Murmur vs Talkbeats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Murmur
This app records audio and converts it into searchable text, distinguishing between different speakers. It offers on-device processing for privacy, offline functionality, and the ability to translate transcripts into other languages.
- On-device transcription
- Speaker identification
- Offline functionality
- Transcript translation
- Multiple export formats
- Searchable transcripts
- Audio compression
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Privacy first: everything is transcribed on your device. Recordings are never uploaded, no account is needed, and your voice stays on the phone that recorded it. Murmur is the recorder that knows who said what. Meetings, lectures, interviews — the text is there as soon as you stop, with every line labeled by speaker. Transcription and speaker identification both run on your iPhone. WHAT MURMUR DOES ON DEVICE, NEVER UPLOADED Transcription, speaker identification and translation all run on your iPhone. No servers, no sign-up, no account. It works on a plane, in a basement meeting room, anywhere with no signal. KNOWS WHO SAID WHAT Every line is labeled with its speaker and color-coded, so a conversation with several people is easy to follow. Name someone once, and Murmur recognizes them in later recordings. TALK, AND GET THE TEXT Hit record, and the words are waiting when you stop. The spoken language is detected automatically — around 100 of them. IMPORT WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE A voice memo, a meeting recording, a lecture, any audio or video file. Transcribed and labeled exactly like something recorded in the app. TRANSLATE LINE BY LINE Turn a transcript into another language inside the recording. Read the translation alone, or side by side with the original. On device, as always. EXPORT, OR HAND IT TO YOUR AI Export as plain text, Markdown, PDF or Word, with speakers, timestamps and your translation. Send it to Notes, to an email, or to whichever AI you already use. TAP A LINE, HEAR THAT LINE Read the transcript against the timestamps, and tap any sentence to replay just that one. Many people use it to learn a language a sentence at a time. CUT WHAT YOU DO NOT NEED Open the waveform editor: select and cut, keep only one stretch, append another recording, or remove every silence in one tap. The transcript re-times itself, so nothing needs transcribing again. SEARCH WHAT YOU SAID Find any phrase across every recording, highlighted where it appears. RECORD WITHOUT OPENING THE APP Put the widget on the Home or Lock Screen, add "Record with Murmur" to Control Center, or just ask Siri. One tap and you are recording. ICLOUD SYNC Turn it on and your recordings and transcripts follow you across devices through your own private iCloud. The data stays in your iCloud, where we cannot see it. SAVES SPACE ON ITS OWN Once a recording is transcribed, its audio is compressed in the background. Transcript and playback are untouched; the space comes back to your device and iCloud. IPAD AND IPHONE A universal app, with a roomier layout on iPad and larger screens. ABOUT MURMUR PRO FREE FOREVER: recording, playback, search, export, and everything already in your library. THE ONE LIMIT: without Pro, each recording is transcribed for up to 20 minutes. The audio itself is untouched. MURMUR PRO: lifts that limit. One purchase, kept forever, not a subscription, and it works with Family Sharing. ABOUT PRIVACY RECORDINGS AND TRANSCRIPTS: on your device only, never sent to our servers. ACCOUNT: not needed, and there is no sign-up. ANONYMOUS ANALYTICS: we collect anonymous usage statistics and crash diagnostics to improve the app. They contain no audio and no transcript text. ICLOUD SYNC: optional, through your own private iCloud, accessible only to you. Privacy policy: https://www.murmur-recorder.com/legal/ios/privacy.html More: https://www.murmur-recorder.com Download a model, hit record, and start talking.
Talkbeats
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Cut Map helps you shorten a rundown while protecting essential material and preserving a reviewed record of each cut decision. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open Cut Map from Timer. Build an ordered rundown with estimated durations, essential blocks, optional priorities and transition notes, or explore the labeled example. 2. Enter the time still available, or explicitly take a snapshot of the running timer. Find a fitting cut map and review the proposed optional cuts. 3. Apply the reviewed decision, mark delivered blocks as you go and share the saved report. Start a fresh copy for another event while retaining the original decisions. Silent presenter timers, segmented plans, haptic cues, Live Activities, rehearsal history, Coach, formats and script calculations remain available. Cut Map excludes delivered and previously skipped blocks, rejects stale proposals and preserves original estimates when applying cuts. WHAT TO KNOW Up to 30 blocks, including at most 18 optional blocks, per rundown. Durations are entered estimates of 5–3,600 seconds; available time is 0–21,600 seconds. The exact search minimizes summed importance of removed optional blocks, then excess time removed, then cut count. Importance is subjective and additive. It does not rewrite content, assess dependencies or guarantee delivery time. If essentials cannot fit, it says so. Timer snapshots are not live links. Up to 50 rundowns and 100 decisions per rundown. iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Murmur at Free against Talkbeats's $3.99. On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
Murmur is free to download; Talkbeats costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Murmur ships an update every 5 days, Talkbeats every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Murmur | Talkbeats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bin Yang | Robert Corbin |
In-app purchases
Murmur
No in-app purchases
Talkbeats
No in-app purchases









