Clean Text vs Crayp
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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/
Crayp
Read full descriptionHide full description
Phones down. Together. Crayp is a focus app you do with friends. Everyone holds a button, and once you're all holding, your phones lock. They stay locked until you all want out, so nobody can bail without the rest of the group going with them. We mostly use it for work sessions at coffee shops, dinners, weekend hikes, and the kind of evening where you say 'no phones tonight' and someone caves fifteen minutes in. The hard part of going phone-free isn't the first ten minutes. It's the moment one person checks Instagram and it gives everyone else permission to do the same. Crayp closes that gap. How it works: 1. Add a few friends. 2. Start a session. 3. Hold the button. Once everyone in the session is also holding, every other app on every phone gets blocked. 4. If someone needs a break, they request one and the rest of the crew has to hold together to agree. You get five minutes, then it's back on. 5. Hold to unlock when you're done. Your streak ticks up. A few things worth knowing: It runs in real time. You see your crew's hold status the second they start, so it actually feels like a thing you're doing together instead of a checklist. Breaks are unanimous. You can't sneak one — the whole crew has to agree. There's a Live Activity on your lock screen and Dynamic Island so you can glance and see phones are still down across the group. Phone numbers and contacts get hashed on your device before they ever leave it. We never see who you know. That's pretty much the whole app. Add a couple friends and try it once.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crayp at none against Clean Text's 3. Crayp also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). Clean Text's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Crayp asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, Crayp every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Clean Text | Crayp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (205 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 205 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apimac | Bytea, Ltd |
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
Show 1 moreShow fewer
- 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
Show 8 moreShow fewer
- 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
Crayp
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
Crayp
No in-app purchases









