Cardzilla
Tim Kettering
Turns typed messages into large, automatically fitted cards for silent face-to-face communication.
What Cardzilla does
Cardzilla displays typed messages as large cards that resize to fit the screen. It saves cards automatically and keeps favourites for reuse. Swipe gestures support navigation, and shaking saves the current message and clears the card. This profile covers the iOS app by Tim Kettering. The Android app’s publisher relationship still needs verification.
How it compares
Typed display cards rather than speech transcription
Like Make It Big, Cardzilla displays typed messages for someone nearby to read. Big Text also offers speech recognition if you want spoken words displayed as text.
Saved cards and favourites, like other text-display apps
Cardzilla automatically saves cards and lets you keep favourites. Make It Big also recalls recent messages, while Big Text has a message library.
Features
Captions
- Supported: Typed replies
Audio input & output
- Supported: Live outputsOn-screen text
App Store ratings & reviews
Praise
- Reviews from 2013–2026 describe useful readable typed messages for daily communication, often highlighting automatic text fitting, saving/favourites and shake-to-clear. These are personal communication experiences, not clinical benefit claims.
Complaints
- A March 2020 reviewer reported lost notes; a December 2017 report described a gesture crash on iPad Air 2/iOS 11.2. A 2019 comment reported a missing microphone icon. These dated reports do not establish current app behavior.
Mixed reports
- 2014–2026 reviewers request text/colour/keyboard controls, a clear button, guidance and easier developer contact. Some describe using the system dictation microphone and ask for continuous listening or translation; those requests are not proof of a native caption/translation engine.