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Polished Recognition vs VocaPhone: catalog facts
Polished Recognition	VocaPhone
Free Free and open source under MIT; the AI providers you connect may charge for usage.	Free Free and open source under AGPL-3.0, with no subscription.
Android	Android, iOS
Works in any app as a system keyboard Choose your own speech-to-text and language model providers	Can transcribe on the phone without a network after model download Inserts text at the active cursor
Requires your own OpenAI-compatible API endpoints Sends audio and text to the services you configure	Android requires version 13 or newer The iPhone app is a TestFlight beta
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: AGPL-3.0-only
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026

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