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Best Speech To Text Apps for iPhone (2026)

27 apps ranked S through F · · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Otter Transcribe Voice Notes is the top-ranked of 27 speech to text apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.8/5 from 85,839 ratings.

  1. 1
    Otter Transcribe Voice NotesS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 85,839 ratings · score 97
  2. 2
    Summary - AI Note TakerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 55,211 ratings · score 93
  3. 3
    SpeakApp AI: Voice NotesS
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 9,579 ratings · score 92
  4. 4
    Notee: AI Note TakerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 4,965 ratings · score 92
  5. 5
    Voice to Text - Speech NoteA
    Free download · ★ 4.5 · 11,344 ratings · score 91

What belongs in this list

Turn spoken words into written text on my phone.

Not here: Text to speech alone; Voice recording alone; Keyboard dictation built into the phone alone; Image to text scanning alone; A general chatbot that could be prompted to transcribe alone

More lists: Best Meeting Transcription Apps

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. Read the full method →

S
OtterSummarySpeakApp AINotee
A
Voice to Text - Speech NoteTranscribe Audio to Text NotesTranscribeiTranscribeNotedSpeechy
B
Wispr FlowVoice Recorder & TranscribeiRecordAvaEchoRev
C
Smart NoterCamCard AIPlaudMinutesFirefliesFlownoteRylo
D
Voice Recorder, Voice Memos ®AI SummaryVoice Recorder-Audio Memos АррVoice Control
F
None at F yet

Compare every app

  1. 1
    Otter Transcribe Voice NotesS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 85,839 ratings · score 97 · best in class
  2. 2
    Summary - AI Note TakerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 55,211 ratings · score 93 · best in class
  3. 3
    SpeakApp AI: Voice NotesS
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 9,579 ratings · score 92 · best in class
  4. 4
    Notee: AI Note TakerS
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 4,965 ratings · score 92 · best in class
  5. 5
    Voice to Text - Speech NoteA
    Free download · ★ 4.5 · 11,344 ratings · score 91 · excellent
  6. 6
    Transcribe Audio to Text NotesA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 3,766 ratings · score 90 · excellent
  7. 7
    Transcribe - Speech to TextA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 10,911 ratings · score 89 · excellent
  8. 8
    iTranscribe - Audio to TextA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 6,843 ratings · score 88 · excellent
  9. 9
    Noted: Transcribe Audio NotesA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 3,694 ratings · score 87 · excellent
  10. 10
    Voice to Text - SpeechyA
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 2,942 ratings · score 87 · excellent
  11. 11
    Wispr Flow: AI Voice KeyboardB
    Free download · ★ 4.8 · 17,833 ratings · score 81 · good
  12. 12
    Voice Recorder & TranscribeB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 2,080 ratings · score 80 · good
  13. 13
    iRecord: Transcribe Voice MemoB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 8,884 ratings · score 79 · good
  14. 14
    Ava: Transcribe Voice to TextB
    Free download · ★ 4.4 · 4,234 ratings · score 79 · good
  15. 15
    Echo - AI Meeting Note TakerB
    Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,739 ratings · score 78 · good
  16. 16
    Rev: Record & TranscribeB
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 4,336 ratings · score 78 · good
  17. 17
    Smart Noter - AI Note TakerC
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 2,381 ratings · score 77 · situational
  18. 18
    CamCard AI Business AssistantC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 90,278 ratings · score 71 · situational · provisional
  19. 19
    Plaud: AI Work CompanionC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 23,757 ratings · score 71 · situational · provisional
  20. 20
    Minutes: AI Meeting Note TakerC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.9 · 14,015 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional
  21. 21
    Fireflies: AI notetakerC
    Free · ★ 4.8 · 5,320 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
  22. 22
    Flownote - AI Note TakerC
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 2,494 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
  23. 23
    Rylo: Live Call CaptioningC
    Free download · ★ 4.6 · 4,163 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
  24. 24
    Voice Recorder, Voice Memos ®D
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 12,097 ratings · score 66 · weak · provisional
  25. 25
    AI Summary - Meeting NotesD
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 6,120 ratings · score 64 · weak · provisional
  26. 26
    Voice Recorder-Audio Memos АррD
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 4,079 ratings · score 64 · weak · provisional
  27. 27
    Voice Control - AI AssistantD
    Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 40 ratings · score 59 · weak · provisional

Questions people ask

What is the best speech to text app for iPhone?
Otter Transcribe Voice Notes, S tier, ranked #1 of 27, rated 4.8 by 85,839 people.
Which speech to text apps are free?
27 of 27 are free to download: Otter Transcribe Voice Notes (S), Summary - AI Note Taker (S), SpeakApp AI: Voice Notes (S), Notee: AI Note Taker (S) and more. 19 of them sell in-app purchases. 1 reports no in-app purchases.
Which speech to text app has the best App Store rating?
Plaud: AI Work Companion at 4.9 from 23,757 ratings.
How many speech to text apps reach S or A tier?
10 of 27.

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