Comparison

TelepaText vs compost

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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, and several color toned styles. • 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.

About

compost

Save and organize web pages with AI-powered automatic tagging. Access your content offline and search your knowledge garden with ease across all devices. Unlock unlimited storage and advanced features with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • AI-driven automatic tagging
  • Offline access to saved pages
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Powerful search functionality
  • Content organization
  • Save web pages as posts
Features
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◆ Cultivate your knowledge garden - Save web pages as posts, we keep only the relevant information - Your posts are automatically tagged with people, places, organizations and keywords - Your posts are always available, even when you’re offline or if the page has disappeared from the internet - Search through the knowledge you accumulate with ease - Your garden is kept in sync between all of your devices - Get post suggestions from the sites you visit - Completely private, the magic happens on your device - No advertisements ◆ Who is com.post for? - Students, researchers, journalists and anyone that wants to dive deeper into particular subjects - Researching destinations for a trip? Interested in DIY projects? Learning historical facts? Try composting to cut through the noise and let your device guide you with connections between the information you've gathered ◆ What’s included for free?  - Up to 10 posts - Automatic tagging of people, places, organizations and keywords - All search capabilities ◆ How can I get more? - You can unlock all features with a one-time payment - Unlimited posts - View posts that are related to what you’re currently reading - Save or share posts as PDF documents - All future enhancements included Terms of Use: https://1echo.info/com.post/terms-of-use.html

Screenshots

TelepaText4 screens
compost4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: compost at Free against TelepaText's $9.99. compost also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). TelepaText's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

compost is free to download; TelepaText costs $9.99 up front. TelepaText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and compost sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TelepaText against 5.0 for compost. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of TelepaText's written reviews are positive against 100% of compost's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TelepaText ships an update every 3 weeks, compost every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
TelepaText versus compost: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTelepaTextcompost
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB21 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperImaja9187-1038 Quebec Inc

Customer experience

TelepaText

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

compost

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TelepaText

One-time1
  • Speech Commands$4.99
3 purchases

compost

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Yearly$8.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$10.00

Questions

Is TelepaText free?
TelepaText costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is compost free?
compost is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TelepaText or compost?
TelepaText and compost are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do TelepaText or compost have ads?
Neither TelepaText nor compost shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TelepaText or compost?
TelepaText ships an update every 3 weeks, and compost every 5 months. Most recently, TelepaText was updated on October 20, 2026 and compost on October 5, 2026.

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