Speech to Text Dictation AI

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R1] 5/5 · US No titles, retired from active work.: This is an excellent app for any dictation, from a small note to a book writing. It cooperates in numerous ways. Accidentally deleting is no problem! 🙏👌
2. [R3] 5/5 · US Excellent app! I love it!: After 2 years it gets better and better. As an author this is a great tool for notes and easy transfer to emails and text messages! Translations too! Get it now! You are missing out! I’m a PhD and use this everyday for notes, texts, and emails.
3. [R8] 5/5 · US It Works!: I love using this app in the early morning hours to rough draft stories for my book. It is easy to upload the draft and move into editing. It captures the flow of the voice and does well with periods and commas. I’m happy with it.
4. [R31] 5/5 · US Love this app!: Dictate has made my record keeping so much easier. It takes half the time it use to take! Easy to use.
5. [R9] 4/5 · US Incredible App: Accurate, fast, flexible. Fantastic
6. [R16] 5/5 · US Great!: Works like it’s supposed to. Great export options. Quick, fast, and pretty accurate. I use it to transcribe audio files to make my outlines and take notes. What a time saver. Thank you Christian!
7. [R17] 5/5 · US Kinda Therapeutic: This is app Picks up language good and is very helpful. Way better than Siri. I got it when I broke my arm and couldn’t journal. I still Use to help process thoughts cause sometimes you just need to say a bunch shizzle and get it out and email it to yourself.
8. [R23] 5/5 · US This is next level audio capture, note taking app, enhanced by ai: Im so impressed by this app that i have to write a review. It Gets the words correctly about 90%, but running it further witb chatgpt corrects it. This ai-powered tools are next level.
9. [R29] 5/5 · US Very helpful: Easy to use, I can email the transcript to myself. Highly recommend.
10. [R32] 5/5 · US Great App: I love this app. It’s not 100% accurate but it’s very close if you speak clearly. I use it often while driving and I love how it stays on/active and doesn’t shut off on you like other apps when you’re quiet for too long.
11. [R36] 5/5 · US Straightforward Audio Transcription: I needed a tool that can convert hours of video containing important information with lots of pausing and it did the job well. I appreciate the option to export to text and keep the transcription offline for privacy. Keep up the great work!
12. [R46] 5/5 · US Me gusta y continúen a mejor: Me encanta, de las que he probado es la mejor, puede desde el audio, como también en tiempo real, me gustaría que la posibilidad de dividir en ciertas oraciones a párrafos automáticamente. Mejor que nota voz de Apple en sus transcripción, dictation reconoce diferentes idiomas desde español ect, Apple no reconoce español para transcribir, es una pena en Samsung si, de
13. [R5] 3/5 · US not thrilled: Gave it plenty of time, and unfortunately too late to cancel the yearly charge. It’s not terribly responsive. It’s not even as responsive as the built-in mic in the iPhone. Substitutes wrong words, regardless of proximity to the phone. I’m sure there are better ones out there.
14. [R13] 3/5 · US could be better: The app frequently doesn’t understand what’s being said and so puts wrong words into the text. Also there should be a way to copy a section of the text without it only offering “copy all” as the only option.
15. [R14] 3/5 · US Speech accuracy: The speech recognition of this technology or this app is fair to poor. I probably will not renew it when my year is up.
16. [R15] 1/5 · US Imprecise: It misses one out of 5 words. Even in English! Even an email, a simple email does better than that!
17. [R12] 2/5 · US Used to be Better: I have been using Dictate for a couple years. Each update makes it worse and worse. It now stops recording in the middle of talking and in order to keep recording you have to shut the app down and reopen it. If you have to correct an error (which doesn’t bother me it makes errors) it will mess up your formatting and when you start talking again, you it puts an uppercase lette
18. [R19] 2/5 · US Perpetual Bugs, but generally functional: I got this app because I do a lot of report writing. Most of the time, it works alright with voice recognition, but if you dictate for too long, it will randomly reposition your cursor and start typing into already dictated sections. The editing headaches from it can take just as long as typing out what you originally intended. Multiple updates have not fi
19. [R41] 1/5 · US too many glitches: On the surface, this sounds just like the previous parable. But let's look up a little more closely. And this example, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant who is seeking beautiful pearls. When the merchant found one pearl of great price, he sold everything to buy that pearl. In our previous parable, the kingdom of Heaven is like treasure that was hidden in the field. And th
20. [R69] 2/5 · US Inaccurate dictate: occasionally, Ill find it jumping around, missing information. At times when it's quite, volume is all the way up, and for payinh for that I don't think it should hiccup as much as it does.
21. [R4] 1/5 · US Stop asking me to give a review every time I try to dictate: The product is ok at best, but I am still trying to learn it. Maybe if it didn’t ask me to review it every 10 seconds, I could work in the app long enough to give a positive review.
22. [R30] 5/5 · US This Dictation Ap Works: This ap works, when others I tried did not. Other apps asked me to pay them money, or get a free trial and then pay money, but this one did not. (Or has not yet, at least) Other aps were difficult to work with but this one was very intuitive. You just press the "Start" microphone to start recording, and then press Stop when you're done, and it translates what you say
23. [R37] 1/5 · US PAID APP: Requires subscription and in-app purchases. This should be flagged as such.
24. [R60] 1/5 · US Bruh: U cant even open it without paying
25. [R22] 1/5 · US Delete: I can’t figure out how to delete a sentence
26. [R72] 3/5 · US Handy but only so much.: I can handle large amounts of text, but you can’t easily save it! I want to have multiple files open so that I can save them individually. I have not found a way to be able to do that with this app.
27. [R119] 2/5 · US Difficult: Relatively speaking, it is not that much better than what Apple gives you on your iPad, but it is still a little better. The biggest problem I have is not having a way to open up a new page. Cannot find a way to save what I have simply by opening up a new page because you have to erase what you have in order to be able to dictate something new. To me that is almost a fatal flaw.
28. [R40] 1/5 · US Update: Cancelled: Zero support. I reported a serious error and all I got was ‘it’s not us’. I don’t pay for broken apps.
29. [R70] 1/5 · US It is not clear how to cancel subscription and no way to contact support: The app doe not let you contact support and there is no button or way to cancel a subscription. Can someone from the developer please contact me or cancel my subscription before the 7 day period ends?
30. [R115] 1/5 · US BUYER BEWARE: Save your money and do not buy this app! There are flaws. It continues to fail and is not user-friendly. Apple will not honor a genuine request to refund money and in fact takes the money knowing this app is a failure. Do not buy this app.
31. [R120] 1/5 · US Stopped working with the latest update: The software no longer works on any device I use it on. It doesn't hear me when I speak in the microphone on my laptop or iPad. I contacted the company 4 days ago and have not heard a peep.
32. [R6] 1/5 · US Don’t buy if you use G mail: I go into the directions online and discover that it doesn’t function with Gmail. It suggest using some Apple app. Don’t waste your time with this app.
33. [R171] 3/5 · US A bit clunky for my needs: I am a quadriplegic, it is difficult for me to do typing, so a voice recognition program is extremely helpful. The problem I have with this app is that a I have no idea how to make corrections without typing, and it would really be helpful if I could speak directly into things like Messages, Safari or any other number of apps. On the plus side, the recognition is very go
34. [R263] 3/5 · GB Experienced Voice Dictation User: The App works really efficiently and well in its own window. It is fast and accurate and responds to commands. It does not however compared with estanlished non-apple products such as Dragon, in that it cannot type into non- app spaces eg word, Excel etc. In order to achieve typing into these apps one has to use copy and paste, an extra and unneccesary step.
35. [R10] 1/5 · US Beware Porn ads: My children used this app in our homeschool for the last 2 years until it displayed pornographic ads to them. Deleted immediately and 1 star.
36. [R199] 3/5 · US Urgent! Scam!: This app is either a total scam, or it has been hacked. When I set it up, my credit card suddenly was charged for two separate fraudulent charges. Stay away from this.
37. [R61] 3/5 · US Muh: Terrible app. It translated half of the short video after 5 tries. The app itself is frustrating to use. Then I get a spam email re Apple. to be from this company impersonated Apple since I just downloaded it.
38. [R25] 5/5 · US So far so good: This works wonderfully for this first hour. I sure hope you do not ask for money later. The other app gave me a free trail. I speak highly of you to others as long as it’s free and works well.
39. [R28] 1/5 · US I bought the year they canceled me 30 days later don’t buy from them: They cancelled my yearly subscription after 30 days and during the 30 days they kept kicking me off so I had to keep signing back in so they are a scam don’t waist your money.
40. [R99] 1/5 · US No free trial?: I tried the app out and thought it was reasonably priced for what I hoped it would be able to do. Also, there was supposed to be a free trial. That didn’t happen. I was billed for the first month. Also, you have to sign up for a plan before you can try anything out on the app. Then when you try it out you see there is a very small word limit on anything you do. I wanted to use this