IRISPen Air 7 vs Live Operation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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
Live Operation
Read full descriptionHide full description
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
Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | IRISPen Air 7 | Live Operation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | I.R.I.S. s.a. | Consilium Safety Group AB |
In-app purchases
IRISPen Air 7
No in-app purchases
Live Operation
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is IRISPen Air 7 free?
Is Live Operation free?
Do IRISPen Air 7 or Live Operation have ads?
Which is updated more often, IRISPen Air 7 or Live Operation?
Other comparisons















