Text Shot vs Menu Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Shot
Easily transform text snippets into visually appealing, shareable images. Customize with titles, sources, themes, fonts, and sizes. Automate creation with Shortcuts integration.
- Create shareable text images
- Add title, source, and author
- Customize theme, font, and size
- Shortcuts app integration
- Universal iOS/iPadOS/macOS support
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Text Shot is a universal (iOS/iPadOS/macOS) application that lets you take text snippets and create beautiful shareable images (text shots). You can add a title, source, author, and the quote, or just a few of them! From there, you can choose a theme, font, and a size, to customise how each text shot looks. You can also find all of this functionality inside of a "Create Text Shot" action in the Shortcuts app. Which means, you can even build your own automations to make the process of creating and sharing your text shots even easier.
Menu Box
Create visually appealing menus for your device's shortcuts. Customize menu items with emojis, app icons, or custom images to build personalized automations. Dynamically generate menus on the fly for advanced shortcut customization.
- Create beautiful menus for Shortcuts
- Customize with emojis, SF Symbols, or custom images
- Attach custom data to menu items
- Fully controllable via Shortcuts
- Dynamically create menus on the fly
- Enhance Action Button functionality
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Menu Box allows you to create beautiful menus in Shortcuts, further customising your advanced Automations. Menus can be created using emojis, SF Symbols App Icons or your own custom images to create truly individual menus with near limitless options. Custom data attached to each menu items allows you to create even more advanced Shortcuts. Menu Box is fully controllable via Shortcuts, including creating Menus dynamically on the fly. Menu Box is perfect for creating advanced Shortcuts to allow you to further customise how your menus look, and becomes especially useful when combined with the Action Button. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Menu Box at Free against Text Shot's $2.99. Menu Box also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (86% vs 75%). Text Shot's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Menu Box is free to download; Text Shot costs $2.99 up front. Menu Box sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Text Shot asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Text Shot against 4.7 for Menu Box. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Text Shot's written reviews are positive against 86% of Menu Box's.
Text Shot ships an update every 5 weeks, Menu Box fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Shot | Menu Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 4.7 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christopher R Hannah | Snailed It Development Ltd |
Customer experience
Text Shot
Menu Box
In-app purchases
Text Shot
No in-app purchases
Menu Box
- Premium$4.991 Year
- Tip Jar - Small$0.99
- Tip Jar - Medium$2.99
- Tip Jar - Large$4.99
