Text Search Replace vs TextFinder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Search Replace
Enhance your note-taking experience with powerful text search and replace capabilities. This utility works across notes, clipboard, and other text-based apps, offering advanced options like case sensitivity and regex. Preview changes before applying them for error-free operations.
- Text search and replace
- Notes plugin integration
- Multi-app support
- Preview before replace
- Advanced settings (case, regex)
- Batch replacement
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#### Main Title：Text Search Replace: Notes #### Subtitle：Quick Find·Batch Replace Easy ● **Core Function**: Text Search & Replace ● **Notes Plugin**: Adds missing search/replace features to Notes ● **Multi-Scene Support**: Works with Notes, Clipboard & all text-based Apps ● **Preview Protection**: Check results before search/replace to avoid mistakes ● **Advanced Settings**: Case-sensitive, Regex, and Non-printable Characters supported ● **Flexible Operation**: Choose one-by-one replacement or batch replacement ● **Cross-Device Experience**: Input history cache, compatible with iPhone, iPad, Mac ● **Usage Benefits**: No usage limits after in-app purchase; free version gets access via watching ads
TextFinder
This app uses advanced computer vision to locate text in the real world through a live camera view. Results are automatically cached for each page, leveraging on-device neural networks for privacy and offline use.
- Advanced computer vision for text detection
- Live camera view for real-time results
- Automatic caching of search results
- On-device processing for privacy
- Offline functionality
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Lavage the advanced computer vision to help you find texts in the real world. Getting the result in a live view and automatically cached the result for each page. It based on Apple's On-device Deep Neural Network. So there is no network needed and more secure. Your review is helpful to improve this app. https://www.crazylazy.xyz/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TextFinder at 100% against Text Search Replace's 0%. TextFinder also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). Text Search Replace's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Text Search Replace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TextFinder sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TextFinder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Search Replace has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Text Search Replace's written reviews are positive against 100% of TextFinder's.
Text Search Replace ships an update every 6 weeks, TextFinder every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Search Replace | TextFinder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 13.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 杨军 朱 | CrazyLazy OU |
Customer experience
Text Search Replace
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In-app purchases
Text Search Replace
- Buy Pro Version$0.99
TextFinder
- Full Result$1.99
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