Comparison

Text Summary vs JoinSelf Messenger

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

Head to head
About

Text Summary

This AI-powered app helps users process information faster by summarizing books, documents, web pages, and even photos. It offers various output formats and interactive features like quizzes and chat to enhance understanding and retention.

Highlights
  • Summarize various content types
  • Multiple output formats
  • Generate quizzes and flashcards
  • Chat with your text
  • Save personal notes
  • Adjustable summary length
  • Text-to-speech
Features
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Text Summary helps you study, understand complex topics and remember key ideas. Turn books, documents, articles and photos into clear summaries, quizzes, flashcards and concept maps to support your learning. Whether you are working, researching, studying, or just trying to stay informed, Text Summary helps you cut through the noise and understand content in minutes instead of hours. You can summarize content from many different sources: • Books and written material • PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, EPUB, ODT, and TXT files • Web pages and long online articles • Photos and scanned documents • YouTube video links • Typed text or pasted text You can type directly in the app, paste text from anywhere, import files, open links, or simply take a photo of a page or printed text using your camera. Text Summary recognizes the content and turns it into structured summaries automatically. Text Summary is flexible by design. You decide how the information should be explained and how you want to work with it, depending on how much detail you need and what you plan to do next. Available summary and content formats include: • Extract summary • Highlighted key points • Bullet points • Abstract overview • Paraphrase • Rewrite • Keywords • Translation • Quiz • Flashcards • Concept map • My notes • Chat with your text or summary Quizzes and flashcards are automatically generated from your own text or summary, allowing you to quickly test your understanding and reinforce key ideas without rereading everything. With My notes, you can write, edit, and save your own notes directly inside the app. Use it to keep personal thoughts, add context, rewrite ideas in your own words, or store important takeaways for later. Your notes stay available so you can return to them anytime. The chat feature lets you interact directly with your content. You can ask questions about your text or summary, clarify specific sections, explore ideas, or dive deeper into topics without leaving the app. This allows you to actively work with information instead of passively reading it. Text Summary also includes a curated catalog of popular book summaries. These summaries are designed to help you understand key ideas, themes, and structure, making them useful before reading a book, after reading it, or when you want a clearer overview to decide what to explore next. How it works: Type or paste text, add a link, import files, or take photos of pages with your camera. Choose the summary format you want and get a clear, structured result in seconds. You can switch formats, refine outputs, save notes, or explore the content further using chat. Additional features: • Adjustable summary length • Text-to-speech with automatic language detection • Share summaries or export them as PDF • Multi-language support • Works with very long texts and large documents • Easy sharing from other apps directly into Text Summary Some advanced features, such as audio and video summarization, are available with an active subscription. Text Summary is made for busy people who don’t want to waste time reading everything. It helps you stay informed, move faster, and focus on what’s important without overload. You can start with daily free summaries. A subscription unlocks unlimited usage, faster processing, advanced formats, and an ad-free experience. Subscriptions: A subscription is valid for 1 week, 1 month, 3 months or 1 year, depending on the subscription type selected. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account upon confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. Terms of use: https://kreativityapps.com/terms-of-use-ts Privacy policy: https://kreativityapps.com/privacy-policy-ts

About

JoinSelf Messenger

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Self is a Messaging, digital identity and personal data app. Giving you control over who you are, what you share and who can communicate with you. Self is free to use, simple and powerful, Sign up by verifying YOURSELF with a passport, and remember, Self doesn't get your passport details. They stay with you, on your Phone, like all your personal data. We don't even know who you are. Self gives you: DIGITAL FREEDOM - You can use Self to prove you are the right human just by being you. Instead of passwords, seed phrases or *** *** codes sent by SMS, Self lets you prove you are you, and does it without disclosing your personal data to whoever wants to check (unless you agree to). Now you can prove your age, prove you approved a payment or logged into a service all without needing to share private, personal data. SECURE COMMUNICATION- Self calls and messages are end to end encrypted, and only between verified people and companies you have agreed to communicate with. No more wondering if a call is genuine or from a scammer, or if that message is a phishing trick or an AI-powered marketing bot. AN ADVANCED WALLET - The companies you buy from can help protect your personal data by storing any they hold with you, in your Self wallet. Now you're not at risk if they get hacked, and you can trust them when they communicate with you through Self, instead of wondering if the email you got was really from your bank and you can use it to make and receive payments in XRP too. CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROOF - Because Self lets you prove who you are, it takes messages beyond communication, now you can sign them, prove you've seen them, prove you've been somewhere, prove you're with someone, all without disclosing any data you don't want to. CONTROL OF YOUR DATA - With Self your personal data is only stored by you, on your phone or in your backup and always encrypted end-to-end. It's not in our database, because we don't have one. It's in your hand and it can only be shared with someone if you choose to share it. You are in control. A REAL NETWORK - Self connections aren't just anyone, they're the people and organisations you know and really trust. We believe the next generation of technology is going to engage and empower people. For the first time people are at the heart of technology. Find out more at: https://joinself.com Self supports all iPhones capable of running iOS16 or newer.

Screenshots

Text Summary4 screens
JoinSelf Messenger4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: JoinSelf Messenger at none against Text Summary's 13. JoinSelf Messenger also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Text Summary sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. JoinSelf Messenger asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Summary ships an update monthly, JoinSelf Messenger every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Text Summary versus JoinSelf Messenger: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText SummaryJoinSelf Messenger
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (266 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings266 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size148 MB153 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKREATIVITY APPS SRLSelf Group Limited

Bugs and requests

Text Summary

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App doesn't open for some users
  • Summaries contain random or nonsensical words
  • App crashes or freezes
  • Photo text recognition errors
  • Flashcards losing focus on irrelevant information

Requested features

6 requests
  • Allow summarizing slides
  • Remove payment restrictions or offer more free usage
  • Improve accuracy of summaries
  • Fix issues with random words in summaries
  • Improve photo text recognition
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  • Make flashcards more relevant

JoinSelf Messenger

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Text Summary

Subscriptions10
  • Weekly subscription7 Days trial2 variants$1.997 Days
  • Monthly subscription2 variants$3.991 Month
  • Weekly subscription7 Days trial$4.997 Days
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  • Monthly subscription$5.991 Month
  • Weekly subscription7 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • 3 months subscription$7.993 Months
  • Monthly subscription$14.991 Month
  • 3 months subscription$14.993 Months
  • Yearly subscription$59.991 Year
  • Yearly subscription$69.991 Year
One-time1
  • No ads$2.99
None

JoinSelf Messenger

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Summary free?
Text Summary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is JoinSelf Messenger free?
JoinSelf Messenger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Text Summary or JoinSelf Messenger have ads?
Text Summary shows ads; JoinSelf Messenger does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Summary or JoinSelf Messenger?
Text Summary ships an update monthly, and JoinSelf Messenger every 3 weeks. Most recently, Text Summary was updated on October 25, 2026 and JoinSelf Messenger on October 11, 2026.

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