Xer vs ShotText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Xer
This app offers advanced photo editing capabilities with multiple layers, allowing for precise adjustments, effects, and text overlays. Create artistic photo montages and enhance images with a wide range of tools for daily editing needs.
- Multiple-layer editing
- Real-pixel editing
- Perspective transformations
- Color eraser
- Extensive photo effects
- Text layer addition
- Project auto-save
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Xer is a versatile photo editor to make excellent photos basing on multiple-layer editing. It is to meet all the daily demands for photo editing: rotation, cropping, flipping, applying photo effects, adding text, making artistic or funny photo montages, etc. Whenever it can help, it's trying to be sufficient and handy. Features: + Real-pixel editing. + Create projects with photos or a blank background. + Multiple-layer editing: Tap on a layer to select it. + Add new layers from the photo album or the camera. + Move, rotate, flip a layer, zoom in/out to edit with accuracy. + Move up a layer with a double-tap. + Change a layer's width or height. + The only app in the App Store capable of performing perspective transformations. + Color eraser: Quickly erase a layer's background color. + Eraser: Erase on a layer with desired size and offset. + Add transparency to a layer. + Copy a layer or the whole image. + Crop a layer. + Delete a layer. + Add a text layer. + Control your photos: Contrast, Saturation, Brightness, Tint, Exposure, Blur, USM, Vibrance, Gloom, Vignette, Gamma, Bloom, Sepia Tone, Posterize, Hue Adjust, etc. + Apply combined photo effects with convenience. + Project auto-save. + Save or mail. + Share to SNS. THE ONLY TIP: ALWAYS SELECT A LAYER BEFORE DOING ANYTHING TO IT. See the demo on the support website.
ShotText
Easily add text, shapes, and overlay effects to your photos. Customize colors, sizes, and rotation for a unique look. Share your creations directly to social media or save them to your device.
- Add text and shapes
- Adjustable text/shape size
- Customizable colors
- Rotation for text/shapes
- Overlay effects
- Direct social sharing
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ShotText is a photo editor that does everything on your iPhone. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No analytics. Your photos never leave your device. EVERYTHING IS ON-DEVICE Every filter, every AI feature, every export happens locally using Apple's Core Image, Vision, and Core ML frameworks. Edit in airplane mode if you want — it all just works. AI THAT RUNS OFFLINE • Background removal — one tap to isolate a person and drop in a new background • Auto-enhance — smart correction for exposure, color, and sharpness • Style transfer — turn any photo into Mosaic, Starry Night, Cuphead, Anime, Cartoon, or White Box style with adjustable intensity • Object erase — paint over what you want gone 38+ FILTERS IN 9 CATEGORIES Film looks (Noir, Chrome, Fade, Instant), 11 cinematic LUTs, art styles, lighting effects (Bloom, Gloom, Thermal, X-Ray), pencil sketch, tone mapping, and more — with a global intensity slider on every one. EVERYTHING ELSE YOU EXPECT • Crop with aspect ratio presets, rotation, and flip • Adjustments for brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and sharpness • 73 stickers across 5 packs (emoji, hearts, suns, eyes, directions) • Editable text with font, color, background, and shadow controls • 8 overlay packs (grunge, colors, nature, patterns, wood, bubbles) • 6 vignette presets with start/end controls • PencilKit drawing with pressure-sensitive brushes and eraser EXPORT YOUR WAY HEIC, JPEG, or PNG with adjustable quality. One-tap export to a 9:16 Story format with a blurred background — perfect for Instagram, TikTok, or anywhere vertical. Saved photos go to your library and a dedicated "ShotText" album. DESIGNED FOR THE LONG SESSION • 20-level undo and redo • Long-press the canvas to compare before and after • Pick up exactly where you left off — sessions persist across app restarts • Optimized for iPad with a side-by-side editing layout • Haptic feedback on every action PRIVACY ShotText collects nothing. There are no servers, no accounts, no third-party SDKs. Read the full policy at turkdogan.dev/shottext/privacy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Xer at none against ShotText's 1. Xer also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). ShotText's advantage is review sentiment (73% vs 43%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. ShotText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Xer asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShotText holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Xer's written reviews are positive against 73% of ShotText's.
Xer ships an update monthly, ShotText every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Xer | ShotText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (10 ratings) | 4.0 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 志明 丁 | Turkdogan Tasdelen |
Customer experience
Xer
ShotText
Bugs and requests
Xer
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes frequently during editing
- Eraser tool causes app to crash or malfunction
- Layers disappear randomly during work
- Undo function doesn't work properly
- Unresponsive buttons and controls
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- Tutorial exit button unresponsive on iOS 8
- Photos won't load or get stuck loading
- Image quality drastically decreases on import
- Erased content reappears before crashing
- App circles back to instructions instead of functioning
- Photos move around uncontrollably on screen
Requested features
10 requests- Layer tab/panel for easy layer management and visibility
- Ability to add more than 3 layers
- Save and resume projects functionality
- HD/high-quality image export options
- Undo functionality that actually works
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- Individual side adjustment for canvas resizing
- Comprehensive user instructions and tutorials
- Button labels and icon descriptions
- Ability to delete and reload pictures
- Smart layer selection without moving other layers
ShotText
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Xer
No in-app purchases
ShotText
- ShotText Pro$5.99









