OMOTENASHI GUIDE vs Makeover
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OMOTENASHI GUIDE
This service translates Japanese announcements into text for users who are hard of hearing or do not understand Japanese. Simply open the app when you see the "OMOTENASHI GUIDE" mark and press the center button to receive the translated announcement.
- Japanese announcement translation
- Text display for hard of hearing
- Foreign language translation
- Real-time announcement conversion
- Microphone and Bluetooth integration
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[Overview] "OMOTENASHI GUIDE" is a service that convertsJapanese announcements into an understandable form and delivers for its users regardless of age, nationality, or disability. When the app picks up a Japanese announcement compatible with "OMOTENASHI GUIDE", it converts the announcement into text for users that are hard of hearing. For foreign users that don't understand Japanese, the announcement is translated into an appropriate foreign language and is displayed in text format. [User Instructions] Step 1: When an announcement is playing and you want to know what it says... Open the app where there is an "OMOTENASHI GUIDE" mark! Step 2: Just press the center button! [Notes on Use] The smartphone's microphone is used when receiving announcements. If permission to use the microphone is off, it may not be possible to convert the announcement correctly. A settings prompt will appear the first time you launch the app, but when reconfiguring the settings, please confirm the following. ・Microphone Settings->Privacy->Microphone->OMOTENASHI->On ・Location Services Settings->Privacy->Location Services->OMOTENASHI->Always ・Bluetooth Settings->Bluetooth->On
Makeover
Customize the look and functionality of websites using custom CSS and JavaScript. Simply paste your code when visiting a page to apply changes.
- Apply custom CSS
- Inject JavaScript
- User style manager
- Web page customization
- Code editor
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Makeover lets you change the appearance and behavior of web pages with CSS and JavaScript. To use it, you go to a web page you want to customize, tap the Makeover icon, and paste the code into the text field.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Makeover at 4.3 against OMOTENASHI GUIDE's 4.0. Makeover also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). OMOTENASHI GUIDE's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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.
Makeover holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of OMOTENASHI GUIDE's written reviews are positive against 59% of Makeover's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
OMOTENASHI GUIDE ships an update every 3 weeks, Makeover every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OMOTENASHI GUIDE | Makeover |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.3 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 58.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yamaha Corporation | And a Dinosaur |
Customer experience
OMOTENASHI GUIDE
Makeover
In-app purchases
OMOTENASHI GUIDE
No in-app purchases
Makeover
No in-app purchases
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