5KWPH vs Fictate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5KWPH
This app uses timed writing sprints to enhance focus and productivity. It meticulously logs your writing sessions and tracks key performance indicators to help you refine your output.
- Timed writing sprints
- Focus building
- Sprint logging
- Output metric tracking
- Productivity improvement
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Use short, timed writing sprints to build focus, while the app logs your sprints and tracks key metrics to help you improve your output over time. Terms of Use: https://badgateway.co/5kwph/terms Privacy Policy: https://badgateway.co/5kwph/privacy
Fictate
This app offers specialized dictation for fiction writers, understanding unique character names and dialogue. It learns your words, cleans up transcripts, and integrates recording, transcription, and word count into one tool. Write offline and sync later, with your work remaining private.
- Fiction-specific dictation
- Customizable word learning
- Automated cleanup and punctuation
- Integrated recording and transcription
- Offline recording capabilities
- Daily word count tracking
- Direct export to writing software
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You may have tried dictation before. Most fiction authors have, and most have given up on it. The transcript came back a mess. It mangled your character names. It had no idea what to do with dialogue. You spent longer cleaning up than you would have spent typing. Enter: FICTATE IT UNDERSTANDS HOW YOU WRITE AS A FICTION AUTHOR Rather than fidgeting with an app built for business people and meeting notes, you can just dictate your fictional world and see it come to life accurately. TEACH FICTATE™ YOUR WORDS Add your characters, your places, your invented spellings, one time by pasting in a chapter or your entire manuscript and let Fictate learn your unique words. Add a new word right inside your transcript and it populates in your dictionary. Your existing transcript automatically updates to match. THE CLEANUP TOOL Turns raw dictation into readable prose. Punctuation, paragraph breaks, verbal stumbles. It does NOT rewrite your sentences into what a machine thinks you meant. Your writing voice stays yours. It just tidies up any errors. ONE APP INSTEAD OF FIVE Recording, transcription, cleanup, word count, and a session timer in one place. Easily copy and paste your words into your current Work-in-Progress or…dictate directly into your writing software on mobile or computer. Advanced, but powerful. WRITE WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE Record with no signal at all. Everything syncs when you are back online. Authors have turned daily walks and watching the kids play in the backyard into written words. SEE WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PRODUCED A daily word count chart. Ten minutes add up faster than most authors expect, and watching that happen turns out to be its own motivation. GET YOUR WORDS INTO YOUR MANUSCRIPT One tap to email a transcript to yourself, or copy it straight into Scrivener, Word, or Google Docs on your phone or computer. Phone, browser, and computer, all on the same account. WHO FICTATE IS FOR Novelists, short story writers — anyone drafting fiction. Some authors dictate because it’s faster than typing. Some dictate because typing hurts, or is simply no longer possible. Fictate is designed to help you build a sustainable author career. YOUR WORDS STAY YOURS Your writing is never used to train AI models. We do not read your work. You hold every right to everything you dictate. SUBSCRIPTIONS Every plan starts with 7 days free, and every plan includes every feature — the Cleanup Tool, Story Outlines, deleted-recording recovery, custom dictionary, verbal commands, offline recording, and Fictate Anywhere. Plans differ only by hours: Storyteller, $5.99/month or $59.99/year ($5.00/month). 5 hours of dictation each month. Author, $19.99/month or $179.99/year ($15.00/month). 20 hours of dictation each month. Fictator, $44.99/month or $419.99/year ($35.00/month). Unlimited dictation for one author. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when your free trial ends, or at confirmation of purchase if you subscribe without a trial. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://fictateapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://fictateapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Fictate at 6 against 5KWPH's 2. Fictate also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. 5KWPH sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year and Fictate sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 5KWPH against 5.0 for Fictate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | 5KWPH | Fictate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marco De Nichilo | Sarah Sawyer |
Customer experience
5KWPH
Fictate
In-app purchases
5KWPH
- Pro$3.991 Year
Fictate
- Storyteller7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Author Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Fictator Monthly7 Days trial$44.991 Month
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- Storyteller Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Author Annual7 Days trial$179.991 Year
- Fictator Annual7 Days trial$419.991 Year









