Text Pics! vs Phoice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Pics!
This utility app uses your device's camera or photo library to detect text within images. It then transforms selected text into visual representations, aiding comprehension of menus, lists, or technical documents. Explore generated images to understand your content better.
- Text detection from photos
- Image generation from text
- Document scanner
- Photo library integration
- Visualizing technical text
- Understanding foreign menus
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Text Pics will detect text in any photo, and turn it into pictures! Text Pics is perfect for: • Understanding restaurant menus in a foreign country! • Making a shopping list easier to follow! • Helping you to visualise a dry technical text. • Lots more! Tell us what you're using Text Pics for! How to use: Step 1: Get your photo - you can use the document scanner, take a regular photo, or grab the photo from your photo library. Step 2: After Text Pics automatically detects text, you can select which text you're interested in. Step 3: After you tap 'Done', Text Pics will automatically display pictures for the text you've selected! Step 4: Tap on a pic if you're interested to see more pics. Where did the inspiration for Text Pics come from? Have you ever sat down in a restaurant in a foreign country, and then realised the menu doesn't have any pictures and you have no idea what to order? Well, it happened to me once in China! Famished, I had no choice but to order at random. 10 minutes later I was presented with a massive bowl of bok choy. Not exactly what I was hoping for. (sigh!) If I had Text Pics, it would have been a piece of cake to understand the menu with pictures!
Phoice
Transform your images into spoken descriptions with this innovative app. Choose from multiple voices and enjoy a fast, easy way to understand and share visual content. It enhances accessibility and offers a unique auditory perspective on photos.
- Photo to Voice conversion
- Multiple voice selections
- Fast and easy navigation
- Enhanced accessibility
- Customizable detail preferences
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Your words, our voice. Phoice turns anything you can read into natural, expressive speech — text you type, words you dictate, and print you scan with your camera. Whether you're proofing your writing, catching up hands-free, making study material easier to absorb, or narrating a clip, Phoice gives you clear, human-sounding audio in seconds. Type, paste, or dictate - Drop in any text or speak it aloud, pick a voice, and generate audio instantly. Adjust the speaking rate to match how you like to listen. Point, scan, listen - Hold your camera over any page, sign, label, or screen. Phoice pulls out the text and reads it back — great for documents, menus, and anything in print. Add a voice to your video - Layer a natural AI voice over your video clips and export a finished result — no recording booth required. Dozens of lifelike voices - Preview and choose from a wide range of natural voices to find the tone that fits. Your library, saved - Every recording is kept in your library — search it, favourite what you love, and replay, share, or export whenever you need. Go Pro - Unlock every voice and unlimited, ad-free generation with Phoice Pro. Download Phoice and give your words a voice.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Text Pics! at 100% against Phoice's 0%. Text Pics! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). Phoice's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.8). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Phoice sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Text Pics! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Phoice holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Text Pics!'s written reviews are positive against 0% of Phoice's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Pics! | Phoice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Craig Grummitt | Sparkling Design and Infotech Private Limited |
Customer experience
Text Pics!
Phoice
In-app purchases
Text Pics!
No in-app purchases
Phoice
- Phoice Premium$2.991 Month
- Phoice - Lifetime$14.99









