Comparison

Visual IQ vs Prismark

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

Head to head
About

Visual IQ

This app uses advanced visual intelligence to convert photos and screenshots into actionable data. It integrates seamlessly with iOS to add events to your calendar, contacts from business cards, tasks to reminders, and locations to maps. You can also extract text, identify objects, and get detailed descriptions of images.

Highlights
  • Capture events into Calendar
  • Import contacts from images
  • Create tasks from lists
  • Extract locations into Maps
  • Identify objects and species
  • Translate text in images
  • Get image descriptions and answers
Features
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Turn photos into actions. Visual IQ saves you time by converting pictures and screenshots into real results in seconds using cutting-edge visual intelligence. Front and center is the app's tight integration into iOS to help you get things done with incredible ease. Take a photo or screenshot and easily import its events into Calendar, people into Contacts, tasks into Reminders, or locations into Maps. You can also extract or translate text, identify items, get an answer to a question, or a detailed description of the image. Included are useful actions for Shortcuts, a share extension, and the app be opened using control widgets in Control Center or your Lock Screen as well as pressing the Camera Control button. Features: • Capture multiple events from schedules, calendars, event posters, and more into Calendar. • Import multiple people from business cards, posters, and more into Contacts. • Snap multiple tasks from grocery, to-do lists, etc. into Reminders. • Grab multiple locations from lists of addresses into Maps or Google Maps. • Identify anything in an image such as a dog's breed or a plant's species. • Lookup accurate translations of text in a picture to over 40 languages. • Get a detailed description or answer questions about any photo or screenshot. Visual IQ is free to use for up to 5 scans a day and 50 scans per month. There are optional upgrades to increase these rate limits, access more accurate models, and unlock access to scan history. Try out Visual IQ today and start saving time. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime in your Apple account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.cromulentlabs.com/visualiq/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Prismark

This app reads text aloud, highlighting each sentence as it's spoken. It supports articles, PDFs, and documents, allowing users to listen while multitasking or when their eyes are tired. Customize voices, playback speed, and organization with folders.

Highlights
  • Reads text aloud
  • Highlights current sentence
  • Supports articles, PDFs, and documents
  • Customizable voice and speed
  • Organize with folders
  • Syncs playback with text
Features
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Prismark reads aloud whatever you give it, and marks each sentence as it goes. The articles you saved, the PDFs you meant to get to, the books on your list: press play and listen on a walk, at the stove, on the train, or when your eyes are tired. Bring Anything In • Share an article from your web browser, and it arrives cleaned up and ready to play. • Paste text or a link. • Open a PDF or a document from Files. Follow Along • The sentence being read is marked like a highlighter, and the page keeps up with the voice. • Tap any sentence to jump to it. • Jump between chapters in longer books. • Choose a voice and set the speed. • Keep the screen awake while you listen, or listen in dark mode at night. Keep It Tidy • Sort documents into folders, each with a marker color of its own. • Pick the color that marks everything else, the app icon included. Prismark for iPhone Duo Open it like a book: the text on one page and the player on the other. Close it and keep listening on the cover. Voices run on your device.

Screenshots

Visual IQ4 screens
Prismark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Prismark at none against Visual IQ's 4. Prismark also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Visual IQ's advantage is ratings volume (54 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Visual IQ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Prismark asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Prismark holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Visual IQ has 54 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual IQ ships an update fortnightly, Prismark weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Visual IQ versus Prismark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual IQPrismark
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (54 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings54 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB201 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCromulent LabsZachary Coleman

Customer experience

Visual IQ

All ratings53 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Prismark

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Visual IQ

Subscriptions4
  • Visual IQ Plus Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Visual IQ Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
  • Visual IQ Plus Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Visual IQ Premium Yearly$79.991 Year
None

Prismark

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Visual IQ free?
Visual IQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Prismark free?
Prismark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Visual IQ or Prismark?
Prismark is rated higher. Visual IQ averages 4.7 out of 5 from 54 ratings, while Prismark averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Visual IQ or Prismark have ads?
Visual IQ shows ads; Prismark does not.
Which is updated more often, Visual IQ or Prismark?
Visual IQ ships an update fortnightly, and Prismark weekly. Most recently, Visual IQ was updated on November 5, 2026 and Prismark on November 6, 2026.

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