Comparison

CAME Automation vs TextPad

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CAME Automation

Control your home automations remotely with a smartphone. Open, close, and monitor your devices through an intuitive interface. Customize your automations with images and manage them from anywhere via the cloud.

Highlights
  • Remote control of automations
  • Open and close devices
  • Monitor automation status
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Customize automations with images
  • Cloud synchronization
Features
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Came Automation - App for controlling your automations on Came Connect. Came Automation will redefine the way you interact with your automations. Through a simple and intuitive interface, with your smart phone, you can open, close, and monitor your automations from anywhere. Automatically the App puts all of your plants, configured on Cloud Came Connect, and allows you to customize each automation that you want to control with an image. Login with your credentials used in www.cameconnect.net site, browse and control your automations with a simple click.

About

TextPad

Features
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TextPad is a plaintext-first notebook for people who want clean text without formatting surprises. Write notes, drafts, lists, snippets and journal entries in a simple monospaced editor. Paste formatted text into TextPad and keep only the characters. Copy text out and it leaves as plain text, ready for email, messages, documents, code editors or anywhere else you need it. TextPad is built for focused writing with useful tools close at hand: • Create multiple plaintext notes. • Pin the ones you use regularly. • Mark important notes as read-only. • Dictation mode for creating notes quickly by voice • Password-protect sensitive notes. • Plaintext-only copy and paste. • Monospaced editor for clean, readable text • Undo, copy, share and duplicate • Sort lines, deduplicate lines, trim spaces and remove emoji • Version history for restoring older note contents • iCloud sync support TextPad is ideal when you want the simplicity of a classic notepad, with modern tools for privacy, cleanup, search, dictation and note management. No rich text. No hidden formatting. Just clean plaintext.

Screenshots

CAME Automation3 screens
TextPad3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CAME Automation at Free against TextPad's $3.99. CAME Automation also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). TextPad's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months). On 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

CAME Automation is free to download; TextPad costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CAME Automation ships an update every 5 months, TextPad weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CAME Automation versus TextPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCAME AutomationTextPad
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating2.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews21.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCAME S.P.A.App Anthology

In-app purchases

None

CAME Automation

No in-app purchases

None

TextPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CAME Automation free?
CAME Automation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TextPad free?
TextPad costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do CAME Automation or TextPad have ads?
Neither CAME Automation nor TextPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CAME Automation or TextPad?
CAME Automation ships an update every 5 months, and TextPad weekly. Most recently, CAME Automation was updated on October 3, 2026 and TextPad on October 16, 2026.

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