ScreenOCR vs ScanTexter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScreenOCR
Instantly extract text from images and photos with high accuracy. Supports over 50 languages for recognition and over 20 for translation, including handwriting and whiteboards. Export results as text or PDF files.
- Extract text from images and photos
- Translate recognized text
- Recognize 50+ languages
- Translate 20+ languages
- Scan handwriting and whiteboards
- Export as .txt/.pdf
- Batch processing
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ScreenOCR - born for scanning your documents and extract text from images and photos with your iOS devices. Highest Speed & Highest Quality! Support translation. #1 Product of the Week https://www.producthunt.com/posts/screenocr Best OCR software by MakeUseOf https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-free-ocr-software-tools-to-convert-your-images-into-text-nb/ Best OCR app by CHIP https://www.chip.de/downloads/Easy-Screen-OCR_134967874.html *** Turn your mobile phone into a text scanner and translator. Take a photo to start the OCR/Translation process.*** *** More than 98% accuracy as powered by Google advanced engine. *** *** Privacy Protected. No documents and results will be stored on our server. *** KEY FEATURES ------------------------- ** Use your iPhone or iPad to start scanning instantly and extract text/words/handwritings on images. ** Pick image/photo up from the album for OCR and translation. ** Support recognizing 50+ languages from images. ** Support translating 20+ languages. ** Support scanning handwriting to text. ** Support scanning whiteboard or blackboard to text. ** Support Auto-Detection. ** Support cropping image before OCR. ** Support exporting the results as .txt/.pdf files. ** Support editing and sharing the OCR/Translation results. ** Support checking the results with the original images/photos. ** Support storing your recent scan history locally. ** Support unlimited access by upgrading to the Pro member. ** Support restoring your purchase information. ** Support batch process FREE VERSION ------------------------- The free version is ad-supported and you can get 6 free credits every day. Watch ads to get extra 4 credits. Credits could not be accumulated and will be reset every day. PRO VERSION ------------------------- No account required anymore. You can upgrade to Pro and get unlimited access by subscribing to our monthly plan, yearly plan or lifetime plan. Monthly Plan - $9.9 - Unlimited Access Yearly Plan - $39.9 - Unlimited Acces - Save 66% Lifetime Plan - $49.9 - Best Choice! PROBLEMS OR QUESTIONS ------------------------- Contact Us: support@easyscreenocr.com HomePage: https://easyscreenocr.com For Mobile: https://easyscreenocr.com/for-mobile For Mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easy-screen-ocr/id1359663922?mt=12 Privacy Policy: https://easyscreenocr.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://easyscreenocr.com/terms-of-service/ CHANGELOG -------------------------- version 2.2.0 **Now you can select and remove the picture in the batch process **Other bug fix and performance improvement version 2.1.0 ** UI/UX Improvement ** Bug Fixed ** Change the in-app purchase ** No need to log in your account ** Restore your in-app purchase version 2.0.0 **Support batch process . Now you can take multiple photos and OCR them at one time. **Performance improvement. **Bug Fixed
ScanTexter
Effortlessly extract and translate text from images and videos. This app streamlines the process, eliminating the need for manual copying and pasting. It supports barcode scanning and offers iCloud synchronization across devices.
- Extract text from images
- Translate extracted text
- Scan barcodes (QR, AZTEC, UPC-E)
- Recognize links
- iCloud synchronization
- Multiple language support
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The ScanTexter app not only extracts the text from the image be also automatically translates them. It is very easy to use. You will be surprised by its productivity. • Select or take a picture of the image you want to extract and translate text from. That is it. So simple right? This app provides the optimized productivity for iPhone/iPad users. It is easier than copying the text and using a translator. You no longer need to select and copy text from the screen. Also there is no need for additional effort to extract text from images and videos. Just select an image or take a picture. Just select an image or take a picture to automatically extract and translate the text. Your productivity will change dramatically through the ScanTexter app. With this app you can • Extract text from the image • Translate the extracted text to various languages • Scan bar codes (QR, AZTEC, UPC-E) • Links can be recognized. • Data is synchronized between iPhone / iPad / macOS apps via iCloud. Pro Version • Upgrade to the pro version and you can use it an unlimited number of times. Premium Version (subscription) • With a subscription, you can use all features without restrictions. • You can additionally use DeepL, the world's leading machine translation service. In this app you can set the • You can select DeepL or the Default translation engine. • Turn line wrapping on and off • Set the extraction language (more languages will be added consistently) : Cantonese (yue-Hans), Cantonese (yue-Hant), German, Russian, Vietnamese, Spanish, English, Ukrainian, Italian, Japanese, Chinese (zh-Hans), Chinese (zh-Hant), Thai, Portuguese, French, Korean, and Vietnamese. Automatic language recognition function will be supported from iOS 16 version and up. (Specifying the extraction language increases accuracy.) • Set the language for translation. : Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dzongkha, Dogri, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Ewe, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Mongolian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Iloko, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Konkani, Korean, Krio, Kurdish, Kurdish (Sorani), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Meitei (Manipuri), Mizo, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Nyanja (Chichewa), Oriya, Oromo, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Northern Sotho, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog (Philippines), Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tigrinya, Tongan, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi (Akan), Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu Privacy Policy : https://boardtack.com/ScanTexter/privacy.html Terms of Service : https://boardtack.com/ScanTexter/terms.html
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Verdict
ScreenOCR and ScanTexter both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 88% of ScanTexter's written reviews are positive against 38% of ScreenOCR's. ScreenOCR's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. ScreenOCR sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and ScanTexter sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for ScreenOCR against 4.6 for ScanTexter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 15 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 38% of ScreenOCR's written reviews are positive against 88% of ScanTexter's.
ScreenOCR ships an update every 3 weeks, ScanTexter fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | ScreenOCR | ScanTexter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (9 ratings) | 4.6 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews | 88.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 通 张 | BoardTack |
Customer experience
ScreenOCR
ScanTexter
In-app purchases
ScreenOCR
- Monthly Plan - $9.99$9.991 Month
- Yearly Plan - $29.99$29.991 Year
- $6.99 for 600 Credits$6.99
- $9.99 for 1200 Credits$9.99
- $19.99 for 3000 Credits$19.99
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- $29.99 for 6000 Credits$29.99
- $49.99 for 10000 Credits$49.99
- Lifetime Plan - $49.99$49.99
ScanTexter
- Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Pro Version for iOS$6.99
- Pro Version for Mac$29.99
Questions
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