AuthentiKate vs Cadence Captions

Someone reached out to you claiming to be a celebrity, an athlete, a public figure, or someone known to the public. Before you reply, before you do anything they ask: why not check if it's really them? That is what AuthentiKate is for. Impersonation scams are not new, and they are not slowing down. Someone uses a famous person's name, photo, and reputation to earn your trust — then they use that trust to cause harm. They ask for money, personal information, or access to things you would never give a stranger. The harm is real. We built AuthentiKate because there was no simple, reliable way for an ordinary person to know for certain who they were talking to. Now there is. HOW IT WORKS Search the name of the person who contacted you. Select the channel — social media, phone, email — and then ask that person to send you a verification code. Every verified figure on AuthentiKate has been identity-confirmed before their account is activated. When they need to prove their identity, they open the AuthentiKate Verified companion app and generate a 6-digit code. It can only come from their verified device. You enter it here. If it passes, it is them. There is no other way to get a passing code. Nothing to screenshot, nothing to reuse, nothing a scammer can replicate. If the code passes, you see the person's verified title and their public profile links, the information they chose to share with the world. That is the first time any of that information appears. Before a valid code, you see their name and nothing else. If the code does not pass, you get one clear result: we could not verify this person or contact. ACCESS TO USE (with no hidden agenda) AuthentiKate is open to everyone. No account. No sign-up. No tracking. We do not collect your personal information, store your searches, or sell your data. Your verification history stays on your device and goes nowhere else. WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT FROM A VERIFIED BADGE A verified badge on a social platform tells you that platform approved that account at some point. It does not tell you who is sitting behind the screen right now, in this conversation, today. AuthentiKate uses a live code that can only be generated by the real, verified person at the moment you ask for it. A badge can be bought and copied onto a lookalike account. An on-demand verification cannot. OTHER THINGS TO KNOW If the person you are trying to verify is not yet in our directory, you can recommend we reach out to them. We are grateful for every recommendation and will do our best to bring them aboard! If something feels off or strange about a conversation even before you check, trust your instincts. AuthentiKate can help confirm if a public figure is who they say they are, but your own judgment is also a powerful tool. If you can't verify someone and believe you have encountered an impostor, report them directly in the app. We do our best to share these alerts with the public figures themselves.

Cadence is live captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, built so the words land while they still matter. Everything runs on your iPhone. That is what makes it quick, and it is why your audio and captions never touch a network. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Cadence is used in medical, legal, and therapy settings, and there is no exception to that rule. CAPTIONS THE MOMENT YOU OPEN IT After a one-time permission prompt, the capture screen starts listening on its own every time you open it. No configuration to get through first. Pause, resume, and finish are one tap each, and a status dot always tells you whether it is actually listening. CAPTIONS THAT FOLLOW YOU INTO OTHER APPS Switch to another app and captioning keeps going, with the latest line floating in a small window you can move anywhere on screen. Read along while you text, look something up, or take notes, then tap the window to jump back. On by default. Turn it off if you would rather switching apps pause. FLIP THE SCREEN FOR THE PERSON ACROSS FROM YOU One tap turns the captions 180 degrees, so someone sitting opposite can read along without leaning over the table. It unflips itself when you stop. SPEAKER LABELS On the Default model, see who said what, marked as Speaker A, B, C, with a coloured gutter bar that stays put for the whole conversation. Labels are anonymous and reset every session. No voiceprint is stored, so Cadence never learns who anyone is. BUILT FOR HOW YOU READ Scale caption text up to more than twice the standard size, on top of whatever Dynamic Type setting you already use. Choose the typeface captions are drawn in: the system font, Atkinson Hyperlegible, Literata, or OpenDyslexic. Pick light or dark independently of your system setting, for rooms where the phone is the brightest thing on the table. VoiceOver reads each caption as a single element, speaker and text together. SCROLL BACK WITHOUT LOSING THE THREAD Scroll up to re-read something and new captions stop yanking you back down. A jump to latest pill brings you back the moment you want it. EVERY SESSION SAVED ON THE PHONE Conversations are kept on the phone, newest first, with the date, length, and a preview of the opening line. Tap to read the whole thing back, swipe to delete it for good, and share any transcript as plain text through the normal share sheet with speaker names attached. Only committed text is saved. The audio is never written to disk. TUNE IT TO THE ROOM Tell Cadence whether you are talking with a group or one person, and how readily to treat quiet or distant sound as speech worth captioning. Choose how long a pause has to be before a line locks in: snappier for quick back-and-forth, more relaxed for speakers who trail off. A noisy cafe and a one-on-one across a desk are not the same problem. IT TELLS YOU WHEN SOMETHING IS WRONG If the captions stall, you get a loud banner and a retry button. If the mic is denied, the banner says so and points you to Settings. Never a frozen screen that looks like nobody is speaking. CHOOSE YOUR CAPTIONING MODEL Default leads with accuracy and speaker labels. Alternate trades those for the lowest latency, for when captions are backing up hearing you already have. Both download once and then run offline for good. Built In uses Apple's own on-device speech recognition with no download at all, and needs iOS 26; below that, Cadence falls back to Built In (Legacy). REQUIREMENTS iPhone 14 or later running iOS 17 or later. Once a model is on the device, it never needs a connection again.