SimpleSign vs RICOH THETA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimpleSign
This app displays large characters and words full screen with customizable fonts and colors. It supports sliding animations for long sentences, making it useful for various situations like displaying quiz answers or messages from a distance.
- Full-screen character and word display
- Customizable font types and colors
- Sliding animation for long sentences
- Useful for quizzes and distant communication
- Acts as a digital signboard substitute
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Display full size characters and words in the full screen. Long sentence can slide through screen with animation. - Showing score or answer of quiz in party - Contact to the person that stands far from you - Substitution of signboard etc. It is useful in many situation. [Functional Description] - Appears one character on screen from 45 different characters. - Changing color of character and background. - Changing font type. - Long sentence can be displayed by one line or paragraph with sliding animation on/off.
RICOH THETA
Capture, view, and share immersive 360° photos and videos with a compatible camera. Control your camera remotely, preview shots in live view, and experience your spherical images by spinning, enlarging, or shrinking them. Easily share your creations on social media.
- Remote camera control
- Live view preview
- 360° image and video viewing
- Spherical image sharing
- Switch between photo and video modes
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Make life fun and work convenient with the 360° camera RICOH THETA The 360° camera RICOH THETA greatly surpasses your field of view to capture the entire surroundings with a single shutter click. You can view and share on a computer or smartphone the images and videos you shoot. This app enables you to do every task, specifically taking images and videos, viewing them and also sharing them, on your smartphone. * A separately sold RICOH THETA series camera is required to shoot spherical images. ◊ RICOH THETA and Wi-Fi connection Be sure to install this app onto your smartphone and connect it to a RICOH THETA series camera. Using this app will enable you to capture images remotely and view spherical images. - Remote shooting In still image mode, you can shoot while checking images in live view. You can also switch between still image mode and video mode by the app. - Viewing Captured images and videos can be viewed using this app. Spin around, enlarge, or shrink... Experience the fun of seeing the entire space around you in a spherical image. ◊ Sharing on Social Networking Services You can share on Twitter, Facebook, and other social network services the spherical images you shoot. Show the world a new way of enjoying photos by 360° images that provide a feeling of being where the image was taken. ◊ Note * Not compatible with iPod Touch devices. * Please visit www.theta360.com for additional compatibility information. * Compatibility is not guaranteed for all devices. * Compatibility is not guaranteed for devices without GPS capabilities. * Compatibility information may be changed at any time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SimpleSign at 100% against RICOH THETA's 23%. SimpleSign also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). RICOH THETA's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SimpleSign holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RICOH THETA has 1.9K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of SimpleSign's written reviews are positive against 23% of RICOH THETA's.
SimpleSign ships an update every 9 months, RICOH THETA every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimpleSign | RICOH THETA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.6 (1.9K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 23.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 1.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | idota limited | Ricoh Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
SimpleSign
RICOH THETA
Bugs and requests
SimpleSign
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
RICOH THETA
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch after recent updates
- Unable to connect to camera after firmware updates
- Interval shooting not working on iOS
- Incompatible with newer iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to batch select and share images
- Option to store photos within the app without cluttering device gallery
- Offline viewing of 360 photos with 3D effects
- Timer and interval shooting functionality
In-app purchases
SimpleSign
No in-app purchases
RICOH THETA
No in-app purchases
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