CalcFast vs Textify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CalcFast
A fast and elegant calculator for Apple devices that displays your calculation history. It offers a Today Extension for quick access and supports Apple Watch, external keyboards, and VoiceOver.
- Calculation history display
- Today Extension for quick calculations
- Apple Watch app
- Dark/light mode selection
- External keyboard support
- VoiceOver support
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Fast and simple calculator for iPad, iPhone and Apple Watch that shows the calculation history, includes a Today Extension that allows for fast calculation by swiping down and 3D Touch for quick interactions. Numbers are formatted for your country, i.e. period in the US and comma in Europe. Ever lost your train of thought half way through a calculation and thought how handy it would be to review your calculations. The aim of this Calculator is to be fast, elegant and simple. Features: - The calculator can open side by side or over other apps in iPadOS. - Select dark or light mode. - External keyboard support. - Smart Apple Watch Calculator included. - Light weight Today Extension included. - Calculations shown when input and on tape. - Key click confirms pressing of buttons, which may be turned off. - Previous calculation is repeated when the equal sign is pressed. - Numbers are shown in local format, depending on your Region Formats, i.e. comma used in Europe. The number of decimal digits may be set in the Settings. - VoiceOver is supported. - Calculations Tape may be deleted by Tapping on it.
Textify
Extract and highlight text from images and photos. Easily scan images from your library or camera and zoom in to verify detected text.
- Detect text from images
- Highlight detected text
- Scan from camera
- Select from photo library
- Zoom to verify text
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Detect text from images and photos and highlight it on the go, simply after you pick your image whether from the your images library or right from your camera. Also your image at the bottom of the app you can zoom-in to verify your pick.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: CalcFast at free against Textify's paid. Textify's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Textify holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 34 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 78% and 79% positive.
CalcFast ships an update every 2 months, Textify every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and July 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CalcFast | Textify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (20 ratings) | 4.6 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.3% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 34 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hannes Sverrisson | Yahia Alhejoj |
Customer experience
CalcFast
Textify
In-app purchases
CalcFast
No in-app purchases
Textify
No in-app purchases
