Comparison

Clean Text vs iLinks

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Clean Text

This app helps you edit, correct, and organize text quickly. It offers tools to fix formatting issues, standardize content, and improve readability for various writing tasks. Leverage AI-powered features and powerful search and replace for efficient text management.

Highlights
  • Fix formatting issues from various sources
  • Remove empty lines, extra spaces, and unwanted characters
  • Standardize content with a single tap
  • Integrates Apple Writing Tools for correction and summarization
  • Powerful find and replace with real-time highlighting
  • Access recent texts and reuse transformations
  • Seamless cross-device integration via iCloud
Features
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Clean Text helps you edit, correct, and organize text quickly and reliably, making everyday writing tasks easier. It’s designed for anyone who works with text: writers, students, developers, marketers, and anyone who copies and pastes content between different apps. From fixing formatting issues to preparing clean, readable text for emails, documents, websites, and social posts, Clean Text keeps your work consistent and well organized. Complete Text Cleanup Clean Text solves the most common formatting problems that appear when copying text from emails, PDFs, web pages, or chat messages. Remove empty lines, extra spaces, tabs, unwanted characters, smart quotes, or line breaks in seconds. A rich set of cleanup tools lets you standardize content with a single tap, making even the messiest text immediately usable. Editing with Apple Writing Tools Clean Text supports Apple Writing Tools, integrating them alongside all the classic text cleaning and formatting features. You can use them to correct, rewrite, summarize, and improve your text directly in the app. AI-based features are always optional and are only activated when you choose to use them. Powerful Find and Replace Real-time search instantly highlights all matches in the text, making it easy to locate words, phrases, or patterns even in long documents. Options like Case Sensitive and Whole Word give you precise control, while the live preview makes replacements safe and reliable. Recent Texts and Smart History Quickly access recently copied texts and reuse previously applied transformations to speed up repetitive workflows. Seamless Cross-Device Integration Thanks to iCloud, you can start working on iPhone or iPad and instantly find your text on your other devices. Recent changes are always available, with no manual steps required. Designed for iOS and iPadOS Clean Text integrates naturally with the system: • Dark Mode support • iPad multitasking • External keyboards and shortcuts • Context menus and system integrations Key Features: • Smart Clean and Clean & Compact • Clean clipboard content without pasting • Fix spaces, lines, and paragraphs • Convert tabs, spaces, and quotation marks • Text case conversion (uppercase, lowercase, title case, sentence case) • Indentation tools and line numbering • Line sorting and reordering • Encoding and decoding (URL, Base64, ROT13) • Convert HTML to plain text • Creative text transformations • Text statistics (characters, words, lines) • Find and replace with real-time highlighting • Regular expression support • Ignore List to protect specific words • Shortcuts and automation support Clean Text for iPhone and iPad is aligned with the macOS version in features and behavior, delivering a consistent experience across platforms with over 100 text transformation actions. AI Features Note AI-based features are separate from traditional tools and are never applied automatically. Apimac continues to independently develop and improve all classic text cleaning and formatting features. Subscriptions and Purchases With the purchase you unlock all the app’s core features. In addition, subscribers benefit from continuous improvements, new features, and regular updates delivered to the app over time. Plans available: • Monthly subscription: 1-month free trial, then automatically renews at the monthly price • Annual subscription: 1-month free trial, then automatically renews at the annual price • Lifetime purchase: one-time payment with unlimited access to all features and continuous improvements Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.apimac.com/about/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

iLinks

Organize and manage all your saved links with a visual card system. Quickly access information, filter by tags, and customize your experience with dark mode and font options. Secure your links with biometric authentication.

Highlights
  • Visual card system for links
  • Tag creation and filtering
  • Advanced search functionality
  • Usage statistics
  • Dark mode
  • Biometric security (Face ID/Touch ID)
Features
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iLinks helps you saving your favorite links in a simple way. Quickly manage any type of link, using a card system in a visual and customizable way. Why download iLinks? - Manage all your links in a clear, orderly and in one place. - Thanks to the card system, you can see all the information of each link quickly. - Multiple functions: tags creation, advanced search, usage statistics, fonts customization, dark mode, filter by tags, share… iLinks makes your day more productive. MANAGEDMENT YOU LINKS Easily manage, organize and save links.  You can add your links from any browser or app. QUICK LOOK Visualize instantly with multiple options. PRIVATE & SECURE You can save your links as private and access through Face ID or Touch ID. TAGS Create tags with a wide rage colors. Filter by Tags. PROFILE Control your productivity with usage statistics. SHARE Send your favorite links to your friends. CUSTOMIZATION YOUR APP The more you use the App, you will have new functions to customize it.
 DARK MODE Enjoy the Dark Mode throughout the App. AVALAIBLE iPhone e iPad. Compatible with 3D Touch. SILVERSUN STUDIO info@silversunstudio.es silversunstudio.es

Screenshots

Clean Text4 screens
iLinks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clean Text at Free against iLinks's $0.99. Clean Text also leads on ratings volume (205 vs 7). iLinks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Clean Text is free to download; iLinks costs $0.99 up front. Clean Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. iLinks asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Clean Text against 4.6 for iLinks. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean Text has 205 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Clean Text's written reviews are positive against 75% of iLinks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, iLinks monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and July 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Clean Text versus iLinks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean TextiLinks
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.6 (205 ratings) — better4.6 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings205 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApimacJavier Fernandez

Customer experience

Clean Text

All ratings205 ratings
Positive88.8%
Neutral2.4%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews63 reviews
Positive60.3%
Neutral6.3%
Negative33.3%

iLinks

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Clean Text

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime License$39.99
None

iLinks

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clean Text free?
Clean Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iLinks free?
iLinks costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clean Text or iLinks?
Clean Text is rated higher. Clean Text averages 4.6 out of 5 from 205 ratings, while iLinks averages 4.6 from 7 ratings.
Do Clean Text or iLinks have ads?
Neither Clean Text nor iLinks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Text or iLinks?
Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, and iLinks monthly. Most recently, Clean Text was updated on August 29, 2026 and iLinks on July 16, 2026.

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