Comparison

Clean Text vs brancho

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

brancho

Features
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For people who love mind mapping. Brancho is a true mind mapping app. Brancho is a modern mind mapping app built to stay faithful to the principles of mind mapping invented and systematized by Tony Buzan. Did you know that many tools calling themselves “mind maps” or “mind mapping apps” are not really mind maps? A mind map is not boxes or circles of text connected by lines. It is not a hierarchy like an org chart or logic tree, nor a flowchart. A true mind map grows radially from a central image. Branches use color, varied thickness, and imagery, with text placed along them. Put one theme at the center, add ideas as branches in any order, then add new ideas from each branch as sub-branches. Mind mapping is said to resemble how the brain works. The brain does not always think linearly or logically; many thoughts arise at once in all directions, especially for right-brained thinkers. Mind mapping aims to capture those thoughts without interrupting their flow or losing ideas. Brancho was created to bring that experience into the digital world. We hope Brancho reaches people who love mind maps; creators and business professionals who want to express their own originality rather than rely on AI that can produce standardized output; right-brained thinkers; people with high IQs; and anyone looking for a note app that can keep up with the speed of thought. ■ How to Use We recommend using a keyboard. 1. Tap or click the central image or the branch you want to edit. 2. Enter text, or change branch color, thickness, or curvature. 3. To add a sub-branch, tap Sub-branch in the top menu. 4. Save once. After that, the map is saved automatically. That is the basic workflow. Repeat it as your thoughts develop. ■ More Ways to Use Brancho • Auto-save. • View change history from file creation to now, and view or restore the map at any point. Use it to recover from mistakes or revisit your thinking. • Replay the creation process from start to present, like a frame-by-frame video. • Add sticky notes. Mind mapping is radial and divergent, but sometimes you need logical, convergent thinking. Open a sticky note and write in sentences to think logically. Brancho supports both lateral thinking and logical thinking. • Attach images to branches from Photos, Files, or the clipboard. Attached images can be resized and rotated. • Auto-layout. As maps grow, branches can overlap or crowd one area. Select the central image and tap Auto Layout. Brancho adjusts branch positions, lengths, and curvature based on balance and overlap. • Import data from other mind map apps: FreeMind/Freeplane .mm, XMind .xmind, and iMindMap .imx. Imported files can be rendered and edited with the Brancho engine, so you can keep using past and legacy mind maps. • Use Brancho on iPhone. Previously, it was for iPad and Mac only. On iPhone, mind maps can be viewed directly but are read-only; editing is done in an iPhone-specific list view. We chose this design because direct map editing on a small iPhone screen was extremely difficult to use. • Task management on branches. Although this may seem to conflict with our commitment to Tony Buzan-style mind mapping, branches can also manage tasks. Brancho can be used for task management, TODOs, project management, and GTD. • Keyboard shortcuts. With iPad Magic Keyboard or Mac, you can build maps without repeatedly reaching for a mouse or trackpad. Tab: Create a sub-branch Return: Create a parallel branch at the same level Delete/Backspace: Delete a branch and select its parent Arrow keys: Move between branches Monthly and annual plans are available. Subscription periods and prices are shown on the in-app purchase screen. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.next-healthcare.co.jp/?page_id=363

Screenshots

Clean Text4 screens
brancho3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: brancho at every 3 days against Clean Text's every 4 months. Clean Text's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

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 brancho sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, brancho every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Clean Text versus brancho: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean Textbrancho
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (205 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings205 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan GobboNEXT LIMITED LIABILITY CO.

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

brancho

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$39.99
2 purchases

brancho

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Clean Text free?
Clean Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is brancho free?
brancho is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clean Text or brancho have ads?
Neither Clean Text nor brancho shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Text or brancho?
Clean Text ships an update every 4 months, and brancho every 3 days. Most recently, Clean Text was updated on November 2, 2026 and brancho on October 31, 2026.

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