TeamTalk 5 vs Sonarpad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | TeamTalk 5 | Sonarpad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (39 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bjoern Rasmussen | Ambrogio Riili |
Customer experience
TeamTalk 5
Sonarpad
In-app purchases
TeamTalk 5
No in-app purchases
Sonarpad
No in-app purchases





