Spike Recorder vs MyTextMate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spike Recorder
This app allows students, educators, and researchers to record and analyze electrical signals from nerves and muscles using compatible hardware. It offers various workspaces for examining data, measuring spike counts, and comparing frequency bands. Users can customize channel settings, create named events, and save recordings for later analysis.
- Record nerve and muscle electrical signals
- Save and analyze recordings
- Signal, Spike, Events, and Spectrum workspaces
- Measure spike counts and rates
- Create and mark named events
- Customize channel settings and filters
- Browse and share saved recordings
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Spike Recorder brings hands-on neuroscience recording and analysis to students, educators and researchers. Use compatible Backyard Brains hardware to explore electrical signals from nerves and muscles. Record signals from multiple channels, save recordings, and open them for playback and analysis. Use the Signal, Spike, Events and Spectrum workspaces to examine your data. Measure spike counts and rates for each selected spike train, or compare average power in frequency bands such as alpha. Create named events with colors and keyboard shortcuts. Mark events with on-screen buttons while recording, and keep their names visible on the signal. Adjust channel types, names, colors and filters to suit your experiment. Browse saved recordings with waveform previews, then open, rename or share a recording. New NWB recordings preserve supported channel settings, spike selections, event details and each screen’s scales. Hardware compatibility and connection options vary by device. Explore Backyard Brains experiment kits and learning resources at https://backyardbrains.com.
MyTextMate
This app sends you daily text message reminders for your upcoming events and deadlines. Connect to your school or manually add appointments to stay organized. Customize your message preferences and preview your texts before they are sent.
- School integration
- Manual event scheduling
- Customizable text messages
- Message preview
- Daily reminder texts
- Canvas connection
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CONNECT Select your school or connect to Canvas manually. CUSTOMIZE Choose when you want your daily text messages, how you want to be greeted, and more. SCHEDULE Add events like meetings and doctor's appointments. PREVIEW See what your upcoming text message will look like. RELAX Get daily text messages showing everything you have coming up! https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MyTextMate at 5.0 against Spike Recorder's 3.4. MyTextMate also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 62%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Spike Recorder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (17 vs 5). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. MyTextMate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.00 per month. Spike Recorder asks for nothing beyond the download.
MyTextMate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Spike Recorder's written reviews are positive against 100% of MyTextMate's.
Spike Recorder ships an update every 3 months, MyTextMate every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spike Recorder | MyTextMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Backyard Brains | Lazy Texts, LLC |
Customer experience
Spike Recorder
MyTextMate
In-app purchases
Spike Recorder
No in-app purchases
MyTextMate
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$2.001 Month
- Annual Subscription1 Month trial$20.001 Year
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