ShotText vs Facepop
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.
Facepop
Automatically applies stickers, mosaic, or blur to faces in real-time as you capture photos. Offers extensive editing options for existing images and creative photo booth layouts. All processing happens on your device for enhanced privacy.
- Automatic face detection and sticker application
- Mosaic or blur options
- On-device editing of existing photos
- Photo booth print layouts
- Doodle tool
- No account or uploads required
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The moment you shoot, the faces on screen get stickers automatically. (No ads!) A friend who'd rather not show their face doesn't have to step out of the group shot. By the time you press the shutter, the stickers are already on. WHAT IT DOES - Stickers land on faces automatically, right in the live preview - Pick two or more stickers and each face gets its own - Tap your own face and its sticker comes off. Everyone else keeps their sticker - Mosaic or blur instead of a sticker, if you'd rather - Keep the original as you shoot: with it on, you keep both the original and the photo with stickers. With it off, you keep only the photo with stickers - Move, resize, rotate, or remove any sticker after the shot, or flip it to face the other way - Bring in a photo you've already taken and put stickers on the faces - Four cuts: turn four photos into one photo booth print, with a line of your own under the logo - Doodle over a photo or a four-cut print with one of four pens, in the color and thickness you pick NO ACCOUNT, NO UPLOADS Facepop finds faces right on your phone. You don't need an account, and we don't run a server for your photos, so it works just the same in airplane mode. The only time Facepop sends a photo anywhere is when you share it. FREE The camera, the Classic, Emoji and Chuseok packs, mosaic and blur, the doodle brush, stickers on photos from your library, and photo booth prints with four frame styles. Save and edit as much as you like. The free plan adds a small Facepop watermark. FACEPOP PRO Pay once. It's not a subscription. - Every Pro sticker pack, including the ones we add later - Keep the stickers you make in your photos - Turn off the Facepop watermark Making stickers is free. Try one before you decide.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Facepop at 100% against ShotText's 73%. 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. ShotText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Facepop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, Facepop weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShotText | Facepop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (19 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Turkdogan Tasdelen | Eunchan Kim |
Customer experience
ShotText
Facepop
In-app purchases
ShotText
- ShotText Pro$5.99
Facepop
- Facepop Pro$4.99









