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Voice recorder transcription app

  1. Market

    Installs
    112.4M

    Across 7 of 18 apps we could match.

    • Easy Voice Recorder: 99,470,671 installs
    • Otter Transcribe Voice Notes: 7,085,436 installs
    • Voice Recorder & Audio Editor: 3,558,863 installs
    • Awesome Voice Recorder: 1,165,195 installs
    • SpeakApp AI: 558,674 installs
    • iRecord: 300,511 installs
    • Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder: 265,338 installs
    • 88% leader share. Easy Voice Recorder, by Google Play installs, across the 7 of 18 apps we could match
    • #17 Productivity rank. Otter Transcribe Voice Notes, top grossing, the best rank any app here holds
    • $5.99 median price. Lowest in-app price, median over the 13 apps that list one. 13 of 16 charge.
    • 7 of 18 recently updated. Updated in the 30 days before 2026-10-05

  2. Competition

    1. Voice Recorder & Audio EditorJul 2025453k ratings$4.99
    2. Otter Transcribe Voice Notes29 Sep83k ratings$99.99 to $239.99 a year
    3. Call Recorder for iPhone.2 Oct80k ratings$49.99 a year
    4. Voice recorder14 May26k ratings
    5. Voice Recorder & Notes Pro18 Aug13k ratings$99.99 a year
    6. Wave AI Note Taker & Recorder29 Sep12k ratings$6.00 to $139.99
    7. Voice to Text4 Oct11k ratings$17.99 to $22.99 a year
    8. Easy Voice Recorder7 Jul11k ratings
    9. SpeakApp AI25 Sep9k ratings$6.99 to $119.00
    10. iRecord4 Feb9k ratings$5.99 to $98.99
    11. Voice Recorder18 May8k ratings$69.99 to $79.99 a year
    12. iTranscribe8 Sep7k ratings$5.99 to $7.99
    13. Awesome Voice Recorder22 Aug1k ratings$24.99 a year, or $2.99 once
    14. Voice RecorderDec 20231k ratings$4.49 a year
    15. Dictaphone Voice Recorder19 Aug193 ratings$9.99
    16. Voice to Text Pro2 Sep1 ratings
    17. Voice Recorder Transcription30 Sep1 ratings
    18. 360 WriterDec 20230 ratings

  3. Reviews

    What 4,156 reviews talk about, every star counted.

    1. Accuracy+0.4%11 of 17 apps
    2. Limits & caps+0.2%15 of 17 apps
    3. Sync & data0.0%13 of 17 apps
    4. Billing−0.2%17 of 17 apps
    5. Support−1.2%15 of 17 apps
    6. UX−1.2%17 of 17 apps
    7. Wishlist−1.5%17 of 17 apps
    8. Login & auth−4.1%12 of 17 apps
    9. Ads−4.7%15 of 17 apps
    10. Performance−4.8%17 of 17 apps
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  4. Searches

    Position in Apple’s suggestions
    1510
    010203041
    Countries
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  5. Traffic

    Google Ads, United States, 10 September 2026.

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Is there a market for a new voice recorder transcription app?

18 apps compete here. They hold 112,404,688 installs on Google Play, counted across the 7 we could match. We hold 4,156 of their App Store reviews. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

How much do voice recorder transcription apps charge?

13 of the 16 apps we could check charge inside the app. Half of them start at $5.99 or less. 2 more apps have no price data yet.

What do people search for when they want a voice recorder transcription app?

We scan 41 App Store storefronts. Typing voice recorder transcription app completes to “transcription studio” in 39 of them. Then “transcription ai - smart edit” in 39, “transcriptionist” in 39. These are Apple’s own suggestions. They show what gets typed, not how often.

What do users complain about most in voice recorder transcription apps?

1. Accuracy: in 11 of 17 apps, 1.5% of reviews (1.1% in all apps). Counted from 4,156 reviews of every star on the 2026-10-05 snapshot, never estimated.

Cited: What RevenueCat measures for Productivity apps

  • the monthly-first category

    77% of subscriptions sold are monthly · 91% of revenue from monthly (different denominators, both true)

  • the median app barely grows; the tails are extreme

    median MRR +5.3% YoY · top decile +306% · bottom decile contracting

  • the launch flood vs the incumbency moat

    ~2,000 → 14,700+ new subscription apps per month (Jan 2022 → Jan 2026), yet pre-2020 apps still hold 69% of subscription revenue

  • even top categories take over 100 days to reach $10k revenue

    >100 days to the first $10k

RevenueCat, State of Subscription Apps 2026, 115,000+ apps · $16B+ tracked revenue · >1B transactions. Published industry figures, shown for context; App Imp’s own numbers are counted from reviews and never mixed with these.

How this is counted

We count the reviews we hold again every week. Nothing is guessed. A topic is found by the words a review uses, so the same review always lands in the same place. Every star counts. A share is the part of all reviews here that mention a topic. We compare it with the same share across 14,808 apps on the store, since no one group holds most of these apps. A topic is a gap when at least 20 reviews mention it, at least half the apps have it, and it comes up at least 1.15 times as often as usual. A problem in one app is that app’s bug. A problem in every app is nobody’s gap.