# Transcribe – Speech to Text — user reviews

> 30 indexed App Store user reviews of Transcribe by AppLiks Sp. z O.O., rated 4.50/5 from 457 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transcribe-speech-to-text/id1673039222/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transcribe-speech-to-text/id1673039222.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 360 · 4★ 36 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 38

## What do users think of Transcribe?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🎯 Accurate transcription quality
- ⚡ Efficient automated transcription
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 📝 Live transcription feature
- 🎓 Excellent for students and professionals
- 🔊 High-quality audio recording
- 💬 Great for accessibility and communication
- 🚀 Saves significant time on transcription tasks

**Cons**

- 💰 Requires paid subscription with no free trial
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes during transcription
- ❌ Incompatible with iPhone voice memos (m4a format)
- ⏱️ Extremely slow processing times
- 🔧 Limited editing capabilities in live mode
- 📁 Creates multiple files for short sentences
- 🗑️ No delete function for saved messages
- 📊 Lacks progress feedback during processing
- 🎤 Short speech source range
- ❌ No free trial despite claiming one
- 🚫 Difficult subscription cancellation process
- 💾 Poor file export functionality
- ⚠️ Unclear file compatibility requirements
- 🔍 Poor customer support responsiveness

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when importing files for transcription
- App crashes when attempting to view transcribed text
- App crashes during file export
- Extremely long processing times (2+ hours for 1.5 minute recording)
- No progress feedback during transcription
- Incompatibility with iPhone voice memo format
- Live transcription cannot be edited in real-time
- Small save button prone to accidental deletion
- Transcription misses words frequently

**Most requested features**

- Delete function for old saved messages
- Extended speech source range
- Free trial option before purchase
- Ability to pause and edit during recording
- Support for voice memo keywords (next line, bullet point)
- Default auto-save option
- Progress indicator during file processing
- Support for m4a file format
- Ability to record again without saving first
- Better file export options

## Newest reviews (10 of 30)

### 3/5 — Review

*2025-01-26*

1. The range of the speech source is too short.
2. The doesn’t have a delete key for old saved massage.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! Regarding the range of the speech source, we appreciate your input and will look into ways to improve this feature in future updates. To delete old saved recordings, simply swipe the item from right to left to reveal the delete option. We hope this helps! If you have any other suggestions or questions, feel free to reach out.

### 1/5 — Paid and still crashes

*2023-09-06*

It crashes trying to transcribe import. No use. I want my money back.

**Developer response:** Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We genuinely appreciate input from our users as it helps us improve our app and provide a better experience for everyone. We are deeply sorry to hear that you are currently experiencing an issue with our app. Our team is committed to resolving any issues promptly, and we will thoroughly investigate and address the problem you have encountered. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention, and we look forward to resolving it for you as quickly as possible.

### 1/5 — You need to pay.

*2023-09-02*

The title says it all. There are multiple free transcribe apps. Don’t buy it.

**Developer response:** We appreciate your feedback. Introducing paid features allows us to support the development and improvement of the app for all users in the long term. However, we understand that this may cause dissatisfaction. We always strive to strike a balance between providing free features and offering additional premium functions to our users. If you have any questions or suggestions for improving our app, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@mindateq.io. We value your opinion and aim to make our app better for everyone.

### 1/5 — Crashes when I try to export the files

*2023-08-12*

There’s no point to this app if I can’t export the files. No support. No ability to default save. The save button is so small you’re inclined to erase your file by accident due to there being no default save option. Waste of money.

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We value feedback from our users as it helps us improve our apps to better meet your needs. We apologize that you didn't find our app to your liking.

### 1/5 — No way to cancel subscription.

*2023-06-12*

It doesn’t work like advertised and there is no way to cancel subscription.

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We greatly appreciate it as it helps us enhance our app and provide a better experience for all users. To better understand and address the issue you encountered, we kindly request you to email us at support@mindateq.io with more details. This will enable our team to investigate the matter further and find an appropriate solution.

### 5/5 — Great

*2023-06-08*

My wife is deaf and this helps so much in our communication with each other. In the past I tried Google text-to-speech but this is an immense improvement.

**Developer response:** Thank you sincerely for taking the time to review our app. We greatly appreciate your positive feedback and are delighted to hear that you're enjoying using it!

Our ultimate goal is to create an app that not only meets but exceeds our users' expectations. Your kind words serve as a wonderful affirmation that we're heading in the right direction. Your satisfaction means a lot to us, and we're thrilled that you're happy with the app.

### 5/5 — Well

*2023-06-05*

I've just done my first dictation and I'm very impressed with the results. I've tried so many similar apps but the results left much to be desired.

**Developer response:** We greatly appreciate your kind feedback! Thank you for choosing our app! 😊

### 5/5 — Nice job

*2023-06-01*

This app is everything I've been searching for! The voice recognition quality is far superior to many other programs I have tried. Recommended!

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your review! We are glad that you like our App.

### 1/5 — Very bad

*2023-05-24*

Very bad speech recognition

**Developer response:** Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We genuinely appreciate input from our users as it helps us improve our app and provide a better experience for everyone.
We are deeply sorry to hear that you are currently experiencing an issue with our app. Our team is committed to resolving any issues promptly, and we will thoroughly investigate and address the problem you have encountered.
Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention, and we look forward to resolving it for you as quickly as possible.

### 5/5 — Пн

*2023-05-20*

ТОПОВОЕ ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ

**Developer response:** Спасибо Вам за положительный отзыв.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — This App does not work good

*2024-09-08*

It took two hours to transcribe the import file and nothing show up by the way it was 1.5 minutes recording…so disappointed to see it

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to provide detailed feedback on our Speech to Text app. We are sorry to hear about the issues you have encountered and that our app did not meet your expectations. We are continuously working to improve the accuracy and reliability of our transcription services, and your feedback is invaluable in helping us identify areas for improvement. Thank you again for your feedback. We are dedicated to improving our app and hope to earn your trust in the future.

### 1/5 — Annoying and not free

*2024-08-14*

The weirdest way to do transcribing. First it does an audio recording which u have to wait for to download to see if and what it transcribed. Then it makes multiple files with each short sentence. How is that useful? It’s more work than if I just wrote the whole thing myself. And after that fiasco, I redownloaded it and now it won’t even have an option to use a free version. For the most basic voice to text it asks you to pay. It is unconscionable that in this age of technology when we pay hundreds to thousands $ for these machines you can’t even get a transcribing app without paying for a subscription. Horrible. Greedy, and time wasting.

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We greatly appreciate it as it helps us enhance our app and provide a better experience for all users. To better understand and address the issue you encountered, we kindly request you to email us at support@mindateq.io with more details. This will enable our team to investigate the matter further and find an appropriate solution.

### 1/5 — Very Unusable

*2024-08-03*

They just went with this app. For a minute you open it, they’re on you to take out a premium subscription. live transcript you could not make any corrections whatsoever or if you did, they were just added to the end of the text. This isn’t what I wanted to and I’m glad I didn’t pay for it.

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to provide detailed feedback on our Speech to Text app. We are sorry to hear about the issues you have encountered and that our app did not meet your expectations. We are continuously working to improve the accuracy and reliability of our transcription services, and your feedback is invaluable in helping us identify areas for improvement. Thank you again for your feedback. We are dedicated to improving our app and hope to earn your trust in the future.

### 1/5 — Makes You Pay and Doesn’t Tell You That Your Files Aren’t Compatible

*2024-04-10*

My voice memo files are “incompatible” (not an issue with other apps apparently) but I didn’t know that and couldn’t have until I paid to see that they were. Now I have to deal with customer service to get a refund. If you aren’t going to be clear about what works and doesn’t don’t do business — it’s scammy.

**Developer response:** We're sincerely sorry to hear about your experience with our Speech to Text app. Your frustration is completely understandable, and we apologize for any inconvenience caused. It's certainly not our intention to mislead or disappoint our users.

We strive to provide clear information about the compatibility of our app with different file formats, and we regret if there was any confusion in your case. We understand the importance of transparency, especially when it comes to paid services.

Please know that we take feedback like yours seriously, and we're committed to improving our app and communication to prevent similar issues in the future. 

Once again, we apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. If there's anything else we can do to assist you or if you have any further feedback, please don't hesitate to let us know. We're here to help.

### 1/5 — Can’t even get it to work.

*2023-12-27*

Terrible app

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We greatly appreciate it as it helps us enhance our app and provide a better experience for all users. To better understand and address the issue you encountered, we kindly request you to email us at support@mindateq.io with more details. This will enable our team to investigate the matter further and find an appropriate solution.

### 1/5 — This doesn’t work

*2023-11-27*

This app is useless. It costs money and it can’t transcribe the iPhone voice memos…..

**Developer response:** Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We genuinely appreciate input from our users as it helps us improve our app and provide a better experience for everyone. We are deeply sorry to hear that you are currently experiencing an issue with our app. Our team is committed to resolving any issues promptly, and we will thoroughly investigate and address the problem you have encountered. Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention, and we look forward to resolving it for you as quickly as possible.

### 1/5 — So impractical

*2023-11-07*

I want my money back! You aren’t even allowed to try it first- it says free trail but then it forces you to just pay for it to use it. I did the yearly subscription thinking it would be worth it based off the reviews but this thing is useless. You can’t pause to edit, you can’t say keywords like next line or bullet point or anything other than just spitting out words like your regular iPhone keyboard could do! You have to save the file- then go in to edit it and then you can’t record again. It also misses a lot of words, one star!!

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We greatly appreciate your input and perspective. Your valuable insights are instrumental in helping us enhance our application's functionality and overall user experience. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or frustration you may have experienced due to the unexpected behavior of our application. Please rest assured that your comments have been forwarded to our dedicated team for a comprehensive review. We are committed to addressing the issues you encountered and implementing necessary measures to prevent similar occurrences in the future. Our aim is to ensure that every user has a seamless and enjoyable experience while using our application. Once again, we truly appreciate your feedback and thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.

### 1/5 — It didn't work

*2023-10-29*

I tried the weekly plan and attempted to convert the audio of a 45-minute meeting into text. 1# It doesn't accept m4a files, which is ironic since that's the format for iOS voice notes. I had to download another app and pay extra to convert my files to a format the app would accept. 2# When converting, the app doesn't show any feedback on the progress. I waited for over two hours, thinking something went wrong until the processing stopped. I tried to view the text, and the app crashed. I tried multiple times, and the app keeps crashing.

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We greatly appreciate your input and perspective. Your valuable insights are instrumental in helping us enhance our application's functionality and overall user experience. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or frustration you may have experienced due to the unexpected behavior of our application.

Please rest assured that your comments have been forwarded to our dedicated team for a comprehensive review. We are committed to addressing the issues you encountered and implementing necessary measures to prevent similar occurrences in the future. Our aim is to ensure that every user has a seamless and enjoyable experience while using our application.

Once again, we truly appreciate your feedback and thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.

### 1/5 — Useless

*2023-09-21*

If I can’t use voice memos from my iPhone, what good is this app?!  I emailed tech support; so far, nothing.

**Developer response:** We apologize for any inconvenience you've experienced and appreciate your patience. We want to assure you that your inquiry to our tech support team has been addressed.
Our team has provided a response to your question regarding the use of voice memos with your iPhone. If you haven't received their response, please check your email's spam folder, as sometimes our messages may inadvertently end up there.
In the current version of our app, we support the MP3 format for voice memos. We're excited to share that we are actively working on an update that will expand the range of supported formats in the new version of our app.

### 1/5 — I need my money back

*2023-09-20*

It doesn’t work as advertised! I don’t even find the recording? Does not transcribe. Why no free trial? Why apple let this app on the App Store? I need my money back and will complain to App Store

**Developer response:** We're sorry to hear about your experience with our app, and we apologize for any inconvenience you've encountered. We understand your frustration, and we'd like to help you resolve these issues.

Firstly, we apologize if you couldn't find the recording or if the transcription didn't work as expected. Our app is designed to provide a seamless experience, and we take user feedback seriously.

Regarding the lack of a free trial, we appreciate your feedback on this matter. We are constantly working on improving our offerings and will consider your suggestion for future updates.

As for your concern about why our app is on the App Store, rest assured that Apple has a thorough review process for all apps before they are listed. However, we are continually working to enhance our app's performance based on user feedback.

To address your current issues, we recommend reaching out to our customer support team. They are well-equipped to assist you and can provide you with detailed instructions on how to use the app effectively. Please email us at support@mindateq.io, and our team will promptly get back to you with the assistance you need.

Your satisfaction is essential to us, and we are committed to ensuring that you have a positive experience with our app. We appreciate your feedback and thank you for giving our app a try.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Perfect for students

*2024-09-22*

I love using this app for my classes. It captures everything the professor says in real-time, which helps me focus on the lecture without worrying about missing important details.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! We're thrilled to hear that our app enhances your classroom experience by capturing real-time lectures. It’s great to know that you can focus on the material without the worry of missing any important details.

### 5/5 — Perfect for journalists

*2024-09-22, version 1.3*

This app has made my life so much easier! As a journalist, I rely on this app for transcribing interviews. The audio quality of the recordings is excellent, and the transcriptions are accurate.

### 5/5 — Efficient student companion

*2024-09-20*

I can record high-quality audio and get accurate transcriptions without any hassle. This app is incredibly user-friendly, and it's perfect for students looking to be more efficient.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your fantastic feedback! We're thrilled to hear that you're enjoying the app’s ease of use and finding it helpful for recording high-quality audio with accurate transcriptions. It’s great to know that it’s helping you be more efficient as a student.

### 5/5 — Efficient automated transcription

*2024-09-19*

One thing is certain, this app has significantly reduced the time I spend on transcriptions. The automated transcription feature works flawlessly, much better than I expected.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your great review! We’re so glad to hear that the app has helped reduce the time you spend on transcriptions and that the automated transcription feature exceeded your expectations. It’s feedback like yours that encourages us to continue improving the app.

### 5/5 — Perfect for notes

*2024-09-18*

The live transcription feature is fantastic, and incredibly accurate, allowing me to see the text as I speak. It's perfect for taking notes during lectures and meetings.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your wonderful feedback! We’re thrilled to hear that you’re enjoying the live transcription feature and finding it accurate and useful for lectures and meetings. Your support motivates us to keep improving the app.

### 5/5 — Great APP

*2023-07-02*

Helps with online kids if you text slow

**Developer response:** Thank you sincerely for taking the time to review our app. We greatly appreciate your positive feedback and are delighted to hear that you're enjoying using it!

### 5/5 — Price

*2023-06-23*

Does anyone know how to subscribe for the year if free trial ends do I have to call to end or will it charge me I like it but I need to know is the yearly substitution really $17.99
A year is it limited to how much you can use

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for taking the time to share your positive feedback about our app. To switch your subscription to a different type, such as a monthly or annual plan on your iPhone or iPad, follow these steps:
1. Open the Settings. 
2. Tap your name, then tap Subscriptions.
3. Tap the name of the subscription that you want to change.
4. Tap See All Plans, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete your purchase.

### 5/5 — Recommend

*2023-06-15*

I use this app a lot, it is the best one out there for recording my thoughts when I'm walking or doing my long commute. Definitely recommended.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for taking the time to share your positive feedback about our app. We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed using it! Your satisfaction is our top priority, and it's always rewarding to know that we've been successful in delivering a great user experience.

### 5/5 — Amazing

*2023-06-12*

Once you become accustomed to the start and stop aspect of this app, recording becomes very easy and you won't use anything else. Thank you developers!

**Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback. We are glad that you like our App.

### 5/5 — Amazing job

*2023-06-11*

What a great program! In terms of accuracy, this is the best speech-to-text app I've ever tried. Even if it doesn't get a word right, you can easily edit it afterwards.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for your kind words and positive feedback about our app. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your experience with us. Your feedback serves as a great motivation for our team, and it reaffirms our commitment to providing a high-quality app and an enjoyable user experience.

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