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
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.
