Text Scan vs Counter ⁺
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Scan
This utility app accurately recognizes characters from images, transforming your phone into a text scanner. It supports over 55 languages and allows for image enhancement before extraction. You can then copy, edit, and share the recognized text, with a history of your scans saved.
- Extract text from images
- Copy recognized text
- Crop and enhance images
- Edit and share OCR results
- Scan history
- Support for 55+ languages
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Text Scan is app to recognize the characters from an image with high accuracy. It turns your mobile phone to text scanner. Gave support for 55+ languages (Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Azeri, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Panjabi, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese) Features of Text Scan: • Extract Text On Image • Copy - Text on Screen • Crop and Enhance image before OCR. • Edit & Share OCR result. • Scan history.
Counter ⁺
Easily track and tally anything with this powerful counting application. Save and share your counts, with voice and vibration alerts for every increment. Designed for intuitive use on Apple Watch and iPhone.
- Track and tally anything
- Save and share counters
- Voice and vibration alerts
- User-friendly big button design
- Apple Watch synchronization
- Track daily values
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This app is one of the most powerful count apps created for the IOS platform. Keep score, tally inventory, count things, workouts, science experiments, track values from day-to-day. Counter app makes it easy to count anything and everything all the time. it can save all counters and lets you to share with friends. It is user friendly design with big buttons. It can use on your apple watch and synchronize with your iPhone app. App warns by voice every 10 App vibrates every count up
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Counter ⁺ at Free against Text Scan's $1.99. Counter ⁺ also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Text Scan's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 15 months). On review sentiment and device support 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
Counter ⁺ is free to download; Text Scan costs $1.99 up front. Text Scan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Counter ⁺ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Counter ⁺ holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Counter ⁺ has 26 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Text Scan ships an update every 6 months, Counter ⁺ every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Scan | Counter ⁺ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Microstone Inc. | UniCom Technology |
Customer experience
Text Scan
Counter ⁺
In-app purchases
Text Scan
- High Accuracy Scan 200 Times$1.99
Counter ⁺
No in-app purchases
