Comparison

ShotText vs Super Wide Recorder

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

Super Wide Recorder

Easily create unique videos with super wide-angle and perspective distortion effects. Dynamically adjust the effect's center position and intensity during recording or editing. Transform static photos and videos into dynamic, funny, and attention-grabbing content for social media.

Highlights
  • Super wide-angle and perspective distortion effects
  • Dynamic touch control for effect center and intensity
  • Transform photos and videos into dynamic content
  • Create funny and impactful videos
  • Output to video and photo files
  • Direct camera shooting and import from camera roll
Features
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■ You can easily create super-wide-angle, super-perspective, and super-funny videos by dynamically distorting photos and videos. ■ During recording, you can move the center position of the effect by touch operation, change the effect, and so on. ■ It is possible to generate a video with fairly bold movement from a video or still image with little movement. ■ You can also dynamically correct the composition of photos and videos. - Monotonous landscape photos and memory photos will be transformed into moving videos. - You can completely distort a monotonous video and transform it into a super funny video. Touch in free mode and enjoy the "super wide-angle" effect ... Record it, output it to videos and photos, and upload it to SNS ... Fun to touch, fun to see, fun to make, fun to share, It's a very unique app full of such'fun'. Would you like to upload a video that has outstanding impact and can be expected to attract more attention to SNS as soon as possible? You can output from photos and videos to video files and still image files with effects. Not only videos and photos saved on your smartphone, but also shooting with a camera is supported. [Input] - Camera shooting: Video, photo - Camera roll: Video, photo [Settings] - Effect setting (1/2) - Video length (when photo is selected) - Saved resolution: 10 to 100% of the original resolution [Touch operation] You can change the center position of the effect by touching it on the screen image. The farther away from the center of the image, the greater the distortion of the image. [Output] - Save to camera roll: videos, photos - Video / photo sharing: AirDrop, LINE, Facebook, Dropbox, Instagram, ...

Screenshots

ShotText4 screens
Super Wide Recorder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ShotText at 73% against Super Wide Recorder's 0%. ShotText also leads on price (Free vs $2.99). Super Wide Recorder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On update cadence, 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

ShotText is free to download; Super Wide Recorder costs $2.99 up front. ShotText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Super Wide Recorder asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
ShotText versus Super Wide Recorder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShotTextSuper Wide Recorder
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.0 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTurkdogan TasdelenMasanori Katsuta

Customer experience

ShotText

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

Super Wide Recorder

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ShotText

One-time1
  • ShotText Pro$5.99
None

Super Wide Recorder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShotText free?
ShotText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Super Wide Recorder free?
Super Wide Recorder costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do ShotText or Super Wide Recorder have ads?
Neither ShotText nor Super Wide Recorder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShotText or Super Wide Recorder?
ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, and Super Wide Recorder every 2 weeks. Most recently, ShotText was updated on October 24, 2026 and Super Wide Recorder on October 24, 2026.

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