ShotText vs After CameraWork
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Add text and shapes
- Adjustable text/shape size
- Customizable colors
- Rotation for text/shapes
- Overlay effects
- Direct social sharing
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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.
After CameraWork
Easily add professional camera movements like zoom, pan, and dolly to your videos. Transform ordinary footage into dynamic cinematic shots with simple controls. This app offers a variety of effects to enhance your video editing.
- Add zoom, pan, tilt, and dolly effects
- Trim and edit videos
- Simulate cameraman movements
- Import videos via AirDrop and other apps
- Save and share edited videos
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Zoom, pan, tilt, dolly, follow shot, and trimming - all these camera work effects can be added to your videos with a video trimming app. Even an ordinary video can be transformed into a dynamic one with various camera movements. This app is not just for simple trimming (although you can certainly do that too). You can have fun making your own videos as if you were a cameraman, and the operation is very simple. You can create many videos with different camera movements from the original video. ● Here are some examples of camera movements ・Zoom in to get closer to the subject ・Zoom out to move away from the subject ・Pan horizontally to capture a wide field of view ・Follow the moving subject ・Move the camera in a certain direction with a dolly ・Dolly in to move closer to the subject ・Dolly out to move away from the subject ・Pan from one subject to another ・Tilt up from the ground to the sky ・Tilt down from the sky to the ground ・Create a Dutch angle by tilting the camera horizontally ・Combine zoom, pan, tilt, and other camera movements for more complex shots. ● Other features ・Import files to edit (AirDrop, other apps) ・Save edited videos to camera roll ・Share edited videos on various platforms (Facebook, Twitter, LINE, AirDrop, Dropbox, etc.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ShotText at 73% against After CameraWork's 25%. ShotText also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.0 vs 2.6). After CameraWork's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On 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
ShotText is free to download; After CameraWork costs $0.99 up front. ShotText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. After CameraWork asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShotText holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of ShotText's written reviews are positive against 25% of After CameraWork's.
ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, After CameraWork every 30 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShotText | After CameraWork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (19 ratings) — better | 2.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 30 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Turkdogan Tasdelen | Masanori Katsuta |
Customer experience
ShotText
After CameraWork
In-app purchases
ShotText
- ShotText Pro$5.99
After CameraWork
No in-app purchases
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