Comparison

ShotText vs iSky

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

Head to head
About

ShotText

Easily add text, shapes, and overlay effects to your photos. Customize colors, sizes, and rotation for a unique look. Share your creations directly to social media or save them to your device.

Highlights
  • Add text and shapes
  • Adjustable text/shape size
  • Customizable colors
  • Rotation for text/shapes
  • Overlay effects
  • Direct social sharing
Features
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ShotText is a photo editor that does everything on your iPhone. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No analytics. Your photos never leave your device. EVERYTHING IS ON-DEVICE Every filter, every AI feature, every export happens locally using Apple's Core Image, Vision, and Core ML frameworks. Edit in airplane mode if you want — it all just works. AI THAT RUNS OFFLINE • Background removal — one tap to isolate a person and drop in a new background • Auto-enhance — smart correction for exposure, color, and sharpness • Style transfer — turn any photo into Mosaic, Starry Night, Cuphead, Anime, Cartoon, or White Box style with adjustable intensity • Object erase — paint over what you want gone 38+ FILTERS IN 9 CATEGORIES Film looks (Noir, Chrome, Fade, Instant), 11 cinematic LUTs, art styles, lighting effects (Bloom, Gloom, Thermal, X-Ray), pencil sketch, tone mapping, and more — with a global intensity slider on every one. EVERYTHING ELSE YOU EXPECT • Crop with aspect ratio presets, rotation, and flip • Adjustments for brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and sharpness • 73 stickers across 5 packs (emoji, hearts, suns, eyes, directions) • Editable text with font, color, background, and shadow controls • 8 overlay packs (grunge, colors, nature, patterns, wood, bubbles) • 6 vignette presets with start/end controls • PencilKit drawing with pressure-sensitive brushes and eraser EXPORT YOUR WAY HEIC, JPEG, or PNG with adjustable quality. One-tap export to a 9:16 Story format with a blurred background — perfect for Instagram, TikTok, or anywhere vertical. Saved photos go to your library and a dedicated "ShotText" album. DESIGNED FOR THE LONG SESSION • 20-level undo and redo • Long-press the canvas to compare before and after • Pick up exactly where you left off — sessions persist across app restarts • Optimized for iPad with a side-by-side editing layout • Haptic feedback on every action PRIVACY ShotText collects nothing. There are no servers, no accounts, no third-party SDKs. Read the full policy at turkdogan.dev/shottext/privacy.

About

iSky

Transform your surroundings into living art using your device's camera. Experience the world through the styles of famous paintings in real-time. Pause, play, and share your artistic creations with others.

Highlights
  • Real-time neural network style transfer
  • 5 famous painting styles
  • Live video pause and play
  • Share creations
  • Tap to change styles
Features
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iSky provides you a window into the world through the eyes of 5 different paintings: Van Gogh's Starry Night, Mosaic, Leonid Afremov's Rain Princess, Natasha Westcoat's Candie and Francis Picabia's Udnie. The app uses your iOS device rear camera, and applies realtime neural network style transfer of the camera scene. Neural networks are trained in PyTorch, and transferred to Apple's CoreML via an ONNX intermediary. Please note that performance may be slower on older Apple devices. - Tap the screen to alternate between 5 different painting styles. - Pause and Play live video. - Share with with everyone using the share button! Turn your world into art, and share it with the world!

Screenshots

ShotText4 screens
iSky4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iSky at none against ShotText's 1. iSky also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). ShotText's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (19 vs 3). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ShotText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. iSky asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ShotText holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShotText has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of ShotText's written reviews are positive against 100% of iSky's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, iSky every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ShotText versus iSky: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShotTextiSky
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (19 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings19 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTurkdogan TasdelenUltralytics LLC

Customer experience

ShotText

All ratings19 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.1%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive72.7%
Neutral13.6%
Negative13.6%

iSky

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ShotText

One-time1
  • ShotText Pro$5.99
None

iSky

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShotText free?
ShotText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iSky free?
iSky is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShotText or iSky?
ShotText is rated higher. ShotText averages 4.0 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while iSky averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do ShotText or iSky have ads?
Neither ShotText nor iSky shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShotText or iSky?
ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, and iSky every 3 days. Most recently, ShotText was updated on September 26, 2026 and iSky on October 3, 2026.

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