Cardzilla

I’ve had this app for several years and I’ve shared it with lots of people who find it incredibly useful. Because I like this app so much, I’m writing to suggest a few features that would make it even more useful than it already is. As a person who has had laryngitis and throat surgery, being able to type out what I need to communicate is invaluable. I also use it to communicate in quiet settings or from across the room. Conversely, I also use it with transcription for communicating with people who are deaf, heard of hearing or visual processors. Subtitles, anyone? (1) [On-Screen Keyboard Visibility Toggle] It would be incredibly useful to have a toggle button on the screen that makes the keyboard slide out of the way and stay out of the way for times when you want to use transcription alone. This is handy for casual conversations that are slowed down by editing for spelling, grammar or punctuation. The size of the text gets smaller as you continue to speak (or type) so there is a lot of screen real estate wasted by the keyboard if you don’t really need it to make corrections while you’re engaged in a conversation. The text would stay larger for longer without the keyboard in the way. If you’re actively dictating and want to make corrections while transcription is live, then a toggle option would allow a choice for the keyboard to remain active. For example, I just now chose to correct “your” to “you’re” as I was dictating. This app hasn’t been updated for many years so maybe live transcription edits were not an available OS feature at the time. (2) [Adaptive Text] I’d like an app Settings option to: (A) reduce text size to accommodate quantity (current design) (B) set text size to ____ then overflow automatically to the next page as text reaches the edge while keeping dictation active (this way, you don’t have to keep tapping the microphone and you can keep speaking and dictating text while conversing with someone who is deaf. The ability to shake the screen to erase should remain. I really like that. I sincerely hope the developer hasn’t abandoned this app and that it will continue to work for future versions of OS updates. I am currently using iOS 26 as of the writing of this review and the app still seems solid so I doubt this app needs much continuing development to keep it compatible. The features I’m suggesting would really improve it and an update would make it look less like abandonware. Thank you very much for making this app and for your consideration!

I wish the app respond faster when a person speaks into it. I had to wait for it to generate a text while the person was waiting for me and wondering what’s up. I guess the tech is not up to that fast yet. And no language translator available. Like, if the person speaks Spanish it should be able to translate to English. The app has no setting to configure, like font size.

Works great. Love it as someone who is Deaf and can now speak but not hear anything. Only thing that could be improved is I wish the microphone would stay on until you turned it off or exited the app. It turns off too quick now. Sometimes there are pauses in conversations and then the person goes to speak again and the microphone button shuts off right before they speak and I have to hit button again and ask them to repeat that.