Writing Statistics vs Diction
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Writing Statistics
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Track your writing habits with statistics and get daily reminders to reach your goals. Handy whether you're making full-length novels, short stories, essays, blogs, screenplays, or other writing projects. Visualize your progress with graphs and strengthen your habits with practice. Features: - Daily progress reminder - Daily word count graph - Total project progress - Writing sessions streaks calendar - Time spent per day, week, or month - Phases percentages - Save timed or calendar writing sessions - Customizable project settings
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Diction at Free against Writing Statistics's $0.99. Diction also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months). Writing Statistics's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). 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
Diction is free to download; Writing Statistics costs $0.99 up front. Diction sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Writing Statistics asks for nothing beyond the download.
Writing Statistics ships an update every 4 months, Diction fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Writing Statistics | Diction |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.9 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Hsieh | Ondrej Machala |
In-app purchases
Writing Statistics
No in-app purchases
Diction
- Diction Cloud$5.991 Month
- Diction Cloud$59.991 Year
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