Comparison

Text Summary vs Photo Math Solver

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

Photo Math Solver

This AI-powered tutor helps students solve math, physics, and chemistry problems by scanning them with a photo. It provides step-by-step solutions and checks your work, acting as a personal study companion to improve understanding and save time.

Highlights
  • Photo math solver
  • Step-by-step solutions
  • Solution checker
  • AI tutor
  • Math, physics, chemistry support
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Welcome to MathAI – Your Ultimate Study Companion! MathAI is an advanced, AI-powered tutor designed to help you quickly tackle math, physics, and chemistry challenges. Simply take a photo of your homework problem or scan your solution, and MathAI provides accurate, step-by-step answers to help you understand and improve. Ideal for students, teachers, and lifelong learners, MathAI functions as a personal AI tutor that saves you time and guides you through complex concepts. Key Features: • Photo Math Solver: Snap a picture, and MathAI delivers instant, detailed solutions with easy-to-follow steps. • Solution Checker: Check if your solution is correct or not, ensuring you stay on the right track. • Homework Helper & AI Tutor: Review problem steps, learn where to improve, and get guided support. • Constantly Learning AI System: The app’s AI tutor feature ensures answers are reliable and up-to-date. • All-in-One Subject Support: Works seamlessly with math, chemistry, physics, and more, making it your go-to study AI tutor. Experience MathAI today to make study time easier and more effective! Suggestions or questions? Email us at: ai.math.team@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Text Summary4 screens
Photo Math Solver4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Photo Math Solver at every 2 weeks against Text Summary's monthly. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Photo Math Solver sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Text Summary holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 265 and 255 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Text Summary's written reviews are positive against 74% of Photo Math Solver's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Summary ships an update monthly, Photo Math Solver every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Text Summary versus Photo Math Solver: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText SummaryPhoto Math Solver
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (265 ratings) — better4.3 (255 ratings)
Positive reviews71.3% of reviews74.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings265 — better255
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.5 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size148 MB75 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperKREATIVITY APPS SRLHOOZA VIET NAM COMPANY LIMITED

Customer experience

Text Summary

All ratings265 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews167 reviews
Positive71.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative24.6%

Photo Math Solver

All ratings255 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral4.3%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive74.0%
Neutral3.3%
Negative22.7%

User reviews

Text Summary

From 265 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Very helpful for studying
  • 👍 Saves a lot of time
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 👍 Good for summarizing texts
  • 👍 Free to use (initially)

Room to improve

  • 👎 Summaries can be inaccurate
  • 👎 Sometimes generates random words
  • 👎 App can be slow
  • 👎 Requires payment after limited use
  • 👎 Trial period is not free

Photo Math Solver

From 255 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Good app
  • 🚀 Math made easier
  • 👍 Pretty good app
  • 👍 Super great app
  • 👍 Helpful for step by step view and graphing mathematical formula

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Does not work
  • 🐛 Camera froze
  • 🐛 Got all my questions wrong
  • 🐛 Worst app
  • 🐛 Don't work

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

Photo Math Solver

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Glitchy
  • It a good math ai but when accessing the camera it freezes. How do I resolve the issue
  • Terrible
  • Keeps crashing
  • It's so manipulative. It told me I needed a credit to scan a math problem, and I could get a credit by watching an ad. After 1 watched one ad, it said I needed to watch 3. Fine. I watched 3. Then 6. Then 7. No word of a lie. Deleting. Don't waste your time. Also the ads are ads for gaming apps. Not helpful for students. 🙄
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  • After I buy full version it os stop working

Requested features

3 requests
  • Wish was free
  • Wish they had a clearer step by step option if you need more explanation
  • Thanks for the tool I just wish more credits per video watched

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Text Summary

Subscriptions7
  • 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
  • 3 months subscription$7.993 Months
  • Monthly subscription$14.991 Month
  • 3 months subscription$14.993 Months
One-time1
  • No ads$2.99
6 purchases

Photo Math Solver

Subscriptions6
  • Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Annually Premium3 Days trial$19.991 Year
  • Annually$39.991 Year
  • Annually Subscription3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Text Summary free?
Text Summary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Photo Math Solver free?
Photo Math Solver is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Text Summary or Photo Math Solver?
Text Summary is rated higher. Text Summary averages 4.5 out of 5 from 265 ratings, while Photo Math Solver averages 4.3 from 255 ratings.
Do Text Summary or Photo Math Solver have ads?
Both Text Summary and Photo Math Solver show ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Summary or Photo Math Solver?
Text Summary ships an update monthly, and Photo Math Solver every 2 weeks. Most recently, Text Summary was updated on November 14, 2026 and Photo Math Solver on November 12, 2026.

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