Speecap vs NoiseGate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speecap
This utility app records your voice with automatic background noise cancellation. It ensures clean speech recordings without the need for professional equipment, allowing for background recording and easy sharing. It is best suited for quiet environments and close-range voice capture.
- Automatic hissing noise cancellation
- Sound monitoring while recording
- Background recording
- Share recordings via Airdrop/cloud
- iTunes file sharing
- Slide Over and Split View support
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Speecap is a high-quality voice recorder. Speecap automatically detects and eliminates background hissing noise while recording. No need of expensive professional microphone. Easily make clean speech recordings with any microphone. Main features: • Automatic hissing noise cancellation • Sound monitoring while recording • Recording in the background Additional features: • Share your recordings using Airdrop or cloud apps • iTunes file sharing • Slide Over and Split View *** SPEECAP IS INTENDED ONLY FOR RECORDING OF SPEAKING VOICE IN QUIET ENVIRONMENT. *** *** SPEECAP IS NOT INTENDED FOR LONG DISTANCE RECORDING AND HAS A DISTANCE LIMIT OF 8 INCHES (20 CENTIMETERS). ***
NoiseGate
This app helps you understand and avoid the negative health impacts of noise pollution. It features an interactive global map of noise levels and allows you to measure noise at your location to contribute to the database and make informed decisions for a healthier lifestyle.
- Global noise pollution heat map
- Measure local noise levels
- Health impact explanations
- Contribute to global database
- Mindful lifestyle guidance
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NoiseGate is the first and only iOS application that focusses exclusively on the hazardous impact of noise pollution on health and mental wellbeing. Building on noise recorded by users all around the world, NoiseGate's interactive heat map allows you to explore noise levels all around the globe on different levels of abstraction with detailed explanation of the potential impact on your health. You can measure and calculate the actual noise level at your current location to provide additional insights to the global database and empower everyone to make better decisions on how to avoid high noise levels whenever possible. NoiseGate not only empowers you to be aware of noise pollution but also to helps you to pursue a more mindful and healthy lifestyle with mental integrity being of upmost priority. Use NoiseGate to be aware & escape noise pollution. NoiseGate was developed at the Apple Developer Academy in Napoli, Italy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NoiseGate at fortnightly against Speecap's every 3 months. Speecap's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 57%) and ratings volume (26 vs 3). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Speecap against 4.7 for NoiseGate. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speecap has 26 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Speecap's written reviews are positive against 57% of NoiseGate's.
Speecap ships an update every 3 months, NoiseGate fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Speecap | NoiseGate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (26 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roman Aliyev | Moritz Philip Recke |
Customer experience
Speecap
NoiseGate
In-app purchases
Speecap
No in-app purchases
NoiseGate
No in-app purchases
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