Comparison

ShotText vs braintrance

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

braintrance

Capture and relive life's moments in three dimensions. This app allows you to create and share spatial photos, even without a LIDAR-enabled phone, using its Depth AI. Explore your creations in VR, AR, or on desktop.

Highlights
  • Capture 3D moments
  • Share spatial photos
  • Depth AI for non-LIDAR devices
  • View in VR/AR/desktop
  • Create interdimensional videos
  • Community sharing
Features
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The best memories are ones that you can re-live. braintrance enables users to capture their life in three dimensions and share them with others. If you don't have a LIDAR-enabled phone, don't fret! You can still capture point clouds with braintrance's Depth AI. Have you ever struggled with sharing your spatial photos with others? Look no further! You can upload and share your spatial photos on braintrance, and view it in the app, or on braintrance.net, or in your VR headset, or in your AR glasses, or on desktop! Play with the point cloud capture to make viral interdimensional videos that you can share with friends, or build a following with internet strangers through the braintrance community.

Screenshots

ShotText4 screens
braintrance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: braintrance at 5.0 against ShotText's 4.0. braintrance also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). ShotText's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (19 vs 2). On price and iOS requirement 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. braintrance asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

braintrance holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ShotText has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, braintrance every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ShotText versus braintrance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShotTextbraintrance
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (19 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB239 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperTurkdogan TasdelenBraintrance, LLC

Customer experience

ShotText

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

braintrance

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ShotText

One-time1
  • ShotText Pro$5.99
None

braintrance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ShotText free?
ShotText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is braintrance free?
braintrance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ShotText or braintrance?
braintrance is rated higher. ShotText averages 4.0 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while braintrance averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do ShotText or braintrance have ads?
braintrance shows ads; ShotText does not.
Which is updated more often, ShotText or braintrance?
ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, and braintrance every 4 weeks. Most recently, ShotText was updated on November 6, 2026 and braintrance on November 5, 2026.

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