AI Captioner vs Live Caption AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AI Captioner
This app provides offline, real-time voice transcription without needing an internet connection. It's ideal for quickly converting spoken words into text during meetings, while watching TV, or in conversations.
- Real-time live transcription
- Fully offline functionality
- No internet required
- No login or subscription needed
- Voice to text conversion
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Introducing AI Captioner: Offline real-time AI voice transcription service. No internet needed, just speak and it transcribes. Perfect for meetings, television viewings, and face-to-face conversations requiring swift voice to text transcription. Features: - Real-time live transcription, suitable for use as a live captioner - Fully offline, no login, subscription, or internet necessary.
Live Caption AI
This app converts spoken words into text in real-time, aiding content creators, students, and those with hearing impairments. It offers instant transcription, note-taking, and remote viewing of captions via web links.
- Instantaneous transcription
- Accessibility for hearing impaired
- Automated lecture transcription
- Remote caption viewing via web links
- Save and tag transcripts
- Searchable spoken information
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Live Caption AI turns speech into live captions — on your screen, or on every phone in the room. Built for churches, conferences, classrooms, meetings and events where people need to follow every word. LIVE CAPTIONS Tap the mic and captions appear as people speak. Captioning on your device is free; Professional adds cloud speech recognition for accents, noisy rooms and distant microphones. BROADCAST TO EVERY PHONE Share a QR code and your audience reads the captions live on their own phones — no app or account needed for viewers. Reserve up to 5 broadcast links ahead of time and print their QR codes on bulletins, programs or signs; the same code works every week. LIVE TRANSLATION Translate captions into any of 29 languages as people speak, and your audience can follow along in the translated language on their phones. Professional includes 8 hours of translation each month, with top-ups available. SPECIALIZED RECOGNITION Choose General, Medical, Worship & Ministry, or Finance & Earnings — and add up to 100 Custom Terms of your own: names, places, scripture books, product names, specialist vocabulary. AI SUMMARIES Turn any session into a Brief Overview, Detailed Summary, Action Items, or Meeting Notes in one tap. YOUR TRANSCRIPTS Every session is saved to History. Search them, and export as TXT, SRT subtitles, JSON or PDF. PRIVACY We never store your session audio. Transcripts stay in your account until you delete them, and you can delete your account and data from inside the app at any time. PLANS • Free: on-device captioning • Professional: $19.99/month or $199.99/year — cloud speech recognition, live translation, broadcasting to phones, reserved broadcast links, AI summaries and Custom Terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Live Caption AI at 3.0 against AI Captioner's 2.0. AI Captioner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 14). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Live Caption AI sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. AI Captioner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Live Caption AI holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 50% and 50% positive.
| Parameter | AI Captioner | Live Caption AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (3 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 181 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LI-JEN LIU | Live Caption, Inc. |
Customer experience
AI Captioner
Live Caption AI
In-app purchases
AI Captioner
No in-app purchases
Live Caption AI
- 1/4 Hour Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- 1/2 Hour Monthly Subscription$1.491 Month
- Unlimited, Personal Use1 Month trial$3.991 Month
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- 2 Hour Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Professional Monthly (Individual)$19.991 Month
- 10 Hour Monthly Subscription$24.991 Month
- 20 Hour Monthly Subscription$39.991 Month
- Team Professional (Yearly)$599.991 Year
- Extend My Trial$0.99
- 1/4 Hour Public Weblink$1.49
- Extend 2 Hours + Weblink$1.99
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- 1/2 Hour Public Weblink$2.99
- 2 Hour Public Weblink$9.99
- 10 Hour Public Weblink$49.99
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