Codictate vs Conduck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Codictate
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Press a button, speak, and your words are transcribed and pasted into whatever app you're using. No internet required. No account. No data leaves your phone. Codictate is AI dictation that runs entirely on your device. The AI models run locally on your iPhone's Neural Engine and CPU, so your voice is never used to train AI models. HOW IT WORKS Codictate installs a system keyboard with a Dictate button. Tap it, speak, and on-device AI transcribes your speech in real time. The transcript is then inserted into your current text field. Two AI speech engines are included: - Parakeet TDT v3: Runs on the Neural Engine. Fast, lightweight, 95.7% accuracy on clean English audio. - Whisper base (quantized): Runs on CPU as a fallback. Multilingual support with a 57 MB model. You pick which AI model fits your needs. Switch anytime in settings. PRIVACY Everything runs on-device. Audio is never uploaded. There is no server, no analytics, no telemetry. Your recordings stay on your phone and are discarded after transcription. AI dictation without the cloud. FEATURES - On-device AI transcription (no internet needed) - System keyboard with one-tap dictation - Parakeet TDT v3 (Neural Engine, fast) - Whisper base-q5_1 (CPU, multilingual) - Works in any app that accepts keyboard input - Live Activity indicator while recording - Action Button and Shortcuts support REQUIREMENTS - iPhone with iOS 17.0 or later - Apple Silicon (Neural Engine required for Parakeet) - Approximately 57 MB for Whisper model or 500 MB for Parakeet model
Conduck
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Conduck is the native Apple client for your self-hosted or BYO-key AI - in your pocket, in the car, and on your wrist. Connect your own AI server - OpenClaw, Hermes, or a compatible model server such as Pi or LM Aider - or bring an OpenRouter key for a hosted model and start in about a minute. Your keys, your AI. No Conduck account and no Conduck-operated intermediary server. Ask from anywhere ⢠iPhone & iPad: start a chat and type, or hold to talk ⢠Action Button, Shortcuts & Control Center: fire off a quick question without opening the app ⢠Apple Watch: ask straight from your wrist ⢠CarPlay: a hands-free voice conversation on the road ⢠Mac: a full desktop app and menu-bar companion, with a global hotkey and Screenshot & Ask Work: collect now, brief your AI later ⢠A private desk beside your chats. Save thoughts, voice notes, screenshots, links and files from the app, the share sheet, Shortcuts, the Mac menu bar, Apple Watch or CarPlay. A voice note is saved as words. ⢠Adding to Work sends nothing to your AI. Arrange materials on Home, or file them into projects with their own background notes. ⢠When you're ready, write the task, pick the materials and choose your AI. Review the exact message, then send. ⢠With a self-hosted agent and file exchange set up, files your AI returns join the project. ⢠With content sync on, the desk syncs through your private iCloud. Very large files stay on the device that captured them. Private by architecture, not by promise ⢠Conduck operates no intermediary server. No Conduck account, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. ⢠By default, your speech is turned into text by Apple on your own devices. Your voice never leaves them. ⢠Prefer a cloud transcription service? Your audio goes straight from your device to that provider with your own key. We're never in the middle. ⢠Your conversations stay on your device and sync through your own private iCloud. We can't read them. ⢠Your keys and tokens live in the Keychain, and every connection over the internet is HTTPS. A server on your own network can be reached without it if you choose, and Conduck says so on screen when you do. See what you actually use ⢠Settings shows a private record of request attempts and conversations over the last 7, 30 or 90 days, typed and spoken compared. ⢠Broken down by connection, device and requested model, with the token counts your AI reports, and reliability split into first-try deliveries, retries, cancellations and failures. ⢠Recorded on your devices and synced through your private iCloud. Never sent to us. Free plan and Conduck Pro ⢠Free: three active projects and three configured gateways in total across OpenClaw, Hermes and custom connections. Unconfigured options don't count, and OpenRouter never uses a slot. ⢠Pro: unlimited active projects and configured gateways on iPhone, iPad and Mac. ⢠Archive a project to free a slot. Above the free limits, choose which projects and gateways stay active; your materials, conversations and saved connection settings are kept. Conduck Pro is an optional monthly subscription: USD 29.99 in the US or EUR 29.99 in euro-area storefronts. Other storefront prices are shown in the app. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. It renews automatically unless canceled; manage it in your App Store subscription settings. AI and speech provider usage is billed separately by your chosen providers. Pro includes no model or voice credits. Terms: https://conduck.com/terms/ Privacy: https://conduck.com/privacy/ Open source The application source is available under Apache 2.0 at github.com/GigaDuckAI/conduck. Official App Store builds keep the Conduck identity and CarPlay; personal source builds use the Conduck Community identity without CarPlay. What you'll need Conduck is the interface, not the AI. You bring the AI and any key it needs; guided setup helps you connect. Conduck creates no account and hosts no model for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Conduck at every 6 days against Codictate's every 2 months. Conduck also leads on device support (4 vs 1). Codictate's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Codictate ships an update every 2 months, Conduck every 6 days. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Codictate | Conduck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days ā better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch ā better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 ā better | 26.5 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Emil Lykke Grann | GigaDuck OU |
In-app purchases
Codictate
No in-app purchases
Conduck
No in-app purchases








