Dictate + Connect Lite vs SpeakWrite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dictate + Connect Lite
This app provides a mobile dictation solution, allowing users to record, edit, and securely send voice notes. It offers advanced features like voice activation and multiple transfer options, freeing users from traditional dictaphones.
- Rewind, overwrite, insert
- Instant dictation controls
- Precise voice activation
- Intuitive user interface
- Multiple sharing methods
- AES-128 encryption
- Background recording
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Leave your dictaphone in your office. With Dictate + Connect on your iPhone or iPad, you'll always be with a recorder that can do more than most high-end dictaphones, and that's easier and more intuitive to use. Free yourself from tapes, computers and cables and send your dictations straight from your iPhone or iPad to your transcriptionist. Dictate + Connect offers excellent sound quality, impressively exact voice activation, secure encryption and many ways to transfer your dictations. See Dictate + Connect's unique functionality: * Rewind, overwrite, insert * Instant dictation controls * Precise voice activation * Intuitive, easy to understand user interface * Lots of sharing methods (E-mail, download, FTP, WebDAV, SFTP, Dropbox, box, etc.) * Completely automatable sharing * AES-128 encryption * MP4/AAC, WAV, and AIFF format * Barcode scanner * Move and delete sections in a dictation * Record in the background (no phone calls) * Bookmarks in dictations * Controllable by wireless foot pedal (see www.dictate-connect.com/pedal-en for details) This is “Dictate + Connect Lite”, our free limited version of Dictate + Connect. Experience the functionality and feel of the full version. Dictate + Connect Lite offers everything that Dictate + Connect does, but limits each single dictation to a length of 30 seconds instead of 24 hours. It also manages no more than 5 dictations at the same time.
SpeakWrite
This app allows users to dictate text, record audio, and transcribe spoken words into documents on their iOS devices. It offers a straightforward solution for converting speech to written content.
- Voice dictation
- Audio recording
- Speech transcription
- Document creation
- iOS device support
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SpeakWrite Voice to Document is a dictation, audio recording and transcription app for your iOS device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dictate + Connect Lite at 4.6 against SpeakWrite's 3.3. Dictate + Connect Lite also leads on iOS requirement (9.3 vs 14.2). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
Dictate + Connect Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of Dictate + Connect Lite's written reviews are positive against 57% of SpeakWrite's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dictate + Connect Lite ships an update every 2 months, SpeakWrite every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dictate + Connect Lite | SpeakWrite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better | 3.3 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 49.2% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 14.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JOTOMI | SpeakWrite |
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In-app purchases
Dictate + Connect Lite
No in-app purchases
SpeakWrite
No in-app purchases
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