Text Search Replace vs Samurai Search
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
Samurai Search
Efficiently search text and PDF files across your device, iCloud, and external storage. Preview matched files or open them in other applications. Supports advanced search options like regular expressions.
- Search text and PDF files
- iCloud and external storage support
- File preview
- Regular expression support
- Customizable file types
- Saved search locations
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Search source code, plain text files and PDF files on your iOS device or in iCloud/USB/SMB, preview matched files. or open in your favourite editing/viewing app. Supports flexible search options, including regular expressions (for plain text files). Files searched can be selected from standard or custom text file types or a filename pattern may be specified. Search files and folders can be selected from On My iPad, iCloud Drive or external file providers (e.g SMB/USB folder). Saved search files and folders are retained by the app where possible. iCloud files in selected iCloud Drive folders that match the file type (file extension) criteria or pattern, will be synced to device prior to searching. Searching text files is extremely fast. PDF search speed depends on content. It can be slow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Samurai Search at 100% against Text Search Replace's 0%. Samurai Search also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Text Search Replace's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Samurai Search asks for nothing beyond the download.
Samurai Search holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Text Search Replace's written reviews are positive against 100% of Samurai Search's.
Text Search Replace ships an update every 6 weeks, Samurai Search every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Search Replace | Samurai Search |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 杨军 朱 | Michael Rourke |
Customer experience
Text Search Replace
Samurai Search
In-app purchases
Text Search Replace
- Buy Pro Version$0.99
Samurai Search
No in-app purchases
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