ShotText vs Pixelate
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.
Pixelate
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Pixelate automatically finds and blurs faces in your photos and videos — entirely on your device. Nothing is ever uploaded, tracked, or stored on any server. WHY PIXELATE Sharing photos and videos often means sharing more than you intend — bystanders in the background, your kids in a group photo, faces you'd rather keep private. Pixelate finds every face automatically and lets you blur, mosaic, or block them out in seconds, right on your phone. FEATURES - Automatic face detection for photos and videos - Choose your style: blur, mosaic, or solid block - Fine-tune detection sensitivity and coverage - 100% offline — your media never leaves your device - No account, no sign-up, no tracking PRIVACY BY DESIGN Pixelate was built around a simple rule: your photos and videos are yours. There are no servers, no cloud processing, and no analytics SDKs. Every face detection and blur happens locally using on-device machine learning. WHO IT'S FOR - Parents sharing family photos and videos online - Content creators protecting bystanders before posting - Journalists and researchers anonymizing sources - Anyone who wants more control over what they share PIXELATE PRO Upgrade to Pro to unlock: - Video anonymization - Clean exports with no watermark Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/pixelate-privacy-policy/home Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: ShotText at 3 against Pixelate's 1. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. ShotText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pixelate sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | ShotText | Pixelate |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Turkdogan Tasdelen | Saad El Moustarhfir |
In-app purchases
ShotText
- ShotText Pro$5.99
Pixelate
- Pixelate Pro$3.991 Month
- Pixelate Pro$14.991 Year
- Pixelate Pro$19.99









