TelepaText vs eScribo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TelepaText
This app offers robust text editing with extensive actions for research, speaking, and sharing across Apple devices. It features text-to-speech, dictation, and speech commands for enhanced productivity. Documents sync seamlessly via iCloud for a unified experience.
- Extensive text editing actions
- Text-to-speech and dictation
- Speech commands for app control
- iCloud document syncing
- Cross-platform unified interface
- Data detectors for links and addresses
- Print scaling options
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TelepaText provides essential text document editing, with extensive actions for text, research, speaking, sharing and viewing, built for iPad, iPhone, macOS and iCloud. Text-to-speech, dictation, speech commands and speech feedback are featured in TelepaText. Documents are automatically synced between your devices with iCloud. A common display style and command interface is provided on both platforms for best productivity. Main Features: • Easy actions for Wikipedia, Share, Web Search, Map Search, Open URL, Mail selection or document, Speak, Document Info, Sort Lines, Evaluate Expression, Uppercase, Lowercase, Capitalize, Markdown, Word Usage, Word Types, Move To Folder, Smooth Scroll, Select Font. • Share action includes activities such as Message, Mail, Facebook, Sina Weibo, Pinterest, Google+, etc. • Actions are organized into a toolbar and a menu with unified keyboard shortcuts. • Many actions are unified on both platforms, with the same keyboard shortcuts. • Support for Handoff to easily switch editing TelepaText iCloud documents between various devices, from iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and macOS computers. • Data detectors automatically find and highlight web links, dates, addresses, and phone numbers; simply tap for related actions. • Keyboard accessory, actions toolbar, extensive settings, modern navigation • Print options include scaling options for font size. • File Actions and iCloud file browser including filename, date, size, label color, and sorting • Use iCloud file system and/or device local files on macOS and iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Speech features: • Use text-to-speech for reading of documents, with automatic smooth scroll • Use Dictation support (speech-to-text) to add text to documents, and to control TelepaText with Speech Commands. • Speech Commands (an In-App Purchase) provide powerful ways to control the app with your voice on macOS and iPhone. Use speech commands to select text, open documents, get info about documents, rename documents, query various web search engines, evaluate expressions, change settings, send tweets, insert a contact's address, phone, or email, insert the date or time, and many more actions. • Speech Commands are a powerful Siri-like TelepaText-based extension to speech control functionality. • Speech Commands Reference view displays the complete phrase structure for speech commands. • Tune the Speak action (text-to-speech) to the desired speaking rate, pitch, and paragraph pause intervals. • Speech Commands are an In-App Purchase, and require the Dictation capability on your iOS device. More features: • Document Info action displays date created, date modified, paragraph, line and character counts for both the entire document and the current selection. • Sort Lines action sorts the lines of the selected text or the entire document alphabetically. • Evaluate action evaluates mathematical expressions such as (29.95+39.95)*3.0. • Choose font from common fonts, or any font available on the system. • Dark Style and Light Style. • Enjoy your beautiful desktop image through your document editing on macOS with Window Transparency and Auto-Hide Menu Bar controls. • Unified interface for iCloud file system navigation on both platforms. • The Settings view lets users customize a wide range of app behaviors. • Keyboard shortcuts for actions are the same on both iOS with hardware keyboard and macOS, which makes it easier to shift between devices. See Keyboard shortcuts for TelepaText. • Actions are performed on the selected text. Some actions can use the entire document, such as Mail. • Rename a document by tapping it's title in the editing view. • iCloud support is available on macOS Yosemite 10.10 and iOS 8 and later. Visit http://imaja.com/telepatext for full details.
eScribo
A clean and powerful writing tool designed for aspiring authors. It offers a distraction-free environment with features like focus mode and typewriting mode, allowing you to concentrate on your story. Export your work in PDF or ePub formats.
- iCloud Sync
- Unlimited books and chapters
- Focus Mode
- Typewriting Mode
- PDF export
- ePub export
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Let the writer inside you out with this simple and powerful writing tool. eScribo is a powerful tool for all those people who love to write. With a clean, beautiful and simple design you will have a real portable writing studio at your fingertips. Everything you need to focus on what matters, your story. IMPORTANT: an iCloud account is required. eScribo bets on a future in the cloud. That is why eScribo require iCloud enabled and storage available. Main Features • iCloud Sync. • Create unlimited books, with the option to add Introduction and/or prologue independently. • Complete range of colors for your books. • Focus Mode. • Typewriting Mode. • Unlimited chapters, with character count, paragraphs, lines, words, writing time and reading time. • Preview of the book with all its chapters. • PDF export. • ePub export. • And much more to come. Thanks you for use eScribo and stay tuned for new updates! **Public Books is on the way — a new way to share your writing and get feedback from others.**
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TelepaText at 67% against eScribo's 0%. TelepaText also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5). eScribo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and price ($3.99 vs $9.99). On ratings volume, ads, monetization model 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
TelepaText costs $9.99 and eScribo $3.99 up front. TelepaText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. eScribo asks for nothing beyond the download.
TelepaText holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of TelepaText's written reviews are positive against 0% of eScribo's.
TelepaText ships an update every 3 weeks, eScribo every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TelepaText | eScribo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imaja | Oskar Pacheco |
Customer experience
TelepaText
eScribo
In-app purchases
TelepaText
- Speech Commands$4.99
eScribo
No in-app purchases








