Comparison

Talking Archiver Lite vs Arrowat Encryptor

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” 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

Arrowat Encryptor

Features
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Encrypt important text that can only be read by the people who has the decryptor key you share with or can be decrypted just by yourself. Arrowat Encryptor provides the way to save the encrypted content to file with a separated encrypted key that is used to decrypt the content, you can share the encrypted file and provide the secret key to allow others to read it, most important is keep content secret from others, use it for secure your letters, numbers and any text you want to keep secret. Learn how to use the app at https://arrowat.net/arrowatencryptor/docs/encrypt-and-decrypt-text

Screenshots

Talking Archiver Lite4 screens
Arrowat Encryptor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Talking Archiver Lite at every 9 months against Arrowat Encryptor's every 25 months. Arrowat Encryptor's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท 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, Arrowat Encryptor every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Talking Archiver Lite versus Arrowat Encryptor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTalking Archiver LiteArrowat Encryptor
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 months โ€” betterEvery 25 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.08.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๆ–น ๆฒˆArrowat LLC

In-app purchases

None

Talking Archiver Lite

No in-app purchases

None

Arrowat Encryptor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Talking Archiver Lite free?
Talking Archiver Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arrowat Encryptor free?
Arrowat Encryptor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Talking Archiver Lite or Arrowat Encryptor have ads?
Neither Talking Archiver Lite nor Arrowat Encryptor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Talking Archiver Lite or Arrowat Encryptor?
Talking Archiver Lite ships an update every 9 months, and Arrowat Encryptor every 25 months. Most recently, Talking Archiver Lite was updated on October 7, 2026 and Arrowat Encryptor on October 14, 2026.

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