TEDConnect vs TEDICT LITE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TEDConnect
Enhance your TED Conference experience with this companion app. Connect with speakers and attendees, build your network, and navigate event schedules and venue maps. Find and share your location with others at the event.
- Message speakers and attendees
- Build a TED network
- Browse event schedule
- View venue maps
- Find other attendees
- Share location
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Are you attending a TED Conference? Let TEDConnect enhance your experience. Orient yourself to everything happening around you with TEDConnect – the conference companion app for TED attendees. With TEDConnect, you can ... - browse and message speakers and other attendees - build out a TED network and a list of TEDsters to stay in touch with - browse the schedule of speaker sessions, meals, parties, workshops and more - check out maps of the venue and surrounding area - find other attendees within the event space, and share your own whereabouts Access requires confirmed registration for a TED event. Not attending TED? Download TED's official app to watch TED Talks fresh from the stage.
TEDICT LITE
Improve your English listening and typing skills by transcribing TED talks. This app checks your dictation letter by letter, offering a vast library of constantly updated lectures with subtitles. It's an effective way to master English pronunciation and vocabulary.
- Dictation practice with letter-by-letter checking
- Access to a large and growing library of TED lectures
- Video playback with activated subtitles
- Downloadable learning materials
- Exposure to diverse English pronunciations
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* This App is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by TED in any way To become good at English, you need to listen to it often, but simply listening to English is not enough. Just like other languages in the world, English has many similar words that are difficult to distinguish by listening. That’s why you need to be able to confirm whether you heard them right. The key to gaining expertise is in mastering dictation! When you listen to the speaker and type in the words, the program will check them, letter by letter. Because it only takes a short period of time, you can use it on the bus or subway. You can also use it as a TED viewer through the video function with the subtitles activated. The notable feature is that a huge number of TED lectures are constantly added, which means an unlimited amount of available learning materials for you. TEDICT allows you to download as many TED lectures as you want, so you’ll always get new learning materials. The World’s Best Intellectual Archive, TED High-level TED speeches This program even features various kinds of English pronunciations from all over the world. Use TEDICT to listen to cool ideas from TED and improve your English skills! * More Information -> https://cocoswing.com/tedict/ * All TED Talks subject to the creative commons license found at ted.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: TEDICT LITE at 620 against TEDConnect's 18. TEDConnect's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 87%) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for TEDConnect against 4.8 for TEDICT LITE. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TEDICT LITE has 620 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of TEDConnect's written reviews are positive against 87% of TEDICT LITE's.
TEDConnect ships an update every 2 weeks, TEDICT LITE every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TEDConnect | TEDICT LITE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (18 ratings) | 4.8 (620 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 86.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 620 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TED Conferences LLC | CoCO SWING |
Customer experience
TEDConnect
TEDICT LITE
In-app purchases
TEDConnect
No in-app purchases
TEDICT LITE
No in-app purchases
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