Ratios vs Text Shot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ratios
This application helps home baristas calculate precise coffee brewing ratios. Easily determine the exact weight of coffee beans and water needed for your desired brew strength. All values are instantly editable to see how adjustments impact your final cup.
- Calculate coffee bean and water weights
- Adjustable brew strength
- Instant value updates
- Free and open source
- Supports various brew amounts
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Ratios is a free and open source calculator for home brewed coffee. Quickly and easily enter the total amount of coffee you want to make and Ratios will calculate the weight of beans and amount of water needed based on your desired strength. All the information is editable and updates instantly so you can see how different values affect your overall brew.
Text Shot
Easily transform text snippets into visually appealing, shareable images. Customize with titles, sources, themes, fonts, and sizes. Automate creation with Shortcuts integration.
- Create shareable text images
- Add title, source, and author
- Customize theme, font, and size
- Shortcuts app integration
- Universal iOS/iPadOS/macOS support
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Text Shot is a universal (iOS/iPadOS/macOS) application that lets you take text snippets and create beautiful shareable images (text shots). You can add a title, source, author, and the quote, or just a few of them! From there, you can choose a theme, font, and a size, to customise how each text shot looks. You can also find all of this functionality inside of a "Create Text Shot" action in the Shortcuts app. Which means, you can even build your own automations to make the process of creating and sharing your text shots even easier.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ratios at Free against Text Shot's $2.99. Ratios also leads on ratings volume (79 vs 3) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 16.0). Text Shot's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Ratios is free to download; Text Shot costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Ratios against 4.7 for Text Shot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ratios has 79 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Ratios's written reviews are positive against 75% of Text Shot's.
Ratios ships an update every 5 months, Text Shot every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ratios | Text Shot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (79 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brushed Type Ltd | Christopher R Hannah |
Customer experience
Ratios
Text Shot
In-app purchases
Ratios
No in-app purchases
Text Shot
No in-app purchases
