Comparison

Camera Translator vs Documents Translator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Camera Translator

Instantly translate text from photos and documents using your camera. Supports over 100 languages and various file formats, with features like text trimming, audio output, and translation history.

Highlights
  • Instant camera text translation
  • Supports over 100 languages
  • Recognizes text in documents and photos
  • Trims images for precise translation
  • Audio output for translations
  • Unlimited translation history
  • Customizable wallpapers
Features
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Translate text from photos and documents in any format, in any language with the help of camera. Trims the desired text and translate instantly Translate Picture - Camera Translator is the most professional camera translator ever seen, it has no limits. It converts practically any document, the recognition of the camera is instantaneous and the conversion of documents to other formats is total. Compatible with formats in pdf, doc, png, jpg, and more. Trims your images, photos or documents to translate the desired text. It is simple, it is easy, it is intuitive, it is the best translator with camera scanner that exists in the world. The translation camera recognizes texts in all languages and translates them for you. Translate Picture - Camera Translator. Features and general functions: - Translates texts with the camera instantly - Compatible with more than 100 languages - Recognizes text documents in pdf, doc, odt, rtf and other formats - Recognizes photos and images in png, jpg and other formats - Easy-to-use and intuitive interface - Trims your pictures to translate only the desired text - Share texts or images from any application, browser or web. - Shares in text or audio your translations from the application - Customizes your translator, with different wallpapers - Expands your long translations - Voice and audio recognition in more than 40 languages - Double function to share your translations, audio or text. - Unlimited translation history - History Search - Favorites in history and filters - Modifies the order of translated texts - Resizes the text font Parts of the service translated by Microsoft ™. Parts of the service translated by Google Translate ™ Ideal for travel, tourism, or education, translate the rules of your hotel, or a menu of a bar, newspaper or magazine, camera translator can translate to virtually every language in the world, almost all physical and digital documents and photographs, translate with a camera is a reality. The best picture translator to translate pictures in other languages. Learn languages in the best way. An educational application that will help you learn to write, read and pronounce languages. Save your translations and classify them by color thanks to the history of translations with the history search function, and favorites with color filters. You can keep your translations of different languages, texts or words. Shares photos directly from outside the application, browse the web and translate texts from pictures and documents. The most complete camera translator on the market. Recognizes all text formats translated into more than 80 languages, voice recognition and voice output in more than 40 languages. Some of the most important are: Arabic, English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Subscription information: - Length of Subscription: 1 month ( 7 day free trial) or 1 year. - Price: $4.99 per month billed monthly. $39.99 per year billed yearly. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: http://www.talkao.com/policy/ Terms of use: https://www.talkao.com/terms_of_use

About

Documents Translator

Instantly translate text, documents, photos, and voice conversations in over 140 languages. Navigate foreign environments with real-time camera translation, communicate offline, and translate websites or messages directly from your keyboard.

Highlights
  • Translate 140+ languages
  • Real-time camera translation
  • Offline translation mode
  • Voice conversation translation
  • Website translation extension
  • Keyboard translation integration
  • Save favorite translations
Features
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Documents Translator is ready to use every time you need to translate text, documents, photos, webpages, street signs, or when you need to ask for directions in a different language. • Translate text, voice, photos, and websites, all in one app. Remove all communication barriers, translate in more than 140 languages • With Documents Translator, you can translate content shared from any app or scanned from documents, or you can have voice conversations with anyone. You can turn your camera into a real-time translator or translate websites directly from Safari, or chats directly from the keyboard. The app supports an offline mode, enabling you to use it in remote locations without an internet connection. FEATURES • Translate text in more than 140 languages from books, scanned documents, and web pages. Share content from any app • Translate your camera in real-time and photos: Navigate around, read street signs, instructions, and directions in real-time. Scan documents or menus. • Real-time voice conversations: Talk on the street, ask for directions, connect with people around the world • Offline translation: Communicate anywhere in the world, even in remote areas with no internet connection • Translate any website with the Safari browser extension: translate automatically after page load or manually, only when you want to • Turn your keyboard into a translator - no need to jump between apps to translate messages or emails from any app • Favourite translations for fast access. Voice read or enlarge content for better usability We read your support emails every day, day by day. Write with confidence any question, feedback, or complaint, and you will receive an answer in a very short period of time. 140+ SUPPORTED LANGUAGES Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Nyanja (Chichewa), Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala (Sinhalese), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino), Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu We offer two auto-renewing subscriptions and a one-time payment option: • Basic, a 1 Month subscription • Premium, a 12-month subscription • Lifetime access: one-time payment only Prices may vary by location. Subscriptions will auto-renew unless canceled. • Payment will be charged to the iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. • No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period. • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Your account will be charged for renewal for the amount of your current subscription within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. All costs for subscriptions are mentioned above. Privacy Policy https://alexdenk.eu/subscriptions-privacy-policy.html Terms of Use https://alexdenk.eu/subscriptions-terms-of-use.html

Screenshots

Camera Translator4 screens
Documents Translator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Documents Translator at 4.7 against Camera Translator's 2.9. Documents Translator also leads on review sentiment (54% vs 25%) and ratings volume (71 vs 7). Camera Translator's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Camera Translator sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Documents Translator sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Documents Translator holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Documents Translator has 71 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of Camera Translator's written reviews are positive against 54% of Documents Translator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Camera Translator ships an update monthly, Documents Translator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Camera Translator versus Documents Translator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCamera TranslatorDocuments Translator
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (7 ratings)4.7 (71 ratings) — better
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews54.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings771 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size227 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTalkaoDenk Alexandru

Customer experience

Camera Translator

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%

Documents Translator

All ratings71 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews233 reviews
Positive54.1%
Neutral5.2%
Negative40.8%

Bugs and requests

Camera Translator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Documents Translator

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • App crashes when typing or entering text
  • Unexpected force closes and crashes
  • Camera/document scanning feature not working
  • Touch ID support not properly implemented
  • App freezing during long text selection
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  • Translation errors with specific languages
  • Keyboard shortcut not functioning properly
  • Subscription charging issues and duplicate billing
  • Nag screen appears too frequently
  • App stops working after updates

Requested features

10 requests
  • Swap/exchange button for quick language switching
  • Dark mode for better user experience
  • Sound/pronunciation feature for all languages
  • Favorite language shortcuts for quick selection
  • Dictionary function for vocabulary learning
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  • Document upload and file conversion on mobile
  • OCR functionality for document scanning
  • Formal/informal language preference options
  • Better PDF formatting preservation
  • Cross-device synchronization of settings

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Camera Translator

Subscriptions10
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Unlimited Access$4.991 Month
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  • Unlimited Access$5.991 Month
  • Unlimited Access$29.996 Months
  • Yearly with 7 days free7 Days trial$36.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription$38.991 Year
  • Limited offer3 Days trial$38.991 Year
  • Yearly with 3 days free3 Days trial$48.991 Year
  • Unlimited Access$59.991 Year
5 purchases

Documents Translator

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription$12.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time2
  • Lifetime Access$24.99
  • Lifetime Access$34.99

Questions

Is Camera Translator free?
Camera Translator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Documents Translator free?
Documents Translator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Camera Translator or Documents Translator?
Documents Translator is rated higher. Camera Translator averages 2.9 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Documents Translator averages 4.7 from 71 ratings.
Do Camera Translator or Documents Translator have ads?
Neither Camera Translator nor Documents Translator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Camera Translator or Documents Translator?
Camera Translator ships an update monthly, and Documents Translator every 3 weeks. Most recently, Camera Translator was updated on September 9, 2026 and Documents Translator on September 23, 2026.

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