Image to Text vs PenPro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Image to Text
Instantly convert images of documents, notes, and receipts into editable text. Extract information without manual typing, and export it as PDF, DOCX, or TXT files. All processing is done offline for enhanced privacy and security.
- Convert images to editable text
- Recognize handwritten and printed text
- Copy and share extracted text
- Export as PDF, DOCX, or TXT
- Filter and crop images
- Organize files in folders
- Offline processing
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Image to Text - OCR Scan is a fast and reliable app that turns your photos into editable text in seconds. Scan handwritten notes, printed documents, receipts, or book pages and instantly extract text with high accuracy. No typing. No complicated tools. Just scan and go. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Convert images into editable text instantly • Recognize handwritten and printed content • Copy and share text in seconds • Create PDF, DOCX, or TXT files • Filter and crop before processing • Organize files in clean folders • Fully offline processing - no uploads Everything happens directly on your device, so your documents stay private and secure. HOW IT WORKS Scan or upload an image Adjust, crop, or apply filters Extract text instantly Edit, copy, or export as PDF, DOCX, or TXT Organize your files in folders Simple. Fast. Efficient. FREE VERSION • 3 total document creations • Ads supported PREMIUM Unlock unlimited access: • Unlimited scans and exports • Unlimited PDF, DOCX, and TXT creation • No ads • Weekly subscription • Yearly subscription with 3-day free trial Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled through your App Store account settings. YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS All OCR processing is performed fully on-device. Your images and documents are never uploaded or stored on external servers. Turn your photos into text in seconds and keep everything organized in one clean library. Download now and simplify your workflow. Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/imagetotextapp-pp Terms of service: https://sites.google.com/view/imagetotextapp-tos
PenPro
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PenPro is a notebook app for iPad, iPhone and iPhone Duo. Write with Apple Pencil, type, add pictures, tables and recordings, and place everything exactly where you want it on the page. WRITE AND DRAW • Write with Apple Pencil on lined, squared, dotted or blank pages, in A4, A5, US Letter or US Legal. • Draw a line, a circle, a rectangle or a triangle and hold the Pencil still: the shape becomes perfect. • Pens, colors, the eraser, the lasso and the ruler are Apple's own tools. TYPE AND ARRANGE • Text boxes with bold, italic, underline, four sizes, colors and lists. Align the text left, center or right. • Drag a text box by its corner, and its words grow or shrink with it. • Paste code, and PenPro colors it as a code editor does. • Tables you can resize, sort and total. Paste them from Excel, Numbers or a web page. • Pictures from your library, your camera or the clipboard, cropped and turned, with a border if you want one. • Move and resize everything with a finger. Things snap to the middle of the page and to each other. STICKERS • Five sticker packs, free: a red panda, a cat, an owl, a ninja and a penguin, with 44 stickers each. Put them on any page, move them and resize them. RECORD • One tap records a lecture or a meeting while you write. • When you play it back, your notes light up at the moment you wrote them. • Tap a note to hear what was said at that moment. HANDWRITING TO TEXT • Draw a frame around your handwriting, and PenPro turns it into text. Copy it, add it to the page, or put it in place of the ink. In English, French, Spanish, German, Turkish and more. SEARCH • Search the library: PenPro finds notebook names, page titles and the words you typed in text boxes, tables and code, and opens the notebook at that page. • "New notebook" and "Open a notebook" in the Shortcuts app and with Siri. Your notebooks and page titles in the iPhone and iPad search. NOTEBOOKS • Notebooks with sections and pages, in linen covers of sixteen colors. • Put your notebooks on shelves, one shelf for each category. Arrange them by hand, or sort them by name or by date. • Give a page a short title. It shows in the page list and in the table of contents of the PDF. • Lock PenPro, or one notebook, with Face ID or Touch ID, a PIN or a password. • Import a PDF and write on it. • Save any notebook as a PDF, share it or print it. • PenPro speaks English, French, Spanish, German, Estonian and Turkish. PENPRO EXTRAS One-time purchases. Each is yours forever, on every device with your Apple Account. • iCloud sync: your notebooks on every iPad and iPhone. • AI features: transcripts of your recordings, written on your device, and a handwriting font. • PDF notebooks: as many PDF notebooks as you want. One is free. • All three together, for less. IPHONE DUO • PenPro fits both screens of iPhone Duo: the iPhone layout on the outer screen, and on the large inner screen the page list beside the page. Its toolbars stay clear of the fold. PRIVATE No account, no ads, no tracking. Your notes stay on your device, or in your own iCloud. Recordings are written out and handwriting is read on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PenPro at none against Image to Text's shown. PenPro also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). Image to Text's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Image to Text sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and PenPro sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Image to Text ships an update every 6 months, PenPro weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Image to Text | PenPro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Isinsu Arici Tan | HADRIAN TECHNOLOGIES |
In-app purchases
Image to Text
- Weekly Subscription$1.997 Days
- Yearly Subscription3 Days trial$14.991 Year
PenPro
- PDF notebooks$1.99
- Sync on every device$2.99
- AI features$2.99
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- All features offer$4.99









