TextHear vs Yating
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TextHear
This app provides real-time speech-to-text transcription to assist individuals with hearing impairments. It can be used for non-stop dictation or to convert phone calls and conversations into text, making communication more accessible.
- Real-time transcription
- Non-stop dictation
- Phone call captioning
- Face-to-face conversation aid
- High-precision speech recognition
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* Please note: app is free to download & test for 1 minute. After that - you will have to purchase transcription minutes at ±$0.3 a minute. We hope you will find it worthwhile for its return in reliability, accuracy, elegancy & simplicity - a single touch to transcribe non-stop. We understand it's a bit pricy in today's market, but it's cause we ourselves pay for the transcription by the minute to our service provider (we chose to use Google's paid Speech-to-Text service for its accuracy and reliability). --- As many amongst us suffer from reduced hearing, our mission is to help make everyday-life better for the hearing impaired, using cutting-edge technologies. TextHear's app does non-stop high-precision speech transcription, suitable as a stand-alone app for non-stop dictation and for use with the TextHear phone adapter and microphone to aid hearing-impaired. As such, TextHear transforms any land line phone to a caption-phone, without the need for a second line. Using it with a microphone, in face to face conversations, enables the hard of hearing to SEE what is being said. It is much easier than lips-reading and you won't miss a word. Simply place the microphone in front of them, click the mic - and let our app transcribe for you in real-time what they are saying.
Yating
This tool converts speech and voice recordings into text for classes, meetings, and interviews. It supports multiple languages and accents, offering real-time transcription and cross-platform accessibility. Focus on your goals while it handles the recording and transcribing work.
- Speech to text conversion
- Supports Mandarin, English, Japanese, Cantonese, Taiwanese
- Real-time subtitle mode
- Cross-platform availability (mobile, Chrome plugin)
- Speaker identification and timestamps
- API for batch audio conversion
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A handy tool for classes, meetings, interviews or the everyday moments that’s worth savoring. Yating understands Mandarin, Mandarin-English code-switch and Taiwanese. Better yet, our translation and speech recognition languages are expanding. Let Yating handles the repetitive recording and transcribing work for you, so that you could focus on the important goals. * 100% Made in Taiwan The first speech recognition AI model that’s developed for Taiwanese accent Mandarin. We are 100% privately funded; the data and the RD are all from Taiwan. * Small But Mighty A handy tool for classes, meetings, interviews or the everyday moments that’s worth savoring. Yating understands Mandarin, English, Japanese, Cantonese and Taiwanese. Let Yating transcribes for you, so that you could focus on the important goals. You talk, Yating types. *Talk Away, No Eavesdropping We take your privacy seriously. We are not in the data selling business; your data is confidential and will not be transferred to any third parties. Your data is safe with us. You can execute the right to be forgotten by deleting your data from your account. *Seamless Cross-Platform Experience The service is available on Notebook and mobile, so that you can access Yating regardless you are in the office or on the go. Use the Yating app to record an interview, a meeting or a class. Turn on the Chrome Plug-in while you are in a Google Meet remote meeting, seminar or online course. If the internet is not stable, you can also record a voice memo and upload the audio file to convert to transcription later. *Subtitle mode We offer live transcription in the subtitle mode. A visual aid to help you better understand what's been said when you can't hear clearly, e.g. online classes, remote meetings or seminars. The feature also helps deaf users to enjoy every moments in life, real-time. *Enterprise Solutions For large organizations that need additional security, control and customised solutions for specific domains or industries, please feel free to contact us. ============= Many uses of Yating =========== * Students Use Yating to record lectures to help you review. Even when you accidentally doze out or lost focus during the class, you still have a chance to catch up and stay on track. *Analysts & Data scientists Are you doing Social Media Analytic or Sentiment analysis for specific brands or medias? In addition to written text, are you also interested in knowing what’s been discussed verbally? Yating offers API for you to batch convert audios and videos to text (.txt), so that your analysis is more comprehensive and covers more dimensions. *UI/UX qualitative user researcher Do you need to conduct qualitative research, i.e. in depth interviews or focus groups? Do you need to build user persona? Yating record the conversations in the transcription form— each verbose is labeled with the speaker plus time stamps. You can see who said what at what time-stamp in a glance. Yating saved 80% of the dictating time. Let Yating handles the repetitive transcribing work for you, so that you could focus on organizing the Affinity graph and extracting the crucial consumer insights. *Podcaster Are you producing a podcast program? Can your audience find a section of their favorite episodes easily? Yating converts conversations into text and present it in the transcription form. Adding a transcription for your program helps it to be more searchable— both for your audience and for the search engines! *Hearing impaired Are you losing hearing? Are you depending on lip-reading to understand what has been said? Yating offers live transcribe subtitle mode. When you have problems to hear clearly, turn on Yating’s subtitle mode, so that you could use textual assisting tool to help you understand what’s going on around you — what has been announced through the broadcast, what the online course or the panel talk is about, or what caused a heated debate in a remote meeting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Yating at 57% against TextHear's 0%. Yating also leads on rating (4.4 vs 1.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). TextHear's advantage is iOS requirement (9.2 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support 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. TextHear sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Yating asks for nothing beyond the download.
Yating holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yating has 63 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of TextHear's written reviews are positive against 57% of Yating's.
TextHear ships an update every 8 months, Yating every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | TextHear | Yating |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (10 ratings) | 4.4 (63 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WellSource Ltd. | AILabs |
Customer experience
TextHear
Yating
In-app purchases
TextHear
- Transcription credits pack: 30 minutes$8.99
Yating
No in-app purchases









