Monotasking vs SpeechBee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monotasking
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A minimalistic widget showing the top reminder from any of your lists. Multitasking is a lie, and there's clear evidence that focusing on, and completing a single task makes you more productive. This alternative for Apple Reminders does just that – shows your top reminder from any of your lists, so that you can focus on getting what matters done. It works in both light- and darkmode, and you can edit the widget to not show the list name if you want to push the minimalistic look to the max. Future roadmap includes: - Custom styling of fonts and colors of the widget with preview in the app - Ability to choose different lists based on your focus stat - More granular control of what information is available in the widget like due date, location, notes etc.
SpeechBee
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Speak instead of typing. Listen instead of reading. SpeechBee turns what you say into clean text, right where you are writing, and reads any text back to you in a natural voice. Speech recognition and reading voices run on your iPhone and iPad. VOICE TO TEXT • Switch to the SpeechBee keyboard in Messages, Mail, Notes or any app, tap the microphone and talk • Filler words like “um” and “uh” are removed automatically • Say “new paragraph” or “new line” and it formats as you go • Teach it names and terms with your personal Dictionary • Snippets: say “my email” or “booking link” and get the full text WRITING MODES AND TRANSLATION • Writing modes turn what you say into an email, a message, notes or a prompt for AI, or make it formal or casual, with Apple Intelligence on supported devices • Translate as you dictate, with Apple’s on-device translation • Pick a mode or a language right in the keyboard. History keeps every version, and Transform turns any dictation into another mode or language TEXT TO SPEECH • Share text with SpeechBee or paste it into the Read tab • Natural local voices, adjustable speed, pause and skip between sentences • Listen to articles, messages and long notes while you walk, commute or rest your eyes PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your audio is never uploaded and never saved as a recording • After a one-time model download, dictation works offline • Text is read aloud on your device, not by a cloud voice service • No ads IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Your plan unlocks SpeechBee on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Optional private iCloud sync keeps your Dictionary and Snippets in step. Audio and transcripts are never synced. LANGUAGES Dictate in 99 languages and listen in 31. Dictation (99): Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Māori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, Yoruba Read Aloud (31): Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese PLANS Dictation and Read Aloud require a SpeechBee subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Without one, the 7-day free week is followed by a free plan with up to 1,000 dictated and 1,000 read words per week. Paid plans include every feature; the free plan includes the Clean writing mode but not the other modes or translation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://speechbee.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://speechbee.app/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monotasking at none against SpeechBee's 4. Monotasking also leads on ads (none vs shown). SpeechBee's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price and iOS requirement 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. SpeechBee sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. Monotasking asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Monotasking | SpeechBee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Feiring | Fat Pitch Ltd |
In-app purchases
Monotasking
No in-app purchases
SpeechBee
- SpeechBee Monthly7 Days trial$9.001 Month
- SpeechBee Annual7 Days trial$79.001 Year
- 7-Day TrialFree
- SpeechBee Lifetime$99.00









