Comparison

Cricket Sounds vs GeekTalk2

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

Head to head
About

Cricket Sounds

Discover a diverse collection of high-quality cricket sounds from around the globe. This app offers a simple interface for pranking friends, educational use, or simply enjoying the unique chirps of these insects. Features include looping, random playback, and a timer for custom sound experiences.

Highlights
  • High-quality cricket sound collection
  • Loop sound endlessly
  • Random sound playback
  • Timer for scheduled sound playback
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Educational purposes
Features
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Love crickets? Then you will also love Cricket Sounds! This app contains high-quality collection of cricket sounds from all over the world. The sound of crickets is used to represent awkward silence, meaning non-cricket aficionados can also have plenty of fun pranking others. You can use it for educational purposes too! A cricket is grasshopper-like insect. They are over 900 species in the world and most of them are flightless. They are famous for making chirping sounds at night, even though not all species chirp. About Our Apps: Our soundboard apps have been downloaded millions of times, and have been used for joking around with friends and family, to support favorite teams on game day, and even hunting. Our apps have been featured in many famous worldwide publications. Why download our apps? - Easy to use, nice clean interface - High-quality sounds (meticulously remastered to cut out any background noise) - Loop option to play sound endlessly - Random button to play sounds randomly - Timer feature (select a specific time when to play sound) - Help page / Contact us support We hope you enjoy our apps and contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

About

GeekTalk2

Features
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Meet GeekTalk2 - your digital tool for speaking "geek"! Remember GeekTalk from 2019? It's still available in the App Store. Now, we're back with another version, adding new tricks to our geeky arsenal. Transform boring text into hexadecimal code, LeetSpeak, or even Morse code. GeekTalk2 is more than just an app; it's the secret language of the digital world, making every SMS sound like a message from another dimension! Beware! Using this app takes you to new, unknown layers of absurdity! WHAT GEEKTALK2 CAN DO Ciphers for secret messages • ROT13, Caesar and Vigenère with a key - including the Polish alphabet • Polish scout ciphers: GA-DE-RY-PO-LU-KI, PO-LI-TY-KA-RE-NU and more • Morse code, NATO phonetic alphabet, Braille Codes for true geeks • Binary, hexadecimal and Base64 - with full support for accented characters • GibberLink - send text as sound! Your phone chirps the message like a modem and another phone running GeekTalk2 picks it up. No internet, no Bluetooth Memes and fun • Fancy fonts - script, fraktur, double-struck, circled and more - for bios, posts and chats • Zalgo - cursed text that spills beyond the lines • SpongeBob - i LoVe MoNdAyS • Leet in three levels, all the way to j00 pwn teh 1337 • Upside-down text and Vaporwave Magic • Magic Decode - paste any code and GeekTalk2 figures out how it was encoded and decodes it • Morse code as sound, flashlight and vibration • Results as a retro CRT-style image, ready to share Everywhere you type • GeekTalk keyboard - convert text in any app with one tap • Share > GeekTalk2 - encode or decode selected text • Shortcuts and Siri: "Encode text with GeekTalk2" Plus favorite converters, a history of recent conversions and an 80s terminal look - green phosphor, scanlines and Matrix-style decryption. Privacy: GeekTalk2 works entirely on your device. It collects no data and sends nothing anywhere. You can turn history off at any time, and cipher keys are never saved.

Screenshots

Cricket Sounds3 screens
GeekTalk23 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: GeekTalk2 at every 2 weeks against Cricket Sounds's every 9 months. Cricket Sounds's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 26.0). On 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

Cricket Sounds costs $0.99 and GeekTalk2 $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cricket Sounds ships an update every 9 months, GeekTalk2 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cricket Sounds versus GeekTalk2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCricket SoundsGeekTalk2
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating2.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArsosa Network Inc.Pawel Zdybel

In-app purchases

None

Cricket Sounds

No in-app purchases

None

GeekTalk2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cricket Sounds free?
Cricket Sounds costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GeekTalk2 free?
GeekTalk2 costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cricket Sounds or GeekTalk2 have ads?
Neither Cricket Sounds nor GeekTalk2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cricket Sounds or GeekTalk2?
Cricket Sounds ships an update every 9 months, and GeekTalk2 every 2 weeks. Most recently, Cricket Sounds was updated on October 29, 2026 and GeekTalk2 on October 24, 2026.

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