Text Capture vs Cursive Writing Reader
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.
Cursive Writing Reader
This app uses your device's camera to scan and convert handwritten cursive English into digital text. It can also recognize handwriting directly within the app, allowing you to easily copy and paste the converted content.
- Scan cursive from camera or gallery
- Convert handwritten characters to text
- OCR handwriting recognition
- In-app handwriting recognition
- Copy and paste converted text
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A cursive scanner app that reads cursive English with a camera and converts it to text It recognizes alphabets and roman letters with OCR and converts handwritten characters to text It also allows handwriting within the app [Features] 1. Scan and convert handwritten cursive from camera or gallery 2. Recognize and convert handwritten characters within the app with OCR 3. Copy and paste the converted text Have you ever experienced these situations? • You don't know whose signature is written in cursive • You received a letter from a friend written in cursive, but you don't know what it says • You are worried if your signature will be recognized • You borrowed a notebook, but you can't understand it because it's too neat • You want to easily understand your pen pal's writing • A new foreign subordinate gave you a memo written in cursive • AET or English teachers can only write in cursive, and you are at a loss • You want to decipher old documents • You found a treasure map, but you don't know what it says • You are forced to deal with cursive only Notes: • You need to connect to the internet
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Verdict
Text Capture and Cursive Writing Reader both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 42% of Text Capture's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cursive Writing Reader's. Text Capture also leads on ratings volume (2.7K vs 38). Cursive Writing Reader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Text Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cursive Writing Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Text Capture against 4.4 for Cursive Writing Reader. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Capture has 2.7K ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of Text Capture's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cursive Writing Reader's.
Text Capture ships an update weekly, Cursive Writing Reader daily. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Capture | Cursive Writing Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) — better | 4.4 (38 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. | Koji Watanabe |
Customer experience
Text Capture
Cursive Writing Reader
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
Cursive Writing Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Capture
- Premium$3.99
Cursive Writing Reader
No in-app purchases
Questions
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