Text Banner vs Live text
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Banner
Transform your device into a vibrant, animated text banner. Customize messages with diverse colors, fonts, and effects like mirroring and flashing to make your words unmissable. Ideal for events, presentations, or adding flair to any message.
- Animated text banners
- Customizable colors and fonts
- Mirror effects
- Speed adjustments
- Flashing effects
- Easy to use
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TURN YOUR iPHONE INTO A GIANT SCROLLING MESSAGE Need to get someone's attention in a crowded place? Text Banner creates giant, animated text that's impossible to miss. PERFECT FOR • Calling a taxi or Uber in busy streets • Airport pickups ("WELCOME HOME!") • Concerts, sports events, festivals • Birthday surprises and celebrations • Store promotions and announcements • Emergency situations FEATURES • Giant full-screen scrolling text • Adjustable speed - slow to super fast • Rainbow color picker • Visual effects: Flash, Mirror, Mix colors • High contrast mode for bright environments • Message history - save and reuse texts • Works offline - no internet needed HOW IT WORKS Type your message → Choose your colors → Rotate to landscape → Done! Your text scrolls automatically in beautiful, smooth animation. It's that simple. WHY TEXT BANNER? Sometimes the best way to communicate is with a message so big it can't be ignored. No yelling, no waving - just clear, visible text that everyone can read from far away. Download now and make your next message impossible to miss! Privacy: All messages stay on your device. We never collect or transmit your data.
Live text
Create dynamic and attention-grabbing text messages with customizable colors, fonts, and animations. Save your creations for later use. Perfect for making your messages stand out.
- Customizable background and text colors
- Wide color palette and custom color editor
- Multiple font choices
- Animated effects (bounce, rotate, etc.)
- Save and revisit previous texts
- Marquee sign style
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Live Text helps you create eye-catching messages in seconds. Type your text, customize the background and text colors, pick a font, and add animations like bounce and rotate to bring your message to life. What you can do with Live Text • Create custom text messages with background and text color control • Use a wide color palette and a custom color editor • Choose from multiple fonts • Add animated effects (bounce, rotate, and more) • Save and revisit your previous texts with text history Make your text look like a marquee sign—or create your own style.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Live text at 100% against Text Banner's 58%. Live text also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Text Banner's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 16 months) and ratings volume (290 vs 6). On price 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. Text Banner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Live text asks for nothing beyond the download.
Live text holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Banner has 290 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Text Banner's written reviews are positive against 100% of Live text's.
Text Banner ships an update every 2 months, Live text every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Banner | Live text |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (290 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 290 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alan Roldan | Stanimir Petrov |
Customer experience
Text Banner
Live text
In-app purchases
Text Banner
- Premium$8.99
Live text
No in-app purchases









