Comparison

HABly vs Diction

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

Head to head
About

HABly

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Control your OpenHAB with custom widgets! Monitor temps, track energy, toggle switches – all at your fingertips. Simplify your smart home! Easy setup for your customized widgets: 1. Create a Collection 2. Add Items to the Collection 3. Customize Items 4. Add Widget on HomeScreen 5. Select Collection in the widget

About

Diction

This app provides a voice-to-text keyboard that works across all applications. It offers features like tap-to-fix for editing, customizability, and on-device processing for privacy. An optional subscription unlocks advanced cloud models and AI companions for enhanced text generation and editing.

Highlights
  • Speech to text in any app
  • Tap-to-fix smart editing
  • Customizable keyboard layout
  • On-device offline dictation
  • Private voice input
  • Transcription history and search
Features
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Speech to text keyboard for iPhone. Tap the mic, talk, and watch your words appear in any app. Free to start, private by design, 99 languages. Dictate messages, emails, and notes. Works in any app you type in: Notion, WhatsApp, Slack, and everywhere else. No switching, no copy-pasting. Smart QWERTY keyboard. Autocorrect fixes typos as you type and splits run-together words. Word suggestions appear above the keys. Correct a suggestion back once and Diction stops offering it. Tap-to-fix. Select a word and smart alternatives appear. Spelling fixes, grammar corrections, better phrasing. One tap to accept. Save to My Words. Teach Diction your names and jargon for better accuracy over time. Transcription history with search. Copy, retry, and review past dictations. Failed transcriptions retry automatically so nothing gets lost. The Diction app has zero analytics, zero tracking, and zero data collection. AES-256-GCM encryption. X25519 key exchange. Diction One (paid subscription): highest-accuracy cloud speech models and Writing Tools. Turn natural speech into polished text, edit or rewrite by voice, translate on the fly. Select text and dictate what to change. Free trial included. On-device mode: runs locally on your iPhone with no internet needed. Audio never leaves your device. Self-hosted: run your own speech recognition server. Your network, your data, your models. Pairing is a scan: your server prints a QR code, you point the app at it, and keys rotate themselves after that. Writing Tools works there too, free, because it is your hardware. Open-source server on GitHub. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

HABly4 screens
Diction4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HABly at none against Diction's 2. Diction's advantage is device support. On price and iOS requirement 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

Both are free to download. Diction sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. HABly asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
HABly versus Diction: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHABlyDiction
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—21 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
Devices—iPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStephan WeberOndrej Machala

In-app purchases

None

HABly

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Diction

Subscriptions2
  • Diction Cloud$5.991 Month
  • Diction Cloud$59.991 Year

Questions

Is HABly free?
HABly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diction free?
Diction is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

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