Comparison

Screenshot Hero AI vs Lumen

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

Head to head
About

Screenshot Hero AI

This app uses on-device AI to analyze your screenshots, generating summaries, smart tags, and searchable text. It helps you organize and instantly find information from receipts, messages, and documents without uploading any data.

Highlights
  • AI-generated summaries
  • Automatic smart tagging
  • Project grouping with summaries
  • Instant searchable text
  • App-aware organization
  • Flexible export formats (PDF, Markdown, Word)
  • On-device privacy
Features
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Your screenshots are full of important information. Receipts, messages, ideas, tasks, and documents. But once you save them, they disappear into chaos. ScreenShot Hero turns screenshots into something useful. Automatically. Privately. On device. It analyzes screenshots using on device Apple Intelligence and creates summaries, smart tags, and searchable text so you can find anything in seconds. No uploads. No tracking. No data collection. ## Instantly Understand Every Screenshot * Each screenshot gets a clear AI generated summary so you know exactly what it contains at a glance ## Smart Tags Created for You * Screenshots are automatically labeled with tags like * #Receipt #Document #Chat #Idea #AI * No manual sorting required ## Projects That Think * Group screenshots into projects with automatic summaries, key points, and action items * Perfect for work, research, and everyday life ## Powerful Instant Search * Search across screenshot text, AI summaries, tags, apps, and projects to find anything instantly ## App Aware Organization * Screenshots are automatically grouped by the app they came from, like Messages, Safari, or Notes ## Built for Speed * Smooth scrolling and instant results, even with thousands of screenshots ## Flexible Exports * Export projects as PDF, Markdown, Word, or plain text * Ready to share or archive ## Privacy by Design * All processing happens on your device * No tracking * No uploads * Your screenshots stay yours

About

Lumen

This app acts as a browser that remembers what you read, building a personal knowledge base from engaged pages. It allows you to ask questions in plain English about your reading history, with answers generated by an on-device AI. All your data remains private and offline.

Highlights
  • On-device AI knowledge base
  • Plain English questioning
  • Automatic content organization
  • Private and offline browsing
  • Tracker blocking
  • Source citation for answers
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Lumen is a browser with a memory. Most browsers forget the second you close a tab. Lumen does not. As you read, it quietly builds a personal knowledge base from the pages you actually engage with, and then lets you ask questions about any of it in plain English, answered by an AI model that runs entirely on your device. Nothing you read, nothing you ask, and nothing Lumen learns about you ever leaves your phone. WHAT IT DOES Lumen reads along with you. It distinguishes between pages you genuinely read and pages you opened and swiped away, and it extracts the meaningful content from the ones that stuck. That content gets summarized, embedded, and organized into a searchable knowledge base, all on-device. Later, when you want to find something, you do not have to dig through history or remember which tab it was in. You just ask: "What did I read about sourdough starters last week?" "Summarize that article about the new M-series chips." "What were the main arguments in that piece I read on Tuesday?" Every answer cites the pages it came from, so you can jump straight back to the source. AUTO-ORGANIZED Your reading sorts itself into a clean hierarchy: Topics, Websites, and Pages. Each level carries its own AI-generated summary, so you can scan what you have been learning at a glance. No tagging, no folders to maintain. Lumen handles it in the background. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Lumen has no server. There is quite literally nothing to send. On-device LLM: a quantized Llama 3.2 model runs locally through Apple's MLX framework. Local SQLite storage: your reading history, summaries, and embeddings never leave the device. Built-in privacy: tracker blocking, third-party cookie blocking, and fingerprint resistance. Secure: HTTPS-only by default, with mixed-content blocking. No strings attached: no accounts, no sync, no telemetry, no ads. The AI weights download once on first launch (~700 MB). After that, everything works fully offline: browsing, reading, asking, answering. BUILT FOR iOS Lumen is written from scratch in Swift and SwiftUI, designed specifically for iPhone and iPad. It uses Apple's own frameworks wherever it can: NLEmbedding for semantic search, WKWebView for browsing, SQLite with FTS5 for full-text queries, and MLX Swift for on-device inference. Zero third-party trackers. Zero external services. WHO IT'S FOR While most browsers treat the web as a feed to scroll past, Lumen treats it as a library worth keeping. If you read a lot online and constantly think "I know I saw something about this recently but I cannot find it again," Lumen is for you. Researchers, students, writers, developers, and lifelong learners. You do not need to change how you browse. Browse normally, and Lumen takes care of the rest. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. iPhone with Apple Silicon recommended for the fastest on-device AI performance.

Screenshots

Screenshot Hero AI4 screens
Lumen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lumen at Free against Screenshot Hero AI's $1.99. Lumen also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Lumen is free to download; Screenshot Hero AI costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Screenshot Hero AI against 5.0 for Lumen. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Screenshot Hero AI versus Lumen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScreenshot Hero AILumen
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB28 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperChris BarnhartDaniel Kosukhin

Customer experience

Screenshot Hero AI

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Lumen

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

In-app purchases

None

Screenshot Hero AI

No in-app purchases

None

Lumen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Screenshot Hero AI free?
Screenshot Hero AI costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lumen free?
Lumen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Screenshot Hero AI or Lumen?
Screenshot Hero AI and Lumen are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Screenshot Hero AI or Lumen have ads?
Neither Screenshot Hero AI nor Lumen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Screenshot Hero AI or Lumen?
Screenshot Hero AI ships an update every 2 weeks, and Lumen every 2 weeks. Most recently, Screenshot Hero AI was updated on October 30, 2026 and Lumen on October 31, 2026.

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