tebDictate vs QPdf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
QPdf
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. tebDictate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. QPdf asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | tebDictate | QPdf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TebScribe LLC | Gaurav Neupane |
In-app purchases
tebDictate
- tebDictate Pro — Monthly$4.991 Month
- tebDictate Pro — Yearly$29.991 Year
- tebDictate Pro — Lifetime$99.99
QPdf
No in-app purchases









