FastFinga 3 vs SmoothOCR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FastFinga 3
Create handwritten notes, personalized emails, and social media posts with this versatile app. It offers extensive customization for pens, backgrounds, and fonts, and allows easy sharing to cloud services and social media.
- Handwritten notes and emails
- Customizable pens and colors
- Insert photos and emojis
- Export to Evernote, Twitter, Dropbox
- Organize notes by folders
- Sketch Pad integration
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FastFinga is a fantastic, fast and easy handwriting application for iPhone/iPod touch and iPad. This #1 selling app has evolved since its creation and continues to get better with each update. FastFinga 3 includes our other very popular Sketch Pad 3 app so you can now choose to create FastFinga documents or SketchPad documents. ■ SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS and IDEAS... FastFinga's amazing inking enables you to… - Make fast hand-written notes - Send personalized emails in YOUR handwriting - Create hand-written Tweets - Post hand-written notes direct to Evernote, Twitter and Dropbox ■ SIMPLE AND EASY TO USE… - Choose a pen size and color and write a word on the screen - Use Cut and Paste to reorganize document. ■ SIMPLE FEATURES… - 3 pen size - 4 pen color palette allowing unlimited customization. - Easy eraser - Undoable pen strokes - Undoable editing - Cut & paste - Fast and simple inserting of photos - Fast and fun inserting of emojis - Customizable button locations - Customizable background colors - Customizable Fonts - Choose left-to-right/right-to-left directions setting for each document depending on your language preference - Organize by folders. ■ FEATURES IN DETAIL… - Universal binary… works on both iPad and iPhone. - Built-in emoji keyboard. - Keyboard for inserting typed text. - Quick number and special character popup keys above keyboard. You can quickly insert special characters. - Special character popup keys is customizable. - Customizable font… more than 40 font families, or install your favorite font via iTunes. - Compatible with left-to-right and right-to-left writing direction. - Insert handwritten note - Handwriting pad contains palm-rest in iPad version which prevents unwanted smudging. … suitable for both left-handed and right-handed. - Tap enter to insert handwritten word into document, or enable automatic inserting. - Handwriting pad is customizable for your preferred writing size. - Insert checkbox - Insert "Quote" … you can quickly copy frequently used sentences such as email template. - Insert alarm - Insert voice note (mp3, both in a note and as a separate file) - Insert time stamp … in customizable format - Insert photo (both in a note and as a separate file) - Insert Sketch Pad (both in a note and as a separate file) - Landscape and portrait compatible both on iPad and iPhone version. - Create standard note with styled text, plain-text, Sketch Pad, voice note, and photo. - Export note to printer, other apps including "Photos" app, Evernote, Twitter, Google docs, Google Picasa web, Dropbox. - Pre-set email recipients. - Synchronization with Dropbox … sync in both directions. - Import files from Dropbox. - Voice recorder can record MP3. - Built in photo browser for jpeg and png files. - Built in movie browser for videos. - Search by contents and filename. - Selectable from thumbnail style browser and list style browser. - Rocket start for note… customizable so the app creates new blank note when opened. ** Sketch Pad features ** - Unlimited canvas size - Trackpad for easy scrolling - Detach and position tool-bar where you want - Customizable grid lines - Customizable background color - Smooth line with rounded ends - Organizing document folders - Export to Twitter, Evernote, Google docs, Picasa, Dropbox, printer, other apps, email, photo library and Mac. - Flag a sketch or note - Assign Alarm to a sketch or note - Palm Rest (ideal for stylus users)... Fully adjustable for either right-handed or left-handed users (iPad only) - Two finger scrolling in writing mode - Zooming in/out by double tapping in browse mode - Zooming by pinching gesture can also be selectable -------- iPad 3rd generation with Retina Display requires free upgrade to iOS 6 to use this app. With Love by Tony on the Moon http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tonyonthemoon/Poem-index.html
SmoothOCR
This application converts camera-captured text into editable digital text. It supports continuous scanning, multi-page management, and multilingual recognition, including Japanese vertical writing. Output options include text files, PDFs, and iCloud synchronization.
- Continuous text scanning
- Multi-page management
- Text editing
- TXT and PDF file export
- iCloud data synchronization
- Multilingual support
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This is an app that can convert characters shown on the camera into text. Features ・Continuous scanning is possible for the time being ・Can manage multiple pages at once ・Simple UI ·Multilingual ・Supports Japanese vertical writing Supported functions ・Text edit ・txt file output ・PDF file output ・Data synchronization between devices using iCloud Terms of service: https://note.com/wakaba_dev/n/nf2c276e954bc Tutorial: https://note.com/wakaba_dev/n/nc1cf9dd8b1a9
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SmoothOCR at 100% against FastFinga 3's 57%. SmoothOCR also leads on price ($3.99 vs $9.99) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). FastFinga 3's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
FastFinga 3 costs $9.99 and SmoothOCR $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FastFinga 3 ships an update every 6 weeks, SmoothOCR fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FastFinga 3 | SmoothOCR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Catalystwo | Shinya Saito |
Customer experience
FastFinga 3
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In-app purchases
FastFinga 3
No in-app purchases
SmoothOCR
No in-app purchases









