For the electrician, the plumber, the painter, the joiner, the tiler and the builder who quotes from a van rather than a desk — and just as much for the caterer, the mechanic, the consultant and the shop that prices by the piece rather than the hour. Speak the job before you leave the site and Talkquote turns it into priced lines, a total and a PDF the client can read. Optimised for iPhone Duo.
The job is quoted in the van, or it is quoted at eleven at night.
Ninety seconds on site, spoken, and the client has a document before you have driven home. That is the whole of it.
“Three hours labour at ninety-five, twelve square metres of tiling at sixty, two hundred for materials.” Talkquote splits that into lines, units and prices, and marks anything it had to infer so you can check it. Say “next item” to start a new line, “make that…” to change the last one, “scratch that” to take it back. It learns your clients’ names on your iPhone and flags any figure it was unsure of.
Your logo, your address, your VAT number, your currency and your own terms, in the language your client reads. Send it as a PDF, as a Word file they can edit, as an Excel spreadsheet, as a CSV for the bookkeeper, or as plain text to paste into a message — five formats, from the same figures, by e-mail or through anything else on the phone.
Sending one — by e-mail, message or AirDrop — marks it as sent, and the list puts anything unanswered for a week at the top. The most expensive thing that happens to a quotation is nothing at all.
From standing in the client's kitchen to the quotation being in their inbox. Five steps, none of which needs a signal.
Settings holds your name, address, logo, VAT number, currency, default tax rate and your own terms. It goes on every document from then on. Talkquote supplies no terms of its own: they are your contract with your client, and nothing to do with the app.
Tap the microphone and talk normally. Quantities, units and prices are pulled out of the sentences; anything the parser had to infer is flagged so you can look at it. The recognition runs on the device — no signal needed and nothing uploaded.
Every line shows the sentence it came from, one tap away. Add your cost price and Talkquote shows the profit and the margin — inside the app only. Your client never sees a cost price, because a client seeing your cost price is a conversation nobody wants.
Before anything can be exported, you confirm in as many words that you checked the totals. The date, the version and the totals at that moment are kept with the quotation. Any later edit clears it, so the record can never describe numbers that have since changed.
Export as PDF or Word and either share it anywhere or send it straight from the app — the mail opens already addressed to your client, with the document attached and a covering note written in their language. Select several quotations and they go in one message. Sending marks them as sent, and the list starts counting the days.
Six different businesses, six ordinary jobs, priced the way the app prices them. The clients are invented; every figure below came out of Talkquote.
Figures are examples. Your rates, your currency, your tax — the app uses yours.
The platforms do scheduling, payments and crews. This does the ninety seconds you actually repeat twenty times a week.
| The question | The usual answer | Talkquote |
|---|---|---|
| Quoting a job on site | Type it later, at the desk | Say it there, and drive away with it sent |
| Getting started | An account, a seat price, a trial that expires | Open it and use it; it asks once, after seven days |
| A quote nobody answered | You find out when the job is gone | It goes to the top of the list, counting the days |
| Your prices and your clients | On somebody's server | On your phone, behind Face ID |
Speak in one, write the document in another. A Polish tradesperson in Lucerne can quote a German client in German.
Set a default hourly rate and Talkquote uses it whenever you say hours without a price.
VAT, MWST, TVA, IVA — the rate and the label are yours to set, per quotation or per line, because a business near a border does not always use one.
A deposit as a share of the total, discounts per line or over the whole quotation, and rounding that matches how you actually invoice.
Most jobs are variations of a job already quoted. Copy it, change three lines, send it — without retyping fourteen.
Face ID or a passcode on the app itself, so a phone left on a worktop does not show a client's prices.
The client signs on your screen with a finger. The signature is printed on the quotation and carried to the bill that follows it.
Choose your trade and the lines rename themselves: ingredients for a caterer, parts for a garage, licences for an agency. Nothing already written changes.
Quoting a wedding, a delivery, a shutdown? Switch on the event date and it prints on the document and follows through to the invoice.
Find a quotation by client or by number, or ask which are still waiting, from Siri, Spotlight or a Shortcut — without opening the app first. Ask for a new one and Siri asks who it is for and what the job needs.
What you quoted, what was accepted and what is still waiting — without a spreadsheet.
No account and nothing to sign up for. Try the whole app for seven days; then it asks once, and you decide.
Download on the App StorePrices are shown on the App Store, in your own currency. Seven days free, then a month or a year at a time — cancel any time in Settings on your iPhone.
No. Dictation, parsing, PDF and Word generation all run on the device. You can write a full quotation in a basement with no signal.
The only network traffic Talkquote causes belongs to the App Store, when you subscribe or restore.
That is between you and your client, and it depends on your own terms — which you write and Talkquote prints. The app supplies no terms of its own and makes no promise on your behalf.
What Talkquote does give you is a record: when you approved the figures, which version of the app was running, and what the totals were at that moment. If a figure is ever disputed, that is worth considerably more than any wording.
It can mis-hear a word, like any recognition. That is why every line shows the sentence it came from, why anything inferred is flagged, and why nothing can be exported until you have confirmed the totals yourself. Talkquote drafts; you decide.
Yes. On the list, choose “Select several”, tick the ones you want and send — they go as attachments in one message.
If they are all for the same client the message is already addressed. If they are for different clients the To field is left empty on purpose: putting two clients on one e-mail would show each of them the other's address.
Talkquote can be used in full for seven days before it asks for anything. The days are counted by use: a day you do not open the app is not spent. They start by themselves the first time you open it, with no account and nothing to sign up for. When they are up, the app asks once and you decide — a month at a time, a year at a time, or buy it once.
The App Store page shows what it costs and how it is paid — once, or as a subscription — in your own currency, before anything is charged. Apple takes the payment, so this developer never sees a card or a name. There are no advertisements.
Yes. Cancel at any time in the App Store: tap your picture at the top right, then Subscriptions. That is the only place a subscription can be stopped — the app cannot do it for you, because Apple takes the money. You keep it until the end of the period you have already paid for.
Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us — we never see your payment details and cannot issue one. Go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, and choose the purchase.
Whatever you bought belongs to your Apple Account. Sign in on an iPad or a new iPhone with the same Apple Account, open the app, and choose Restore on the purchase screen. Nothing is charged again.
One purchase covers one Apple Account. It is not shared with a family and cannot be passed round a firm — a second person needs their own.
No. There is no account, no sign-in and no server. Everything the app holds is on your own device and is removed when you delete the app.
The only network traffic the app causes belongs to the App Store, when you buy, subscribe or restore.
Whatever your device is set to, if that language is one it has been translated into; otherwise English. There is no language setting to get wrong — changing your iPhone's language changes the app with it.
Payments, refunds and cancellations
Apple takes every payment for this app. That means Apple — and only Apple — can look a charge up, stop a subscription or give a refund. This developer never sees a card, a name or a payment, and has no way to change one.
Cancelling is done at the App Store, and nowhere else. Open the App Store, tap your picture at the top right, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next payment; what you have already paid for runs to the end of its period. Do it at least 24 hours before the period ends, or that renewal goes through anyway.
What Talkquote does not do
Talkquote drafts a quotation from what you said and prints it under your name. It does not check your prices, know your local rules, or take any responsibility for the figures. You approve every quotation before it can leave the app, and that approval is the point: the numbers are yours.
Every line keeps the sentence it came from — tap the line to see it. Fix the number in place; the quotation's approval clears itself so you are asked to check the new total before it can be sent.
Two things disable it: a quotation with no lines, and a quotation whose figures you have not approved since the last edit. Open the approval section and confirm the totals.
That needs a mail account set up on the device. Add one in Settings, or use Share instead — that reaches Gmail, Outlook, WhatsApp and anything else you have installed.
A purchase belongs to your Apple Account, not to one device. On a new phone, or after reinstalling, open the app and choose Restore on the purchase screen. Nothing is charged again.
Open the App Store, tap your picture at the top right, then Subscriptions. That is the only place a subscription can be stopped — this app cannot do it for you, because Apple takes the money. Cancelling stops the next payment and leaves the period you have already paid for running to its end. A one-time purchase never renews and has nothing to cancel.
Still stuck? Write to alpenlume@gmail.com — say which app, which iPhone or iPad, and what you expected to happen.
Last updated 4 October 2026.
The short version
Talkquote collects nothing, sends nothing and has no account. Your quotations and your clients' details stay on your device.
Nothing. This app has no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising identifier, no crash reporting service and no tracking of any kind. No profile is built and nothing is shared with anyone.
This app has no server of its own: nothing to sign in to, and nothing uploaded to the developer, ever. What it does with the internet — for most of these apps, nothing at all — is set out under “On your device” above.
Two things do use the internet, and both are somebody else's. The App Store does, when you buy, subscribe or restore. And when you share something — a dish, a recipe, a document — iOS hands it to the app you picked, whether that is Messages, Mail or WhatsApp, and that app sends it over its own connection under its own privacy policy. Nothing is sent unless you press send, and this app never learns where it went.
Buying is handled entirely by Apple. The app never sees a card number, a name or an address; it asks the App Store one question — whether this Apple Account owns the app — and receives yes or no. Apple's own privacy policy governs the transaction.
This app is not directed at children and collects nothing from anybody, so there is nothing held about a child to disclose, correct or delete.
Data protection law gives you the right to see, correct, export and erase personal data held about you. Because none is held, there is nothing to produce or delete on request. Everything the app has is on your own device: deleting the app removes it, and it was never anywhere else.
If this policy ever changes it will be dated above. It will not be changed retroactively, because there is no collected data for a change to newly permit.
