Talking Archiver vs InnoCaption
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
InnoCaption
This app provides free, real-time captions for phone calls, assisting individuals with hearing loss. It offers options for live stenographers or automated speech recognition, with features like text-to-speech shortcuts and transcript summaries for enhanced communication.
- Live call captioning (stenographer or ASR)
- Text-to-speech calling with AI refine
- Customizable TTS shortcuts
- AI-powered transcript summaries
- Save and view call transcripts
- Captioning for incoming and outgoing calls
- Spam call filter
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If hearing loss makes understanding phone calls challenging, try the InnoCaption app for free, fast, and accurate real-time call captions. InnoCaption is available at no cost to eligible users in the United States through funding from the FCC’s Telecommunications Relay Services (TRS) Fund. **** New Update **** • Custom Word List – Add custom words like names and specialized terms to improve real-time caption accuracy • Picture-in-Picture – Keep captions visible in a floating window while using other apps or browsing the web during a call REAL-TIME CAPTIONS FOR EVERY CALL • Switch between live stenographers or Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) captions at any time during your call • Available at no cost to individuals with hearing loss in the United States • Caption your calls in multiple languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Filipino, and more • Make and caption 3-way calls SEAMLESS CALLING & PERSONALIZATION • Get captions for both incoming and outgoing calls • Keep your existing phone number with our patented One Number technology • Use InnoCaption like your regular phone dialer – no need to make calls through a 711 relay • Customize the InnoCaption app to fit your accessibility needs TEXT-TO-SPEECH CALLING FEATURES • Use AI Refine to turn short responses into complete sentences at the touch of a button • Customize prewritten TTS Shortcuts for fast and effortless replies during calls ACCESSIBLE TRANSCRIPTS & VOICEMAIL • Save and view transcripts of previous calls • Generate concise AI-powered summaries of call transcripts • Access and read fully captioned voicemail messages SMART CONTACT INTEGRATION • Easily sync contacts from your phone to the InnoCaption app • Continue using your personal cell number by combining our caller ID and call-forwarding features EMERGENCY CALLS & SPAM FILTER • Built-in spam call filter blocks high-risk calls and provides notices for potential spam calls • Make 911 emergency calls with captions* *911 service may be limited or unavailable in the event of network disruptions or degradation, service connection or internet failure, or other circumstances. For more information, visit www.innocaption.com/calling-911 Cellular data plan or Wi-Fi is required to use the service. FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS ANYONE BUT REGISTERED USERS WITH HEARING LOSS FROM USING INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) CAPTIONED TELEPHONES WITH THE CAPTIONS TURNED ON. IP Captioned Telephone Service may use a live operator. The operator generates captions of what the other party to the call says. These captions are then sent to your phone. There is a cost for each minute of captions generated, paid from a federally administered fund. For more information, visit us at https://www.innocaption.com For assistance, contact us at support@innocaption.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: InnoCaption at Free against Talking Archiver's $0.99. InnoCaption also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). Talking Archiver's advantage is iOS requirement (11.1 vs 15.1). 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
InnoCaption is free to download; Talking Archiver costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
InnoCaption holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: InnoCaption has 12K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Talking Archiver ships an update every 5 months, InnoCaption weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Talking Archiver | InnoCaption |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (12K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 71.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.1 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 方 沈 | Mezmo Corporation |
Customer experience
Talking Archiver
InnoCaption
Bugs and requests
Talking Archiver
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
InnoCaption
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incoming calls not always received or displayed
- App crashing or freezing during calls
- Issues with call forwarding setup
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to caption in-person conversations
- Integration with video calling apps
- Improved transcription accuracy for names and numbers
- Option to save call transcripts locally
In-app purchases
Talking Archiver
No in-app purchases
InnoCaption
No in-app purchases
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