Live text vs Show in Big
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Live text
Create dynamic and attention-grabbing text messages with customizable colors, fonts, and animations. Save your creations for later use. Perfect for making your messages stand out.
- Customizable background and text colors
- Wide color palette and custom color editor
- Multiple font choices
- Animated effects (bounce, rotate, etc.)
- Save and revisit previous texts
- Marquee sign style
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Live Text helps you create eye-catching messages in seconds. Type your text, customize the background and text colors, pick a font, and add animations like bounce and rotate to bring your message to life. What you can do with Live Text • Create custom text messages with background and text color control • Use a wide color palette and a custom color editor • Choose from multiple fonts • Add animated effects (bounce, rotate, and more) • Save and revisit your previous texts with text history Make your text look like a marquee sign—or create your own style.
Show in Big
This utility app displays typed text in the largest possible font size to ensure maximum readability. It offers customization with multiple color options and convenient features like phrase history and pinning for quick access. The app also includes text-to-speech functionality for any supported language on your device.
- Largest possible font size
- Multiple color options
- History of last 100 phrases
- Pin phrases for quick access
- Text-to-speech functionality
- No tracking or data collection
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Just open the app, and start typing right away, all the entered text will be shown with the biggest font size possible to fit the screen for the best readability. -Easy and fast to use -Multiple color options -History of your last 100 entered phrases -Pin phrases for quick access -Read the typed text aloud with any languages that are supported by your device -No Tracking, or any kind of information collection
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Live text at 6 against Show in Big's 1. Show in Big's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Live text against 5.0 for Show in Big. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Live text has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Live text | Show in Big |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stanimir Petrov | Dominik Gyecsek |
Customer experience
Live text
Show in Big
In-app purchases
Live text
No in-app purchases
Show in Big
No in-app purchases
