Comparison

Text Extractor vs Columnam

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

Head to head
About

Text Extractor

This tool uses OCR technology to extract text from images and scanned documents. It can convert images to editable Word or Excel files, recognize handwriting, and supports batch processing and multiple languages. Files can be managed, stored, and shared across devices.

Highlights
  • Text recognition from images
  • Image to Word/Excel conversion
  • Handwriting recognition
  • Batch processing
  • Multi-language support
  • Document scanning and restoration
  • Cross-device synchronization
Features
Read full description

Text Extractor is an OCR text recognition software that integrates functions such as text scanning to text, image to Word, image to Excel, handwriting recognition, document restoration, and more. The recognized text can be saved and shared in formats such as text, Word, Excel, etc., and can be synchronized across multiple devices like mobile phones, tablets, and computers. ------Key Features------ -Text Recognition: Easily recognize text in images or scanned documents and convert it into editable documents. -Image to Word: Convert images into Word documents, accurately preserving formatting and content. -Image to Excel: Convert images into editable Excel spreadsheets. Handwriting Recognition: Convert handwritten fonts into editable Word documents. -Batch Recognition: In addition to single-image recognition, it also supports batch recognition to improve efficiency. -Multi-Language Support: Supports multiple languages including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and more. -Document Scanning: Capture documents, intelligently remove cluttered backgrounds, and generate high-definition JPEG and PDF documents for saving and sharing. -File Management: Create folders, categorize, search by tags, cloud storage, and share and view across multiple devices. ------Subscription Details------ Payment: User confirms the purchase and makes payment, which is charged to the iTunes account. Renewal: Apple iTunes account will be charged 24 hours before the expiration, extending the subscription period upon successful payment. Canceling Service: You can cancel automatic subscription services by going to "Settings" on your Apple phone, entering "iTunes Store & App Store," clicking on "Apple ID," selecting "View Apple ID," entering the "Account Settings" page, and clicking on "Subscriptions." To avoid charges, cancel 24 hours before the end of each billing cycle. Privacy Policy: http://www.palmmob.cn/yinsi/wztqyinsiios.html User Terms: http://www.palmmob.cn/yinsi/wztqyonghuiios.html

About

Columnam

Read full description

Columnam - The Self Actualization App With Columnam, you can produce greater work in a more efficient manner, with an improved understanding and appreciation of whatever it is you do. Columnam trains users, through highly structured work sessions and psychological techniques, to enter the state of focus on command. By tracking users' focus and work habits, it creates a personalized system of improvement that includes analytics to display those habits, and challenges to improve them. That improvement is made extremely achievable by the rigid structure of the program. Our community provides a social environment of ambitious learners who are overcoming, or have overcome, the same challenges that the user is facing. By learning to focus on demand, users will engage with their work on a deeper level, deepening at the same time their appreciation of that work, as its virtues are viewed with a clear eye. As a result, users of Columnam will produce greater work in a more efficient manner, with an improved state of mind and relationship with their work. Learn to Focus Deeply: Train deep focus while doing your work/schoolwork. To properly train this skill, we split your work sessions into two separate categories 1. Deep Work: When you want to deeply engage with a task. During these sessions, you go through a series of psychologically proven methods to induce a state of deep focus and reduce split attention. Apps are blocked and a longer period of time is dedicated. Analytics are collected on your habits. 2. Other Work: When you need to focus, but don't need to engage deeply. A lighter focus ritual is performed and app blocking is less strict. Analytics are collected on your habits. Seamless Scheduling: Easily create your daily work schedule with our framework. Track Your Habits Automatically: Columnam automatically collects 30 different data points from your work sessions and produces 129 insights on the way you work. You can check important statistics anytime from the analytics page and, starting after your third week of our program, you will receive a weekly summary containing personal insights on your habits and special "insight challenges" to improve them. Improve with Challenges : Our challenges provide you with both a personalized and a structured system for improving your focus and work habits over time. Join the Community: Learn to focus deeply alongside other ambitious people and high achievers. Achieve Flow State on Command: Columnam is built to train you to enter "flow state," the mental zone where you work better and faster with greater understanding. Rigid Structure = Improvement: rely on a focus optimized system that guides you through success; not motivation, willpower, or "Dopamine Replacement." Not Pomodoro: Columnam is built to fix your broken attention span, not to cater to it. Your Life is not a Game: badges, streaks, and little birds won't help you. Columnam has no gamification Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Text Extractor4 screens
Columnam4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Columnam at none against Text Extractor's 8. Columnam also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Text Extractor's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads and device support 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 Extractor sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Columnam asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Extractor ships an update every 2 months, Columnam fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Extractor versus Columnam: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText ExtractorColumnam
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (32 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings32 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB40 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperpalmmobLittle Commerce

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Text Extractor

Subscriptions7
  • image to text Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • image to text Season Member$9.993 Months
  • Image to text Season Member$9.996 Months
Show 4 more
  • Image to text Premium Yearly$12.991 Year
  • Image to text Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
  • Image to text Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Image to text Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Image to text Lifetime Member$29.99
None

Columnam

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Extractor free?
Text Extractor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Columnam free?
Columnam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Text Extractor or Columnam have ads?
Neither Text Extractor nor Columnam shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Extractor or Columnam?
Text Extractor ships an update every 2 months, and Columnam fortnightly. Most recently, Text Extractor was updated on October 30, 2026 and Columnam on October 31, 2026.

Other comparisons