Audio vs Talk SMS Email Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audio
This app helps you organize both audio recordings and to-do lists. You can categorize recordings and tasks, add details like photos and notes, and manage them efficiently. It offers features for playback, emailing recordings, and exporting tasks as PDFs.
- Categorize voice recordings
- Create and manage to-do lists
- Add photos and descriptions to entries
- Email recordings and export tasks as PDF
- Set task reminders
- Search for recordings and tasks
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Audio Record has been created to help you manage your Recording and your To Do or Task List. Recording can include voice, music, etc. There are four functions: Recording Categories - Create, edit or delete the categories for the voice recording with option to select a photo from your photo album or take one with your camera. If you delete a Category, all Voice Recording under that category will be deleted as well. To search for a category, simply enter the Category Name. You can then change the photo or re-take another one. Voice Recording - Create, edit or delete recordings for each category. For each recording, you enter the name, photo, description, notes. The category, date, time, size, and duration will be automatically displayed. You can change the date and time. You can take a new photo or select one from your photo album. When you touch the record button, you will be taken to another screen where you can start your recording. You have the option to play back the recording or email it. To search for a recording, simply enter the Recording Name and the recording details will be displayed. You can then edit the details or the image. Task Categories - Create, edit or delete the categories for each task with the option to select a photo from your photo album or take a new photo. If you delete a Category, all Tasks under that category will be deleted as well. To search for a category, simply enter the Category Name. You can change the photo or re-take another one. Task - Create, edit or delete the tasks for each task category. You also have the option to delete all Checked tasks or one at a time. For each task, you enter the title, notes and completion (Checked/Unchecked). The category, creation time and creation date will be automatically displayed. You can change the date and time. You can change the fonts, font size and font colour for the notes. To search for a task, simply enter the Task Title and the task details will be displayed. You can then edit the details. You have the option to email, display pdf file, print, delete, set a reminder or SMS the task. The email will include the task in the email body and a pdf file as an attachment. You can print single or multiple copies of the selected task.
Talk SMS Email Notes
Capture text from your camera, convert it into notes, and send it via SMS or email. It also offers text-to-speech functionality in multiple languages and exports notes to iCloud Drive.
- Camera text scanning
- SMS and email sending
- Text-to-speech with language selection
- Note saving and organization
- iCloud Drive export
- Copy to clipboard
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Talking the daily text information from our camera, send the email, send the short message and export to iCloud Drive. Launch this app, just tap the + button at the top right corner, long press the text view, tap live text button, insert the text information from our camera. The text will be displayed in the text view. Tap the SMS button to send the text as the short message. Tap the email button to send the text as your mail. Tap the talk button, this App will talk the text directly if it is in English. If the text we insert is other than English, then just tap the button at the bottom right corner, we could select the. different language. This is Talk SMS Email Notes. It will record the date and time when we tap the save button. After tapping the save button, the text notes will be saved to the core data system. Export the notes to iCloud Driver or other App with the text file. We could input the name of the text file. In the main view, when we tap the export button at the bottom toolbar and select the item: export to remote files, the text notes will be saved to the text file and sent to iCloud Drive or other App you indict. If we select the item:export to pasteboard, the text notes could be copied to the pasteboard and we could paste at other text view or text field in the different apps. In the main view, tap the right button in the table cell, we could select or deselect the cell. In the main view, if we do not select any table cell, then tap the talk button, all of notes will be talked. if we select several table cells, then only the notes for the selected cells will be talked. If we do not select any table cell, then tap the Export button, all of notes will be exported. if we select several table cells, then only the notes for the selected cells will be exported. In the main view, if we do not select any table cell, then tap the SMS or Email button, the App will remind us to select at least one table cell. If we already select several table cells, then only the notes for the selected cells will be added to the SMS or Email body. The text notes sent from this App as email will also be displayed at the sent folder of the Mail app of the iOS device. The text notes sent from this App as SMS will also be displayed at the Messages app of the iOS device. The SMS feature is only available for the devices which could send messages such as iPhone or some iPad. If we need to use the send email feature, we need to set the default Mail app of the iOS device first. Otherwise, the two buttons will be disabled. In the main view, each note will have the created date time which will be displayed as the second line. So we could know when these text notes are captured from our camera or input from soft keyboard. In the main view, tap the table cell directly, the detail view will be displayed. In the single note detail view, we could input the text content by soft keyboard. In this latest edition, If we long press the text view, the live text scan button will be displayed, so we could capture the text content from the camera directly. In iOS 16, The languages currently supported by Live Text include English, French, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese, and Korean. Several old iPhone devices may not support this live text feature. This edition could talk the text notes to the upcoming phone call with the iphone. The iOS version should be 13.0 or later. First , accept the coming phone call, then in the main list view or single note view, tap the talk buttons. Finally, the other people could listen the talking of this app from his or her phone. Both sides could hear the same talking contents in the same speed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Audio at every 3 months against Talk SMS Email Notes's every 6 months. Talk SMS Email Notes's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Audio costs $2.99 and Talk SMS Email Notes $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.0 for Audio against 1.0 for Talk SMS Email Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
Audio ships an update every 3 months, Talk SMS Email Notes every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Audio | Talk SMS Email Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jessica Tunnicliffe | 方 沈 |
Customer experience
Audio
Talk SMS Email Notes
In-app purchases
Audio
No in-app purchases
Talk SMS Email Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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