Comparison

Clean Text vs FuseText

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

FuseText

A powerful text and Markdown editor with smart widgets for automation. It offers AI-powered features like summaries and synonym suggestions, all processed offline. Enjoy seamless export and real-time sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Real-time Markdown highlighting
  • Smart Widgets for automation
  • AI-powered text analysis
  • Offline processing
  • Effortless export to popular formats
  • Real-time encrypted sync
  • Auto-save functionality
Features
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FuseText is an effortless, but powerful text and Markdown editor. With our brand new approach to text editing and rendering, whatever your writing needs are, we got you covered. Apart from being an excellent Markdown editor with real-time highlighting for text and code, it also contains Smart Widgets – little apps that can automate a lot of your work, including math expressions, variables, dates, tables, to-do lists, and more. – Introducing Widgets Widgets are tiny, but powerful apps that live inside your documents and do the work for you. From tables with automatic sorting to embedding and evaluating mathematical expressions – you name it! FuseText comes with more than 10 widgets out of the box, and we’re opening up the platform to third-party developers later. – Powered by AI Search by synonyms, see smart summaries of long texts, estimate reading time... in 30+ languages, all offline. – Full Markdown Support Using Markdown or editing visually? No need to choose. Enjoy the best Markdown support with real time rendering and a stunning visual editor. – Unrivaled Productivity All of the features, including markup and Widgets, can be accessed without lifting your fingers off the keyboard. Just focus on the important stuff, we’ll take care of the rest. – No Strings Attached No accounts, no personal data, no BS. Everything, including AI processing, never leaves your device. You get the full experience, period. – Effortless Export Your documents are exported beautifully into any popular formats. And you can customize everything. – Real-time Sync Your documents are encrypted and synchronized across all your devices. No setup required. – Power of Choice You can enable, disable and configure any features at any time. You can discover install new components from the Store. – Auto Save Sit back and relax. Your changes aren’t going anywhere. FuseText includes apps for iOS, iPadOS, macOS. Your subscription will be shared between all your devices and all the features will be available with no interruptions. Please note that a subscription is required to be able to use FuseText and all of its features. After the free trial period, if offered, the subscription automatically renews with the price and duration given above unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Removing the app doesn’t automatically cancel the subscription. Terms of Use: https://zetstudios.com/legal/fuse/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://zetstudios.com/legal/fuse/privacy.html

Screenshots

Clean Text4 screens
FuseText4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Clean Text at 60% against FuseText's 0%. Clean Text also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). FuseText's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clean Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and FuseText sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clean Text holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean Text has 205 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Clean Text's written reviews are positive against 0% of FuseText's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, FuseText every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and August 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Clean Text versus FuseText: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean TextFuseText
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (205 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings205 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApimacZetegy LLC

Customer experience

Clean Text

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

FuseText

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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
2 purchases

FuseText

Subscriptions2
  • FuseText Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • FuseText Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Clean Text free?
Clean Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FuseText free?
FuseText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clean Text or FuseText?
Clean Text is rated higher. Clean Text averages 4.6 out of 5 from 205 ratings, while FuseText averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Clean Text or FuseText have ads?
Neither Clean Text nor FuseText shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Text or FuseText?
Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, and FuseText every 2 days. Most recently, Clean Text was updated on August 29, 2026 and FuseText on August 22, 2026.

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