Awaken vs Copy Text On Screen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Awaken
This app functions as an alarm clock and sleep timer, allowing users to wake up to their favorite music or built-in sounds. It offers customizable alarm features, a sleep timer with fade-out options, and various clock display styles. A shake-to-toggle flashlight is also included.
- Wake up to music or sounds
- Multiple alarms
- Sleep timer with fade-out
- Customizable clock styles
- Shake to toggle flashlight
- Volume and brightness fade-in/out
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Awaken is the alarm clock you'll actually look forward to. Wake up gently, on your terms — to your favorite music, a soothing nature sound, a personalized spoken message, or your own custom haptic rhythm. Then make Awaken your bedside companion with a stunning always-on clock, a sleep timer to drift off to, and smart countdown timers for everything in between. WAKE UP YOUR WAY • Set one-time, repeating, or date-specific alarms in seconds • Wake to any song, album, playlist, or artist from Apple Music and your library • Choose from 37+ built-in sounds across Nature, Classic, Energetic, Fun, and Premium collections • Fade in the volume and screen brightness for a gentle, natural wake-up • Set the alarm volume independently from your phone — and it's restored automatically afterward A PERSONAL TOUCH • Add a custom wake-up message and have Awaken read it aloud • Choose from 12 customizable haptic patterns, from a soft pulse to a relentless buzz • Smart snooze with adjustable duration and snooze limits to keep you on track A CLOCK WORTH WAKING UP TO • 8 beautiful clock styles — Digital, Flip, Segment, Neon Sign, Marquee Bulb, Blueprint, Constellation, and Bloom • 19 themed gradient backgrounds, from Sunrise and Aurora to Synthwave and Cherry Blossom • Show or hide seconds, date, and AM/PM; dim automatically at night • Long-press to customize and swipe through styles and themes live SLEEP TIMER • Drift off to your favorite music with a gentle automatic fadeout • Set any duration and pick a song, album, or playlist — or run it silent SMART TIMERS • Run multiple named timers at once • Live countdown right on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Pause, resume, and restart with a tap — even when the app is closed • Have Awaken announce each timer by name when it finishes BUILT FOR iPHONE & iPAD • Dynamic Island and Lock Screen support for timers • Rich, full-screen alarm experience • Designed with accessibility and VoiceOver in mind Whether you want to wake to birdsong, your morning playlist, or a friendly reminder of what today holds, Awaken makes every morning a little brighter.
Copy Text On Screen
Extract text from any image or screen capture with powerful OCR technology. Translate recognized text into over 100 languages instantly. All processing is done locally on your device for maximum privacy and security.
- Extract text from images and screenshots
- Multilingual translation up to 100+ languages
- Supports Shortcuts for quick access
- Simultaneous scanning of up to 9 images
- Local on-device processing for privacy
- OCR support for multiple languages
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Copy Text On Screen: Unlock Text from Images Effortlessly Powerful OCR Technology at Your Fingertips: - Copy Text On Screen is the ultimate OCR tool designed exclusively for your iPhone. This powerful app allows you to effortlessly extract text from any image or screen capture, bypassing limitations of non-selectable and non-editable text. Whether it's a photo, a document, or an unselectable quote on a website, our app makes text extraction simple and efficient. Support for Shortcuts - Integrate with Shortcuts to add widgets on your home screen or in the Control Center for quicker text extraction. Effortless Multilingual Translation: - Go beyond mere text scanning. Translate recognized text into over 100 languages instantly. Our app seamlessly integrates with Google and DeepL translation services, facilitating global communication like never before. It’s perfect for travelers, students, and professionals handling international documents. Privacy First Commitment: - We prioritize your privacy. Copy Text On Screen ensures all processing is done locally on your device. No data is sent to servers, ensuring your information stays private and secure. More Features: - Simultaneously scan and recognize text from up to 9 images. - Easily extract text from any application by sharing a screenshot directly to our app. - Supports optical character recognition in multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese. - Running iOS 16: All the above languages plus Japanese, Korean, Ukrainian, and Russian. - Running iOS 17: All the above languages plus Thai and Vietnamese. - Running iOS 18: All the above languages plus Arabic. - Running iOS 14: Only English language supported. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase and auto-renewal at the same price unless disabled in iTunes Account Settings at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your subscription can be managed in your iTunes Account Settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. • Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/bb2014abc512439f8172d18af84b5c95 • Terms of Use: https://www.notion.so/3463ddd4a2c5478b96ac5f6290ee6d5f
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Copy Text On Screen at Free against Awaken's $2.99. Copy Text On Screen also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Awaken's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (21 vs 4). On review sentiment and ads 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
Copy Text On Screen is free to download; Awaken costs $2.99 up front. Copy Text On Screen sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Awaken asks for nothing beyond the download.
Copy Text On Screen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Awaken has 21 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Awaken's written reviews are positive against 50% of Copy Text On Screen's.
Awaken ships an update every 5 weeks, Copy Text On Screen every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Awaken | Copy Text On Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.9 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Embraceware Software Inc | 满 李 |
Customer experience
Awaken
Copy Text On Screen
In-app purchases
Awaken
No in-app purchases
Copy Text On Screen
- Upgrade to Pro - Annual3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Upgrade to Pro - Lifetime$19.99
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