Comparison

Text Capture vs Text Scanner

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Text Scanner

Easily convert images into editable text using advanced OCR technology. Scan documents, receipts, and more to digitize important information. Its user-friendly interface ensures quick and accurate text extraction for accessibility.

Highlights
  • Image to text conversion
  • OCR technology
  • Scan documents and receipts
  • Digitize information
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Text Scanner: Image to Text is the perfect tool for quickly and easily converting images to text. With the ability to scan documents, receipts, and more, this app makes it easy to digitize and store important information. The app uses advanced optical character recognition (OCR) technology to accurately extract text from images, so you can be sure that the text is accurate and easy to read. The user-friendly interface is simple to navigate, making it easy for anyone to use. With Text Scanner, you can easily scan and save important information, making it more accessible than ever before. Download now and start scanning! Regenerate response

Screenshots

Text Capture3 screens
Text Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Text Capture at 4.5 against Text Scanner's 1.0. Text Capture also leads on ratings volume (2.7K vs 1). Text Scanner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Text Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Text Scanner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Text Capture holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Capture has 2.7K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Text Capture versus Text Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText CaptureText Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.7K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews41.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.7K — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.513.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA.Deisy Renteria

Customer experience

Text Capture

All ratings2,732 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews244 reviews
Positive41.8%
Neutral4.1%
Negative54.1%

Text Scanner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Text Scanner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Text Capture

One-time1
  • Premium$3.99
None

Text Scanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Capture free?
Text Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Text Scanner free?
Text Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Capture or Text Scanner?
Text Capture is rated higher. Text Capture averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while Text Scanner averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Text Capture or Text Scanner have ads?
Neither Text Capture nor Text Scanner shows ads.

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