Comparison

LangCat vs Image to Text

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

LangCat

Translate any text on your screen instantly by taking a screenshot. The app seamlessly integrates translated text inline, maintaining the original style. Enjoy private, offline translations for social media, travel apps, and comics.

Highlights
  • Instant inline translation via screenshots
  • Supports 16+ languages
  • 100% offline and private translation
  • Preserves original text style
  • Share translated content easily
Features
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LangCat - Easy Screen Translations Ever found yourself staring at an app in a language you don’t understand? Whether you’re exploring social media, navigating an app while traveling, or diving into a foreign comic or manga, LangCat has your back! Simply take a screenshot, and this magical app translates anything—text, UI, images, or whatever’s displayed on your screen—inline. With just a tap, you’ll see the translated text seamlessly integrated, preserving the same style, color, and size as the original. It’s effortless, instant, and completely offline. Your Privacy Matters: All translations happen directly on your device—no data is sent to the cloud. Your screenshots and personal information stay completely private and secure. Why You’ll Love It: • Instant Translation: Select a screenshot, and voilà—translated text appears inline, no more guessing! • Supports 16+ Languages: Translate content across a wide range of languages with ease. • Full Privacy: Translation is 100% offline, ensuring your data stays on your device. • Authentic Look: Translated text mirrors the original font size and color for a natural feel. • Share with Ease: Translate and share directly via the share sheet. Perfect for social media adventurers, globetrotters tackling foreign apps, or manga/comic lovers uncovering new stories, LangCat is your pocket-sized language genius. Download now and translate everything—privately and instantly

About

Image to Text

Features
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Copy all the text from a screenshot or photo without dragging to select it. Read many images at once, keep tables as rows and columns in CSV, and join lines broken by a book or handout into one paragraph. Photo selection: up to 100 images with Pro, up to your remaining daily reads for free, and up to 20 through sharing. TEXT YOU CAN USE RIGHT AWAY - Turn screenshots and photos into text straight from the share sheet - Read many images at once, combined or one result per image - Tables stay as rows and columns for CSV. Join broken lines into one paragraph - Shaky lines are highlighted. On supported iPhones, on-device AI suggests fixes you review before applying - Scan Live: just point the camera DOCUMENTS AND PDFS - Hold your iPhone over a document for automatic capture, with skew correction, saved as a searchable PDF - Read PDFs: text PDFs are extracted as is, scanned PDFs are read page by page (up to 50 pages at a time) YOUR LIBRARY - Add titles and sort results into groups - Full-text search, ignoring differences in width, case and line breaks - Find results from iPhone Search (Off, Title, or Title and Text) - Export the whole Library as text, a searchable PDF or a ZIP Processed and saved on device - Images and text are processed and stored on your device, without sending them to external servers. - Lock with Face ID. No account, ads or tracking. Free and OCR Copy Pro: - Free: read text 5 times a day. One photo with text, one page captured with the document camera, one copy from Scan Live, or one shared image counts as one read. Pages beyond your remaining reads for the day are not read. Each page of a scanned PDF counts as one read. Text PDFs, copying, the Library and exports never count, and the count starts over at midnight - If you used OCR Copy before version 1.5, reading stays unlimited - OCR Copy Pro removes the daily limit in the app, the share sheet and Shortcuts, and lets you create unlimited groups (3 on the free plan). Yearly (with a 1-week free trial) or monthly The annual plan’s free trial is available only to eligible users. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Please use other people’s books and writing only as copyright law allows where you live. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zec-inc.jp/privacy

Screenshots

LangCat4 screens
Image to Text4 screens

Verdict

The call

LangCat and Image to Text are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LangCat sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Image to Text sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
LangCat versus Image to Text: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLangCatImage to Text
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUNI HQ LLCZEC Inc.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

LangCat

One-time1
  • LangCat Plus$5.99
2 purchases

Image to Text

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is LangCat free?
LangCat is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Image to Text free?
Image to Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LangCat or Image to Text have ads?
Neither LangCat nor Image to Text shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LangCat or Image to Text?
LangCat ships an update every 2 days, and Image to Text every 2 days. Most recently, LangCat was updated on November 4, 2026 and Image to Text on November 13, 2026.

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