The story behind VoiceApp

VoiceApp began in 2013 with something you can watch on any road: people typing behind the wheel. They hold the phone below the steering wheel, glance down for a few seconds — and for those seconds they are driving blind. A significant share of distraction-related crashes comes down to exactly that. The problem was never carelessness. The problem was that writing a message costs two hands and your eyes.

Out of that came the idea for VoiceApp: speak instead of typing — listen instead of reading. Dictation that turns spoken words into an ordinary text message, and on Android a read-aloud feature that reads incoming messages to you without you ever touching the phone. Together they make a conversation that needs neither your hands nor your eyes.

Then the world caught up. Voice assistants like Alexa arrived, and eventually every smartphone keyboard had a microphone button. That was a good thing — it was the whole point. For VoiceApp it meant thinking further. Voice stayed at the core, because it carries more than a message from A to B. Tone, warmth, irony, hesitation: all of it travels in your voice, and all of it gets lost between autocorrect and emojis.

2026 brought the biggest step so far: VooMe, short for Voice Meme. Sometimes a soundbite is too good to stay inside a single chat. VooMe gives the app a social layer — short audio posts that you can publish in a public feed, discover, like, share and send into chats. Audio that would otherwise disappear into a chat history becomes something you post like a meme.

VoiceApp is built by one person: no venture capital, no growth team. Development is funded through advertising (Google AdMob in the app, Google AdSense on this website) and optional subscriptions that make the app ad-free. What isn't part of it: a business built on your data. No ad profiles are made from your messages and no personal data is sold — more on that in the privacy & security guide.

VoiceApp at a glance

Who builds this?

VoiceApp is developed by Dennis Hooth, a software developer from Germany. He has been building VoiceApp since 2013 — the apps for iOS and Android, the desktop clients, the server behind them and this website. Development happens largely in public: short videos on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram document new features as they are built, from the first VooMe prototype to the finished release.

Built in public

Get in touch

Feedback, ideas, bug reports or just a hello — every mail to hello@voiceapp.me is read by the developer himself. You can also follow the development on the social channels linked in the footer.