Electrical Calculator vs Talking Archiver
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Electrical Calculator
This app provides over 65 essential electrical calculation tools and formulas for engineers, students, and professionals. It supports both USCS and SI units and includes features like resistor color code conversion and upgraded voltage drop calculations aligned with industry standards.
- Over 65 electrical calculation tools
- Resistor color code calculators
- Upgraded voltage drop calculations
- Wire size calculations
- Series/parallel circuit calculations
- Energy cost calculator
- Unit conversions
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Electrical Calculator is your all-in-one app for fast, accurate, and essential electrical calculations. Packed with 60+ powerful tools, it's designed for electricians, electrical & electronics engineers, and students. Every calculator includes built-in formulas and supports both USCS and SI units. What's New: • Category filters — find any calculator in seconds with purpose-based groups: Ohm's Law, Wiring & NEC, Power & Phase, Motors, Transformers and more • Refreshed design with a cleaner look Core Calculators: • Voltage, Current, Resistance & Power (Ohm's Law) • kVA to Amps / Amps to kVA (Single & Three Phase) Electrical System Calculators: • Voltage Drop Calculator (per NEC/IEEE standards) • Wire Size Calculations (AWG & mm²) • Power, Current & Horsepower (DC, Single & Three Phase) • Efficiency & Power Factor Calculators • Neutral Current (3-Phase Unbalanced Loads) Transformers & Generators: • Transformer Current, Voltage & Resistance Imbalance • DC Generator Reactance & Impedance: • Inductive & Capacitive Reactance • Resonant Frequency • Characteristic Impedance (Parallel & Coaxial) • Impedance Calculators (R-L-C combinations) Series / Parallel Calculations: • Resistance, Inductance & Capacitance (Series & Parallel) • Unknown Resistance & Capacitance (Series & Parallel) Components: • Resistor Color Code — resistance to color bands and back • Inductor & Capacitor Sizing Formulas Lighting & Energy Tools: • Luminous Intensity, Luminous Flux & Solid Angle • Energy Cost Calculator • Energy Stored in Resistors, Inductors & Capacitors Conversions: • Star ↔ Delta Conversion • Field Strength & Electrical Potential • Resistance, Resistivity, Conductance & Conductivity • Capacitance, Inductance & Charge Density Converters • Power Converter Key Features: • Category filters for fast navigation • Flexible unit selection for inputs and outputs • Full iPad support with split view • Dark Mode and 12 languages • Clean interface for the field, the shop, and the classroom
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Electrical Calculator at 4.6 against Talking Archiver's 4.0. Electrical Calculator also leads on ratings volume (462 vs 1). Talking Archiver's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $3.99) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 17.6). On update cadence, 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
Electrical Calculator costs $3.99 and Talking Archiver $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Electrical Calculator holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Electrical Calculator has 462 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Electrical Calculator ships an update every 4 months, Talking Archiver every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Electrical Calculator | Talking Archiver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (462 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 462 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 11.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | V PUGAZHENTHI | 方 沈 |
Customer experience
Electrical Calculator
Talking Archiver
Bugs and requests
Electrical Calculator
Reported bugs
3 issues- Annoying popup for app update
- Converter not working
- App not working on older iPhone models
Requested features
2 requests- Include impedance calculators
- Improve metric region compatibility for AWG cables
Talking Archiver
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Electrical Calculator
No in-app purchases
Talking Archiver
No in-app purchases
Questions
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