Texty Copy vs Pad Notes AI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Texty Copy
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Snap. Tap. Structured. Point your camera at text. Tap the words you want. They're on your clipboard. That's the whole app (apart from the rest of it). Not just plain text โ Texty Copy captures structured fields for books, business cards, addresses, quotes, receipts, or any mode you build yourself. No sign-ups. No tutorials. No "upgrade to unlock." You open it, it works. Quick mode Quick mode freezes and copies in one shot โ no tapping, no choosing. Sometimes it nails exactly what you wanted. Sometimes you get the barcode. Nailing the Snap โ Tap โ Copy combo never gets old. Free selection Don't want everything? Tap individual OCR blocks to pick exactly the text you need. Got a wall of blocks? Drag a dashed rectangle across them and grab them all at once. Long-press to select every block on screen. Cherry-pick, bulk-select, or mix the two โ the whole frozen frame is yours. Five built-in modes for real life: Text โ Grab anything. Paragraphs, labels, serial numbers, that Wi-Fi password on the back of the router. Book โ Point at a book. Title and author drop into separate fields, ready to paste into your reading list. Card โ Business cards become name, title, company, phone, email, and website. Each field, one tap to copy. Quote โ Capture a passage and its source. No more "I think it was from that one book." Address โ Street, city, state, zip. Sorted and formatted without you squinting at an envelope. POWER MODE โ Make your own Create custom scan modes with exactly the fields you need. Newspaper? Recipe? Invoice? Pick from built-in fields, add smart detectors for dates, prices, phone numbers and links, or write your own regex patterns. Your scanner, your rules. You can even add fields to the built-in modes โ want Currency on your Card scanner? Just add it. Smart detectors Five ready-made extractors that find things automatically: โข Date โ natural-language dates and times โข Currency โ prices in any format ($1,234.56, โฌ99, 1234 USD) โข Phone โ phone numbers โข Link โ URLs and web addresses โข Address โ full postal addresses in one line โข Actually there are more than five Add any of them to any mode with one tap. Custom wraps Add your own prefix and suffix to any copied text. Wrap in quotes, brackets, markdown โ whatever your workflow needs. Learn by doing A built-in Learn tab walks you through every feature with hands-on demos you can tap and long-press โ the lessons react like the real app. Three tiers: GO for the basics, GO HARDER for the power-user moves, and GO TO FULL POWER for custom modes, fields, and regex. Skim what you need, skip the rest. Private by design All text recognition and extraction happens on-device using Apple Vision. Custom fields, regex patterns, detector matching โ everything runs locally. Nothing leaves your phone. No servers. No accounts. No analytics. No data to leak because there's no data to collect. One price. No surprises. Pay once. Use it forever. No subscriptions, no feature gates, no "premium tier." Every feature, every mode, every update โ included.
Pad Notes AI
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Take notes the way you think โ write by hand, record your voice, or type. Pad Notes AI brings together handwriting, audio, and artificial intelligence in one seamless notebook experience built for iPad and Apple Pencil. โโโ HANDWRITING & DRAWING โโโ Write naturally with Apple Pencil on a variety of paper styles. Pad Notes AI recognizes your handwriting automatically, making every note fully searchable without any extra effort. โโโ VOICE RECORDING & TRANSCRIPTION โโโ Record lectures, meetings, or ideas on the go. Your recordings are transcribed in real time, and you can tap any word in the transcript to jump straight to that moment in the audio. โโโ AI ASSISTANT โโโ Ask the built-in AI to summarize your notes, explain a concept, or answer questions about what you've written โ all without leaving the page. โโโ ORGANIZED YOUR WAY โโโ Keep multiple notebooks open in tabs, browse pages as thumbnails, and find anything instantly with full-text search across handwriting, typed notes, and transcriptions. โโโ EXPORT EVERYTHING โโโ Share your work as a polished PDF, export audio recordings as M4A files, or save all transcriptions as a formatted text document โ ready to share in seconds. โโโ iCLOUD SYNC โโโ Your notes stay up to date across all your devices automatically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Texty Copy at none against Pad Notes AI's 1. Pad Notes AI's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Pad Notes AI sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Texty Copy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Texty Copy ships an update every 2 days, Pad Notes AI daily. The most recent releases landed on June 6, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Texty Copy | Pad Notes AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Robinson | Hung Tien Pham |
In-app purchases
Texty Copy
No in-app purchases
Pad Notes AI
- Lifetime Access$9.99





