Comparison

Interview vs Dashing for EmDash

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

Head to head
About

Interview

Record conversations and receive accurate, speaker-identified transcripts directly on your device. This app prioritizes privacy by processing all data locally, ensuring your sensitive discussions remain confidential. Share transcripts in various formats when you're ready.

Highlights
  • On-device recording and transcription
  • Speaker identification and labeling
  • Privacy-focused, no cloud processing
  • Multiple export formats (text, Markdown, Word, PDF)
  • Import existing audio/video files
  • Multi-language support
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Record the conversation. Get a transcript that says who said what. Nothing ever leaves your phone. Interview is a recorder for conversations that can't leak: client meetings, interviews, research sessions, anything you'd rather keep to yourself. Tap Record, talk, tap Done. Minutes later you have a transcript with every line labeled by the person who said it. All of it happens on your phone. No account, no servers, no upload. The only way an interview leaves your phone is when you share it yourself. KNOWS WHO'S TALKING Interview tells the voices in the room apart and labels every line. Name a speaker once and everything they said is labeled. If it isn't sure, it asks instead of guessing. REMEMBERS THE PEOPLE YOU INTERVIEW Name someone once and Interview recognizes them next time. It learns your own voice during setup, so you're labeled automatically. Remembered voices are yours to delete, any time. SHARE ON YOUR TERMS Send the transcript as text, Markdown, Word or PDF, with or without the audio. Nothing is shared until you choose to. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Transcribes English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese, and picks the language on its own. Some languages need a one-time download from Apple the first time. ALREADY HAVE A RECORDING? Import audio or video, or paste a link to an episode or audio file, and get the same transcript. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in • No servers, no upload • Delete means gone Made for anyone who cares about privacy. Lawyers, journalists and researchers use it, and so can anyone who'd rather keep a conversation their own. Works best on iPhone 12 or later. Titles and summaries need Apple Intelligence.

About

Dashing for EmDash

Features
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Dashing is a writing desk for your EmDash site, made for iPhone and iPad. WRITE AND PUBLISH - A rich text editor with headings, lists, links, images, tables and HTML blocks - Save drafts, publish now or schedule for later, and update published posts - Keep writing offline: your words stay on this device and are sent when you are back online - Translations, saved sections and byline credits - Focus mode on iPad MEDIA - Upload photos and videos from Photos, Files and the camera, or drop them in - Alt text, captions, focal points and folders for your media library COMMENTS - Moderate with a swipe: approve, mark as spam or move to the trash - Read and answer the comments on any post MANAGE YOUR SITE - People and roles, bylines, categories and tags, menus, sections, widgets, redirects and site settings - Plugins, access tokens, backups and site export MADE FOR IPAD - A sidebar, several windows, the menu bar and keyboard shortcuts WRITING SUGGESTIONS - On devices with Apple Intelligence, Dashing can suggest ideas, titles, outlines, excerpts and tags with Apple's on-device model. Suggestions are made on your device and added only when you choose them. TRY THE DEMO - Explore a sample site with no account. The demo runs entirely on your device, even in airplane mode. PRIVACY - Dashing sends your content only to the sites you connect. No analytics, no tracking. Works with sites running EmDash 1.0.1 or higher. A few advanced tasks open your site's web admin in the browser.

Screenshots

Interview4 screens
Dashing for EmDash4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dashing for EmDash at none against Interview's 1. Dashing for EmDash also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). 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. Interview sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dashing for EmDash asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Interview ships an update weekly, Dashing for EmDash every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Interview versus Dashing for EmDash: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterviewDashing for EmDash
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.426.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperProjek JLVL35 LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Interview

One-time1
  • Interview Unlock$19.99
None

Dashing for EmDash

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Interview free?
Interview is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dashing for EmDash free?
Dashing for EmDash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Interview or Dashing for EmDash have ads?
Neither Interview nor Dashing for EmDash shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Interview or Dashing for EmDash?
Interview ships an update weekly, and Dashing for EmDash every 3 days. Most recently, Interview was updated on November 6, 2026 and Dashing for EmDash on October 31, 2026.

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