Comparison

Notes vs Talkscreen

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

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About

Notes

Features
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This innovative Notes app offers users the ability to effortlessly add and edit their notes. It features a user-friendly interface and robust editing tools. Additionally, it includes a seamless note transfer function, enabling users to sync and transfer their notes across multiple devices.

About

Talkscreen

Features
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Talkscreen turns the speech around you into live captions on your iPhone, so you can read a conversation while it is happening. Talkscreen is designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and for language learners. If you are hard of hearing or deaf, it helps you follow everyday talk: a doctor's appointment, dinner with family, a pharmacy counter, a question from a colleague. If you are learning a language and people still speak too fast for you to catch every word, you can read along with what they say. LIVE CAPTIONS FOR CONVERSATIONS IN THE ROOM Put your iPhone where it can hear the people talking and read their words as text. Talkscreen uses the microphone to caption nearby speech, whether you are at a table, at a counter or talking face to face. SPEECH TO TEXT FOR HARD OF HEARING AND DEAF USERS When you miss a word, you can read it on the screen instead of asking the other person to write things down or repeat themselves. SUBTITLES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNERS Understanding spoken language is often the hardest part of learning it. With Talkscreen you can check what you just heard, spot the words you missed and keep following the conversation instead of getting lost. It can help with English and other supported languages. PROCESSED ON YOUR IPHONE On-device transcription turns speech into text on your iPhone after you download the speech model. If you already downloaded the model for Quick Captions, our app for captioning videos, Talkscreen uses it and does not download it again. LANGUAGE, PAUSE AND HISTORY Talkscreen can detect the spoken language on its own, or you can choose the language yourself. Pause captions when you do not need them. What was said stays in the history, so you can go back to a sentence you missed, and you can clear the history whenever you like. Talkscreen does one thing: it helps you understand speech in the moment. Open it when someone starts talking and read along.

Screenshots

Notes4 screens
Talkscreen3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Notes at 12.4 against Talkscreen's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Notes versus Talkscreen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotesTalkscreen
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.4 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size18 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHamza YaseenMaxim Oransky

In-app purchases

None

Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Talkscreen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notes free?
Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Talkscreen free?
Talkscreen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notes or Talkscreen have ads?
Neither Notes nor Talkscreen shows ads.

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