Comparison

Morse Code vs Numice

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

Head to head
About

Morse Code

Features
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Most Morse code apps hand you a table of 26 patterns and wish you luck. Morse Map hands you the structure underneath the table. Morse code isn't a list. It's a decision tree. From any point, a dot takes one branch and a dash takes the other. E is one dot from the start. A is E plus a dash. R is A plus a dot. Nobody memorises 26 unrelated patterns — they learn one map and walk it. This app draws that map, and lights up where you are on it. SEE THE CODE, DON'T MEMORISE IT Two ideas make the diagram readable at a glance. Every node is drawn as the symbol that reaches it — a circle for a dot, a long bar for a dash. Read the shapes along a path and you have just read the code. No legend. No lookup. And depth runs left to right, so a path reads in the same direction as time. The route to J is dot dash dash dash, which is exactly what J sounds like. The tree is the waveform. Key a dot and a packet of light travels the trace into the next node. The path stays lit while the rest of the map dims, and the two branches you could take next are marked — so you are always looking at the one decision in front of you, not the whole alphabet. DECODE Tap separate dot and dash keys, or switch to a real straight key where the length of your press decides the symbol, with a live indicator showing when you cross into dash territory. A pause finishes the character, with a ring closing around the live node so the timing is visible rather than guessed. Prefer to be deliberate? Turn it off and press Enter yourself. Tap any node to jump there and hear it — exploring is free, and nothing is typed until you ask. Undo works one element at a time, which is what you need most when you are new. SEND — INCLUDING BY LIGHT Type a message and transmit it as genuine Morse, with correct element lengths and correct gaps, on four channels at once: • Sound — a real keyed sidetone. • Light — flash the message out of your camera's torch, exactly the way a signal lamp works. Point it across a room, a field, or a valley and it is a working Morse transmitter. • Haptics — feel each element at its true length. • The map — watch the tree walk your message as it goes. Copy the encoded string out to share it as text. TRAIN Practice, so the map eventually stops being something you look at. • The Koch method — start with two characters at full speed and earn the next one at 90% accuracy. This is the method that works. Learning slowly and speeding up later just means un-learning a rhythm. • Listen: hear a character, name it. • Key it: see a character, send it on the tree. • Per-character mastery, experience levels and daily streaks. CODEX All 62 characters — 26 letters, 10 numbers, 18 punctuation marks and 8 procedural signals — each with its code, its spoken rhythm (di-dah-dah-dah), where it sits in the tree, and how well you know it. BUILT PROPERLY • Real PARIS-standard timing, adjustable from 5 to 30 wpm. • Farnsworth spacing: keep characters crisp while the gaps stretch. • A true gated sidetone oscillator with ramped edges, not clicky samples — tune it from 300 to 1000 Hz. • Core Haptics, so a dash feels three times as long as a dot. • Mixes with your music instead of silencing it. • VoiceOver support, including a live spoken description of your path through the tree. Reduce Motion respected. NO ACCOUNT. NO INTERNET. NO DATA. There is no networking in this app at all. No sign-up, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no third-party code. Your settings and progress live on your device and go nowhere. It works the same in a basement, on a plane, or off-grid — which, given the subject, felt like the point. Whether you are studying for an amateur radio licence, learning CW for the love of it, or you just want to know what the flashing light in the film actually said — start with the map.

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Numice

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Numice shapes and cleans your microphone in real time, right on your device. Set the bandwidth of your voice, tune a three-band EQ, gate out room noise between phrases, and record studio-clean WAV. No account, no upload, no network access. SEE YOUR VOICE, LIVE • Input and output meters with held peaks, in dBFS • A live spectrum with the pass-band edges drawn on it, so you can see what every change does • Round-trip latency, CPU load and dropouts, measured and shown SHAPE YOUR MIC • Bandwidth: high-pass and low-pass edges at 24 dB per octave, from Narrow to Full • Three-band EQ: low, mid and high • Noise gate that mutes the room between sentences, with hysteresis so words don't chop • Input and output gain, with a limiter that is always on PRESETS FOR THE JOB Call, Podcast, Broadcast and Bluetooth-safe, the last one tuned for the narrow band of wireless headsets. Adjust anything in Tune and save it as your own preset. Presets export and import as a JSON file. RECORD CLEAN WAV Record straight through the processed chain to WAV, 48 kHz, with no lossy re-encode between your voice and the file. What the meters show is what lands in the recording. Your library stays on your device, and recording keeps going with the screen locked. TIPS FROM NUMI Numi, the in-app guide, notices when something is off, like a clipping mic, audio dropouts, a Bluetooth headset stuck in its narrow call mode, or a denied permission, and says what to fix in plain words. Dismiss a tip and it stays gone. ON MAC The same studio in one window, with Live and Tune side by side, plus a menu bar panel that starts and stops the engine and shows your levels. Pick any input and output your Mac sees; the device list refreshes when you plug something in. PRIVATE BY DESIGN The audio engine is native code running on your device. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and Numice makes no network requests at all: no analytics, no ads, no tracking. GOOD TO KNOW Numice processes audio inside Numice. It does not replace the system microphone for other apps, so it cannot clean your voice inside another app's call. Noise suppression is not included in this version; the gate is what removes room noise. Clean voice, on your device, under your control.

Screenshots

Morse Code4 screens
Numice4 screens

Verdict

The call

Morse Code and Numice are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Morse Code versus Numice: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMorse CodeNumice
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB9 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMaged MohamedRicky Fabian

In-app purchases

None

Morse Code

No in-app purchases

None

Numice

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Morse Code free?
Morse Code is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Numice free?
Numice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Morse Code or Numice have ads?
Neither Morse Code nor Numice shows ads.

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