Comparison

Floating Text vs Alarum

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

Head to head
About

Floating Text

This utility app displays text prompts that float over any other application. It helps users remember speeches or scripts by providing customizable scrolling text with adjustable speed and visual styles. The app automatically saves prompts for easy access during practice sessions.

Highlights
  • Floating text over any app
  • Variable color prompt line
  • Customizable font and background styles
  • Adjustable text scrolling speed
  • Prompt text list with auto-save
  • Suspended focus timer
Features
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Are you still struggling with forgetting your speech at the conference? Is it still difficult to remember vocabulary in the studio? Here is a floating text prompter that can help you reduce word forgetting and mistakes during your speech, help you remember complex document content, and avoid tense forgetting of words. Features: # Support floating display of copy on any app interface # Support variable color on the prompt line when scrolling text to improve recognition # Support multiple font colors, font sizes, background colors, and other styles # Support text scrolling speed adjustment # Support prompt text list, automatically save your prompt text during practice, easy to open # Support suspended focus time for practice If you have any questions or suggestions during use, please provide us with feedback and suggestions.

About

Alarum

Features
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Alarum makes it easy to schedule alarms for a specific date, or repeat them only as many times as you need. Plan ahead • Choose an exact date and time • Create one-time or repeating alarms • Limit repeats to a set number of occurrences • See upcoming alarms in chronological order Built for iPhone Alarum uses Apple's native AlarmKit on supported versions of iOS, with clear controls for stopping and snoozing. You can label alarms, edit them, enable or disable them, and swipe to delete. Simple by design No account is required. Your alarms are stored on your device.

Screenshots

Floating Text4 screens
Alarum3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Alarum at none against Floating Text's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Floating Text versus Alarum: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFloating TextAlarum
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (13 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB35 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer周桂 吴Kashif Iqbal

In-app purchases

None

Floating Text

No in-app purchases

None

Alarum

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Floating Text free?
Floating Text is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Alarum free?
Alarum is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Floating Text or Alarum have ads?
Floating Text shows ads; Alarum does not.

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