Comparison

BeamsForBuilders vs Talking Archiver

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

Head to head
About

BeamsForBuilders

Calculate beam properties for construction projects instantly. Input load data for roofs, floors, and walls to get results for shear force, moment, buckling, and deflection. Easily email results for printing and submission.

Highlights
  • Roof, floor, and wall load input
  • Instant shear force, moment, buckling, and deflection results
  • Beam span and selection
  • Padstone calculations
  • Email results for printing
  • Help files for each section
Features
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BuildersBeams is the Perfect Beam Calculator on the IPhone for Architects, Builders, Planners, Surveyors and most Building Trades. Simple Data input for Roof, Floor,and Wall Loads gives you instant results for Shearforce, Applied Moment, Buckling Resistance and Deflection. Separate Help file for each Section of App. Send E-Mail of Results to yourself or any interested parties for Printing. Main Program Includes. LOADS Page for *ROOF Loads entry *FLOOR Loads entry *WALL Loads entry BEAM Page for *BEAM Span entry *BEAM Selection *VIEW Results INFO Page for *REVIEW your Loads data entry PADSTONE Page for *LENGTH entry *WIDTH entry *MASONRY in wall/Pillars E-MAIL Page for *Send Email of Results *To yourself or any other Person *Suitible for Building Control submission

About

Talking Archiver

This app allows you to listen to your text files, including PDFs and RTFs, with a text-to-speech feature. You can input text from various sources, edit archives, and even have the app speak during phone calls. Customize speaking speed, volume, and repeat times.

Highlights
  • Listen to PDF, RTF, and plain text files
  • Background speaking functionality
  • Input text via pasteboard or files
  • Supports over 30 international languages
  • Edit archives with memos
  • Speak during phone calls
  • Adjust speaking speed and volume
Features
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A valuable and powerful text archives manager. Listen our favorite PDF, RTF, and plain text file whenever and wherever. When this App is talking, just tap the home key or lock your device, the App will repeat talking in the background status. Input text from pasteboard, plain text files, PDF files, or RTF files. It could talk the text with over 30 international languages. The repeating talking all of archives could help us listen and go over our important archives. Edit the text archives, we could add some memo to our archives and update the archives where and whenever. With the help of the powerful pasteboard, we could copy the text from an email,text, web page of safari, or any other text as long as the text is not part of an image. Then paste all of these text to the Talking Archiver. With the help of iTune File Sharing, we could move the any text files from the PC to this App file sharing folder. In the latest MAC OS, in the finder, if we already connect our iOS device, we could open the file tab page in the device. In the file page, we could find the Talking Archiver and move the files to the Talking Archiver item. After Tap the import button at the bottom left corner and select the import file item, the open file view will list all of file in the sharing folder. All of the important text data will be saved to the Core Data Database system. One archive would be talked by one speaker. So it is very interesting to listen several speakers talk the text records one by one. As a talking app, the user also could select the talking volume and the talking speed. The user could select the repeating times of the talking. Talking solution by Long Press gesture. In the main view, long press the single table cell, the related text note will be talked repeated. The color of talked cell will be red color. At this talking situation, we long press another table cell, the current talking will be stopped. The App will immediately start talking the text of another table cell. We could stop the talking situation by tapping the stop button. Talking Solution by tapping the talking all button. In the main view, when we tap the talking all button, the app will talk the text of each note one by one. If we need to skip, we could tap the next button or the prev button at the bottom toolbar. Export the archives to the plain text file, export the pasteboard , export to the email box by sending email, export to the iCloud Drive or other App by tapping :export to remote files item in the export menu. This edition could talk the text archives to the upcoming phone call with the phone. The iOS version should be 13.0 or newer. When a phone call is coming and is accepted, then tap the all talking button in the main view or tap the talk button in the single view, after that, both sides could hear the same talking contents at the same time in the same speed. The phone owner could hear the talking from the phone. The people in the calling could hear the talking in the call. In short, this App includes the file editor, the pasteboard editor, the database management system,the talking ability, and sending email features.As a result, wherever, we could review,create, share and listen the talking of our favourite archives.

Screenshots

BeamsForBuilders4 screens
Talking Archiver4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Talking Archiver at 4.0 against BeamsForBuilders's 1.0. Talking Archiver also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 20 months) and price ($0.99 vs $2.99). BeamsForBuilders's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

BeamsForBuilders costs $2.99 and Talking Archiver $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Talking Archiver holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BeamsForBuilders ships an update every 20 months, Talking Archiver every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
BeamsForBuilders versus Talking Archiver: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeamsForBuildersTalking Archiver
Price$2.99$0.99 — better
Rating1.0 (4 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 20 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.011.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRobert Thompson方 沈

Customer experience

BeamsForBuilders

All ratings4 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral11.1%
Negative55.6%

Talking Archiver

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BeamsForBuilders

No in-app purchases

None

Talking Archiver

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BeamsForBuilders free?
BeamsForBuilders costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Talking Archiver free?
Talking Archiver costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BeamsForBuilders or Talking Archiver?
Talking Archiver is rated higher. BeamsForBuilders averages 1.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Talking Archiver averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do BeamsForBuilders or Talking Archiver have ads?
Neither BeamsForBuilders nor Talking Archiver shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BeamsForBuilders or Talking Archiver?
BeamsForBuilders ships an update every 20 months, and Talking Archiver every 5 months. Most recently, BeamsForBuilders was updated on October 1, 2026 and Talking Archiver on October 2, 2026.

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