Scriber vs Fabula for SwiftUI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scriber
This tool uses computer vision to convert images into editable text. It supports multiple languages and offers syntax highlighting for over 20 programming languages, with customizable themes.
- Image to text conversion
- Multiple language support
- Syntax highlighting for 20+ languages
- Customizable themes
- Computer vision technology
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Scriber is a tool that leverages computer vision to take an input image and cover it to text. With many features, while remaining sleek, Scriber is a convenient yet easy to use tool to turn an image to text. Multiple language support: Scriber supports reading the text from multiple languages, but also plaintext if its not code. Syntax Highlighting: Working with python, swift, javascript, c, or many other languages? Scriber has support for syntax highlighting for over 20 languages. Theming: commonly use the Xcode theme when you work? Scriber supports multiple themes to have the text highlighted into a format that you're commonly used to.
Fabula for SwiftUI
Explore narrative construction and code organization using fabula and syuzhet concepts. This app serves as a personal project to learn SwiftUI, offering code collections and fostering developer community interaction. It aims to help users understand SwiftUI's declarative approach for cross-platform development.
- Narrative construction concepts (fabula & syuzhet)
- SwiftUI code collections
- Declarative UI development learning
- Cross-platform development (iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS)
- Developer community sharing
- Regular code updates
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The formalism used the concepts of fabula and syuzhet as a way to develop narrative construction or classified materials and compositions into fabula and syuzhet, respectively. The totality of microscopic events listed in causality was called a fabula, and the narrative arrangement of these motifs in an artistic way was called a syuzhet. This app is a personal project to learn the technical ingredients of SwiftUI and derive creative results. SwiftUI is a user interface toolkit that can develop applications in a declarative manner. This is a modern development method that communicates to iOS how you want the user interface to behave and finds out how users perform when interacting with the interface. In addition, SwiftUI can develop macOS, watchOS, and tvOS with the same code as well as iOS development. The most appealing thing for me personally is that it is easy to learn and that the code is concise, making it easy for beginners to understand. I hope this project will help everyone, including myself, to understand SwiftUI. The code of this project will be updated regularly. You can share and communicate with developers around the world through the Fabula app. We always look forward to the participation of developers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fabula for SwiftUI at none against Scriber's 3. Fabula for SwiftUI also leads on ratings volume (123 vs 1). Scriber's advantage is update cadence (daily vs fortnightly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Scriber sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Fabula for SwiftUI asks for nothing beyond the download.
Scriber holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fabula for SwiftUI has 123 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Scriber ships an update daily, Fabula for SwiftUI fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scriber | Fabula for SwiftUI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (123 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 97.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 123 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mighty Panda LLC | Gyeong Seop No |
Customer experience
Scriber
Fabula for SwiftUI
In-app purchases
Scriber
- Nice Tip$0.99
- Kind Tip$2.99
- Wonderful Tip$4.99
Fabula for SwiftUI
No in-app purchases
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