Comparison

Clean Text vs Takt

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

Takt

Effortlessly track your daily activities with a single tap. Monitor your time usage, review detailed timelines, and export your data in various formats. Unlock advanced features with a one-time purchase or subscription.

Highlights
  • One-tap activity tracking
  • Live Activities integration
  • Detailed timeline review
  • CSV, JSON, PDF export
  • Activity and tag limits (free version)
Features
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Takt is a fresh take on finding your biggest time wasters during your day. Starting, stopping, or switching tracking to another activity is always just one tap. Through simple but effective integration with Live Activities, what you're tracking always remains visible at a glance on your Lock Screen or in the Dynamic Island. Using Takt tracking you can manually or semi-automatically keep an underlying Live Activity running that puts tracking access just a tap away, all day. Review your days in as little or as many details as you want with Takt's Timeline, or export your days, weeks, and months to CSV, JSON, or a clean PDF. Takt is free with up to 3 active Activities and 5 Tags. Want more? A lifetime Full version is available, or subscribe monthly and after 12 payments, even non-consecutively, the Full version unlocks permanently. And we're just getting started. Better Mac integration and Tablet optimization, Siri & Shortcuts, Focus Mode integration, and an Apple Watch companion app are all on the way. Takt Terms available at https://taktapp.net/terms

Screenshots

Clean Text4 screens
Takt4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Takt at 100% against Clean Text's 60%. Takt also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). Clean Text's advantage is ratings volume (205 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Takt sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Takt 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 3, 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 100% of Takt's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, Takt every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Clean Text versus Takt: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean TextTakt
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (205 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings205 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.618.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB5 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperApimacPhilip Kartin

Customer experience

Clean Text

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

Takt

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
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

Takt

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$69.99
2 purchases

Takt

Subscriptions1
  • Takt Full monthly$1.001 Month
One-time1
  • Takt Full Lifetime$9.00

Questions

Is Clean Text free?
Clean Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Takt free?
Takt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clean Text or Takt?
Takt is rated higher. Clean Text averages 4.6 out of 5 from 205 ratings, while Takt averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Clean Text or Takt have ads?
Neither Clean Text nor Takt shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Text or Takt?
Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, and Takt every 2 days. Most recently, Clean Text was updated on October 24, 2026 and Takt on October 24, 2026.

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