Comparison

Speech to Text vs Scribbn

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

Head to head
About

Speech to Text

Effortlessly convert your spoken words into written text. This app provides fast voice-to-text transcription for creating notes, with editing and sharing capabilities. Adjust font sizes and manage all your transcribed notes in one place.

Highlights
  • Voice recognition and speech-to-text translation
  • Edit dictated text
  • Adjustable font size
  • List of all notes
  • Share text or send to other apps
  • iPad adaptation
Features
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Dictate with your voice and the app will translate it into text, the fastest way to create big notes. Basic features: - Voice recognition and speech-to-text translation - Speech to text your note - Ability to edit dictated text - Adjust font size - List of all the notes. - Ability to share text or send it to another application - Adapted for iPad Leave a grade, write a review, as well as send ideas and suggestions to mynickjasper@yandex.com. Terms of use: http://apps.aleksaleks.ru/audio-transcriber/termsofuse_en.html

About

Scribbn

Convert voice messages into text for easier understanding and faster replies. This tool helps you transcribe audio, summarize key points, and even detect emotions and keywords. It's ideal for situations where listening to audio is inconvenient or impossible.

Highlights
  • Voice message to text transcription
  • Text summarization
  • Emotion recognition
  • Keyword analysis
  • Silence detection remover
  • Message history search
  • Supports 136 languages
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Have you ever been receiving voice messages and not being able to listen to it in peace? Scribbn wants to solve exactly this problem and convert what is spoken into written text. Convert your voice notes to text and don’t make your friends wait a long time for an answer. Perfect in situations where putting your phone to your ear is not an option such as at meetings, theaters, events etc. No headphones at hand? No problem! Simply scan information with your eyes at a pace faster than the sender’s um’s and uh’s. Scribbn's sophisticated can also create a summary so that you can quickly find out what that voice message is about before investing time reading the whole thing. The text summarizer will extract the key sentences. In addition Scribbn extracts emotions and key phrases which helps you getting a better picture of what’s going on. After processing is finished the audio recording is not stored remotely with respect to your privacy. You can also easily search to find a specific voice message with some typing, meaning that you will never have to scroll through your conversations for hours again. How does it work? - Open favorite messenger - Select a voice message - Click the share icon - Choose Scribbn from the share menu - Get voice to text message transcript (smart auto detection of language)   Scribbn works well with: WhatsApp, Threema, Element, xx messenger, Line, KakaoTalk, iMessage, Signal, Telegram, Voice Memos, Voicemail and many other apps. Just forward, send or share voice messages to Scribbn. Features: - Voice conversation to text - Speech to text recognizer - Emotions recognition - Gender detector - Keyword analysis - Silence detection remover - Message history - Text summarization - We support 136 languages and dialects: Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic (DZ, BH, EG, IQ, IL, JO, KW, LB, LY, MA, OM, QA, SA, PS, SY, TN, AE, YE) Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Catalan Chinese (ZH, TW) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch (BE, NL) English (AU, CA, GH, HK, IN, IE, KE, NZ, NG, PH, SG, ZA, TZ, UK, US) Estonian Filipino Finnish French (BE, CA, FR, CH) Galician Georgian German (AT, CH, DE) Greek Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic India (BN, GU, HI, KN, MR, TA, TE) Indonesian Irish Italian (IT, CH) Japanese Javanese Kazakh Khmer Korean Laos Latvian Lithuanian Macedonia Malay Maltese Mongolian Nepali Norwegian Pashto Persian Polish Portuguese (BR, PT) Romanian Russian Serbian Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Somali Spanish (AR, BO, CL, CO, CR, CU, DO, EC, SV, GQ, GT, HN, MX, NI, PA, PY, PE, PR, ES, UY, US, VE) Swahili (KE, TZ) Swedish Thai Turkish Ukranian Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Zulu As we stand with Ukraine, all Ukrainian transcriptions are for free. So that being in contact with the ones you love the most is easier. Developed by Technidoo Solutions UG based in Aschaffenburg Düsseldorf Boston and Barcelona

Screenshots

Speech to Text4 screens
Scribbn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Speech to Text at 4.4 against Scribbn's 4.0. Speech to Text also leads on review sentiment (24% vs 0%) and ratings volume (128 vs 6). Scribbn's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Speech to Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Scribbn sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Speech to Text holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Speech to Text has 128 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Speech to Text's written reviews are positive against 0% of Scribbn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speech to Text ships an update monthly, Scribbn every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Speech to Text versus Scribbn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeech to TextScribbn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (128 ratings) — better4.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews24.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings128 — better6
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB133 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleksandr AlekseevTechnidoo UG

Customer experience

Speech to Text

All ratings128 ratings
Positive82.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive24.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative72.0%

Scribbn

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Speech to Text

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly: Speech to text$1.997 Days
  • Monthly: Speech to text$4.991 Month
  • Yearly: Speech to text3 Days trial$24.991 Year
4 purchases

Scribbn

One-time4
  • Starter Credits Pack$0.99
  • Bronze Credits Pack$1.99
  • Silver Credits Pack$3.99
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  • Gold Credits Pack$7.99

Questions

Is Speech to Text free?
Speech to Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scribbn free?
Scribbn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Speech to Text or Scribbn?
Speech to Text is rated higher. Speech to Text averages 4.4 out of 5 from 128 ratings, while Scribbn averages 4.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Speech to Text or Scribbn have ads?
Both Speech to Text and Scribbn show ads.
Which is updated more often, Speech to Text or Scribbn?
Speech to Text ships an update monthly, and Scribbn every 3 weeks. Most recently, Speech to Text was updated on November 3, 2026 and Scribbn on November 3, 2026.

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