CamWorkbook vs Poncho
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
CamWorkbook
Transform photos of study materials into interactive workbooks. Practice questions, focus on weak points, and share your creations. Supports various file types and cloud storage for easy access and backup.
- Create workbooks from photos
- Practice questions
- Focus on weak points
- Import from JPEG/PDF via iTunes/Dropbox
- Share workbooks with friends
- Backup workbooks to Dropbox
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Just take a photo of textbooks, notebooks or blackboards, these photos become your workbooks. Anywhere anytime you are in the study room. Once you made workbooks by putting mask rectangles on the photos, you can practice the workbooks anytime anywhere only with your iPhone. The photos are came from not only iPhone camera, photo album but also jpeg files or pdf files via iTunes & Dropbox. You can share the workbooks with your friend by using nearby communicaton of iPhone & Dropbox. You can also backup the workbooks using Dropbox. Functions: 1.Practices Workbooks are listed on a "workbooks screen". Please select one workbook and choose "Practice" or "Practice (Weakpoints)". (1)Practice You should answer all questions in the workbook. If you have already memorized the question, you should touch "OK" button. If not, you should touch "NG" button. Then, the workbook proceeds next question. You would like to confirm an answer of the question before going to next question, you should touch "Check" button. Then the answer can be seen & confirmed. (2)Practice (Weakpoints) If you can not answer a question as "OK" three times in a row, the question is recorded as weak points question. By using this Practice (Weakpoints) mode, you can practice focusing on the weak points question effectively. 2. Edit & Others Making direction of workbook. (1)Add new workbook in a workbook list By touching "+" button on the upper-right corner on "workbooks screen", new workbook are added. (2)Set name for the new workbook Please set new name at "workbook name" field on "Edit & Others screen". (3)Add Photo or Files Please take a photo of textbooks, notebooks or blackboards for the workbook, by push "+" button. You can also use jpeg file or pdf file via iTunes/Dropbox. (4)Place mask rectangles on the photo After selecting the photo file and pushing "+" button on the bottom of the screen, new mask rectangle is added on the photo image. You can move & resize the rectangle by touching the screen. The rectangles are asked as questions in the order they were added. You can change the order by touching "order" button. One question may have two rectangles by inserting new line into the question part. In this case, after touching "order" button, you can unite two rectangles as one question by touching "unite" button. 3. Other functions (a)remove a workbook By touching a trash button on "Edit & Others screen", the selecting workbook will be deleted. (b)change the order of the photo files By touching "Edit" button of "Edit & Others screen" and dragging photo files, you can change the order. (c)remove a photo file By touching "Edit" button of "Edit & Others screen" and selecting photo files, you can delete the file. (d)rotate a photo By touching "90Deg. Rotate" button of "Edit & Others screen" and selecting photo files, you can rotate the photo in 90 degree. *You can not rotate the photo file which has mask rectangles. You should remove all the rectangles before you rotate it. *You can not rotate PDF file either. 4. Upgrading functions (a)No page & workbook limitation Before you buy "Default upgrade function", the workbooks are limited less than 5 and each workbook are limited less than 5 pages. Once you buy the upgrade, these limitation will be deactivated. (b)Workbook can be shared through nearby communication Please turn on Bluetooth. Two iPhones which already installed "CamWorkbook " can share workbooks via nearby communication. On the sending iPhone, select a workbook which you want to send ,push "Edit & Others", and choose "Send to nearby" on the Action menu. On the receiving iPhone, push a "+" button on the upper-right corner of the "workbooks screen", and choose "Receive From Nearby". (c)Communication with Dropbox
Poncho
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Poncho turns the minutes you were about to lose scrolling into a review of your own notes. It blocks your distracting apps and shows you a flashcard instead. You study at the exact moment you were about to procrastinate. Snap a photo of your notes or type a topic, and AI builds your flashcards in seconds. BLOCK WHAT STEALS YOUR TIME You pick which apps to block: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, whichever you want. When you open one, a study card appears instead of the app. Review one point, and only then it unlocks. YOUR NOTES, NOT GENERIC CONTENT Take up to 60 photos of handwritten or printed notes. Poncho reads the text on its own and builds the cards. Don't have your notes with you? Type the topic and you're set. 4 HOURS OF SCREEN TIME = 120 REVIEWS That's how long the average person spends on their phone on an ordinary day. Poncho turns it into spaced repetition β without you ever sitting down to study. IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE STUDYING No hour-long sessions, no lectures. It's ten seconds each time you were about to open a social app. By the end of the day you've reviewed more than you would have in a library β by accident. BUILT FOR REAL STUDENTS β College students with midterms and finals coming β High schoolers with subjects that won't stick β Anyone who wants to cut screen time without the guilt FREE AND PREMIUM Free: 2 photo summaries and 2 text summaries every day. Premium: unlimited summaries, up to 100 flashcards per summary, and full control over blocking time. Invite friends from your profile and earn free premium: they get 3 days, you get a week for every friend. Download it free and try your first summary now. Premium renews automatically. Cancel anytime from your Apple ID account. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Poncho at none against CamWorkbook's 1. Poncho also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). CamWorkbook's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. CamWorkbook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Poncho asks for nothing beyond the download.
CamWorkbook ships an update every 9 months, Poncho every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CamWorkbook | Poncho |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 59.3% of reviews | β |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No β better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | β |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 β better | 17.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Prime System Laboratory Co.,Ltd. | Lucas Raponi |
In-app purchases
CamWorkbook
- Default Upgrade Functions$2.99
Poncho
No in-app purchases
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