Ctrl+C vs Copy Text On Screen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ctrl+C
This tool allows you to automatically record copied text via a widget. It helps you manage, edit, and combine multiple copied items for easy sharing across platforms. Save and load your archives for future use.
- Widget for automatic text recording
- Manage, edit, and sort multiple copied texts
- Combine all copied text into one for easy sharing
- Save and load text archives
- Gesture-based text editing
- Customizable themes
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Important! Starting with iOS 18, Today Extensions are no longer supported. Please use the Shortcut as an alternative. Shortcut: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/4f78c36a43c042fe926a3ff537c8dc33 Tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UWFlRxBYnsI Ctrl+C like a clipboard in widget and you can copy words automatically in it. It's a useful, simple and quick tool. Help you to copy and edit words. All you need to do is copy words and pull down Notification Center, then Ctrl+C in widget will record these contents automatically. "Copy all" function can combine all contents to one content and copy it. You can paste it to every platforms you want to share. ◎ Support iOS 8 widget to record the text that you copied from other place When you copied a text from other place and scroll down Notification Center, the text will be appeared in widget and you can press + button to record it. ◎ Keep and list multi texts Can record up to 10 texts, and support text editing, sorting or deleted. ◎ A key to copy all the text merge Just one button, combine all texts listed in app for easy sharing and pasting anywhere. ◎ Save and load archive Support save the texts to archive, you can save 10 texts in one archive, and the number of archive is unlimited. ◎ Edit text through gestures 1. Single press: Copy text 2. Long press: Edit text 3. Left slide: Delete text ◎ New user interface and themes Now,you can change other themes anytime.
Copy Text On Screen
Easily extract text from screenshots and images with advanced OCR technology. Copy, translate, or read aloud any text, even from social media apps. Supports over 100 languages for translation and 92 for recognition.
- Extract text from screenshots
- Extract text from images
- OCR text recognition
- Translate text in 100+ languages
- Read text aloud
- Extract phone numbers, emails, URLs
- Scan history
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The default long press to copy text on a mobile screen or image does not always work. This app helps you extract text/words from a mobile screen by sharing your screenshot with the app or by selecting text from an image. With its advanced OCR technology, this app allows you to extract text and words from your mobile screen and images. The OCR recognition accuracy is between 99% and 100%, ensuring that you get the exact text you need. You can also scan and translate screenshot or image text on your device in over 100 languages. Main Features: • Copy any text on the mobile screen to your clipboard by sharing screenshot with this app. • Extract text from any image. • Extract text easily from any application including social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and more by just share screenshot. • Extract text on image and read it aloud with text to speech. • Extracts phone number, email, URL . • Recent scans history. • Supports 92 languages for text recognition and translations in over 100 languages. • Options to automatically copy extracted text to the clipboard or save it as a .txt file for a faster workflow. How to use this app to extract Text from screen: Step 1: Take a screenshot. Step 2: Open that screenshot and share with this app. Step 3: Select the text by touch and drag on screeenshot and choose the language for OCR recognition. Step 4: Please wait while the app performs OCR (Optical Character Recognition) operation to extract the text. Step 5: Now you may copy to clipboard, share or translate the extracted text. Never struggle to copy text from your mobile screen and Image again. Get Copy Text app now and enjoy the ease of extracting text and words from your mobile screen and Images! You can take screenshots by pressing and holding the 'POWER BUTTON' and 'VOLUME UP BUTTON' at the same time for a second. Subscription Plans Unlimited Scans Monthly ------------------------- Unlimited scans No ads upto 50 scans per day. for one month period. monthly 5.99 $ Unlimited Scans Yearly ---------------------- Unlimited scans No ads upto 50 scans per day. for one year period. yearly 60.99 $. ----------------- Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal as per existing plan rate within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. ----------------- Privacy Policy: https://appzys.com/ios/copytext/privacypolicy Terms of Service: https://appzys.com/ios/copytext/termsofuse
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ctrl+C at none against Copy Text On Screen's shown. Copy Text On Screen's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (4.8K vs 31). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Ctrl+C sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Copy Text On Screen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Ctrl+C against 4.6 for Copy Text On Screen. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Copy Text On Screen has 4.8K ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Ctrl+C's written reviews are positive against 70% of Copy Text On Screen's.
Ctrl+C ships an update every 7 months, Copy Text On Screen every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ctrl+C | Copy Text On Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (31 ratings) | 4.6 (4.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 69.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 4.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chang Chin-Ming | Govarthani Rajesh |
Customer experience
Ctrl+C
Copy Text On Screen
Bugs and requests
Ctrl+C
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Copy Text On Screen
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes or freezes on some devices
- Text extraction not working correctly in certain scenarios
- Compatibility issues with older iOS versions
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for more languages
- Improve handwriting recognition accuracy
- Provide a one-time purchase option instead of subscription
- Offer a premium version without ads
In-app purchases
Ctrl+C
- Auto preview website$0.99
- Clipboard expansion$0.99
Copy Text On Screen
- Unlimited Scans Monthly$5.991 Month
- Unlimited Scans Yearly$59.991 Year
- Extra Scans$0.99
Questions
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