Comparison

Text Capture vs Offload

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

Offload

Features
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Talk for a minute. Get a tidy task list. That's the whole app. Offload is for the voice notes graveyard — the "remind me to..." you muttered into your phone at 11pm and never listened back to. Open the app, talk for as long as it takes to get the thought out, and Offload transcribes it and sorts it into tasks, ideas, thoughts, feelings and decisions before you've put the phone down. No typing, no structure required going in — just say it. WHY OFFLOAD • Talk, don't organise — ramble for a minute the way you actually think. Offload does the sorting after, not before • Get a tidy task list out — every dump comes back as a checklist you can tick off, not a wall of text you have to re-read • Prefer typing? There's a text box on the same screen — the mic is never required • Add to your calendar, Reminders, or share to any app — turn a task straight into a calendar event, send your list to Reminders, Notes, WhatsApp, wherever it needs to live next • A free monthly allowance, no account — open the app and start talking. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to sign in to • Delete everything, any time — one button in Settings wipes every recording, transcript and task off your phone for good WHAT'S INSIDE Record or type a dump. It gets transcribed, then sorted into tasks, ideas, thoughts, feelings and decisions — five plain categories, not a folder tree you have to maintain. Tasks come with their own checkbox, plus a button to add them straight to your calendar or send the whole list somewhere else. Didn't like how something got sorted? Re-organise it, or edit it by hand. Stats show what's actually been on your mind lately, across every dump. PRIVACY Everything you record or type is stored on your phone — in local storage, not on a server — until you delete it yourself. To transcribe and sort a dump, the audio and transcript are sent transiently to Cloudflare Workers AI to do that one job. It doesn't store them afterwards and doesn't use them to train models. The only things that touch a server on an ongoing basis are an anonymous monthly counter that stops the free allowance being abused — keyed to a random ID generated on your phone, not to you — and anonymous usage counts (which features get used, never what you said) that help fix the rough edges. Same random ID, and you can switch them off in Settings. No accounts, no ads, no third-party trackers. Full policy: https://offload-bo8.pages.dev/privacy WHO IT'S FOR Anyone whose thoughts move faster than their thumbs — walking, driving, lying awake at 3am, walking out of a meeting with four things to remember. If you've ever recorded a voice memo and never played it back, this is the app that does something with it before you've had the chance to forget. Open it, talk, get your head back. Privacy policy: https://offload-bo8.pages.dev/privacy Terms of Use: https://offload-bo8.pages.dev/terms

Screenshots

Text Capture3 screens
Offload4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Text Capture at weekly against Offload's fortnightly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 Offload sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Capture ships an update weekly, Offload fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Text Capture versus Offload: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText CaptureOffload
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews42.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.7K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArthur Eduardo Skaetta Alvarez Desenvolvimento de Software LTDA.Michael David Corvin Webb Ltd

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

Offload

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Text Capture

One-time1
  • Premium$3.99
2 purchases

Offload

Subscriptions2
  • Offload Pro$2.991 Month
  • Offload Pro$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Text Capture free?
Text Capture is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Offload free?
Offload is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Text Capture or Offload have ads?
Neither Text Capture nor Offload shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Capture or Offload?
Text Capture ships an update weekly, and Offload fortnightly. Most recently, Text Capture was updated on October 29, 2026 and Offload on October 25, 2026.

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