Vulcanize vs DeTeXt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vulcanize
Easily send beautifully rendered mathematical formulas within iMessage. Write equations using LaTeX and see them previewed live, or create stickers from your formulas for quick sharing. Access your previously created formulas with ease.
- Send rendered math formulas via iMessage
- Write formulas using LaTeX
- Live preview of formulas
- Create iMessage stickers from formulas
- Access past formulas
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Vulcanize makes it easy to send beautiful mathematical formulas using iMessage. No longer will you send or recieve unreadable messages that look like "integrate mu_0/(4*pi)*Idl*sin(theta)/r^2 from 0 to 2*pi*r"–instead, you'll get a neat, well-rendered formula. • Write your formulas using LaTeX • View formulas inline with the live preview • Create iMessage stickers with your formulas • Easily access past formulas
DeTeXt
Easily find LaTeX commands for symbols by drawing them or searching a comprehensive database. Get the exact command you need for your documents without memorization.
- Draw symbols to find LaTeX commands
- Neural image classification for symbol recognition
- Searchable database of 1098 symbols
- Supports Apple Pencil on iPad
- Copy commands, symbols, or Unicode codepoints
- Offline symbol database
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Finding the symbol you want to use in LaTeX can be hard since you can't memorize all the commands and packages for every symbol. DeTeXt tries to solve this problem by giving you two ways to find the command you want: - Draw the symbol you want and DeTeXt's neural image classification engine will identify what it thinks are the 20 most likely LaTeX commands that will generate a symbol closest to the one you drew. DeTeXt supports Apple Pencil drawings on the iPad. - Search the entire symbol set of 1098 symbols from packages like tipa, amsmath, amssymb, textcomp and more, in addition to the default mathematical symbols. - Copy the symbol, or the character itself, or its Unicode codepoint to the system clipboard, to paste anywhere else. DeTeXt's neural engine processes your drawn symbol and finds the best matches in its symbol database, all on your device without requiring you to be online. All the symbols are stored within the app as well.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DeTeXt at 4.9 against Vulcanize's 3.2. DeTeXt also leads on review sentiment (92% vs 55%). Vulcanize's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
DeTeXt holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Vulcanize's written reviews are positive against 92% of DeTeXt's.
| Parameter | Vulcanize | DeTeXt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (26 ratings) | 4.9 (40 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 92.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 40 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Saagar Jha | Venkata Subrahmanyan Govindarajan |
Customer experience
Vulcanize
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In-app purchases
Vulcanize
No in-app purchases
DeTeXt
No in-app purchases









