Clean Text vs RawText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
RawText
This app automatically removes all unwanted formatting and style elements when you paste text from various sources. It focuses on providing a clean, plain-text environment for writing, pasting, copying, and clearing content without distractions.
- Removes hidden formatting
- Strips links and references
- Cleans heading and font styles
- Removes list and table remnants
- Eliminates invisible control characters
- Distraction-free writing environment
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RawText is a plain-text editor built for users who work with content from different sources and want to avoid unwanted formatting. When text is pasted, the app automatically removes all style elements, regardless of whether the content originated from browsers, emails, documents, chat apps or spreadsheets. Only the actual text remains. The app removes: – hidden formatting – links and embedded references – heading levels and font styles – list and table remnants – invisible control characters Text typed inside RawText is not altered or automatically formatted, making the app ideal for situations where clean text needs to be reused in other programs. RawText focuses on four basic actions: – writing – pasting – copying – clearing Without saving, exporting or formatting features, the app provides a focused and distraction-free environment. It is particularly useful for emails, web forms, ticket systems, CMS tools, technical documentation and development workflows. About the developer: PCFFM.de is an IT service provider located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and offers RawText for free because a dependable plain-text editor is needed daily in customer support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Clean Text at 4.6 against RawText's 3.0. Clean Text also leads on ratings volume (205 vs 2). RawText's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Clean Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. RawText asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clean Text holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clean Text has 205 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Clean Text's written reviews are positive against 100% of RawText's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, RawText every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clean Text | RawText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (205 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 205 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apimac | Thomas Meroth |
Customer experience
Clean Text
RawText
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
RawText
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Clean Text
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime License$49.99
RawText
No in-app purchases








