Text Summary vs Stubey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Summarize various content types
- Multiple output formats
- Generate quizzes and flashcards
- Chat with your text
- Save personal notes
- Adjustable summary length
- Text-to-speech
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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
Stubey
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Turn the videos you already watch into flashcards, a quiz and notes — then actually remember them. Paste a link and Stubey builds the study pack for you, in seconds, on your iPhone. FROM A LINK TO A STUDY PACK • Paste a video link and Stubey fetches the captions on its own. No copying, no browser. • No captions? Pick the audio or video file instead and it is transcribed on this device. • Or paste a transcript you already have. • Out comes a brief, the key takeaways, a deck of flashcards and a multiple-choice quiz, all built from what was actually said. PRACTICE THAT STICKS • Tap to flip, swipe to answer. The cards you keep missing come back first. • Quizzes are generated from the same transcript, so you are tested on the real material. • Quick Practice pulls a session out of any collection when you have ten minutes. • Every card and question is editable, and you can write your own from scratch. A ROUTINE, NOT A CRAM SESSION • Set a daily target in cards or in minutes. • Choose the weekdays you study, and a date you want to be ready by. • Get a reminder at the time you pick. • A streak, a month grid and a year heatmap show every day you showed up. ORGANIZED BY SUBJECT • Group lessons into collections with their own icon and color. • Point a study plan, or a single practice run, at one collection or at everything. • Favorites, archive, search and sort across the whole library. REAL NOTES BESIDE EVERY LESSON • A proper editor: headings, bold, highlights, colors, checklists, numbered and bulleted lists. • Your notes sit next to the transcript, the cards and the quiz for that lesson. TWO WAYS TO GENERATE • On device: built by Apple Intelligence on your iPhone. Free, unlimited, offline, and nothing leaves the device. • In the cloud: sharper flashcards, quizzes and summaries, on any supported iPhone, with or without Apple Intelligence. Transcripts are sent to Stubey to be processed. • Switch between the two in Settings whenever you like. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS • Lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes and flashcards are stored locally on your device. • Imported files are never copied out of where you keep them. • No account. No sign-up. Nothing to log in to. MADE FOR Lecture recordings and seminars. Conference talks and tutorials. Podcasts and interviews. Language listening practice. Certification and exam revision. Anything you would otherwise watch once and forget. FREE, AND PRO The whole loop is free: import, generate, practice, plan and track. The free tier holds 5 lessons, videos up to 20 minutes, one study plan, week and month history, and 3 study packs from the cloud engine. Stubey Pro removes the limits: • Unlimited lessons in your library • Full-length lectures, seminars and podcasts, with no length cap • Your choice of AI engine, including the cloud engine on any iPhone • A separate plan, schedule and streak for every subject or exam • Your full study history, across the year and all time Pro is a monthly or annual subscription. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Questions, or a feature you want? Write to us from Settings. Every message is read. Licensed Application End User License Agreement (Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Stubey at none against Text Summary's shown. Stubey also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). Text Summary's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price and in-app purchases 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. Text Summary sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Stubey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Text Summary ships an update monthly, Stubey every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Summary | Stubey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (265 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 265 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KREATIVITY APPS SRL | Raphael Monteiro |
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
Stubey
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text Summary
- 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
- No ads$2.99
Stubey
- Stubey Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Stubey Pro Annual$17.991 Year
Questions
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