Comparison

tebDictate vs QPdf

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

Head to head
About

tebDictate

Transform your phone into a wireless microphone for your computer. Dictate text directly into any application without installing software on your PC or Mac. Enjoy end-to-end encryption for secure and private speech-to-text conversion.

Highlights
  • Wireless microphone for computer
  • On-device speech recognition
  • End-to-end encryption
  • Dictation pad for phone
  • Pocket mode with word count
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Spoken commands
Features
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tebDictate turns your phone into a wireless microphone for any computer. Open tebdictate.com/dictate on your Mac or PC, scan the code it shows, and start talking — your words appear on the computer, live, at the cursor. There is nothing to install on the computer, and there is no account to create. RECOGNISED ON YOUR PHONE Your speech is turned into text by the on-device recogniser. The audio never leaves the phone. If a language has no on-device speech pack installed, tebDictate refuses to dictate rather than sending your voice to a server. ENCRYPTED END TO END Your phone and your browser agree on a key by scanning the code — through the camera, not over the network. Everything sent between them is encrypted with that key. The relay in the middle carries ciphertext it cannot read and deletes it within minutes. WORKS ON ITS OWN TOO Dictation pad — dictate straight onto the phone, then copy or share anywhere. Pocket mode — keep talking with the screen locked; a Lock Screen activity shows the word count. Apple Watch — start and stop from your wrist. Dictation keyboard — insert what you dictated into any app. Spoken commands — "new line", "new paragraph", "period", "scratch that". FREE FOREVER Unlimited encrypted dictation to your computer. The dictation pad. Pocket mode. Three Voice Form Fills a month. Your last three sessions in history. tebDICTATE PRO — optional Unlimited Voice Form Fill: photograph a paper form, answer the questions out loud, export a tidy PDF. Interpreter: a two-way spoken conversation across languages, on the device, offline. Full searchable history, kept encrypted on your phone. Snippets: say a short trigger, insert a whole phrase. Translate mode: dictate in one language, paste in another. Your name or clinic on exported PDFs. Pro is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or as a one-time lifetime unlock. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings. PRIVACY Encrypted in transit and at rest (AES). Never used for training. Never sold. No accounts. No advertising. No tracking across apps or websites. Privacy Policy: https://tebdictate.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ tebDictate is a dictation tool. It does not give medical advice and does not diagnose or treat.

About

QPdf

Features
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QPdf is a local-first PDF workspace for phone, tablet and desktop. Your documents stay on your device. READ AND SEARCH • Fast page rendering with text selection and in-document search • Open PDFs straight from Files, email or any app that shares them ANNOTATE AND MARK UP • Highlight, underline, strike through and draw freehand • Add sticky notes, shapes, arrows and images to any page FILL AND SIGN • Type text anywhere on a page — it works the same on scanned and flattened forms as on digital ones • Draw a signature, or apply a cryptographic digital signature ORGANISE PAGES • Reorder, rotate, delete, extract and merge pages • Combine several PDFs into one • Add page numbers CREATE AND CONVERT • Build a PDF from photos • Scan paper with the camera • Add a searchable text layer with on-device OCR — pages are never uploaded PROTECT • Secure redaction produces an image-only copy and strips searchable text, interactive content, metadata and existing signatures • PDF/UA and PDF/A accessibility and archiving audits PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No advertising SDK. No analytics SDK. QPdf does not upload the PDFs you open. The only network request is an optional one-time OCR model download, verified against a published checksum. Free, with no subscription and no watermark.

Screenshots

tebDictate4 screens
QPdf2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QPdf at none against tebDictate's 3. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. tebDictate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. QPdf asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
tebDictate versus QPdf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametertebDictateQPdf
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTebScribe LLCGaurav Neupane

In-app purchases

3 purchases

tebDictate

Subscriptions2
  • tebDictate Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
  • tebDictate Pro — Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • tebDictate Pro — Lifetime$99.99
None

QPdf

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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