Comparison

TeamTalk 5 vs Sonarpad

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TeamTalk 5

This application enables real-time voice conversations and text messaging over the internet. It supports private rooms, high-quality audio, and offers robust accessibility features for visually impaired users.

Highlights
  • Real-time voice over IP conversations
  • Instant text messaging
  • Private rooms/channels
  • High-quality audio codecs
  • Push-to-talk and voice activation
  • Accessibility for visually impaired
Features
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TeamTalk is a conferencing system which allows users to participate in conferences on the Internet. Users can chat using voice over IP and listen to streaming media files. TeamTalk for iOS has been designed with particular emphasis on accessibility features for visually impaired. Here is a list of the main features: - Real time voice over IP conversations - Public and private instant text messaging - Private rooms/channels for every group - High quality audio codecs with both mono and stereo - Push-to-talk and voice activation - Standalone server available for both LAN and Internet environments - User authentication with accounts - Accessibility for visually impaired using VoiceOver

About

Sonarpad

This app helps you read, listen to, and organize various types of content, including documents, news, podcasts, and more. It offers text-to-speech functionality, search capabilities, and supports multiple export formats for your documents.

Highlights
  • Read and organize documents
  • Text-to-speech functionality
  • Import and export documents (DOCX, EPUB, PDF)
  • Follow RSS news feeds
  • Search and listen to podcasts
  • Search and listen to radio stations
  • Check routes, weather, and calendar
Features
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Sonarpad Mobile is an app designed to read, listen with text-to-speech, search and organise content in a simple and accessible way. With Sonarpad, you can manage documents, follow news and podcasts, search for radio stations, check routes, weather, calendar information and other useful everyday tools. Main features: • Documents: import and read text files, documents, books and content organised in folders. • Imports: import personal documents and search for text content from supported public sources. • Exports: export documents to DOCX, EPUB and PDF. • Voice reading: use text-to-speech with the settings chosen by the user. • News: follow RSS sources, import and export OPML files and organise sources into folders. • Podcasts: search, listen to and manage podcasts. • Radio: search for stations by language, country, city and genre and listen to live broadcasts. • Routes: search for directions, store routes in Documents and listen to instructions with text-to-speech. • Weather and recent cities: check the weather and quickly switch between cities. • Calendar: check days, holidays, quotes and reminders. • App theme: choose between automatic, light or dark mode. Sonarpad was created with special attention to accessibility, VoiceOver support and simple screens. Some features require an Internet connection and may depend on the availability of the external services used.

Screenshots

TeamTalk 54 screens
Sonarpad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sonarpad at 4.5 against TeamTalk 5's 4.0. Sonarpad also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 68%). TeamTalk 5's advantage is ratings volume (39 vs 2) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sonarpad holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TeamTalk 5 has 39 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of TeamTalk 5's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sonarpad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TeamTalk 5 ships an update every 3 months, Sonarpad every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 25, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TeamTalk 5 versus Sonarpad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeamTalk 5Sonarpad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (39 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings39 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB194 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperBjoern RasmussenAmbrogio Riili

Customer experience

TeamTalk 5

All ratings35 ratings
Positive74.3%
Neutral14.3%
Negative11.4%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral13.2%
Negative18.4%

Sonarpad

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

TeamTalk 5

No in-app purchases

None

Sonarpad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TeamTalk 5 free?
TeamTalk 5 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sonarpad free?
Sonarpad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TeamTalk 5 or Sonarpad?
Sonarpad is rated higher. TeamTalk 5 averages 4.0 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Sonarpad averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do TeamTalk 5 or Sonarpad have ads?
Neither TeamTalk 5 nor Sonarpad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TeamTalk 5 or Sonarpad?
TeamTalk 5 ships an update every 3 months, and Sonarpad every 2 months. Most recently, TeamTalk 5 was updated on July 25, 2026 and Sonarpad on September 5, 2026.

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