Comparison

Talking Archiver vs Remote Desktop Manager

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

Head to head
About

Talking Archiver

This app allows you to listen to your text files, including PDFs and RTFs, with a text-to-speech feature. You can input text from various sources, edit archives, and even have the app speak during phone calls. Customize speaking speed, volume, and repeat times.

Highlights
  • Listen to PDF, RTF, and plain text files
  • Background speaking functionality
  • Input text via pasteboard or files
  • Supports over 30 international languages
  • Edit archives with memos
  • Speak during phone calls
  • Adjust speaking speed and volume
Features
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A valuable and powerful text archives manager. Listen our favorite PDF, RTF, and plain text file whenever and wherever. When this App is talking, just tap the home key or lock your device, the App will repeat talking in the background status. Input text from pasteboard, plain text files, PDF files, or RTF files. It could talk the text with over 30 international languages. The repeating talking all of archives could help us listen and go over our important archives. Edit the text archives, we could add some memo to our archives and update the archives where and whenever. With the help of the powerful pasteboard, we could copy the text from an email,text, web page of safari, or any other text as long as the text is not part of an image. Then paste all of these text to the Talking Archiver. With the help of iTune File Sharing, we could move the any text files from the PC to this App file sharing folder. In the latest MAC OS, in the finder, if we already connect our iOS device, we could open the file tab page in the device. In the file page, we could find the Talking Archiver and move the files to the Talking Archiver item. After Tap the import button at the bottom left corner and select the import file item, the open file view will list all of file in the sharing folder. All of the important text data will be saved to the Core Data Database system. One archive would be talked by one speaker. So it is very interesting to listen several speakers talk the text records one by one. As a talking app, the user also could select the talking volume and the talking speed. The user could select the repeating times of the talking. Talking solution by Long Press gesture. In the main view, long press the single table cell, the related text note will be talked repeated. The color of talked cell will be red color. At this talking situation, we long press another table cell, the current talking will be stopped. The App will immediately start talking the text of another table cell. We could stop the talking situation by tapping the stop button. Talking Solution by tapping the talking all button. In the main view, when we tap the talking all button, the app will talk the text of each note one by one. If we need to skip, we could tap the next button or the prev button at the bottom toolbar. Export the archives to the plain text file, export the pasteboard , export to the email box by sending email, export to the iCloud Drive or other App by tapping :export to remote files item in the export menu. This edition could talk the text archives to the upcoming phone call with the phone. The iOS version should be 13.0 or newer. When a phone call is coming and is accepted, then tap the all talking button in the main view or tap the talk button in the single view, after that, both sides could hear the same talking contents at the same time in the same speed. The phone owner could hear the talking from the phone. The people in the calling could hear the talking in the call. In short, this App includes the file editor, the pasteboard editor, the database management system,the talking ability, and sending email features.As a result, wherever, we could review,create, share and listen the talking of our favourite archives.

About

Remote Desktop Manager

Access and manage all your remote connections and passwords from a single application. Centralize your data sources and connect to servers, virtual machines, and workstations with a single tap. Securely store and automatically input credentials for various services.

Highlights
  • Manage remote connections
  • Store and manage passwords
  • Automatic credential input
  • Support for RDP, VNC, SSH, FTP, and more
  • Centralized data sources
  • Access from anywhere
Features
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Remote Desktop Manager for iOS is a free tool that enables access to all your remote connections and passwords. Centralize your connections in workspaces and access your data from anywhere, from in the field with RDM mobile! Remote Connections ================ Remote Desktop Manager for iOS supports Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), VNC, Apple Remote Desktop (ARD), SSH Shell, SSH Tunnel, Proxy Tunnel, Telnet, FTP, TFTP, SFTP, SCP, Active Directory Console, WebDAV, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft RDP Gateway, Azure Blob Storage Explorer, Amazon AWS Dashboard, Amazon S3 Explorer, Website, SSH Port forward, Dell iDRAC, Dropbox Explorer, HP iLO, BeyondTrust Password Safe and BeyondTrust Password Safe Dashboard. Once configured, connections to your remote servers, virtual machines and other workstations can be easily launched using a single tap. Password Management ================= Along with remote connections, Remote Desktop Manager for iOS lets you save and manage your passwords and credentials from your centralized database or your local XML file. Easily input your credentials and automatically sign in everywhere. Credentials ========= RDM supports generic credentials as well as the following integrations: 1Password, Bitwarden, Dashlane, Keeper, LastPass, One Time Password, Passportal, Password Manager Pro, Passwordstate, Pleasant Password Server, RoboForm, Secret Server, Sticky Password, TeamPass, True Key, and Zoho Vault, in addition to our own products, Devolutions Cloud and Devolutions Server. Database ======= Remote Desktop Manager for iOS supports these workspaces: -Devolutions Server -Devolutions Cloud - XML File

Screenshots

Talking Archiver4 screens
Remote Desktop Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Remote Desktop Manager at Free against Talking Archiver's $0.99. Remote Desktop Manager also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (99 vs 1). Talking Archiver's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and iOS requirement (11.1 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

Remote Desktop Manager is free to download; Talking Archiver costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Talking Archiver holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Remote Desktop Manager has 99 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Talking Archiver ships an update every 5 months, Remote Desktop Manager every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Talking Archiver versus Remote Desktop Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalking ArchiverRemote Desktop Manager
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better3.7 (99 ratings)
Positive reviews—57.6% of reviews
Number of ratings199 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.1 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB249 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer方 沈Devolutions Inc.

Customer experience

Talking Archiver

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Remote Desktop Manager

All ratings99 ratings
Positive65.7%
Neutral6.1%
Negative28.3%
Written reviews217 reviews
Positive57.6%
Neutral12.4%
Negative30.0%

Bugs and requests

Talking Archiver

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Remote Desktop Manager

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Inability to add new remote connections
  • Credential vault not syncing properly
  • App crashes after entering master password
  • Remote desktop sessions randomly freezing
  • Keyboard shortcuts not working as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for external mouse and keyboard
  • Improve remote audio functionality
  • Provide better screen resolution scaling options
  • Enhance compatibility with legacy systems
  • Streamline user interface and workflow

In-app purchases

None

Talking Archiver

No in-app purchases

None

Remote Desktop Manager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Talking Archiver free?
Talking Archiver costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Remote Desktop Manager free?
Remote Desktop Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Talking Archiver or Remote Desktop Manager?
Talking Archiver is rated higher. Talking Archiver averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Remote Desktop Manager averages 3.7 from 99 ratings.
Do Talking Archiver or Remote Desktop Manager have ads?
Neither Talking Archiver nor Remote Desktop Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Talking Archiver or Remote Desktop Manager?
Talking Archiver ships an update every 5 months, and Remote Desktop Manager every 3 weeks. Most recently, Talking Archiver was updated on October 2, 2026 and Remote Desktop Manager on October 16, 2026.

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