Comparison

Deckloud vs Fast Dictate

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

Head to head
About

Deckloud

Manage your Nextcloud Deck boards directly from your iPhone. Create, organize, and update tasks with robust offline support and private data handling. Offers Pro features for enhanced productivity.

Highlights
  • Create and organize boards, stacks, and cards
  • Set due dates, labels, assignees, and reminders
  • Add comments, Markdown descriptions, and attachments
  • Search boards and cards with advanced filters
  • Reliable sync with offline resilience
  • Private by design with local credential storage
Features
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Your Nextcloud Deck boards as a native iPhone and iPad app. See what is due today, drag cards between sections, and keep working offline. Changes sync as soon as you are back online. The core app is free. No Nextcloud server yet? Start a free Deckloud Cloud workspace in seconds. Two ways to start • Your own server: sign in with Nextcloud Login Flow v2 and open the boards you already have. The app connects directly to your server, with no relay backend in between. • Deckloud Cloud: tap Create a free workspace. No email, no password, and no registration form. Deckloud runs the Nextcloud server for you, and you can link up to three devices. Plan your day • Today: due, overdue, and assigned cards, plus mentions, in one list with a month calendar • A Gantt timeline where you move or resize dated cards • Search across boards with filters for labels, assignees, and due dates Work on your boards • Create and organize boards, sections, and cards • Start a board from a template, or build your own • Set due dates, labels, assignees, and a reminder • Write Markdown descriptions with a formatting bar for checklists, headings, and bold • Add comments and attachments, or link files from Nextcloud Files • Share boards with people, groups, and Teams, and choose who can edit • Import and export Deck JSON, or export a board as CSV Made for iPhone and iPad iPad layouts with a sidebar support portrait, landscape, and resizable multitasking. Send links and text from other apps with the share extension. Offline changes wait in a queue you can check in Settings. The app is available in more than 70 languages. Private by design Credentials stay in the iOS Keychain. No ad SDKs. Usage analytics create no person profiles and can be turned off in Settings. On your own server, board and card content stays on your Nextcloud. Deckloud Cloud content is stored on Nextcloud servers managed by Deckloud, with TLS and encrypted backups, but it is not end-to-end encrypted. You can delete a Cloud account and its content from Settings. Free and Pro Free: boards, cards, Today, Search, the Gantt timeline, templates, import and export, the small widget, one active reminder, one repeating card, and two accounts. You can also try 5 Quick Captures, where one Smart Capture of up to 5 cards counts as one, and one Focus session. Deckloud Pro is a one-time purchase, with no subscription: • Unlimited Quick Capture, also from the share extension and Shortcuts, with saved templates and context • Unlimited reminders, including Apple Reminders and Apple Alarms (iOS 26+) • Repeating cards, synced through your Nextcloud • Unlimited Smart Capture, up to 20 cards at a time • The full Team view and the team's weekly report • Unlimited Focus sessions of 10, 25, or 45 minutes, with a Live Activity • Medium, large, Extra Large, and Lock Screen widgets, with a board picker • More than two accounts, and Pro in the Deckloud desktop app with a code Deckloud Cloud is a separate free plan and does not include Pro. If your organization has a Deckloud license for its Nextcloud, Pro turns on for the members it covers. Requirements • For your own server: Nextcloud with the Deck app. Deck 1.6 or later is required for full write support. • Deckloud actively verifies maintained Nextcloud releases with their matching Deck release, currently Nextcloud 33 to 35. • Nextcloud 23–32 is legacy best effort; a new Nextcloud major remains preview until verified. • Widgets need iOS 17 or later. Also available for Mac (Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux at deckloud.com. Deckloud is an independent client and is not affiliated with Nextcloud GmbH.

About

Fast Dictate

Features
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Fast Dictate turns your voice into clean, ready-to-use text in seconds, powered by AI. Speak naturally and let Fast Dictate handle the rest: automatic punctuation, spelling correction, smart capitalization, and proper text formatting. No editing needed. KEY FEATURES • Automatic punctuation and spelling correction • Smart text formatting and capitalization • Transcription history to find past dictations • 50+ languages supported • 4x faster than typing Whether you're writing emails, taking notes, or drafting messages, Fast Dictate gets it done faster and cleaner than typing ever could. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.fastdictate.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Deckloud4 screens
Fast Dictate3 screens

Verdict

The call

Deckloud and Fast Dictate are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Deckloud sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Fast Dictate sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Deckloud ships an update every 9 days, Fast Dictate every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Deckloud versus Fast Dictate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeckloudFast Dictate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHoang PhamPIERRICK PETER RENE MICHEL

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Deckloud

One-time1
  • Deckloud Pro – One-Time Unlock$39.00
4 purchases

Fast Dictate

Subscriptions4
  • Standard - Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Pro - Monthly$29.991 Month
  • Standard - Yearly$143.991 Year
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  • Pro - Yearly$314.991 Year

Questions

Is Deckloud free?
Deckloud is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fast Dictate free?
Fast Dictate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Deckloud or Fast Dictate have ads?
Neither Deckloud nor Fast Dictate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Deckloud or Fast Dictate?
Deckloud ships an update every 9 days, and Fast Dictate every 2 weeks. Most recently, Deckloud was updated on October 25, 2026 and Fast Dictate on October 16, 2026.

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