Comparison

Open Spoken vs Timluly

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

Head to head
About

Open Spoken

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Open Spoken is an open-source app to transcribe audio from the microphone into text. It's designed to help communicating with the hearing impaired by showing transcribed text on the device screen. It uses Apple’s speech recognition so it supports any language supported by Apple’s Speech Recognition engine. Supported languages (as of iOS 16): - Arabic - Chinese - Croatian - Danish - Dutch - English - French - German - Greek - Hebrew - Hungarian - Hindi - Indonesian - Italian - Japanese - Korean - Malay - Norwegian - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Russian - Slovak - Spanish - Swedish - Thai - Turkish - Ukrainian - Vietnamese

About

Timluly

Features
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Timluly is a simple and fast solution for transcribing Hebrew media files directly on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The entire transcription process runs locally on your device, with no video or audio uploads to external servers, no third-party processing, and no internet connection required. Simply select a video or audio file, start the transcription, and receive the text as it is being processed. • Hebrew video transcription • Hebrew audio transcription • Fully local processing on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac • No need to upload video or audio files to the cloud • No internet connection required • Real-time transcription display • Easy file selection and drag-and-drop where supported • Copy the transcript with one click • Save transcripts as text files • A simple, clean interface designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac Timluly is suitable for lectures, classes, interviews, meetings, recordings, and other audio or video content where you want to turn spoken Hebrew into text quickly and privately. Timluly is not intended to replace professional transcription services. It relies on open-source technologies such as the Whisper project and does not include human review. Transcription errors may occur, and we recommend reviewing the output before using it for important purposes.

Screenshots

Open Spoken3 screens
Timluly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Timluly at weekly against Open Spoken's every 14 months. Open Spoken's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Open Spoken ships an update every 14 months, Timluly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Open Spoken versus Timluly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOpen SpokenTimluly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2.0 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTal AviramDor Pascal

In-app purchases

None

Open Spoken

No in-app purchases

None

Timluly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Open Spoken free?
Open Spoken is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Timluly free?
Timluly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Open Spoken or Timluly have ads?
Neither Open Spoken nor Timluly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Open Spoken or Timluly?
Open Spoken ships an update every 14 months, and Timluly weekly. Most recently, Open Spoken was updated on October 4, 2026 and Timluly on October 8, 2026.

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