Word Scan vs thWords OCR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Scan
This utility app uses optical character recognition to extract text from images captured by your device's camera or from your photo library. It currently supports English, Arabic, and Japanese, with more languages planned for future updates. Designed for iPhone and iPod devices running iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mobile OCR
- Text recognition from images
- Supports camera and photo library
- Multiple language support
- Future language updates planned
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Word Scan is Mobile OCR that support multiple language. OCR (optical character recognition) is the recognition of printed or written text characters. The source is an image, it can be from camera or photo library. Currently supported language is : - English - Arabic - Japanese Others language soon will be supported in the next version. This application support all iPhone/iPod device with minimum version of iOS 8.0
thWords OCR
Capture text from images or screenshots and convert it into editable, typed text. Easily copy and paste the extracted content to your clipboard.
- Image to text conversion
- Screenshot text extraction
- Copy and paste functionality
- Typed text output
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Take a picture of some words on a page, or take a screenshot, and have the letters recognized and extracted as if they were typed. Copy / Paste the text with the clipboard.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: thWords OCR at 5.0 against Word Scan's 1.0. Word Scan's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (15% vs 0%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. thWords OCR sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Word Scan asks for nothing beyond the download.
thWords OCR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 15% of Word Scan's written reviews are positive against 0% of thWords OCR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Word Scan ships an update every 2 months, thWords OCR every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Scan | thWords OCR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noval Agung Prayogo | ThirdHalf.com, LLC |
Customer experience
Word Scan
thWords OCR
In-app purchases
Word Scan
No in-app purchases
thWords OCR
- 1000 OCR Requests$2.99
