Taptic d/Deaf Support vs Hearview
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Taptic d/Deaf Support
This app provides customizable alerts for sound-based notifications, offering vibration, flashlight, or standard notifications. It also features a text-to-speech and speech-to-text function for communication, with real-time transcription and the ability to save conversations.
- Customizable sound alerts
- Vibration, notification, and flashlight alerts
- Text-to-speech communication
- Real-time speech transcription
- Save conversation transcripts
- Alerts when phone is off
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Sound Tab: Select the sounds you want to be notified by. Customize alerts: vibration, notification, flashlight. Receive alerts even when your phone is off. Text Tab: Type a message. Typed responses are displayed in a flipped orientation and automatically spoken out loud. Press record to listen to speech and receive accurate real-time transcriptions. Save transcripts. https://www.tapticapp.com/terms-and-conditions https://www.tapticapp.com/privacy-policy
Hearview
This AI-powered tool provides instant, real-time subtitles and translation for speech and videos. It supports over 140 languages for recognition and translation, making communication accessible and barrier-free for various needs.
- Real-time speech recognition
- Live subtitles for videos
- Real-time translation
- Face-to-face text mode
- Supports 140+ languages
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Hearview — Live Captions & Real-Time Translation Hearview is an AI-powered communication app that turns speech into clear, readable text and translates conversations in real time. Whether you are talking face to face, watching a video, attending a meeting, or communicating across languages, Hearview helps you understand spoken content more easily. ◉ Real-Time Speech-to-Text See speech converted into clear, readable text in real time. With support for more than 140 languages, Hearview makes everyday conversations easier to follow. ◉ Real-Time Translation Recognize speech in more than 140 languages and translate it into more than 90 languages in real time. Ideal for multilingual conversations, meetings, classes, travel, and everyday communication. ◉ Live Captions for Videos Watch videos on your phone with automatically generated live captions. Follow spoken content even when official captions are unavailable. ◉ Face-to-Face Communication Type a message and flip the text toward the person sitting across from you—without turning your phone around. This mode is useful in quiet environments or whenever text-based communication is easier. Hearview is designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as anyone who needs live captions, speech-to-text, real-time translation, or multilingual communication support. Download Hearview and make everyday communication clearer, easier, and more accessible. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://www.hearview.ai/policies/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Taptic d/Deaf Support at 4.4 against Hearview's 3.6. Taptic d/Deaf Support also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Hearview's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 40%) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Taptic d/Deaf Support sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Hearview sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Taptic d/Deaf Support holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Taptic d/Deaf Support's written reviews are positive against 60% of Hearview's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Taptic d/Deaf Support ships an update weekly, Hearview every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Taptic d/Deaf Support | Hearview |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (11 ratings) — better | 3.6 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Micah Roberson | Xiao-I Plus Inc. |
Customer experience
Taptic d/Deaf Support
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In-app purchases
Taptic d/Deaf Support
- Taptic +$4.991 Month
- Taptic +$49.991 Year
Hearview
- Duration Pack Monthly$59.991 Month
- Duration Pack · 1 Hour$1.00
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