Comparison

Text Capture vs Colors Extractor

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

Colors Extractor

Extract color palettes from images with their hexadecimal and RGB codes. Save favorite palettes and export them as images. Supports importing from gallery, URL, or camera.

Highlights
  • Extract colors from images
  • View colors in HEX, RGB, HSV, HSB, CMYK
  • Copy color codes to clipboard
  • Import images from gallery, URL, or camera
  • Save favorite color palettes
  • Export palettes as images
Features
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The app Colors Extractor helps you to extract colors from any image. The colors are shown with yours hexadecimal code and can be copy to clipboard. Furthemore, the colors code also are exposed in the colors sistems like RGB, HSV, HSB and CMYK. To extract colors using the app is very simple. Just import the images from the device gallery, from a URL(Internet link) or through the camera. In this way, the application will display the main colors that make up the image. In addition, it is possible to add the color palette to the favorites list and export an image with the found color collection. The main features of the app are as follows: ==Color Extraction== With this app you can extract colors from an image. ==Color Picker== Select and copy colors as per your need. ==Copy/Share Colors== Copy or share image colors in multiple color systems. ==Favorite Palettes== Save the color palettes extracted from the image. ==Export Palette== Export the color palettes as an image containing their respective codes in HEX. Use this app as an help tool for your creativity. Have fun!

Screenshots

Text Capture3 screens
Colors Extractor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Colors Extractor at 5.0 against Text Capture's 4.5. Text Capture's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 7 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Text Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Colors Extractor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Colors Extractor 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 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Capture ships an update weekly, Colors Extractor every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Text Capture versus Colors Extractor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText CaptureColors Extractor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.7K ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.7K — better5
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.5 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA.Luiz Santos

Customer experience

Text Capture

All ratings2,730 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews245 reviews
Positive42.0%
Neutral4.1%
Negative53.9%

Colors Extractor

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Colors Extractor

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Text Capture

One-time1
  • Premium$3.99
1 purchases

Colors Extractor

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is Text Capture free?
Text Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Colors Extractor free?
Colors Extractor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Text Capture or Colors Extractor?
Colors Extractor is rated higher. Text Capture averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.7K ratings, while Colors Extractor averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Text Capture or Colors Extractor have ads?
Colors Extractor shows ads; Text Capture does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Capture or Colors Extractor?
Text Capture ships an update weekly, and Colors Extractor every 7 months. Most recently, Text Capture was updated on November 2, 2026 and Colors Extractor on October 24, 2026.

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