Comparison

Good Times Timer vs Diction

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

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About

Good Times Timer

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Good Times Timer helps you make time for the activities that matter. Create an action, start a stopwatch or countdown, and stay gently on track. Build repeatable interval routines, add notes and tags, and review your session history without turning your day into another productivity contest. Features: - Flexible stopwatch and countdown timers - Custom interval routines and sounds - iPhone Live Activities for at-a-glance timer controls - Notes, tags, images, and session history - Shared actions for friends, families, and teams - Offline timer support with synchronization after reconnecting - English, German, Polish, and Tagalog app languages Good Times Timer is a productivity tool and is not a medical or emergency service.

About

Diction

This keyboard app converts your speech into text across any application on your device. It offers advanced typing features like autocorrect, word suggestions, and swipe typing. Choose between on-device processing for privacy or cloud-based AI for enhanced accuracy and writing tools.

Highlights
  • Speech to text conversion
  • Works in any app
  • Smart QWERTY keyboard with autocorrect
  • Swipe typing and accent-free typing
  • Tap-to-fix for suggestions
  • On-device and self-hosted modes
  • Cloud AI for enhanced accuracy
Features
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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. Swipe typing, typing without accents, and two languages on one keyboard. 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. Diction never stores your voice or transcripts, only operational data such as one daily diagnostic you can turn off. AES-256-GCM encryption. X25519 key exchange. Diction Cloud (paid subscription): highest-accuracy cloud speech and Writing Tools in every mode. Turn natural speech into polished text, edit or rewrite by voice, translate on the fly. On-Device and self-hosted users can add AI polish too, and only the text goes to the cloud. 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/

Screenshots

Good Times Timer4 screens
Diction4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Good Times Timer at none against Diction's 2. Good Times Timer also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Diction sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Good Times Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Good Times Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, Diction fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Good Times Timer versus Diction: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGood Times TimerDiction
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—21 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAchim RotheOndrej Machala

In-app purchases

None

Good Times Timer

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Diction

Subscriptions2
  • Diction Cloud$7.991 Month
  • Diction Cloud$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Good Times Timer free?
Good Times Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diction free?
Diction is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Good Times Timer or Diction have ads?
Neither Good Times Timer nor Diction shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Good Times Timer or Diction?
Good Times Timer ships an update every 2 weeks, and Diction fortnightly. Most recently, Good Times Timer was updated on October 30, 2026 and Diction on November 9, 2026.

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