Edit vs ToBe SAID
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Edit
This app provides a minimalist scratchpad for quick notes and drafts, functioning like a single sheet of paper. It ensures your text remains accessible and offers simple export options. Designed for speed and ease of use, it's ideal for capturing fleeting thoughts.
- Single page scratchpad
- Instant return to writing
- One-touch select all
- Export via Share Sheet
- Word and character count
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Edit is a super fast scratchpad for your thoughts, drafts, and notes. Think of it as a single sheet of paper, not a notebook. There's no document storage, because whatever you leave in Edit will be there when you get back. Once you're done writing, you can send or save your text to anywhere in iOS via the Share Sheet. What's in the box? * One page Return instantly to what you were writing. * One-touch select all Effortlessly clear the page to start fresh. * Export Send your text to anywhere in iOS. * Word and character count Know how much you've written. I've intentionally kept Edit simple so it stays fast and easy to maintain. The other benefit of this simplicity is that Edit should continue to run without issue on iOS devices for years to come. Because of that, I'm slapping a 10-year good faith guarantee on Edit's general availability. Should there come a time over the next decade where I'm unable to update Edit to run on the latest version of iOS, I'll open source the code for anyone to download and run themselves. Happy writing, K.Q. @Dreger
ToBe SAID
This app provides a high-performance, offline AI voice generator and system-wide Text-to-Speech engine for enhanced privacy. It transforms documents and books into natural-sounding audiobooks, integrating seamlessly with your existing reading and productivity applications.
- Offline AI voice generation
- System-wide Text-to-Speech engine
- Convert EPUB/PDF to audiobooks
- Seamless integration with other apps
- Clone and create personal voices
- 100% local processing for privacy
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Your Voice. Your Device. Your Privacy. ToBe SAID gives your iPhone, iPad, and Mac natural AI voices that run on the device itself. It is a system-wide Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine: once installed, its voices appear in your system voice list, so VoiceOver, Spoken Content, and any app that can use system voices can speak with them. No servers. No ads. No in-app purchases. No tracking. ToBe SAID is a voice provider, not a reading app. It works together with the apps you already use: your e-book reader, your PDF viewer, your AAC communication app, or the system's own Speak features. TRY IT IN SECONDS Open the app, type some text, and hear it instantly. The English voices are ready the moment you install. Other languages need a one-time voice download, and after that they work fully offline: on a plane, on a train, or anywhere without a signal. WHAT YOU GET, FREE • 4 natural English voices • 2 natural voices in each of 23 other languages • All voices work system-wide, in every app that lists system voices • Works offline after the one-time voice download • No ads and no in-app purchases HEAR YOUR OWN VOICE Voice cloning preview: import a short audio file (MP3, WAV, OGG, and other popular formats, any length: ToBe SAID trims it automatically; 15 seconds is all it needs) and hear your clone speak inside the app. In this free app, the clone is a preview and stays inside the app. WANT TO KEEP YOUR CLONES? ToBe SAID Pro is a separate app with the same voices, plus an unlimited voice library: save as many cloned voices as you like and use them in every app that uses system voices. 24 LANGUAGES English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Egyptian, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu and Turkish. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything runs on your device. Your text and your audio files stay with you. Only clone your own voice or voices you have permission to use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ToBe SAID at Free against Edit's $1.99. ToBe SAID also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Edit's advantage is ratings volume (52 vs 2). On review sentiment, 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
ToBe SAID is free to download; Edit costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ToBe SAID holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Edit has 52 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Edit's written reviews are positive against 100% of ToBe SAID's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Edit | ToBe SAID |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (52 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 0 MB | 237 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | K.Q. Dreger | Bakhtiar Lukman |
Customer experience
Edit
ToBe SAID
In-app purchases
Edit
No in-app purchases
ToBe SAID
No in-app purchases









