Comparison

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.

Head to head
About

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: โ€ข Date โ€” natural-language dates and times โ€ข Currency โ€” prices in any format ($1,234.56, โ‚ฌ99, 1234 USD) โ€ข Phone โ€” phone numbers โ€ข Link โ€” URLs and web addresses โ€ข Address โ€” full postal addresses in one line โ€ข 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.

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Pad Notes AI

Features
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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. โ€”โ€”โ€” HANDWRITING & DRAWING โ€”โ€”โ€” 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. โ€”โ€”โ€” VOICE RECORDING & TRANSCRIPTION โ€”โ€”โ€” 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. โ€”โ€”โ€” AI ASSISTANT โ€”โ€”โ€” 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. โ€”โ€”โ€” ORGANIZED YOUR WAY โ€”โ€”โ€” Keep multiple notebooks open in tabs, browse pages as thumbnails, and find anything instantly with full-text search across handwriting, typed notes, and transcriptions. โ€”โ€”โ€” EXPORT EVERYTHING โ€”โ€”โ€” 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. โ€”โ€”โ€” iCLOUD SYNC โ€”โ€”โ€” Your notes stay up to date across all your devices automatically.

Screenshots

Texty Copy4 screens
Pad Notes AI3 screens

Verdict

The call

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.

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. Pad Notes AI sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Texty Copy asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Texty Copy versus Pad Notes AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTexty CopyPad Notes AI
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size4 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael RobinsonHung Tien Pham

In-app purchases

None

Texty Copy

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pad Notes AI

One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$9.99

Questions

Is Texty Copy free?
Texty Copy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pad Notes AI free?
Pad Notes AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Texty Copy or Pad Notes AI have ads?
Neither Texty Copy nor Pad Notes AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Texty Copy or Pad Notes AI?
Texty Copy ships an update every 2 days, and Pad Notes AI daily. Most recently, Texty Copy was updated on June 6, 2026 and Pad Notes AI on September 15, 2026.

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