Text Capture vs ChatReminder
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.
ChatReminder
Schedule text messages to yourself for important tasks and events. The app sends reminders at your chosen time, ensuring you don't miss deadlines or commitments.
- Schedule text message reminders
- Set custom reminder times
- Never forget important events
- Simple and intuitive interface
- Cross-device support
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Stay on top of your tasks and events effortlessly. Simply specify what and when you would like to be reminded and the app will send you a text reminder at the scheduled time, ensuring you never forget an important meeting, deadline, or personal commitment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Text Capture at Free against ChatReminder's $2.99. Text Capture also leads on review sentiment (42% vs 0%) and rating (4.5 vs 4.0). ChatReminder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On 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
Text Capture is free to download; ChatReminder costs $2.99 up front. Text Capture sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ChatReminder asks for nothing beyond the download.
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 point the same way: 42% of Text Capture's written reviews are positive against 0% of ChatReminder's.
Text Capture ships an update weekly, ChatReminder every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Capture | ChatReminder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. | Haoyang Li |
Customer experience
Text Capture
ChatReminder
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
ChatReminder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Capture
- Premium$3.99
ChatReminder
No in-app purchases
Questions
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