Comparison

Speak Me vs BLISS Note

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

Head to head
About

Speak Me

This app allows users to communicate by writing on a screen, which is then spoken aloud. It's useful for individuals with speech difficulties or those learning English or Japanese, offering handwriting recognition, text typing, and a dictionary.

Highlights
  • Handwriting recognition to speech
  • Text typing input
  • Dictionary with definitions
  • Save words and phrases
  • Passcode lock for settings
  • Buzzer for attention
  • Favourites for quick phrases
Features
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Speak Me helps you communicate when speaking or typing is difficult. Write a word, phrase, or sentence with your finger or a stylus. Speak Me recognises your handwriting and reads it aloud with a tap. Use it to communicate with family, friends, carers, teachers, and healthcare professionals. Keep useful phrases close at hand, type when that is easier, and get someone’s attention with the built-in call button. KEY FEATURES • Handwrite text and hear it spoken aloud • Type with the keyboard when preferred • Save frequently used words and phrases for quick access • Choose English or Japanese handwriting recognition • Use the call button to attract attention • Keep a history of spoken phrases • Work without a network connection • Optional controls to prevent accidental changes Speak Me is designed for people who need a simple, direct way to make themselves heard.

About

BLISS Note

Features
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One pencil across every note. Ink on text notes, annotate PDFs, and keep notes inside notes — an all-in-one notebook for iPad, iPhone and Mac, built for Apple Pencil. ■ One pencil, every note • The same pen, highlighter and tools on text notes, PDFs and drawings — ballpoint, fountain pen and more • Handwriting and annotation right over your typed notes — page breaks keep ink on its page as you edit • Free-form canvas and A4 landscape, Letter, Square and B5 pages, lasso select & move, vector shapes • Convert handwriting to text, and write note titles in your own hand • Write small text comfortably in a magnified zoom-write strip ■ Planner & tasks • Task management — keep your to-dos in one place • Planner notes — add your schedule to a handwritten diary, sync with your iCloud calendar, and link a note to every event • Recurring events & lunar anniversaries — repeat daily to yearly or by the lunar calendar, and edit or delete this one, the following, or all ■ Exam prep & memorization • Question bank & wrong-answer notes — split an exam PDF into individual questions to drill; the ones you miss collect automatically and return on a 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30-day review schedule • Vocabulary flashcards and a memorization sheet (red sheet) — hide highlights and tap to reveal • D-day countdown — the days left until an exam or deadline, on the Home screen and inside notes ■ Record, transcribe & translate • Record meetings & lectures and turn them into text — organize & summarize with your AI • Live translation — transcripts and notes translated on-device, so it works offline (59 languages) • Play a recording from the note header, and save a transcript with its translation as a new note • Recording-handwriting sync — tap ink you wrote while recording to play from that moment, in a floating mini-player ■ Search anything • Full-text search across text and PDFs — plus your handwriting and recordings (transcripts) • In-note search — find text right inside the open note ■ Notes inside notes • Embed PDFs, drawings and other notes inside a text note • Organize a list of notes within one note using Shelves • List, Thumbnail, Bookshelf, Tabs, Tiles and Pinned view modes • Page grid view — all pages of PDF & drawing notes as thumbnails • YouTube playlist embed — play a playlist inside a note and track your watch progress • Split view — two notes side by side, to copy across and compare ■ Papers & documents in PDF • Import PDFs and mark up with pen, highlighter, underline • Reading mode — Sepia, Dim and Night soften the glare of white pages, while ink and annotations keep their colors • Automatic paper citations — title, authors, year & journal detected, with APA, MLA, IEEE & BibTeX ready to copy; use the detected title as the note title • Export original or with annotations (text stays selectable) ■ Annotate the web • Open a web page in the app, highlight it, add notes, and write on top with your pen • The original page is never stored — only your own annotations, kept on your device ■ Make it your own • Add a cover page to the front of a note and draw or write on it • Use your own images as note covers, or as the paper (background) for drawing notes • Turn any image into a sticker or washi tape to decorate your notes • Place your own drawing behind the Home screen — position, size and opacity ■ A powerful editor • Headings, lists, tables, checklists, code blocks • Clean paste from anywhere — AI answers and web pages keep their Markdown & HTML formatting ■ Privacy first • No sign-up to start — your notes live on your device • No note servers of ours — optional cloud sync goes only through your own iCloud or Google Drive • Available in 24 languages Study notes, research, lecture notes, planning, quick sketches — all in Bliss Note. Terms of Service: https://blissnote.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://blissnote.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Speak Me3 screens
BLISS Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: BLISS Note at Free against Speak Me's $7.99. BLISS Note also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 8 months). Speak Me's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#193 vs unranked). On ads and device support 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

BLISS Note is free to download; Speak Me costs $7.99 up front. BLISS Note sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Speak Me asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Speak Me ships an update every 8 months, BLISS Note every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Speak Me versus BLISS Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpeak MeBLISS Note
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#193 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB143 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCatalystwoBLISS AI Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Speak Me

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

BLISS Note

Subscriptions2
  • Bliss Note Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
  • Bliss Note Pro (Yearly)$3.991 Year

Questions

Is Speak Me free?
Speak Me costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BLISS Note free?
BLISS Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Speak Me or BLISS Note have ads?
Neither Speak Me nor BLISS Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Speak Me or BLISS Note?
Speak Me ships an update every 8 months, and BLISS Note every 6 days. Most recently, Speak Me was updated on October 6, 2026 and BLISS Note on October 1, 2026.

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