Comparison

Kitten vs O Horatio

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

Head to head
About

Kitten

This practical software offers several compact tools for text manipulation and file handling. Features include removing leading zeros, counting blank lines, URL encoding, and identifying paper weight and MIME types.

Highlights
  • Remove leading zeros from text
  • Count blank lines in text/files
  • URL encoding
  • Measure paper weight and thickness
  • MIME type formatting
Features
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Practical software that is compact and has very practical and convenient functions. The software includes: 【Removed leading zeros】A tool to remove text with a 0 in front of it. 【Fill in the box】This is an online blank line counter that can be used to count the number of blank lines in a text or file. It automatically counts the number of blank lines after pasting or changing text. 【URL encoding】The URL can be encoded to allow it to be transmitted correctly and identified in various network environments. 【Paper weight and thickness】This tool can measure the weight and thickness of paper. 【MimeType Format】It is mainly used to specify some customer-defined file names and some methods for opening multimedia files.

About

O Horatio

Features
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In Hamlet, everyone dies except one man. Hamlet spends his last breath giving Horatio a job: report me and my cause aright — tell my story. O Horatio listens and writes down what was actually said. TRANSCRIBES AS YOU SPEAK Text appears while you are still talking, in any of 100 languages, detected automatically. Settled sentences never change under you — only the last line updates — so reading along while you talk is not distracting. MAKES A FAIR COPY "More matter, with less art" — a language model running on your iPad removes filler and false starts, fixes punctuation and paragraphing, and repairs mangled terminology against your own glossary. The verbatim transcript is always kept alongside; one switch shows either, and hovering any paragraph shows what was really said. NAMES THE SPEAKERS Works out who spoke when, so a question is attributed to whoever asked it. Rename them, merge one that was detected twice, reassign a paragraph the boundary landed on wrongly, or split one where two people were run together. Every edit undoes and redoes. MAPS THE CONCEPTS Extracts what the session was actually about and draws it as a graph you can explore. Prune a digression and the transcript condenses to match. TRANSCRIBES RECORDINGS TOO Import an audio or video file and it goes through the same engine the microphone does, as fast as your iPad will take it — nothing plays back, and the text arrives as it goes. Stop part way and the next import of the same file offers to carry on from exactly where it stopped, rather than transcribing it all again. HANDS YOU A DOCUMENT Export the session as a PDF: the transcript with its speakers and timestamps, the concept graph drawn as a diagram, and every concept grouped by category. Each page carries its own header and footer, so a page that gets separated from the rest still says what it is. Markdown export too, fair copy or verbatim. IT RUNS ON YOUR IPAD Transcription, the fair copy, speaker labelling and concept extraction all happen locally. There is no account, no subscription and no server. Your recordings are files on your own disk, and the app shows you where. If you would rather use a remote model for the fair copy you can connect one, and the app tells you plainly, before you do, that the text will leave your device. Audio never does. WHAT THE IPAD HEARS The microphone, and only the microphone — a lecture, a seminar, an interview, a meeting you are sitting in. Recording the far side of a call is a Mac feature: iPadOS does not let any app listen to another one, and this is said here rather than discovered later.

Screenshots

Kitten4 screens
O Horatio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kitten at none against O Horatio's 1. Kitten also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). O Horatio's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. O Horatio sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Kitten asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kitten ships an update every 4 days, O Horatio every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Kitten versus O Horatio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKittenO Horatio
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews31.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer航 李Vladimir Gusev

In-app purchases

None

Kitten

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

O Horatio

One-time1
  • Horatio Pro$19.99

Questions

Is Kitten free?
Kitten is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is O Horatio free?
O Horatio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kitten or O Horatio have ads?
Kitten shows ads; O Horatio does not.
Which is updated more often, Kitten or O Horatio?
Kitten ships an update every 4 days, and O Horatio every 2 days. Most recently, Kitten was updated on November 8, 2026 and O Horatio on October 29, 2026.

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