bunkoOCR vs PaperSpeak
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
bunkoOCR
This app uses deep learning for on-device optical character recognition. It excels at recognizing horizontal and vertical text, particularly in Japanese and English, with a focus on pocket edition books.
- On-device deep learning OCR
- Recognizes horizontal and vertical text
- Optimized for Japanese and English
- Works with pocket edition books
- No data sent externally
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This is an Optical Character Recognition(OCR) software with deeplearing model. All computation run on the device, no data is sent outside. This app can recognize horizontal and vertical text with ruby in facing page on Bunko(pocket edition) book. This app has best performance with Japanese and English text.
PaperSpeak
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PaperSpeak turns the documents you already have into a calm, focused listening experience. PaperSpeak is free to download and use, with no ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. Import a file or paste text, choose a voice, and listen while PaperSpeak highlights each sentence. Tap any sentence to jump directly to it, adjust the playback speed, and continue later from where you stopped. READ AND LISTEN TOGETHER • Follow clear sentence-by-sentence highlighting • Tap any sentence to start from that point • Adjust playback speed from 0.5× to 2× • Continue listening in the background • Resume each document from your saved position BRING YOUR OWN DOCUMENTS • Import PDF, TXT, RTF, HTML, DOCX, and Pages files • Read text-based and scanned PDFs with on-device recognition • Keep PDF reading order while common repeated headers, footers, and page numbers are removed • Follow PDF page progress and resume where you stopped • Import several documents at once • Paste text to create a document instantly • Share text, webpages, and supported document files directly from other apps • Webpage import focuses on the main article and skips common banners, navigation, sidebars, related-content grids, comments, and footers • Share one or several screenshots and extract editable text on-device • Older DOC files can be converted to DOCX before import KEEP YOUR LIBRARY ORGANIZED • Create and rename folders • Select several documents at once • Move documents between folders • Rename or delete documents whenever you like CHOOSE HOW PAPER SPEAKS • Use built-in Apple voices offline • Choose from 13 language options: Mandarin, Cantonese, US and UK English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Hindi, and Arabic • Set a favorite voice for each selected language • Optionally connect Azure, OpenAI, or ElevenLabs with your own API key PaperSpeak does not require an account and does not contain advertising or tracking. Documents, screenshot recognition, and scanned-PDF recognition stay on your device when using built-in voices. When you choose a cloud speech engine, the text being spoken is sent directly to that provider to generate audio. Optional cloud providers may charge for their services; see each provider’s official website for more information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PaperSpeak at none against bunkoOCR's 3. 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. bunkoOCR sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. PaperSpeak asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | bunkoOCR | PaperSpeak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 818 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ichiro NAKAHARA | Chih-Yu Tung |
In-app purchases
bunkoOCR
- Orange juice$3.99
- Dinner$17.99
- A day of GPU rent$99.99
PaperSpeak
No in-app purchases









