ShotText vs Stera by FPV Labs
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.
Stera by FPV Labs
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Turn your iphone into a robotics data lab FPV Labs turns your iPhone into a spatial capture device for robotics research. Record everyday physical tasks - cooking, cleaning, crafting, repairs and help teach robots how to see, move, and act in the real world. What it captures - - 6-DoF camera poses - LiDAR depth and 3D mesh - Synchronised RGB, depth, and IMU streams Everything is fused, calibrated, and validated on-device before it leaves your phone. Why it matters - Robots learn from human demonstrations. The more kitchens, workshops, and living rooms in the data, the better the models that come out. Your way of making a sandwich, changing a battery, or folding laundry is training data the world’s robotics labs don’t have. For contributors 1. Mount your iPhone on head strap or chest rig. 2. Open the FPV Labs app and hit record. 3. Sessions auto-validate and upload to your dashboard. 4. Contribute to a growing dataset of robotics data For Researchers - Browse, preview, and validate every capture in the dashboard. Export to MCAP files. Built for VLA pretraining, policy, fine-tuning, and sim-to-real research. Privacy - Recordings stay on-device until you upload securely to cloud. — Questions, partnerships, or organization access: contact@fpvlabs.ai [:mav: 4.2.6]
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stera by FPV Labs at none against ShotText's 1. Stera by FPV Labs also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. ShotText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stera by FPV Labs asks for nothing beyond the download.
ShotText ships an update every 2 weeks, Stera by FPV Labs every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShotText | Stera by FPV Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (19 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Turkdogan Tasdelen | Satpal Singh Rathore |
In-app purchases
ShotText
- ShotText Pro$5.99
Stera by FPV Labs
No in-app purchases
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