# MAGTEXT: Stop Retyping Screens — Screen recording to full text

> Screen recording to full text (iPhone/iPad app by RYOTARO Hata.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magtext-stop-retyping-screens/id6797199574 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [RYOTARO Hata](https://appshunter.io/developer/6797199576)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese
- Released: 2026-08-19
- Data updated: 2026-09-30

## What is MAGTEXT?

MAGTEXT copies text that does not fit on one screen.

Record your screen while you scroll, then bring the recording in. MAGTEXT reads the text frame by frame, puts it back in order, and hands you the whole thing. If the recording has sound, it can transcribe that as well, and write the transcript out with timecodes as a subtitle file.

It also reads a photo or a screenshot, and it has a built-in browser that captures the article you are reading — a long one, in one pass.

All of it happens on your iPhone:
• Text recognition and transcription run on the device
• No servers of ours, no history, no log of what you captured
• The clipboard is read only when you tap the paste button
• It can only read what is shown on this device

Five captures are free. After that, a one-time purchase removes the limit. There is no subscription.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlimited captures | $6.99 | one-time |


## Is MAGTEXT safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess MAGTEXT.

## Is MAGTEXT legit?

MAGTEXT: Stop Retyping Screens has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for MAGTEXT is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-26

Fixed: long X articles and posts that include an article now capture in full. Before, some of them showed an error ("Something went wrong") and only a few lines came through. Also removed a misleading "This page won't open" message on X pages that had actually loaded.

### 1.2 — 2026-08-30

Small refinements to how the app behaves.

After a capture goes through, MAGTEXT may occasionally ask you to rate it. You can dismiss it and it will not come back for a while.

### 1.1 — 2026-08-29

• Bring a whole conversation in from a shared link — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity.
• Ordinary web pages work too. Share a news story or an article, then open MAGTEXT and the page is waiting for you.
• Share a second link while a page is already open, and it now switches to the new one.

A shared link is used once and expires after ten minutes. Recognition and transcription still run on your iPhone, and nothing is kept.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-20

No release notes.

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