Comparison

Photos Search Text vs Framely

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Photos Search Text

This app uses text recognition to find and extract text from your photos. It can detect links, phone numbers, and calendar events, and allows you to copy the extracted text or save it to a new album. Integrates with Maps and offers a Share Extension for use in other apps.

Highlights
  • Text recognition in photos
  • Extract text, links, and phone numbers
  • Create albums from search results
  • Map integration for photo location
  • Share and editing extensions
  • Supports multiple languages
Features
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Photos Search will search for text in your Photos library. It uses Text Recognition software to find text in a photo. You can scan a selected time period (7 days, 30 days, 6 months etc.) or scan all your photos. Once a photo has been processed, you will not have to scan it again, so after a while you will have processed your complete photos library and it will be ready to be searched instantaneously. Photos Search can extract the text from any photo and will allow you to copy the text. It will also detect links, phone numbers, calendar events etc. An extensive User Guide is included. You can create an album in Photos with your search results, so that you can also work with your found photos in the Photos app. Photos Search integrates with Maps to show you the physical location where the photo has been taken. You can also use Photos Search to scan an individual photo, a photo of a paper document or a screen shot. Photos Search includes a Share Extension. With this extension you can extract text from any photo in other apps through the extension feature of iOS. Photos Search also includes a Photos Editing Extension. With this extension you can extract text from any photo in Photos through the extension feature of Photos. Just Edit a photo in Photos and call on the Photos Search extension to extract all the text from the photo. A bundle version that includes a macOS version is also available. Most languages are supported : English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian. New languages that are supported : Thai, Vietnamese and Arabic.

About

Framely

Features
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Your camera shoots 30 to 60 photos every second โ€” Extract Frames lets you keep them. Turn any video into photos: every single frame, one per second, every Nth frame, or exactly the moment you want with a frame-by-frame scrubber. No ads. No subscription. Pay once and export forever. Most frame-grab apps let you save one photo at a time, then lock batch export behind a weekly subscription. This one doesn't. Every frame, full quality, one honest price. โ€ข EVERY FRAME โ€” export a whole clip as photos in one go, at the video's full resolution. โ€ข YOUR PACE โ€” every Nth frame or 1 per second for quick contact sheets. โ€ข THE PERFECT MOMENT โ€” scrub to the exact frame on a millisecond timeline and export just that one. โ€ข KNOW BEFORE YOU RUN โ€” see roughly how many frames you'll get before you extract. โ€ข PICK FROM A GRID โ€” review every frame as thumbnails, select the keepers, and batch-save to Photos. โ€ข 100% PRIVATE โ€” everything happens on your iPhone. Your videos are never uploaded anywhere. โ€ข NO ADS, NO SUBSCRIPTION โ€” one $4.99 purchase unlocks unlimited exports forever. Great for sports and action clips, picking the sharpest shot out of a moving moment, thumbnails for your channel, art and animation reference, form checks, and rescuing that one perfect frame from a live video. Tap Select Video, choose a mode, extract. Done.

Screenshots

Photos Search Text4 screens
Framely4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Framely at Free against Photos Search Text's $4.99. Framely also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Photos Search Text's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#177 vs unranked). On ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Framely is free to download; Photos Search Text costs $4.99 up front. Framely sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Photos Search Text asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photos Search Text ships an update fortnightly, Framely weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences ยท 3 level
Photos Search Text versus Framely: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhotos Search TextFramely
Price$4.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
MonetizationPaidโ€”
Best chart rank#177 โ€” betterโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better16.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlco BlomJhomar Maravillas

In-app purchases

None

Photos Search Text

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Framely

One-time1
  • Unlock Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Photos Search Text free?
Photos Search Text costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Framely free?
Framely is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Photos Search Text or Framely have ads?
Neither Photos Search Text nor Framely shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photos Search Text or Framely?
Photos Search Text ships an update fortnightly, and Framely weekly. Most recently, Photos Search Text was updated on October 25, 2026 and Framely on October 25, 2026.

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