Comparison

Whisperly Dictation vs DocSwitch

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

Head to head
About

Whisperly Dictation

Features
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Whisperly turns your voice into clean text. You speak, it writes the words down, takes out the ums and the false starts, fixes the punctuation, and puts the text where you are typing. It is made for people who find typing hard. The person who made it has dyslexia and built it for himself first. WHAT IT DOES - Dictate in the app, or in any app with the Whisperly keyboard and its talk key. - Press to talk from anywhere with the Action button, Control Center or the Lock Screen. - The keyboard also types like a normal keyboard. Dictating from the keyboard needs Full Access, and the app explains why. - The clean-up takes out fillers and repeats, and fixes punctuation and capitals. - Your dictionary teaches Whisperly the names and words it gets wrong. - Snippets: say a short phrase, and a longer text you saved is typed. - Kinds: choose a writing style before you speak, such as a work email. - History keeps each dictation, so you can copy it again. You can search it, export it and erase it. - Insights show your streak, and how much you wrote today and this week. YOUR VOICE AND YOUR WORDS - Whisperly's own speech models (Whisperly Voice, and Whisperly Noise for loud places) and its clean-up model (Whisperly Polish) run on your iPhone. Your audio never leaves it. - The models download once, about 2.3 GB, after you tap to start it. Whisperly writes English. - Optional cloud clean-up is off by default. If you turn it on and add your own Anthropic key, the text of each dictation (never the audio) is sent to Anthropic's Claude for clean-up. - No account. No ads. No analytics. No tracking. - iCloud sync is off until you turn it on. Then your words go to your own iCloud account and nowhere else. FREE - 5,000 words of dictation a week. The count starts again every Monday. - The full clean-up and the speech models. - The keyboard, History, your streak, a dictionary of 25 words and 3 snippets. WHISPERLY PRO - Unlimited dictation. - The Apple Watch app: dictate from your wrist. - Learned corrections: when you fix a word, Whisperly learns it on its own. - An unlimited dictionary and unlimited snippets. - iCloud sync of your dictionary, snippets, learned fixes and history, through your own iCloud account. - The full Insights. - Kinds of your own. - Fixing by voice: say "delete that" or "undo" while you dictate. Whisperly Pro is a subscription, paid monthly or yearly, with a 14-day free trial. In the United States it is $7.99 a month or $69 a year. The price in your country is shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Requires iOS 27 or later. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://whisperly.blazedlabz.com/privacy Help: https://whisperly.blazedlabz.com/support

About

DocSwitch

Features
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DocSwitch brings together a PDF editor, document converter, and page layout tools in one application. Prepare a report, edit text, or combine multiple files without creating an account. CONVERT YOUR DOCUMENTS Switch between compatible formats for your documents, text, images, tables and presentations. PDF, DOCX, ODT, RTF, TXT, HTML/HTM, Markdown/MD, XLSX, ODS, CSV, TSV, PPTX, ODP, PNG, JPG/JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF/TIF, WEBP. On mobile, modern Office formats are rebuilt with simplified formatting. DOC, XLS and PPT are not supported. WRITE AND EDIT Create formatted text: fonts, colors, lists, links, alignment and line spacing. Add photos, frames, diagrams and tables. Insert or delete rows and columns, find and replace text, add page breaks, and undo your changes. Edit PDF text when its structure allows it. Converting to an editable document can rebuild the layout. ORGANIZE YOUR PDFs Assemble documents, add pages, reorder them, rotate them, duplicate them or extract them. Extract text and detected information to review and reuse. Take a photo of a page with your camera and add it to the document. Recognize text from scans with local OCR. The result depends on the language, scan quality and available engine; the original layout is not reconstructed identically. KEEP YOUR FILES WITHIN REACH Document processing is done on your device. The originals are preserved. Save a project to resume your work, share your files and print your documents. Interface available with 97 language and region choices. PLEASE NOTE Some complex documents are simplified. Exported presentations contain page images; spreadsheet exports do not preserve formulas. WEBP is available for import only. DOCSWITCH SUBSCRIPTION Choose the monthly plan at โ‚ฌ5.99 or the annual plan at โ‚ฌ60. Access to the tools requires an active subscription. The applicable price and currency are displayed in the Store before confirmation. Automatic renewal; manage or cancel your subscription in your Store account. In the event of cancellation, access remains available until the end of the paid period. No DocSwitch account to create; A Store account is required to purchase and restore the subscription. https://maurage.alwaysdata.net/presentation/docswitch.html#confidentialite https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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DocSwitch4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: DocSwitch at 15.0 against Whisperly Dictation's 27.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Whisperly Dictation sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and DocSwitch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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Whisperly Dictation versus DocSwitch: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhisperly DictationDocSwitch
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS27.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size28 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander Nielsenthierry de bast

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Whisperly Dictation

Subscriptions2
  • Whisperly Pro Monthly14 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Whisperly Pro Yearly14 Days trial$69.001 Year
2 purchases

DocSwitch

Subscriptions2
  • DocSwitch โ€” Monthly$4.991 Month
  • DocSwitch โ€” Yearly$50.001 Year

Questions

Is Whisperly Dictation free?
Whisperly Dictation is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DocSwitch free?
DocSwitch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Whisperly Dictation or DocSwitch have ads?
Neither Whisperly Dictation nor DocSwitch shows ads.

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