Comparison

TelepaText vs Cloud Notes

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
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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.

About

Cloud Notes

Create, edit, and organize notes and lists directly from your Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. Syncs securely via iCloud with an optional one-time Pro upgrade for enhanced features like sharing and customization.

Highlights
  • Create and edit notes on Apple Watch
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Organize with tags and folders
  • Search and pin important notes
  • Share notes and lists (Pro)
  • Customizable note appearance (Pro)
Features
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Edit notes directly from Apple Watch. Cloud Notes lets you create, edit, and check off notes from iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Everything syncs securely through iCloud. Free to download, with an optional one-time Pro upgrade. No subscription. FREE - Unlimited notes and lists - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch - Create and edit notes on Apple Watch - Organize with tags and folders - Search, pin important notes, and use light or dark mode GREAT FOR - Shopping lists on your wrist or home screen - Quick reminders and everyday notes - Notes you want available without reaching for your phone PRO - Share notes and lists with others via iCloud - Multiple tags per note - Fonts, text styles, and colors - Markdown tools in the keyboard toolbar - Customizable note appearance: checkmark colors, font styles and image sizes - Home screen widgets. Check off items without opening the app PRIVACY IN FOCUS - No extra login: syncs and shares through your own iCloud account - No external servers - No tracking Questions or feedback? support@lokkeapps.no

Screenshots

TelepaText4 screens
Cloud Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cloud Notes at Free against TelepaText's $9.99. Cloud Notes also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). TelepaText's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). On update cadence, 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

Cloud Notes is free to download; TelepaText costs $9.99 up front. TelepaText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cloud Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TelepaText holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of TelepaText's written reviews are positive against 50% of Cloud Notes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TelepaText ships an update every 3 weeks, Cloud Notes fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
TelepaText versus Cloud Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTelepaTextCloud Notes
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better3.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperImajaFredrik Nikolai Lokke

Customer experience

TelepaText

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

Cloud Notes

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TelepaText

One-time1
  • Speech Commands$4.99
1 purchases

Cloud Notes

One-time1
  • Cloud Notes Pro$2.99

Questions

Is TelepaText free?
TelepaText costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Cloud Notes free?
Cloud Notes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TelepaText or Cloud Notes?
TelepaText is rated higher. TelepaText averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Cloud Notes averages 3.0 from 4 ratings.
Do TelepaText or Cloud Notes have ads?
Neither TelepaText nor Cloud Notes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TelepaText or Cloud Notes?
TelepaText ships an update every 3 weeks, and Cloud Notes fortnightly. Most recently, TelepaText was updated on September 16, 2026 and Cloud Notes on July 17, 2026.

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