Comparison

Brainwave vs Speech To Essay

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

Head to head
About

Brainwave

Capture and organize your thoughts with this note-taking application. Create calendar events, reminders, and export notes in various formats. Protect sensitive information with password protection and manage your data with backup and restore options.

Highlights
  • Organize notes with tags
  • Password protect sensitive notes
  • Create calendar events and reminders
  • Export notes to PDF or text
  • Supports various links (web, phone, maps)
  • Backup and restore notes
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Transfer your ideas from brain wave to Brainwave. • Organize on the fly by tagging notes with any number of tags • Flag important notes; password protect sensitive notes • Create calendar events and reminders based on your notes • Change the size and font of the text • Export notes directly from Brainwave to a variety of destinations, in formats including: ◦ Email as PDF ◦ Send to Dropbox or almost any app as PDF ◦ Email as text • Create restore points, backing up all notes to a single file • Supports links (web, phone numbers, map addresses - that can even be opened in Google Maps, calendar dates) • Numerous configuration options • Length of a note is limited only by device memory • Supports all device orientations Sometimes an idea can circle around and around in your mind - like a whirlpool swirling, or a tidal wave growing, it confuses, it overwhelms, and it isn't until you write it down that it becomes clear. Write it down. Get it out. Record it before it’s washed away. Free your mind to work on other thoughts. Store your brain waves in Brainwave.

About

Speech To Essay

This app converts your spoken words into written text, allowing for efficient note-taking and essay creation. It supports various punctuation commands and offers editing capabilities, with options to customize font and save your work.

Highlights
  • Speech to text conversion
  • Punctuation and command dictation
  • Text editing with keyboard
  • Customizable font and size
  • Save and load essays
  • Word count display
Features
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Speech To Essay is a voice-to-text app designed to convert your speech into text quickly and easily, with additional hotkey support. For fast and efficient voice-to-text conversion, you can press keys such as period or comma while dictating. The common keys used — period, comma, question mark, colon, exclamation mark, open parentheses, close parentheses, and new line — are ready to use during dictation. You can also edit your note using a conventional keyboard. Simply type or modify paragraphs as you would in a normal text editor. After finishing your essay or note, you can copy and paste it into your email or any other text editor. Features: • Select voice input languages (English, Spanish, French, etc., as supported by your device) • View word count for your essay or note • Set font type and font size • Save and load essays from your library • Rename or delete essays from the library Dictate Efficiently: • Keep your device close to your mouth and speak into the microphone of your iPhone or iPad. • Apple earbuds that come with an iPhone have an inline mic that offers better speech recognition. • For third-party headphones with mics, keep the mic close to your mouth. • Speak clearly—not too slowly or too quickly—to reduce recognition errors. • Keep your dictation segments under 30 seconds for the best results. Additional Tips: • You can say commands such as “comma,” “period,” “hyphen,” and others to include punctuation or symbols in your dictation. • You can say “new line” to start a new line, or “new paragraph” to add a double line break. Thank you for your support! Visit nitrio.com for more apps for your iOS devices.

Screenshots

Brainwave4 screens
Speech To Essay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Speech To Essay at 5.0 against Brainwave's 2.0. Brainwave's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 40 months) and review sentiment (20% vs 0%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Brainwave costs $0.99 and Speech To Essay $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Speech To Essay holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Brainwave's written reviews are positive against 0% of Speech To Essay's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brainwave ships an update every 3 months, Speech To Essay every 40 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Brainwave versus Speech To Essay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrainwaveSpeech To Essay
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 40 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better14
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZymbiotic TechnologiesNitrio

Customer experience

Brainwave

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral30.0%
Negative50.0%

Speech To Essay

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Brainwave

No in-app purchases

None

Speech To Essay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brainwave free?
Brainwave costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Speech To Essay free?
Speech To Essay costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Brainwave or Speech To Essay?
Speech To Essay is rated higher. Brainwave averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Speech To Essay averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Brainwave or Speech To Essay have ads?
Neither Brainwave nor Speech To Essay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brainwave or Speech To Essay?
Brainwave ships an update every 3 months, and Speech To Essay every 40 months. Most recently, Brainwave was updated on October 1, 2026 and Speech To Essay on October 3, 2026.

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