Comparison

Spark Voicemail vs WhenThing

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

Head to head
About

Spark Voicemail

This app transforms your voicemail into a visual experience, allowing you to read transcripts, listen, and manage messages easily. It offers features like lock screen access, playback speed control, and email forwarding for enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • Visual voicemail transcription
  • Lock screen playback and reading
  • Playback speed control
  • Email forwarding
  • Searchable voicemails
  • Personalized greeting setup
  • Biometric security
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Spark Voicemail revolutionises your voicemail experience, making it effortless to retrieve and respond to voicemails. ---- Please note: To use Spark Voicemail, you must be a Spark mobile customer. ---- KEY FEATURES: READ YOUR VOICEMAIL VISUALLY You can read automatic transcripts of your voicemail. Want to listen to them? That's easy; just press play. LISTEN TO OR READ YOUR VOICEMAIL ON THE LOCK SCREEN That's right - you don't even need to enter the App to read or listen to your latest voicemail. NATIVE SUPPORT FOR DARK MODE We've crafted a beautiful dark mode experience that's easy on the eyes. ACCESS YOUR VOICEMAILS IN ANY ORDER Navigating your voicemails is now as easy as a scroll and tap. View voicemails in threads, organised by contact. PLAYBACK SPEED CONTROL Save time or listen carefully to your voicemails with 0.8x, 1x, 1.5x, or 2x speed controls. EMAIL FORWARDING Add up to two email addresses to receive your voicemails right in your inbox. Why two email addresses? So you can boost your responsiveness by also sending voicemails to your assistant or team to respond on your behalf! Don't worry; you can filter out calls from personal contacts. SEARCH YOUR VOICEMAILS BY NAME OR KEYWORD With our built-in automatic transcription service, Spark Voicemail makes your voicemails effortlessly searchable. EASY PERSONALISED GREETING SETUP Spark Voicemail lets you easily record a new greeting. Change it every season, or if you're away on holiday. EASY MANAGEMENT Managing your voicemails has never been easier. Call back contacts, share your voicemails or delete them to save space. UNLOCK WITH BIOMETRICS Protect voicemails on your phone with a passcode and biometrics - Face ID and Touch ID. COMPLETE NOTIFICATIONS Read or listen to voicemails right from your lock screen or notification centre. Privacy Policy: https://www.spark.co.nz/help/other/terms/policies/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.spark.co.nz/help/other/terms/

About

WhenThing

Features
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WhenThing is a tracking tool that aims to be clean, simple, and unobtrusive. It can be used to track and to anaylse patterns in personal behaviour, your health, or almost anything around you. WhenThing was designed out of a desire for a tool to easily and quietly track certain personal events and patterns. It is at least a little opinionated about the use of a habit tracker in general, with several key things in mind: - Do One Thing™: All patterns start with one event. The tiniest thing is progress. Not a real trademark. - Introspection is power: Change is easier to achieve when you know what you are changing. With those things in mind, what I didn't want to do with this app is make judgements about how the tool must be used beyond that, or about what people find helpful or hurtful. There are no nags, no reminders, no pep-talks, no gamification. We do enable you to set goals for the things you're tracking, and there's some analysis there that you can look at, but you don't get any badges! Big or small, anything is helpful here. Want to remember every time you pulled weeds out of the garden bed? Track it! Need to note when you took that medication so you don't take it again, and you don't want The Man to see? Track it! How do you feel, on a scale of 1-10? What does 10 mean? What if 10 means something different tomorrow? We take that question away with Relative Level Things. Instead of picking a 1-10 value, pick a value relative to the last value you recorded. We can still graph it, don't worry. It's not the number that counts, it's the direction it's going in. Or maybe not: You decide! Maybe you want to know how much your knees hurt after you've pulled weeds out of that garden bed? Well, have a look at a chart of "Knee pain" overlaid with "Weeding". There are any number of combinations to track, that fun is up to you! Want to bring data from another source and use it in WhenThing? Or get your data out of the app and use it somewhere else? We've enabled data import and export in CSV or JSON format. WhenThing is free to use, for tracking up to three Things (we capitalise Thing here!), and a small payment unlocks import/export and lets you add as many Things as you need. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://esj.nz/software/whenthing/privacy/

Screenshots

Spark Voicemail4 screens
WhenThing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spark Voicemail at none against WhenThing's 5. Spark Voicemail also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WhenThing sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Spark Voicemail asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Spark Voicemail versus WhenThing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpark VoicemailWhenThing
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews22.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNorwood Systems (Aust) Pty LtdEvan Sunley James

Bugs and requests

Spark Voicemail

Reported bugs

44 issues
  • Voicemails arrive a day later
  • Voicemail messages do not arrive in the app
  • App not working correctly with iOS updates
  • App fails to activate
  • App crashes on launch
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  • App stops receiving voicemails
  • App requires frequent reinstallation
  • Activation failed with error code 500
  • App locks users out after updates
  • App crashes when playing voicemails
  • App shows 'refreshing' and doesn't upload messages
  • App shows 'refreshing' for extended periods
  • App not accepting mobile number for activation
  • App closes immediately after launching
  • No notifications for new voicemails
  • App populates with old, deleted voicemails
  • New voicemails not appearing even after combing through old ones
  • Messages come back and repopulate after deletion
  • Messages not ordered chronologically
  • Cannot delete messages
  • Voice to text translation is inaccurate/rubbish
  • App stopped downloading voicemails after last release
  • App is slow with notifications, messages arrive 24 hours later
  • App shows 'this person has temporarily disabled this number' message
  • App shows error code 401 during activation
  • App shows error code 500 during activation
  • App crashes at caller ID proceed screen
  • App crashes immediately after launching
  • App closes automatically when opening to check a message
  • App revives deleted messages
  • App sorts messages into random order
  • App does not show contact names in email notifications
  • App does not have app badge or other notifications
  • App does not have time and date stamp on voicemails
  • App does not allow deletion of messages
  • App messages are not ordered understandably
  • App transcription is embarrassing garbage
  • Push notifications are intermittent
  • Messages from days ago appear after pull to refresh
  • Messages do not display in chronological order
  • No option to automatically forward all messages to email
  • Cannot select both audio and transcription when forwarding to email
  • App doesn't understand English names
  • App shows 'this person has temporarily disabled this number' when activated

Requested features

13 requests
  • Multi-line support for dual-SIM phones
  • Ability to block spam callers
  • Integration with native iOS voicemail
  • Improved transcription accuracy
  • Option to disable transcription
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  • Background refreshing
  • Human support option
  • Option to set temporary greeting on a schedule
  • Contact names in email notifications
  • Option to forward both audio and transcription to email
  • Automatic forwarding of all messages to email
  • Ability to delete all messages
  • Time and date stamp on voicemails

WhenThing

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Spark Voicemail

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

WhenThing

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Subscription$0.491 Month
One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Lifetime Upgrade$9.99
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  • Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Spark Voicemail free?
Spark Voicemail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhenThing free?
WhenThing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Spark Voicemail or WhenThing have ads?
Neither Spark Voicemail nor WhenThing shows ads.

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