Comparison

Live Captions vs Captify

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

Head to head
About

Live Captions

This app provides live speech-to-text transcription with over 60 languages, ideal for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. It offers high accuracy, offline capabilities for select languages, and features like audio note saving and text-to-speech.

Highlights
  • Live subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing
  • 60+ languages and dialects
  • 99% accurate speech recognition
  • Offline mode for 10+ languages
  • Save recognized speech to notes
  • Text-to-Speech functionality
  • Adjustable font size
Features
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Transcribe converts voice to text and shows live captions for face-to-face conversations. Read what someone says in large text on your iPhone. Built for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and for families looking for a way to communicate with a parent who has hearing loss. LIVE TRANSCRIPTION AND DICTATION Follow conversations at home, at a doctor's appointment or at a service desk. Use voice dictation to turn spoken words into text, and save a conversation transcript as a note to read later. Adjust the font size to make reading easier. TYPE A REPLY OR HAVE IT SPOKEN Write your response on the keyboard and show it to the other person, or have the app read your message aloud. Keep a conversation going when listening is difficult. SOUND ALERTS AND APPLE WATCH Receive vibration alerts for selected sounds, including a doorbell, knocking, a baby crying or a dog barking. Read captions and receive alerts on an Apple Watch paired with your iPhone. DOES SPEECH TO TEXT WORK OFFLINE? Transcribe supports speech recognition in more than 60 languages. Offline recognition is available for selected languages and compatible devices; it is not available for every language. Choose the speaker's language and start recognition. A subscription is required. A free trial is available under the offer's eligibility conditions. See the app for pricing and renewal terms. Subscription: $3.99 per month or $39.99 per year in the United States. The price where you are is shown in the app before you subscribe. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/livetranscribe/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/livetranscribe/privacy-policy Support: developer.support.team@gmail.com

About

Captify

This application uses advanced AI and your device's microphone to convert spoken words into text in real-time. It offers support for over 100 languages and functions entirely offline, ensuring your conversations remain private. Transcription speed varies by device, with newer models offering faster performance.

Highlights
  • Real-time speech transcription
  • Supports over 100 languages
  • Offline functionality
  • 100% private
  • AI-powered transcription
Features
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Add subtitles to real life with Captify! Captify uses your phone's microphone and advanced AI to turn speech into text. It's 100% free, supports 100 languages, works offline, and is completely private. Captify supports the following languages: English, Chinese, German, Spanish, Russian, Korean, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Turkish, Polish, Catalan, Dutch, Arabic, Swedish, Italian, Indonesian, Hindi, Finnish, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Greek, Malay, Czech, Romanian, Danish, Hungarian, Tamil, Norwegian, Thai, Urdu, Croatian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Latin, Maori, Malayalam, Welsh, Slovak, Telugu, Persian, Latvian, Bengali, Serbian, Azerbaijani, Slovenian, Kannada, Estonian, Macedonian, Breton, Basque, Icelandic, Armenian, Nepali, Mongolian, Bosnian, Kazakh, Albanian, Swahili, Galician, Marathi, Punjabi, Sinhala, Khmer, Shona, Yoruba, Somali, Afrikaans, Occitan, Georgian, Belarusian, Tajik, Sindhi, Gujarati, Amharic, Yiddish, Lao, Uzbek, Faroese, Haitian Creole, Pashto, Turkmen, Nynorsk, Maltese, Sanskrit, Luxembourgish, Myanmar, Tibetan, Tagalog, Malagasy, Assamese, Tatar, Hawaiian, Lingala, Hausa, Bashkir, Javanese, and Sundanese. Note that transcription speed depends on your device. Newer devices will transcribe faster than older devices. The core functionality of this app is built on top of Georgi Gerganov's Whisper.cpp implementation and the OpenAI Whisper automatic speech recognition model.

Screenshots

Live Captions4 screens
Captify1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Captify at none against Live Captions's 2. Captify also leads on review sentiment (29% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.4). Live Captions's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.5). On price, ratings volume, 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. Live Captions sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Captify asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Live Captions holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Live Captions's written reviews are positive against 29% of Captify's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Live Captions versus Captify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLive CaptionsCaptify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better3.5 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews28.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings411 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.414.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB142 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperAlexey BeschetnikovInquiry Health LLC

Customer experience

Live Captions

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative75.0%

Captify

All ratings11 ratings
Positive63.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative36.4%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Live Captions

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month Transcribe7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • 1 Year Transcribe Speech7 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

Captify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Live Captions free?
Live Captions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Captify free?
Captify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Live Captions or Captify?
Live Captions is rated higher. Live Captions averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Captify averages 3.5 from 11 ratings.
Do Live Captions or Captify have ads?
Neither Live Captions nor Captify shows ads.

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