Big Text vs Hearview
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Big Text
This app converts your speech into large, readable text in real-time. It's designed for noisy environments and helps users communicate effectively, especially those who are visually or hearing impaired. Save, share, and replay your messages with customizable fonts and colors for optimal visibility.
- Real-time speech to text conversion
- Large, readable text display
- Message library for saving messages
- Save and share transcripts
- Customizable colors and fonts
- Message playback with animations
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Real time speech to text! Big Text helps you communicate in noisy environments and through face coverings, a useful tool for visually & hearing impaired users. Type your message or use speech recognition to display your words in real-time! Save messages in the message library for instant recall. Save & Share transcripts. A range of colours and fonts chosen to be readable from distance. Play back your messages with typing and banner animations.
Hearview
This AI-powered tool provides instant, real-time subtitles and translation for speech and videos. It supports over 140 languages for recognition and translation, making communication accessible and barrier-free for various needs.
- Real-time speech recognition
- Live subtitles for videos
- Real-time translation
- Face-to-face text mode
- Supports 140+ languages
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Hearview — Live Captions & Real-Time Translation Hearview is an AI-powered communication app that turns speech into clear, readable text and translates conversations in real time. Whether you are talking face to face, watching a video, attending a meeting, or communicating across languages, Hearview helps you understand spoken content more easily. ◉ Real-Time Speech-to-Text See speech converted into clear, readable text in real time. With support for more than 140 languages, Hearview makes everyday conversations easier to follow. ◉ Real-Time Translation Recognize speech in more than 140 languages and translate it into more than 90 languages in real time. Ideal for multilingual conversations, meetings, classes, travel, and everyday communication. ◉ Live Captions for Videos Watch videos on your phone with automatically generated live captions. Follow spoken content even when official captions are unavailable. ◉ Face-to-Face Communication Type a message and flip the text toward the person sitting across from you—without turning your phone around. This mode is useful in quiet environments or whenever text-based communication is easier. Hearview is designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as anyone who needs live captions, speech-to-text, real-time translation, or multilingual communication support. Download Hearview and make everyday communication clearer, easier, and more accessible. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://www.hearview.ai/policies/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Big Text at 4.6 against Hearview's 3.6. Big Text also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 60%) and ratings volume (482 vs 16). Hearview's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Big Text sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Hearview sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Big Text holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Big Text has 482 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Big Text's written reviews are positive against 60% of Hearview's.
Big Text ships an update every 13 months, Hearview every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Big Text | Hearview |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (482 ratings) — better | 3.6 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 482 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.2 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Gaskill | Xiao-I Plus Inc. |
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Big Text
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In-app purchases
Big Text
- Full Version Unlock$1.99
Hearview
- Duration Pack Monthly$59.991 Month
- Duration Pack · 1 Hour$1.00
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