Comparison

Diction vs Häkchen

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

Head to head
About

Diction

This app provides a voice-to-text keyboard that works across all applications. It offers features like tap-to-fix for editing, customizability, and on-device processing for privacy. An optional subscription unlocks advanced cloud models and AI companions for enhanced text generation and editing.

Highlights
  • Speech to text in any app
  • Tap-to-fix smart editing
  • Customizable keyboard layout
  • On-device offline dictation
  • Private voice input
  • Transcription history and search
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. 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. The Diction app has zero analytics, zero tracking, and zero data collection. AES-256-GCM encryption. X25519 key exchange. Diction One (paid subscription): highest-accuracy cloud speech models and Writing Tools. Turn natural speech into polished text, edit or rewrite by voice, translate on the fly. Select text and dictate what to change. 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/

About

Häkchen

Features
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A to-do list is finished when it is empty. A packing list never is — next time you need exactly the same one again. Häkchen is built for the second kind: tick things off, head out, and next time one tap puts every tick back to zero. The list stays, only the ticks go. WHAT FOR • The pool, the gym, the sauna • A weekend away, a holiday, a city trip • Dog bag, changing bag, sports bag • Moving house, a building site, the garden • Anything you do more than once TICKING THAT FEELS RIGHT The tick is drawn rather than switched on, and the strikethrough travels with it. The last open item answers differently from every item before it. And when you reset, the ticks fall away from the top down — half a second that feels like tidying up. LISTS THAT WRITE THEMSELVES Type a topic — "a weekend in the mountains" — and your iPhone suggests a list. That happens with Apple's model right on the device: nothing is sent, nothing lands on a server. Anything that does not fit gets swiped away before the list even exists. (Requires Apple Intelligence.) YOUR LISTS STAY YOURS • Import from any text — copy a list out of Notion, Notes, a message • Preview before importing: you see what you get before you get it • Export as a file and as Markdown, back to wherever you came from • Back up every list in a single file WHAT HÄKCHEN DOES NOT DO No reminders, no notifications, no points, no streaks, no account. Häkchen never speaks first. Ticking things off is the reward. PRIVACY Everything lives on your device. No tracking, no advertising identifiers, no analytics, no sharing. In normal use the app opens no network connection at all.

Screenshots

Diction4 screens
Häkchen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Häkchen at none against Diction's 2. Diction's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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 $5.99 per month. Häkchen asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Diction versus Häkchen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDictionHäkchen
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOndrej MachalaSEBASTIAN WENZEL

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Diction

Subscriptions2
  • Diction Cloud$5.991 Month
  • Diction Cloud$59.991 Year
None

Häkchen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Diction free?
Diction is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Häkchen free?
Häkchen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Diction or Häkchen have ads?
Neither Diction nor Häkchen shows ads.

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