Open Spoken vs Timluly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Timluly
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Open Spoken ships an update every 14 months, Timluly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Open Spoken | Timluly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 2.0 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tal Aviram | Dor Pascal |
In-app purchases
Open Spoken
No in-app purchases
Timluly
No in-app purchases









