FrankenOCR vs MausBot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FrankenOCR
Extract text from images and PDFs directly on your device. This app utilizes an on-device OCR engine for privacy, processing documents without uploading them. It offers structured Markdown output and supports various input methods like photos, scans, and live camera feeds.
- On-device OCR engine
- Extract text from images and PDFs
- Structured Markdown output
- Supports photos, scans, and camera input
- Privacy-focused, no uploads
- Tall screenshot processing
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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.
MausBot
Delegate tasks to AI agents that operate on your personal computer, accessible from your phone. Manage workflows like inbox triage, code reviews, and research, with bots requiring your approval before acting. Communicate with bots via text or voice, and run multiple agents in parallel for complex projects.
- AI agent task delegation
- Personal computer operation
- Inbox triage and email management
- Code review and bug reproduction
- Voice and text communication with bots
- Parallel bot execution
- OAuth integrations with popular services
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Hand real work to AI agents that run on your own computer, and carry them in your pocket. MausBot is the iPhone app for OpenMausBot, the open-source agent runtime you install on your own Mac, Windows or Linux machine. Your bots work on your hardware, with your keys, on your files. Nothing is uploaded to us. WORK YOU CAN HAND OFF · Inbox triage: read the morning's mail, flag what matters, draft replies, send nothing without your yes · Pull request review: read a diff, leave comments, open the follow-up issue · Bug reproduction: drive a browser until the bug happens, then write it up with the steps · Standup digest: gather what moved yesterday and post the summary to Slack · Issue grooming: tidy a Linear backlog, label it, close what already shipped · Research watch: check a list of sites overnight and report what changed · Portal errands: log into the dull vendor site, download the invoices, park them for review · Codebase chores: run the migration, fix the lint, open the branch MESSAGE A BOT LIKE A TEAMMATE Send work from your phone the way you would text a colleague. Pick up the same thread on your computer. Each bot keeps its own model, its own computer and its own instructions, and comes back to you only when it needs a decision. A BOT ASKS BEFORE IT ACTS Shell commands, file edits and open questions arrive as cards you answer with one tap, from the lock screen if you like. Nothing risky happens while you are away without your approval. The gate is the point. TALK TO IT OUT LOUD Start a Live call and brief a bot by voice while you walk, with the chat open beside you. MANY BOTS, IN PARALLEL Run a bot per job. One owns a project, one watches the inbox, one keeps the build green. Put several in a channel and they pass work between themselves. A cross-bot inbox shows everything waiting on you in one place. IT KEEPS GOING WITHOUT YOU Routines run work on a schedule, from every few minutes to selected weekdays. Webhooks let another system start a job. Your computer does the work whether or not your phone is awake. CONNECTED APPS OAuth once and every bot can use Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, Linear and hundreds more as tools. BRING YOUR OWN BRAIN Bots run on the Claude, Codex and Grok CLIs already installed on your machine. Switch a bot's model mid-conversation. PRIVATE BY ARCHITECTURE MausBot talks straight to the companion service on your own computer. Transcripts and keys stay in local storage on that machine. Pair with a short-lived code from Remote access, and revoke the phone whenever you want. AT HOME OR AWAY On a trusted network the phone finds your computer by itself. For remote access, install Tailscale on both and connect by MagicDNS name. Requires OpenMausBot on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer. Free and open source. Tailscale is optional and is not affiliated with OpenMausBot.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FrankenOCR at 5.0 against MausBot's 3.5. MausBot's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FrankenOCR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
FrankenOCR ships an update every 5 days, MausBot every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FrankenOCR | MausBot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeffrey Emanuel | Supamaus Software Private Limited |
In-app purchases
FrankenOCR
No in-app purchases
MausBot
No in-app purchases








