Comparison

IRISPen Air 7 vs Live Operation

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

IRISPen Air 7

Digitize text from physical documents like newspapers and books directly onto your iOS device. Edit, save, or share captured text, translate it, and even have it read aloud for pronunciation practice. Supports offline and cloud-based language recognition.

Highlights
  • Digitize text from physical documents
  • Translate captured text
  • Text-to-speech functionality
  • Offline and cloud language recognition
  • Export to cloud services
  • Copy-paste into any text app
Features
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This app is designed for IRISPen™ Air 7, the smart digital Bluetooth wireless pen from IRIS. The digital pen works just like a highlighter! Simply slide it across lines from newspapers, magazines, books, letters, etc. and the text will instantly appear on your iOS device, ready to be edited, saved or shared to the Cloud. **BENEFITS** - Never retype text again: digitize and edit text from books, magazines, invoices... directly on your mobile devices. - Translate text into your native language and vice versa. - Hear what you have just scanned spoken out loud by your device – a great way to get the correct pronunciation, for instance if you are learning a foreign language! ** FEATURES ** - Capture your text directly onto your device - 55 languages directly recognized on your device in offline mode. - 130+ languages recognized if you connect to our IRISPen™ Air Cloud server. - Use the text-to-speech functionality to hear out loud what you have just scanned. - Instant translation of your captured text lines. - Text and number recognition. - Export to Mail, Dropbox or Google Drive™ - Copy paste your text into any text application, ready to be edited as you please. ** SUPPORTED DEVICES ** - Universal application (iPhone, iPad) - iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus - iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad mini, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3 **SUPPORTED OS** -iOS 7, 8 ** SUPPORTED OCR LANGUAGES ** Albanian, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Digits, Dutch (Netherlands), English, Esperanto, Estonian, Fijan, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourg, Moldavian, Norsk, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian, Nynosk, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Mexican), Swedish, Swiss (German), Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu. ** ABOUT US ** - Facebook: www.facebook.com/irisocr - Google+: www.google.com/irislinkocr - support: http://www.irislink.com/support/IRISPenAir7

About

Live Operation

Features
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Let your team monitor and control your fire alarm system. This app will enable your organisation to perform everyday tasks remotely and will notify you of any unexpected events.

Screenshots

IRISPen Air 74 screens
Live Operation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Live Operation at monthly against IRISPen Air 7's every 4 months. IRISPen Air 7's advantage is iOS requirement (7.1 vs 12.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IRISPen Air 7 ships an update every 4 months, Live Operation monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
IRISPen Air 7 versus Live Operation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIRISPen Air 7Live Operation
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS7.1 — better12.4
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperI.R.I.S. s.a.Consilium Safety Group AB

In-app purchases

None

IRISPen Air 7

No in-app purchases

None

Live Operation

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IRISPen Air 7 free?
IRISPen Air 7 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Live Operation free?
Live Operation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IRISPen Air 7 or Live Operation have ads?
Neither IRISPen Air 7 nor Live Operation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IRISPen Air 7 or Live Operation?
IRISPen Air 7 ships an update every 4 months, and Live Operation monthly. Most recently, IRISPen Air 7 was updated on November 2, 2026 and Live Operation on October 27, 2026.

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