Text Capture vs Censor Text
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.
Censor Text
Easily obscure sensitive text or faces in your images and screenshots. Offers various redaction styles like blur, pixelate, and strikethrough with adjustable intensity. Protects your privacy and creates polished visuals.
- Automatic text detection
- Customizable redaction options
- Blur, pixelate, and redact
- Underline, strikethrough, obfuscate
- Adjustable intensity
- High-quality export
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Censor Text is the ultimate tool for quickly and easily censoring any area on your screenshots and images. Perfect for maintaining privacy, protecting sensitive information, and creating professional-looking visuals. FEATURES: • Automatic text detection • Customizable options • Text/Face blur, pixelate, redact • Underline, strikethrough, obfuscate • Adjust blur and pixelate intensity • High-quality export Hide sensitive information in seconds. The app does not collect any personal information or store your images. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://invented-record-ac4.notion.site/Censor-Text-Blur-Redact-Privacy-054ad310e68b49c78d77d05f97eb6d5e
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Text Capture at 4.5 against Censor Text's 3.0. Text Capture also leads on review sentiment (42% vs 0%) and ratings volume (2.7K vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Censor Text sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Text Capture holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. 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 Censor Text's.
Text Capture ships an update weekly, Censor Text every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Capture | Censor Text |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.7K ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.7K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA. | Vladislav Shtefanko |
Customer experience
Text Capture
Censor Text
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
Censor Text
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Capture
- Premium$3.99
Censor Text
- Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
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