Comparison

Talking Archiver Lite vs Classic Setup

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

Head to head
About

Talking Archiver Lite

Features
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The app is the standard lite edition. It is recommended to use iOS 16.3.1 or higher iOS edition. A valuable and powerful text archives manager. Listen our favorite plain text file or the content from webpage 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 from pasteboard or plain text file, 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. 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. Export the archives to the plain text file, export the pasteboard , export to the email box by sending email. 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 tap 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. 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

Classic Setup

This utility app simplifies configuring compatible hardware by sending pre-defined SMS messages. It eliminates the need for manual SMS typing, making hardware setup much easier. Requires specific compatible hardware to function.

Highlights
  • Sends pre-defined SMS messages
  • Simplifies hardware settings
  • Works with compatible hardware
  • Eliminates manual SMS typing
Features
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This app works with compatible hardwares only. Please refer to your hardware user manual. Classic Setup sends pre defined SMSs to the GSM communicator to apply desirable settings. Without this app you need to type the content of the SMSs, so its much easier to use this app.

Screenshots

Talking Archiver Lite4 screens
Classic Setup2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Talking Archiver Lite at every 9 months against Classic Setup's every 50 months. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Talking Archiver Lite ships an update every 9 months, Classic Setup every 50 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Talking Archiver Lite versus Classic Setup: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalking Archiver LiteClassic Setup
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—30.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 50 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer方 沈M S Dehkordi

In-app purchases

None

Talking Archiver Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Classic Setup

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Talking Archiver Lite free?
Talking Archiver Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Classic Setup free?
Classic Setup is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Talking Archiver Lite or Classic Setup have ads?
Neither Talking Archiver Lite nor Classic Setup shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Talking Archiver Lite or Classic Setup?
Talking Archiver Lite ships an update every 9 months, and Classic Setup every 50 months. Most recently, Talking Archiver Lite was updated on October 7, 2026 and Classic Setup on September 29, 2026.

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