Comparison

Chatform vs Visual IQ

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

Head to head
About

Chatform

Enhance your communication with AI-powered tools for writing, translation, and summarization. This app offers an advanced AI keyboard to elevate your typing and provides instant answers to queries, helping you master language and express yourself with confidence.

Highlights
  • AI keyboard for enhanced typing
  • Text rephrasing and rewording
  • Translation of languages
  • Summarization of text
  • Grammar correction
  • Instant query answers
Features
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Speak naturally. Rewrite instantly. Send polished messages anywhere. Chatform is an AI writing keyboard for iPhone and iPad that helps you turn rough thoughts into clear, confident text inside any app. Use your voice to dictate messages, emails, notes, and replies — then rewrite them in the tone you need before you send. It works directly inside your favorite apps, including Messages, WhatsApp, Gmail, LinkedIn, Slack, Notes, Instagram, and more. No switching apps. No copy and paste. Just speak, rewrite, and send. Why people use Chatform • AI writing keyboard: Write better messages directly from your keyboard in any app. • Voice typing that sounds polished: Speak naturally and Chatform turns your words into clean, formatted text. • Rewrite in any tone: Make your message sound professional, friendly, concise, confident, or natural. • Fix awkward wording: Improve grammar, clarity, and phrasing before you send. • Faster replies: Turn messy thoughts into ready-to-send messages in seconds. • Works everywhere you type: Use Chatform in texting apps, email, social media, notes, work apps, and more. • Great for non-native English speakers: Say what you mean and make it sound clear, fluent, and natural. Chatform is built for everyday writing: quick texts, professional emails, LinkedIn replies, social posts, notes, and anything else you type on your phone. Whether you are walking, commuting, working, or replying between meetings, Chatform helps you write faster and sound better. Speak. Rewrite. Send. Privacy Policy: https://chatformapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://chatformapp.com/terms

About

Visual IQ

This app uses advanced visual intelligence to convert photos and screenshots into actionable data. It integrates seamlessly with iOS to add events to your calendar, contacts from business cards, tasks to reminders, and locations to maps. You can also extract text, identify objects, and get detailed descriptions of images.

Highlights
  • Capture events into Calendar
  • Import contacts from images
  • Create tasks from lists
  • Extract locations into Maps
  • Identify objects and species
  • Translate text in images
  • Get image descriptions and answers
Features
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Turn photos into actions. Visual IQ saves you time by converting pictures and screenshots into real results in seconds using cutting-edge visual intelligence. Front and center is the app's tight integration into iOS to help you get things done with incredible ease. Take a photo or screenshot and easily import its events into Calendar, people into Contacts, tasks into Reminders, or locations into Maps. You can also extract or translate text, identify items, get an answer to a question, or a detailed description of the image. Included are useful actions for Shortcuts, a share extension, and the app be opened using control widgets in Control Center or your Lock Screen as well as pressing the Camera Control button. Features: • Capture multiple events from schedules, calendars, event posters, and more into Calendar. • Import multiple people from business cards, posters, and more into Contacts. • Snap multiple tasks from grocery, to-do lists, etc. into Reminders. • Grab multiple locations from lists of addresses into Maps or Google Maps. • Identify anything in an image such as a dog's breed or a plant's species. • Lookup accurate translations of text in a picture to over 40 languages. • Get a detailed description or answer questions about any photo or screenshot. Visual IQ is free to use for up to 5 scans a day and 50 scans per month. There are optional upgrades to increase these rate limits, access more accurate models, and unlock access to scan history. Try out Visual IQ today and start saving time. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your Apple account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.cromulentlabs.com/visualiq/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Chatform4 screens
Visual IQ4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Chatform at none against Visual IQ's shown. Chatform also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chatform sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Visual IQ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chatform holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 78 and 38 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chatform ships an update weekly, Visual IQ fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Chatform versus Visual IQ: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChatformVisual IQ
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (78 ratings) — better4.6 (38 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings78 — better38
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEugeny PopovCromulent Labs

Customer experience

Chatform

All ratings78 ratings
Positive98.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Visual IQ

All ratings38 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Chatform

Subscriptions4
  • No Limits (Weekly)7 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • No Limits (Monthly)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Keyboard Only (Yearly)$4.991 Year
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  • No Limits (Yearly)7 Days trial$29.991 Year
4 purchases

Visual IQ

Subscriptions4
  • Visual IQ Plus Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Visual IQ Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Visual IQ Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Visual IQ Premium Yearly$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Chatform free?
Chatform is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Visual IQ free?
Visual IQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chatform or Visual IQ?
Chatform is rated higher. Chatform averages 4.9 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while Visual IQ averages 4.6 from 38 ratings.
Do Chatform or Visual IQ have ads?
Visual IQ shows ads; Chatform does not.
Which is updated more often, Chatform or Visual IQ?
Chatform ships an update weekly, and Visual IQ fortnightly. Most recently, Chatform was updated on September 22, 2026 and Visual IQ on September 24, 2026.

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