Comparison

Clean Text vs Arrow+

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

Arrow+

Organize your web browsing sessions from Safari. Save and reopen your tab groups, and add pages directly from the Safari Web Extension. This app offers a streamlined way to manage your online research and workflows.

Highlights
  • Organize Safari tabs
  • Save and reopen sessions
  • Add pages via Safari Web Extension
  • Companion app for macOS Safari Extension
  • No AI or third-party APIs
Features
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This is a companion app for macOS Safari Extension. It allows you to browse and open your Safari sessions. Also you can add your Safari pages to them via Safari Web Extension. No AI. No third-party API. No subscription.

Screenshots

Clean Text4 screens
Arrow+3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clean Text at Free against Arrow+'s $3.99. Clean Text also leads on ratings volume (205 vs 1). Arrow+'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Clean Text is free to download; Arrow+ costs $3.99 up front. Clean Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Arrow+ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arrow+ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, Arrow+ every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Clean Text versus Arrow+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean TextArrow+
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.6 (205 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings205 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApimacIvan Lebedev

Customer experience

Clean Text

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

Arrow+

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Clean Text

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Restore purchase not working for past purchasers
  • App crashes when using functions
  • Input text turns white in Dark Mode
  • Caret (^) for beginning of line in regex search fails
  • App closes when trying a simple search
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  • Slide over doesn't display copy all

Requested features

13 requests
  • Bring back text sync between iPhones
  • Customizable toolbar
  • Optional iOS spell checker
  • Support for parameters in shortcuts
  • Create cleaning presets
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  • Apply presets via Shortcuts/share sheet
  • Apply presets via keyboard shortcuts (iPad)
  • Auto-convert based on last edit
  • Customizable clipboard cleaning
  • Convert from share menu from any app
  • Highlight line with caret
  • Ability to add often used UTF characters
  • Change fonts and colors independently

Arrow+

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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$49.99
None

Arrow+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Clean Text free?
Clean Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arrow+ free?
Arrow+ costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clean Text or Arrow+?
Arrow+ is rated higher. Clean Text averages 4.6 out of 5 from 205 ratings, while Arrow+ averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Clean Text or Arrow+ have ads?
Neither Clean Text nor Arrow+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Text or Arrow+?
Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, and Arrow+ every 3 months. Most recently, Clean Text was updated on October 6, 2026 and Arrow+ on October 3, 2026.

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