Image Translator vs Text Capture
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Image Translator
Instantly translate text from photos in over 40 languages. Supports translation to over 100 languages with natural voice playback. Offline access to past translations is available.
- Translate text from photos
- Supports 40+ input languages
- Translates to 100+ output languages
- Natural voice playback
- Offline translation history
- AI text recognition
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Take a photo of any text in any language, and translate it! - Supports over 40 languages. Any alphabet type, any font. - Translate to more than 100 different languages. - Speaks the translation out in a natural voice. - Remembers earlier translations, providing playback without internet. Image Translator uses advanced AI techniques to find the text in the image. Either translate directly using your camera, or use any images stored on your phone. Image translator also stores the previous translations in its database and allows you to prepare a set of translations in advance. You can then play them back later without the need for internet and data roaming costs.
Text Capture
Easily extract text from your camera in real-time. This app allows you to edit, copy, share, or listen to captured text. It functions entirely offline, ensuring your data remains private.
- Real-time text capture from camera
- Offline functionality
- Edit captured text
- Copy text to clipboard
- Share text to other apps
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Translate text
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Text Capture allows you to capture text from your device's camera. Just point the camera, see the text in real time and capture it by pressing the Capture button! Text Capture works 100% offline protecting your privacy and the content of your scans as your scanned data never leaves your device. After capturing text you can: - Edit - Copy to clipboard - Share on other Apps - Hear it out loud - Translate Text * Text Capture works on any latin alphabet text * Text to speech and Translation works for text written on the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkis.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Image Translator at every 2 days against Text Capture's weekly. Image Translator also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.5). Text Capture's advantage is ratings volume (2.7K vs 200) and review sentiment (42% vs 30%). On price, rating, 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. Image Translator sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Text Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Image Translator against 4.5 for Text Capture. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Capture has 2.7K ratings behind it against 200, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 30% of Image Translator's written reviews are positive against 42% of Text Capture's.
Image Translator ships an update every 2 days, Text Capture weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Image Translator | Text Capture |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (200 ratings) — better | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 42.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 200 | 2.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sparkling Design and Infotech Private Limited | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. |
Customer experience
Image Translator
Text Capture
Bugs and requests
Image Translator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Text Capture
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to restore previous purchases
- Fails to recognize certain languages/scripts
- Inconsistent text capture quality
Requested features
3 requests- Add ability to rotate/crop captured images
- Improve accuracy for handwritten/non-standard text
- Integrate with note-taking/productivity apps
In-app purchases
Image Translator
- Remove the ads$1.99
Text Capture
- Premium$3.99
Questions
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