Text vs PSRayTracing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text
Easily translate any text into binary code and convert binary code back to text. Simply input your text or binary data and view the conversion results instantly.
- Text to binary conversion
- Binary to text conversion
- Instant results
- Simple interface
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With our 'Text To Binary Converter' you can simply convert any text into binary code and also from binary code back to text. Just type your text/binary and directly see the result on the bottom of the page.
PSRayTracing
This application provides a graphical interface for a ray tracing engine, designed to render images faster than reference code. It includes features like threading and render progress visualization, based on "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" books.
- GUI frontend for ray tracing
- Faster rendering than reference code
- Threading support
- Render progress visualization
- Toggle-able features
- Based on "Ray Tracing in One Weekend"
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This is a GUI frontend for the PSRayTracing implementation of the "Ray Tracing in One Weekend" books by Peter Shirley (and others). Which renders the images in the book faster than the reference code, but also offers other features (e.g. threading, render progress, toggle-able and more). The source code for this program, as well as a report auditing all of the changes/improvements, is freely available at: https://github.com/define-private-public/PSRayTracing
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PSRayTracing at 5.0 against Text's 1.4. PSRayTracing also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). Text's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17). On price, ratings volume, ads 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.
PSRayTracing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Text's written reviews are positive against 100% of PSRayTracing's.
Text ships an update every 2 months, PSRayTracing every 30 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text | PSRayTracing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.4 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 30 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julian Lau | Benjamin Summerton |
Customer experience
Text
PSRayTracing
In-app purchases
Text
No in-app purchases
PSRayTracing
No in-app purchases
