Comparison

Satvis vs Text Pics!

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

Head to head
About

Satvis

Visualize and track thousands of satellites in real-time on a 3D globe. See upcoming passes over your location and identify satellites in the sky view. This free, open-source app provides detailed spacecraft information and works offline.

Highlights
  • Real-time 3D satellite visualization
  • Upcoming pass predictions
  • Ground-level sky view
  • Detailed spacecraft information
  • Offline functionality
  • Customizable map views
Features
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Satvis is a free, open-source satellite tracker for iPhone and iPad. It draws more than 16,000 satellites on a 3D globe in real time: Starlink, GPS, weather satellites, the ISS and many more. Set your location and it predicts when each one passes overhead. The sky view shows the sky from where you stand. Point your phone up to see the satellites in that direction. WHAT IT DOES • Visualize satellites on a 3D globe in real time, propagated on the device with SGP4 from CelesTrak's element sets • Show points, labels, orbits, orbit tracks, ground tracks, sensor cones, 3D models and ground station links per satellite, colored by orbit class (LEO, MEO, GEO, HEO) • Switch catalog groups on and off (Starlink, GNSS, weather, Earth observation, crewed stations), or search for a single satellite • Select a satellite to see its orbit, its next passes over your locations and its spacecraft details: country, operator, manufacturer, bus, mass and size • Track a satellite: the camera flies to it and follows it along its orbit • Save your location or any point you pick on the map, then list the upcoming passes over it and get a notification before one starts • Find satellites overhead in the ground-level sky view, aimed by dragging or by pointing your phone, with the camera's picture of the sky behind them • See which satellites you could spot: the sky view dims those in Earth's shadow, too far away or in a daylit sky • View the globe in 3D or flattened to 2D, over the base map, star field and terrain you choose: satellite imagery, Earth at night or the day's VIIRS imagery • Start from the featured views, bookmark your own, and share any view as a link: it opens the same view on satvis.space • Open satvis.space links straight in the app • Keep using it offline, from the satellite data it last fetched WHERE THE DATA COMES FROM Element sets come from CelesTrak, refreshed several times a day, and are propagated on your device with SGP4. Spacecraft details come from Jonathan McDowell's GCAT. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE No account, no ads, no in-app purchases. Developed in the open at github.com/Flowm/satvis under the MIT license.

About

Text Pics!

This utility app uses your device's camera or photo library to detect text within images. It then transforms selected text into visual representations, aiding comprehension of menus, lists, or technical documents. Explore generated images to understand your content better.

Highlights
  • Text detection from photos
  • Image generation from text
  • Document scanner
  • Photo library integration
  • Visualizing technical text
  • Understanding foreign menus
Features
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Text Pics will detect text in any photo, and turn it into pictures! Text Pics is perfect for: • Understanding restaurant menus in a foreign country! • Making a shopping list easier to follow! • Helping you to visualise a dry technical text. • Lots more! Tell us what you're using Text Pics for! How to use: Step 1: Get your photo - you can use the document scanner, take a regular photo, or grab the photo from your photo library. Step 2: After Text Pics automatically detects text, you can select which text you're interested in. Step 3: After you tap 'Done', Text Pics will automatically display pictures for the text you've selected! Step 4: Tap on a pic if you're interested to see more pics. Where did the inspiration for Text Pics come from? Have you ever sat down in a restaurant in a foreign country, and then realised the menu doesn't have any pictures and you have no idea what to order? Well, it happened to me once in China! Famished, I had no choice but to order at random. 10 minutes later I was presented with a massive bowl of bok choy. Not exactly what I was hoping for. (sigh!) If I had Text Pics, it would have been a piece of cake to understand the menu with pictures!

Screenshots

Satvis3 screens
Text Pics!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Text Pics! at 100% against Satvis's 0%. Text Pics! also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Satvis ships an update every 3 weeks, Text Pics! every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Satvis versus Text Pics!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSatvisText Pics!
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlorian MauracherCraig Grummitt

Customer experience

Satvis

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Text Pics!

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Satvis

No in-app purchases

None

Text Pics!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Satvis free?
Satvis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Pics! free?
Text Pics! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Satvis or Text Pics! have ads?
Neither Satvis nor Text Pics! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Satvis or Text Pics!?
Satvis ships an update every 3 weeks, and Text Pics! every 2 weeks. Most recently, Satvis was updated on November 6, 2026 and Text Pics! on November 3, 2026.

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