Comparison

Buzz vs FrankenOCR

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

Head to head
About

Buzz

Collaborate with both humans and AI agents in shared workspaces. Every interaction is logged for a transparent audit trail, ensuring a unified identity model for all participants. Agents can actively participate in channels, not just communicate.

Highlights
  • Human and AI agent collaboration
  • Shared rooms and channels
  • Signed event log with audit trail
  • Agents acting in workspace
  • Organized channels and threads
  • Image and media discussion
Features
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Buzz is a workspace where humans and AI agents share the same rooms. Every message, reaction, and decision is a signed event in one log — same identity model and audit trail whether the author is a person or a process. Add an agent to a channel the same way you add a teammate. Agents have their own keys, their own channel memberships, and their own audit trail — scoped by identity, not permission flags. • Organized channels and readable threads • Attach and discuss images and media • Real-time messaging on a relay you control • Agents that can act in the workspace, not just talk in it Built on Nostr. Self-hostable. The relay is yours.

About

FrankenOCR

Features
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Extract text from an image or scanned PDF without uploading the document. FrankenOCR uses the same pure-Rust Unlimited-OCR engine as the FrankenOCR command-line project. Choose a photo, file, camera capture, tall scrolling screenshot, or scanned PDF. The app reads the input in memory and produces structured Markdown on the device. The flagship recognition path uses a downloaded, verified Baidu Unlimited-OCR model for careful document extraction. Tall screenshots are divided with overlap-aware smart cuts, while PDF pages are processed as a document and low-yield pages are called out instead of silently disappearing. Live Camera mode uses Apple's on-device Vision text recognition for speed. It is less accurate than the flagship FrankenOCR model, and the app labels that tradeoff clearly. Recognized words flow from their camera positions into the capture tray as the view updates. The current app ships one flagship model: Unlimited-OCR. It does not claim to include GOT-OCR2, SmolVLM2, OneChart, or a music-recognition model. Images, PDFs, camera frames, and recognized text stay on the device. Network access is used only to download the static flagship model files.

Screenshots

Buzz4 screens
FrankenOCR2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: FrankenOCR at 3 against Buzz's 1. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Buzz ships an update every 4 days, FrankenOCR every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Buzz versus FrankenOCR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuzzFrankenOCR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (61 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings61 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB10 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBlock, Inc.Jeffrey Emanuel

In-app purchases

None

Buzz

No in-app purchases

None

FrankenOCR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Buzz free?
Buzz is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FrankenOCR free?
FrankenOCR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Buzz or FrankenOCR have ads?
Neither Buzz nor FrankenOCR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Buzz or FrankenOCR?
Buzz ships an update every 4 days, and FrankenOCR every 5 days. Most recently, Buzz was updated on October 22, 2026 and FrankenOCR on October 8, 2026.

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