Text Capture vs CatScanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
CatScanner
This app uses machine learning to accurately convert images and documents into editable text and PDF files. It supports multiple languages, batch processing, and offers translation features for various needs. Save and organize your scanned text easily.
- Machine learning for accurate OCR
- Edit and export OCR results to .txt/.docx
- Multi-language text recognition
- Scan documents to image/PDF
- Batch processing for OCR and filters
- Multi-language translation
- One-click copy, paste, and edit
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OCR image to text, the most powerful and easiest-to-use OCR App, also can scan images and documents to pdf files, efficient and accurate mobile scanner. PDF to photos and text. KEY FEATURES: - Machine learning make OCR more accurate. - Edit OCR results and notes of the doc, exporting as .txt file and .docx file. - 360° text recognition in many languages , including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korea, Russian, German, Spanish, Greek, Turkish, Korean and so on. - Scan docs into clear & sharp image/PDF, to email, print or share to anywhere. - Support batch processing, like batch OCR, batch documents color filter. - Support multiply language translation, support business negotiation, study work, travel abroad, and other requirements. - Copy, Paste and Edit recognized result with one-click. - Automatically save extracted text. - Find history recognition results in "Records". - Support combination of multiple recognized text. Payment models for Premium subscription: • Monthly Subscription: $2.99 per month, • Yearly Subscription:$24.99 per year. • 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 subscription period. • 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 will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication. For Terms of Use, please visit https://uzerofiles.uzero.cn/catscannertermsuse.html For Privacy Policy, please visit https://uzerofiles.uzero.cn/catscannerprivacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Text Capture at 4.5 against CatScanner's 4.0. Text Capture also leads on ratings volume (2.7K vs 4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). CatScanner's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Text Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CatScanner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Text Capture holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Capture has 2.7K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 42% of Text Capture's written reviews are positive against 50% of CatScanner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Text Capture ships an update weekly, CatScanner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Capture | CatScanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. | Uzero Technology |
Customer experience
Text Capture
CatScanner
Bugs and 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
CatScanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Capture
- Premium$3.99
CatScanner
- Monthly VIP$2.991 Month
- Annual VIP3 Days trial$24.991 Year
Questions
Is Text Capture free?
Is CatScanner free?
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