Speak Me vs BLISS Note
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
BLISS Note
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Speak Me | BLISS Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #193 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Catalystwo | BLISS AI Inc. |
In-app purchases
Speak Me
No in-app purchases
BLISS Note
- Bliss Note Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Bliss Note Pro (Yearly)$3.991 Year









