Comparison

Clean Text vs UnTrap for YouTube

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

UnTrap for YouTube

Enhance your YouTube viewing with over 250 features designed to remove distractions and boost productivity. Enjoy AI-powered video summaries, customizable layouts, content filtering, and focus tools for a cleaner, more efficient experience.

Highlights
  • AI video summaries
  • Hide Shorts, comments, and suggestions
  • Layout customization
  • Content filtering
  • Focus tools
  • Auto-redirect homepage
  • Hide ad banners
Features
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Transform YouTube website into a clean and productive space. Access 250+ powerful features including AI video summaries, layout customization, content filters, automation, and focus tools. ◆ Enhance Your YouTube Experience - Hide Shorts, comments, related, and suggested videos - Grayscale, blur, or hide thumbnails - Auto-redirect the YouTube homepage to a custom page - Remove notifications, buttons, sidebars, and trending tabs - Auto-enable Theater or Full Screen mode - Hide ad banners and auto-skip video promotions - Block videos, channels, or comments using keywords, channel IDs, or regex ◆ AI Video Summaries - Instant Video Summary: Get a clear overview of any YouTube video in just 5 seconds - Key Insights Extraction: Understand the main points without watching the entire video - Timestamped Navigation: Jump directly to the most important moments - Multilingual Support: Summarize and translate in over 40 languages - Top Comments Overview: Instantly see the most insightful viewer opinions - Enhanced Transcript Generator: Get transcripts that outperform YouTube’s auto-captions in clarity and accuracy ◆ Productivity Tools - Password-Protected Settings: Keep your preferences secure - Temporary Focus Mode: Block distractions with a single click - Scheduled Focus Sessions: Automate distraction-free time blocks - Opening Delays: Add a pause before accessing YouTube or launching the extension - Custom Hotkeys: Instantly trigger features with keyboard shortcuts ◆ Available On - Safari: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1637438059 - Chrome, Opera, Brave: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/untrap-for-youtube/enboaomnljigfhfjfoalacienlhjlfil - Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/untrap-for-youtube/ - Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/untrap-for-youtube/ngnefladcohhmmibccafkdbcijjoppdoT ◆ Works with YouTube website on desktop, mobile, and embedded videos. Important: UnTrap is only available as a browser extension and is not compatible with the YouTube app. Terms Of Use: https://untrap.app/tos/

Screenshots

Clean Text4 screens
UnTrap for YouTube4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clean Text at Free against UnTrap for YouTube's $4.99. Clean Text also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0). UnTrap for YouTube's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and chart position (#21 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, 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

Clean Text is free to download; UnTrap for YouTube costs $4.99 up front. Clean Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and UnTrap for YouTube sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 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 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 205 and 524 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Clean Text's written reviews are positive against 62% of UnTrap for YouTube's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, UnTrap for YouTube fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Clean Text versus UnTrap for YouTube: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean TextUnTrap for YouTube
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.6 (205 ratings) — better4.0 (524 ratings)
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews62.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings205524 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#21 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.615.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan GobboYevhen Tretiakov

Customer experience

Clean Text

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

UnTrap for YouTube

All ratings515 ratings
Positive74.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative21.0%
Written reviews470 reviews
Positive62.3%
Neutral7.2%
Negative30.4%

User reviews

Clean Text

From 205 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Indispensable utility
  • 🚀 Efficient text cleaning
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Powerful text manipulation
  • 👍 Saves significant time

Room to improve

  • 😞 Retroactive paywall for existing features
  • 😞 Forced subscription model
  • 😞 Expensive subscription/lifetime price
  • 😞 Removed functionality for past purchasers
  • 😞 Restore purchase not working (initially)

UnTrap for YouTube

From 524 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Customizable YouTube experience
  • 🔒 Blocks distractions like Shorts and recommendations
  • 👍 Improves productivity and focus
  • 👍 Extensive customization options
  • 👍 Works on Safari browser

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs with hiding comments and playlists
  • 🐛 Issues with blocking channels and videos
  • 🐛 Performance slowdowns
  • 🔒 Concerns about invasive permissions
  • 💰 Paid app with additional subscription model

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

UnTrap for YouTube

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Shorts not being blocked consistently
  • Buttons and features not working as expected
  • Sync and login issues
  • Compatibility problems with iOS updates

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to disable video autoplay
  • Ability to block specific channels and videos
  • Sync settings across devices
  • Preset customization profiles
  • Support for Chrome and other browsers

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

UnTrap for YouTube

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly3 Days trial$35.991 Year

Questions

Is Clean Text free?
Clean Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is UnTrap for YouTube free?
UnTrap for YouTube costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Clean Text or UnTrap for YouTube?
Clean Text is rated higher. Clean Text averages 4.6 out of 5 from 205 ratings, while UnTrap for YouTube averages 4.0 from 524 ratings.
Do Clean Text or UnTrap for YouTube have ads?
Neither Clean Text nor UnTrap for YouTube shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Text or UnTrap for YouTube?
Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, and UnTrap for YouTube fortnightly. Most recently, Clean Text was updated on November 2, 2026 and UnTrap for YouTube on November 7, 2026.

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