Live Transcribe vs Turnscript
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Live Transcribe
This app converts spoken words into text in real-time or from recordings. It offers smart summaries, advanced search, and multi-language support for lectures, meetings, and videos. Access files offline and export in various formats.
- Live voice-to-text conversion
- Smart summaries of audio
- AI-powered search
- Flexible export options
- Offline access to files
- Support for over 100 languages
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AI Live Transcribe 2.0 – Fast and Accurate Speech-to-Text App Record lectures, business meetings, or phone calls with a single tap. Review your audio transcriptions whenever it’s convenient for you. Access your files even without an internet connection. Key Features: • Live Transcription - instant voice-to-text conversion during conversations, lectures, or meetings. • Smart Summaries - concise, clear notes summarizing full lectures or business meetings. No need to waste time listening to the entire recording. • Smart Search - effortlessly find text and audio using advanced AI-powered search models. • Flexible Export - convenient export options. Whether you need to share the audio file, the text file, or just a specific snippet of both-exporting has never been this seamless. • Delayed Transcription - record audio today and transcribe it whenever you're ready. • Offline Access - access all your audio and text files anytime, even in offline mode. • Multi-language Support - support for over 100 languages for transcription. Use Cases: • Record Lectures - worried about missing important information? Simply record the entire lecture, transcribe it later, and make exam prep much easier. • Transcribe Meetings - does a client say one thing today and another a week later? Record meetings with colleagues to maintain a clear record of what needs to be done and where to focus your resources. • YouTube Video-to-Text - No time to watch a full YouTube video? Transcribe it and generate a summary of the most interesting highlights. Premium Features: • Free Trial - we provide free premium access so users can fully explore the app before deciding if it’s right for them. • Daily Free Credits - if you aren't ready for premium, you can still enjoy several free transcriptions every day. • No Limits - premium users enjoy unlimited access to the best AI solutions on the market without interruptions. • Flexible Subscriptions - choose from weekly, monthly, or yearly plans. There is a perfect plan for everyone. Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/hey-transcribe-terms Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/hey-transcribe-privacy
Turnscript
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Turnscript turns a meeting recording into a transcript that says who spoke, when, and in the language they actually spoke. It runs on your device. Record in the app or import a file you already have, and the transcription, the speaker separation and the timestamps all happen locally. No audio leaves your Mac, iPhone or iPad. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to. WHO SAID WHAT Speakers are separated as part of transcription rather than guessed at afterwards, so each passage arrives already attributed. Rename Speaker 1 to a real name and every line updates at once. FIFTEEN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING MIXED ONES German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish, Urdu and Tagalog. You do not pick a language beforehand. A meeting where someone answers a German question in English stays exactly that way; nothing is translated or tidied into one language. BUILT AROUND THE RECORDING Tap a timestamp to jump there. The current passage highlights as the audio plays, at speeds from 0.75x to 2x. Search across every transcript you have, in any script. Fix a word without losing what the model originally wrote, and reset it whenever you like. EXPORT Markdown, plain text, JSON, SRT and WebVTT, plus the recording itself. OFFLINE FROM THE FIRST LAUNCH The speech model, about 1 GB of it, ships inside the app. There is nothing to download: recording, transcription, playback, search and export all work with no network at all. SUPPORTED DEVICES iPhone 15 Pro or newer, iPad with M1 or later, iPad mini (A17 Pro), and any Mac with Apple silicon. How much of a meeting fits in one pass depends on how much memory the device has, so the app works it out and tells you the figure in minutes before it starts. Longer recordings are split into parts, and a speaker keeps one name across all of them. The Apple Watch companion needs watchOS 26.4. For a good experience the device needs 8 GB of memory or more. With less, Turnscript works in shorter blocks and says so on launch. ON THE WRIST Record a meeting on Apple Watch for up to 90 minutes, in five-minute parts. Each part goes to the iPhone as it finishes and arrives as one meeting, ready to transcribe. If the watch stops recording, it taps you firmly so you can continue with one tap. SYNC WITHOUT GIVING ANYTHING AWAY Transcripts sync through your own private iCloud database, and recordings through iCloud Drive, so your library follows you between devices without passing through anyone else's server. Turnscript uses MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize 0.9B, an open speech model from the OpenMOSS Team at Fudan University, under the Apache 2.0 license. Requires Apple Silicon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Live Transcribe at Free against Turnscript's $7.99. Live Transcribe also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.4). Turnscript's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9). On ads 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
Live Transcribe is free to download; Turnscript costs $7.99 up front. Live Transcribe sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Turnscript asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Live Transcribe | Turnscript |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 112 MB | 1.2 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hanna Raita | Jonathan Vogelbusch |
In-app purchases
Live Transcribe
- Voice memos$4.997 Days
- Powered by Otter AI$5.997 Days
- Dictation to text3 Days trial$7.997 Days
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- AI Note Taker$14.991 Month
- AI Note Taker3 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Dictation to text$39.991 Year
- Speech to text3 Days trial$44.991 Year
- AI Note Taker3 Days trial$99.991 Year
- Voice Note Taker$99.991 Year
Turnscript
No in-app purchases
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