Text Scanner AI vs BelliedMonkey Translator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Scanner AI
This app transforms your device into an AI-powered scanner, digitizing documents, extracting text from images, and translating content. It offers features like multi-page scanning, perspective correction, and iCloud sync for seamless document management.
- AI-powered document scanning
- Text extraction from photos
- Multi-language translation
- PDF export
- Perspective correction
- iCloud sync
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AndyScan turns your iPhone into a powerful AI-powered document scanner and text extractor. Whether you're digitizing receipts, scanning contracts, or extracting text from photos, AndyScan gets it done in seconds. - SCAN DOCUMENTS - Capture multi-page documents with the built-in scanner. Correct perspective, crop pages, and apply color filters. Export a polished PDF ready to share or archive — in one tap. - EXTRACT TEXT FROM PHOTOS - Point your camera at any text and AndyScan recognizes it instantly. Works on printed documents, handwritten notes, signs, receipts, books, and more. - TRANSLATE IN 9 LANGUAGES - Get instant translations of your scanned content in Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Chinese, and Hindi. No internet connection required. - EDIT & REFINE - The page editor gives you full control: adjust brightness and contrast, correct perspective, crop precisely, remove imperfections with the clean-up brush, and format to your standard (A4, Letter, Legal, and more). - iCLOUD SYNC - Your documents sync automatically across all your Apple devices. Scan on iPhone, access on iPad. Always up to date, always safe. - FREE FEATURES - - Text scan from camera - Text scan from photo library - Document scanner up to 3 pages - PDF export - Automatic iCloud sync - Interface in 9 languages -ANDYSCAN PREMIUM - €4.99 ONCE, FOREVER - No subscription. No automatic renewal. One payment, lifetime access. - Unlimited scanner pages - Translation in all languages - Advanced single-page editor - Import documents & files Existing users who already saved documents are automatically upgraded to Premium at no cost.
BelliedMonkey Translator
Translate text and speech in real-time across multiple apps and platforms. Learn new languages by turning your reading into review cards. Supports bilingual subtitles, document translation, and web page viewing.
- Live bilingual subtitles for videos and apps
- Real-time speech interpreter
- System-wide text translation
- Side-by-side web page translation
- Document translation (PDF, Word, images)
- Review cards for language learning
- Bring your own AI translation engine
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Meetings, videos, documents — translated as you listen, processed only on your device; the sentences you actually read come back as review cards. LIVE SUBTITLES (APP) Bilingual subtitles for whatever your device is playing. On Mac, the app listens to system audio and shows a floating subtitle bar that stays on top of any app, even full-screen video (macOS 26 or later). On iPhone, play a video or podcast out loud in any app, and a picture-in-picture window scrolls the original and the translation, sentence by sentence. Recognition happens on the device; Live Subtitles need iOS 26 / macOS 26. CONVERSATION · LIVE INTERPRETER (APP) Talk across a language gap. Both sides speak freely; each sentence is transcribed, translated and can be read aloud. Speech is recognised on the device, so the audio never leaves it. Requires iOS 26 / macOS 26. SYSTEM TRANSLATION (IPHONE) Select text in any app and tap Translate — BelliedMonkey answers with the engine you configured, in a small sheet, without leaving the app. Choose BelliedMonkey once in Settings › Apps › Translate › Default Translate App. Sentences you translate this way can go straight into your review deck. Requires iOS 18.4 or later. WEB PAGES, SIDE BY SIDE The Safari extension (also on Chrome and Firefox) keeps every paragraph's original text with the translation right below it. No switching tabs, no losing your place. VIDEO DUAL SUBTITLES YouTube, podcasts and web video get sentence-matched dual subtitles. No captions? Turn on AI transcript subtitles. DOCUMENT TRANSLATION Open a PDF, Word file or image and read it page by page, original and translation side by side. LEARN AS YOU READ Sentences you actually read can become review cards on a forgetting curve — read, listen and write practice, sentence notes and read-aloud. Optional sync lets your phone review what you read on your computer. YOUR ENGINE, YOUR CHOICE Bring your own AI service key, or any compatible endpoint. PRIVACY, SPELLED OUT Your keys and settings stay on your device. With your own key, text goes straight to the provider you chose and is not stored. Live Subtitles and on-device transcription never record audio. We send anonymous usage events (which features are used, never page content), and you can turn them off in Settings. No ads. The whole app is open source and free to download.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BelliedMonkey Translator at daily against Text Scanner AI's every 3 weeks. BelliedMonkey Translator also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Text Scanner AI against 5.0 for BelliedMonkey Translator. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Text Scanner AI ships an update every 3 weeks, BelliedMonkey Translator daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Text Scanner AI | BelliedMonkey Translator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andy Soft | ZHAO ZHANG |
Customer experience
Text Scanner AI
BelliedMonkey Translator
In-app purchases
Text Scanner AI
No in-app purchases
BelliedMonkey Translator
No in-app purchases
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