Comparison

iTems vs RollerText 3

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

Head to head
About

iTems

Organize your possessions, track warranties, and store receipts with AI-powered data extraction. Get notifications before warranties expire and manage detailed information for various item types, including heirlooms. Securely transfer items to new owners.

Highlights
  • AI-powered receipt scanning
  • Warranty tracking and expiry notifications
  • Detailed item information storage
  • Organize by collections and locations
  • Secure item transfer to new owners
  • Heirloom history preservation
Features
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Know what you own. iTems keeps your belongings, receipts, warranties and documents in one calm, organized place — on iPhone, iPad and Mac. iTems 4 is our biggest release ever: a complete redesign, a brand-new consumables module with smart shopping lists, collaboration through iTems Cloud — and Bulk Capture, which registers your things for you. BULK CAPTURE — POINT, SHOOT, DONE (iPhone) Open a drawer, take a photo, and let AI identify, count and register everything in it. Review the suggestions, adjust names and quantities, and your inventory builds itself. EVERYTHING YOU OWN, PROPERLY TRACKED • Items, antiques, vehicles and real estate — each with fields that fit • Warranty tracking with smart lists and expiry reminders • Maintenance and repair log with reminders • Custom fields when the built-ins aren't enough • Manuals, documents and photos attached right where they belong RECEIPTS THAT FILE THEMSELVES Scan a receipt and AI extracts the products into your inventory. Partner stores can even deliver receipts straight into iTems. NEVER RUN OUT AGAIN Track consumables like groceries and supplies. iTems learns your usage, warns you before you run out, and builds your shopping list automatically. SHARE AND COLLABORATE Move a collection to iTems Cloud to sync across devices, keep it backed up, and invite family or colleagues — with read or read/write access, updated in real time. PREPARED FOR WHAT MATTERS Insurance claims, moving, inheritance planning: export PDF reports, CSV or Excel, and document heirs per collection. Free to use with generous limits. iTems PRO (monthly, yearly or lifetime) unlocks unlimited items, AI features and reports. iTems Cloud plans add sync, backup and sharing. Available in 23 languages. Built by one person, for people who want control over their stuff.

About

RollerText 3

Features
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News reporters often have to improvise a speech at a disaster or a war zone to give live updates. Some people have to make a live speech in front of a large audience before receiving an award. All these people have in their hands are maybe just a microphone and an iPhone. Instead of resorting to a piece of paper with some information on it that can easily be blown away during a Category 5 tropical storm, can they use their iPhone or iPad at hand instead to read a speech script that they have prepared beforehand? RollerText 3 is an iPhone & iPad app for news reporters and speech makers who sometimes have to improvise a speech in a situation where they can't bring a big machine like an expensive teleprompter.  You won't need this app if you are happy working with a text or PDF file during a speech. RollerText 3 isn't just a simple plain text file reader. It lets you use your device as a virtual teleprompter such that you can see a rolling text script letter by letter on your device screen. And you can control the rolling speed. Double-tapping the screen, you can pause and unpause text rolling. By this approach, you will know what to pay attention to over an entire transcript during a speech. On top of a rolling text feature (Text Rolling), RollerText 3 has three additional text presentation features all packed under one app. And you can switch from one to another with just a finger tap on a drop-down menu. All these four text presentation features require plain text files (.text, .txt) as speech transcript sources. Text Rolling: Roll a text script letter by letter with a speed of your selection. Text Highlighting: Highlight keywords that you want to emphasize with a color of your selection over a text script. Text Flashing: Show a text script line by line, letting the app automatically switch them with a time interval of your selection. Text Switching: Show a text script line by line and switch lines on your own by double-tapping the screen. RollerText 3 comes with an 8-page Quick Guide that explains how to use it. Tap the red question mark button over the toolbar menu at the top to read it. - System requirements - 1. iOS 17.0 or higher 2. iPhone or iPad - Limitations- 1. The user must use text files (.text, .txt) as speech transcript sources that are stored in their device or iCloud Drive. 2. As free trial basis, RollerText 3 lets the user have access to as many as three files in presenting text and also create a maximum of three keywords in highlighting text. Subscribing to one of the four plans available, they can upgrade their use base to 'Unlimited' such that they can have access to an unlimited number of files in presenting text and create as many keywords as necessary in highlighting text. - End User License Agreement - https://blog.mhvt.net/?p=7526#termsofuse

Screenshots

iTems4 screens
RollerText 34 screens

Verdict

The call

iTems and RollerText 3 are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. iTems sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and RollerText 3 sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
iTems versus RollerText 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriTemsRollerText 3
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB8 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTommy Riise HandelandTomoyuki Okawa

In-app purchases

3 purchases

iTems

Subscriptions2
  • iTems PRO Monthly$4.991 Month
  • iTems PRO Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • iTems PRO Lifetime$199.99
4 purchases

RollerText 3

Subscriptions4
  • 1 month Unlimited$0.491 Month
  • 3 months Unlimited$1.993 Months
  • 6 months Unlimited$2.996 Months
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  • 1 year Unlimited$4.991 Year

Questions

Is iTems free?
iTems is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RollerText 3 free?
RollerText 3 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do iTems or RollerText 3 have ads?
Neither iTems nor RollerText 3 shows ads.

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