Earcatch vs Face Emotion AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Earcatch
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Visually impaired and wishing to enjoy film, television or theatre? Don't miss a single detail thanks to the audio description in Earcatch. Through your headphones a voice describes what is happening visually. You can use Earcatch in the cinema, in the theatre or at home on the couch. Select the film, episode or show you want to watch and download the corresponding audio description. Put on your headphones and hit βplayβ as soon as it begins. Earcatch ensures that the audio description is perfectly synchronised with what is happening.
Face Emotion AI
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Face Emotion AI helps you understand facial expressions, compare photos, and choose your best shots using on-device AI. Use the app to analyze emotions in photos, compare several images, recognize saved faces, and get live selfie guidance from the camera. You can also add professional labels such as name, date, location, event, number, and detected emotion directly to your photos. Key Features Detect facial expressions in photos Show emotion confidence scores Compare photos and find the best shot Track the same face across multiple images Save names for people you know Live Selfie Coach with voice guidance Add custom labels to one or many photos Save and share labeled images English and Arabic support Private, on-device processing Privacy: Your photos and face analysis stay on your device. Images are not uploaded to a server for AI processing. Face Emotion AI is designed to be simple, fast, and useful for everyday photos, selfies, group pictures, and photo selection. How It Works: Face Emotion AI combines several on-device technologies to understand faces and expressions directly on your iPhone. The app uses: FaceNet to create face embeddings and match saved people across photos A Core ML emotion classification model to estimate visible facial expressions Apple Vision to detect faces and locate facial regions in images Core ML to run machine learning models locally on the device These technologies work together to detect faces, estimate expressions, compare photos, recognize saved faces, and provide live selfie guidance. What the App Can Do: For photo analysis, Face Emotion AI detects visible faces, analyzes their expressions, and shows an estimated emotion with a confidence score. For photo comparison, the app can follow the same face across multiple photos and help identify stronger shots based on the detected expressions. With Known People, you can save a name with a reference face. FaceNet embeddings are then used to help recognize that person in future photos. The Live Selfie Coach analyzes the camera feed in real time and provides simple visual and voice guidance to help you improve framing and expression. The Add Label to Image feature lets you place details such as name, date, time, location, event, number, and detected emotion directly on a photo, then save or share a new labeled copy. All supported AI analysis is performed locally on the device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Earcatch at every 2 months against Face Emotion AI's every 18 months. Earcatch also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Earcatch ships an update every 2 months, Face Emotion AI every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Earcatch | Face Emotion AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months β better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Media Access Design B.V. | Faisal Al shargi |
In-app purchases
Earcatch
No in-app purchases
Face Emotion AI
No in-app purchases









