Awareness vs Speaking Of
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Awareness
Visualize your life's timeline, transforming abstract days, weeks, months, and years into tangible shapes and stories. Track important dates, milestones, and goals with beautiful, calming designs and always-visible widgets.
- Count days up or down from any date
- Visualize life in weeks, months, quarters, years
- Track birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, goals
- iOS 26 liquid glass design with animations
- Home Screen widgets
- Cross-device support (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
- One-time purchase
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Time Awareness helps you experience time the way it really feels. Life has a strange rhythm—sometimes racing past before you notice, sometimes stretching endlessly. This app makes the invisible visible, turning abstract days, weeks, months, and years into something you can see, feel, and understand. Instead of staring at a clock or scanning a calendar, you see the bigger picture. Time Awareness transforms numeric dates into living timelines: how many days have passed since you were born, how many remain until an important milestone, how this quarter or year is unfolding right now. Suddenly, time isn’t a blur of numbers—it’s a shape, a story, a perspective you can hold in your hands. Use it to track birthdays, anniversaries, or personal goals. Mark the days since a meaningful event, or count down to the ones you’re waiting for. Explore the flow of your week, month, quarter, or year and watch how each piece fits into your life’s rhythm. These simple, beautiful visualizations help you feel grounded, present, and more connected to where you are in time. What users love most is the sense of calm and clarity it brings. Time Awareness isn’t about productivity hacks or constant reminders. It’s about perspective. It gently shifts how you see your life—not as a string of hours to fill, but as a landscape of moments to notice and experience. Many describe it as unexpectedly eye-opening, even beautiful. Design matters too. Time Awareness is crafted to look and feel as good as it works. Built with the new iOS 26 liquid glass design language, it feels smooth, modern, and calming. Animations give a sense of depth and flow, while Home Screen widgets keep your chosen timelines visible at a glance. Awareness isn’t hidden in an app—it’s right there, living alongside you. And with full Mac support, the same perspective follows you across every device. Ownership is simple: one purchase, forever yours. No subscriptions, no recurring payments—just a single decision that unlocks everything, including updates as the app grows. Whether you want to reflect on the past, anticipate the future, or simply feel the rhythm of everyday life, Time Awareness is your companion for living with presence. Key Features: • Count days up or down from any meaningful date • Visualize your life in weeks, months, quarters, and years • Track birthdays, anniversaries, milestones, and goals • Beautiful iOS 26 liquid glass design with smooth animations • Home Screen widgets for always-visible perspective • Works seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac • One-time purchase with lifetime access Time Awareness helps you see the bigger picture, stay connected to your moments, and rediscover how it feels to live in time instead of losing track of it. Make your days visible. Make your life tangible. Live with awareness.
Speaking Of
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Speaking Of… is a mini keyboard. One slim row, tab, space, delete, return, instead of fifty letters and a third of your screen. What's left is your text, with room to read it. It's especially good while you're dictating. The keys your thumb actually wants are right there, and for once you can see the whole thing you just said. AN AMAZING VIEW OF WHAT YOU JUST SAID The standard keyboard takes about a third of your display. This one takes a twelfth. That's roughly nine more lines of your own words on screen: enough to read the whole message while you're still talking, instead of proofreading it through a letterbox. TALK AND TAP AT THE SAME TIME Dictation will type a new line if you ask it to. But asking means stopping: dropping out of the sentence you're saying, switching into giving a command, and hoping it hears an instruction instead of words. Your thumb interrupts nothing. Fill in a form and you'll feel it immediately: talk, tab, talk, tab, straight down the page without a single pause. Your voice keeps saying the thing while your hand keeps moving between the fields. Two channels running at once, instead of one channel taking turns with itself. DICTATION, EXACTLY AS YOU ALREADY DO IT Nothing here replaces dictation or reroutes it. Apple's microphone sits in the row directly below our keys, where it has always been. Tap it, talk, and the words land in whatever app you're in. There is nothing new to learn. THE RIGHT SIZE FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING There's nothing wrong with the standard keyboard. When you're typing letters, it's exactly the right tool and exactly the right size. It's only the wrong size when you're not typing. So keep both. One tap of the globe key switches between them, instantly. Apple's for typing, ours for talking. You aren't giving anything up to try this. FIX IT WITH YOUR THUMB Dictation gets a word wrong now and then, so the keys are built around repair. Hold the space bar and slide to walk the cursor; push to the end and hold, and it flies across a paragraph. Hold delete and it picks up speed. Swipe left across delete and it takes whole words, because dictation doesn't misspell, it mishears. MAKE IT YOURS Eight colors, each mixed twice so it looks right in daylight and at night. Dress the tab, delete and return keys however you like; the space bar stays classic. Match the app icon to your colors. Turn on the little tap under your thumb that makes a key feel like a key. IT CANNOT HEAR YOU iOS never gives a keyboard access to the microphone, and we don't go looking for a way around it. There's no networking code in this app at all, so nothing can leave your phone even by accident. No account, no analytics, no ads, nothing collected, nothing to opt out of. It's buttons. That's the whole app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Speaking Of at none against Awareness's 3. Awareness's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price and ads 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. Awareness sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Speaking Of asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Awareness | Speaking Of |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (24 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TakeOnePiece LLC | Dave Hassebrock |
In-app purchases
Awareness
- Pro$6.99
- Pro Membership$9.99
- Pro$14.99
Speaking Of
No in-app purchases









