidia Parakeet v3 and the results are awesome so far. Thank you for this great App! ❤️

A must-have for voice typing

Spokenly genuinely surprised me. It quickly became part of my daily workflow: I just speak naturally and get clean, well-formatted text back. The transcription is fast and accurate, punctuation works well, and local model support is a great plus for privacy. Perfect for notes, messages, emails, drafts, and capturing ideas on the go. The interface is polished, simple, and easy to use. You can tell a lot of care went into this app. Definitely 5 stars.
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Merci

C'est exactement l'application que je recherchais, c'est-à-dire de Bring Your Own Key. Je voulais implanter ma clé OpenAI et c'est vraiment la seule application qui le fait. J'ai failli le recoder, mais vu que ça existe avec Spokenly, je ne vais pas le faire.

Merci beaucoup pour cette application, elle est top 😊. Elle est juste sur le pricing, donc c'est formidable. Merci beaucoup aux développeurs d'avoir créé cette application 🙏. Je suis d'ailleurs en train de dicter ce message avec Spokenly et ma clé OpenAI personnelle.

Et un grand merci parce que des applications comme Whisper ont un modèle de pricing vraiment trop élevé. C'est scandaleux de faire des prix comme ça. Donc merci beaucoup aux développeurs.
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Great

Really nice app, I like it because I can customize it to my needs/style, I hope there will be in the future a way to only pickup my voice and block out the background speech. Others also have the same issues which I guess is due to my hardware.

Great with some caveats

currently stress testing the app. love that it can work locally or online. i'm currently using a local parakeet model with an API to clean things up. however i'm running into some issues—the dictation itself is pretty good, especially with parakeet. but with the API i'm using, even with the AI prompt and system prompt, the model thinks i'm speaking directly to it.

so sometimes instead of transcribing what i'm dictating it gives me a response to what i've said, which is a little bit frustrating. i'm not sure if this is an issue with the spokenly app or with the API model i've chosen.

i'm currently using Anthropic's Haiku model.
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Missing language settings

No option to select language of the local voice models.

Extremely buggy

99% of the time when I try to activate it with a hotkey it doesn’t respond, so I have to reboot it and then it says the local model isn’t connected. Horrible software.

Keyboard dictation doesn't detect audio unless the app is open. And is considered the active app.

No speech detected.