Starter Pack vs Subtext
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Starter Pack
Create custom image collections that represent a person or situation. Add photos from your device or search online, set captions, and share your creations directly to social media.
- Create custom image collections
- Add images from camera roll
- Search Google Images for photos
- Set captions for images
- Download multi-panel photo sets
- Share directly to Facebook and Twitter
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A Starter Pack is a collection of four images that describe a person. If you wanted to be this person these are the things you would need. A starter pack can also represent a characterized persona or situation. In this app you can create your own Starter Packs for your friends and family! Add images to the Starter Pack from your camera roll or directly from Google image search, set the caption, and download the generated multi-panel photo set to your camera roll or share it directly to Facebook or Twitter. Designed by Geffen Weitzman
Subtext
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Most caption apps give you the same bold white text everyone else uses. Subtext gives your video a whole look: cinematic type, a real color grade, and film grain, together. A "look" in Subtext isn't a font. It's a complete aesthetic. The caption style, the color grade, and the grain are designed as one package, so a plain phone clip comes out looking like it was shot on film. Pick a look, and the whole frame changes with it. LAUNCH LOOKS • Arthouse - faded yellow film-subtitle type over a cinematic grade + grain. Old foreign-film vibes. • New Wave - stark black-and-white film mono with bold new wave caps. • Notebook - handwritten blue ballpoint pen on a tilted cream paper strip. • Standard - clean white captions with a crisp outline, when you just want simple and legible. EVERYTHING HAPPENS ON YOUR PHONE • Captions are transcribed on-device. Your audio and video never leave your phone — no upload, no account, no servers. • Works fully offline, even in airplane mode. FAST, FOCUSED EDITING • Auto-transcription drops your words in, timed to the audio. • Fix a word, nudge timing, or reposition a line. You get the light edits you actually need, nothing you don't. • Real-time preview: what you see is exactly what exports (grade, grain, and type included). EXPORT & SHARE • Export straight to your camera roll, ready for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok. • Free to try: 1080p export with a small Subtext watermark. ONE-TIME UNLOCK - NO SUBSCRIPTION • Pay once to remove the watermark and unlock 1080p + 4K export and every future look. • No subscription. No monthly fee. Yours forever. Subtext is built for creators who'd rather have one unmistakable look than fifty generic templates. So when people watch your videos they'll ask "how'd you make it look like that?"
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Starter Pack at none against Subtext's 1. Starter Pack also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Subtext sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Starter Pack asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Starter Pack | Subtext |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 150 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hadar Weitzman Group Inc. | Nicholas Counts |
In-app purchases
Starter Pack
No in-app purchases
Subtext
- Subtext Unlock$4.99









