Text Capture vs Scanner
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.
Scanner
Easily digitize paper documents into PDFs using your phone's camera. Features include automatic edge detection, rotation, color enhancement, and OCR to extract text. Secure your files with password protection and share them via cloud services.
- Automatic document edge detection and cropping
- Rotate scans in 90-degree increments
- 6 color enhancement options
- OCR for text extraction in 14 languages
- Convert PDF, JPG, PNG to TXT
- Cloud storage integration for sharing
- Add personalized signatures to PDFs
- Password protect files and folders
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Transform paper document into digital PDF with your iPhone. The Scanner app allows you to scan documents, sign, save and print them, or send them via email and file-sharing services. Scanner app is more than a clean PDF scanner, you can digitize and manage all your documents, receipts, forms, books, business cards, passports and photos on the go with it. ~ KEY FEATURES ~ Crop: Detect edges of document and automatically crop your scan Rotate: Rotate scan in 90-degree increments Color: 6 color enhancement options including Black & White and Color OCR: Perform OCR in 14 languages; recognize, extract, copy, edit and share text Convert: Convert PDF, JPG and PNG format to editable TXT document Share: Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud Drive and other cloud storage services Sign: Add a personalized signature to your PDF Manage: Rename, move, share and delete folders and files Protect: Password protect your files and folders ~ HOW TO USE ~ -Scan single document Position the paper document on a flat surface, like a desk or table. Hover the phone directly above it until it’s automatically recognized by the camera. There’s also a manual button in case it doesn’t grab your document right away. Drag the corners to adjust the scan to fit the page, if needed, or to scan only part of the page you want. Tap the save button and edit your scan. Fine-tune the scan for Color, Black & White, and Grayscale. You can set up your default scan quality and filter in settings. -Scan multiple documents in sequence Switch to batch mode. Arrange your documents in a stack to scan them in order, one after the other. After the camera shoots the first page, remove it so the app can capture the second page. Repeat until you finish all scanning. Next, tap the share icon to send the scanned document using your apps, print it out, or create a PDF. ~ UNLIMITED ACCESS MEMBERSHIP SUBSCRIPTION ~ -You can subscribe to get unlimited access to all app features -Subscriptions are billed weekly, monthly, or annually at the rate based on the subscription plan Weekly Subscription - USD 2.99 Monthly Subscription - USD 9.99 Yearly Subscription - USD 19.99 -Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase -Subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period -Account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. The cost depends on the selected plan -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 the free trial will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription For Terms of Use, please visit https://d3ddozgk1n793i.cloudfront.net/uPic/KI9iM3.html For Privacy Policy, please visit https://d3ddozgk1n793i.cloudfront.net/uPic/RXcwtb.html For any questions about scanner app, feel free to contact us at instanton73@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Scanner at 5.0 against Text Capture's 4.5. Scanner also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.5). Text Capture's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Text Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Scanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Scanner holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Capture has 2.7K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Text Capture ships an update weekly, Scanner every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Capture | Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. | Arkadiy Hamulin |
Customer experience
Text Capture
Scanner
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
Scanner
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Capture
- Premium$3.99
Scanner
- Scanner App Weekly Premium3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Scanner App Monthly Premium3 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Scanner App Yearly Premium3 Days trial$19.991 Year









