Comparison

Luminary vs VideoSpace OCR

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

Head to head
About

Luminary

Features
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Less paperwork. More clarity. Luminary scans your documents, files them for you, and answers questions about what's inside. Receipts, leases, warranties, contracts, all in one place. Scan or import. Photograph a paper document or import a PDF. Luminary reads the text, so you can search it later. Filing, done for you. Every document gets a sensible name and tags when you add it. You can change them, but you probably won't need to. Search inside your documents. Look for a word, a name or an amount, not just a file title. Filter by tag or date to narrow it down. Ask questions. "When does my lease end?" "Is water damage covered?" Choose up to five documents, or let Luminary find the right pages for you. Each answer quotes the passage it came from, so you can check it. Follow up anytime. Ask another question in the same chat. Conversations are stored on your device, and you can reopen them later. Credits and privacy. Document chat uses credits based on usage, and you set a limit per reply. Unlimited access includes chat. Text recognition and search run on your device. To answer a question, Luminary sends only the relevant excerpts and recent messages to OpenAI. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

VideoSpace OCR

Features
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VideoSpace OCR is the ultimate 100% offline productivity tool for developers, content creators, and AI professionals. Constantly hitting character limits in ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot? Convert any screenshot, image batch, or video clip into hyper-compressed text directly on your own hardware โ€” without sending a single byte to the cloud, ensuring absolute privacy. Key Features: โ€ข Advanced Video Optimization: Powered by our proprietary recursive binary bisection algorithm, the app processes video by skipping static blocks. A 10-minute video is analyzed with the efficiency of a 10-second one! โ€ข Smart Token-Squeezer: Reduce your prompt size by up to 90% by declaring repeated phrases as reusable variables [vN]. Perfect for squeezing the most out of free AI tiers. โ€ข Multi-Format Export: Choose seamlessly between plain text, AI-optimized text, or positional HTML structures. โ€ข 100% Private & Offline: No intermediate servers. All computation runs strictly local on your device using advanced Dart Isolates. Designed specifically to speed up the transcription of source code, video tutorials, database logs, or the organization of structured lists for communities and strategy games. Try it free with integrated ads or get lifetime Premium access with a one-time payment.

Screenshots

Luminary4 screens
VideoSpace OCR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: VideoSpace OCR at 13.0 against Luminary's 18.6. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Luminary sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and VideoSpace OCR sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Luminary versus VideoSpace OCR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLuminaryVideoSpace OCR
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS18.613.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size17 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCalogero CascioGustavo Adolfo Pacheco Cruz

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Luminary

Subscriptions1
  • Unlimited Access$9.991 Month
One-time3
  • Starter Pack$0.99
  • Standard Pack$3.99
  • Premium Pack$6.99
1 purchases

VideoSpace OCR

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$4.99

Questions

Is Luminary free?
Luminary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VideoSpace OCR free?
VideoSpace OCR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Luminary or VideoSpace OCR have ads?
Neither Luminary nor VideoSpace OCR shows ads.

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