Comparison

Text Search Replace vs FindText

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Text search and replace
  • Notes plugin integration
  • Multi-app support
  • Preview before replace
  • Advanced settings (case, regex)
  • Batch replacement
Features
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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

About

FindText

Easily find and replace text within your documents. Supports case sensitivity, regular expressions, and replacing all occurrences with a new phrase.

Highlights
  • Paste text from clipboard
  • Find and Replace functions
  • Case sensitive or insensitive search
  • Regular expression support
  • Replace all occurrences
Features
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Find and replace text: 1. Enter or Paste your text from the clipboard into the TextView 2. You can choose Find or Replace function 3. Enter the word or phrase you want to replace in Find what. 4. Enter your new text in Replace with. 5. Replace All to change all occurrences of the word or phrase. To specify only upper or lowercase in your search, select Matching Case or Ignoring Case. For advanced users, we've also added the ability to find patterns using a regular expression. Click the Search button in the search field to see the basic regular expressions or enter the regular expression that you want to replace in Find what.

Screenshots

Text Search Replace4 screens
FindText4 screens

Verdict

The call

Text Search Replace and FindText both sit at 3.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of FindText's written reviews are positive against 0% of Text Search Replace's. Text Search Replace's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Text Search Replace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and FindText sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Text Search Replace against 3.7 for FindText. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Text Search Replace's written reviews are positive against 100% of FindText's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Search Replace versus FindText: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText Search ReplaceFindText
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (10 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer杨军 朱Thach Nguyen Trong

Customer experience

Text Search Replace

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

FindText

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Text Search Replace

One-time1
  • Buy Pro Version$0.99
1 purchases

FindText

One-time1
  • Premium Version$3.99

Questions

Is Text Search Replace free?
Text Search Replace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FindText free?
FindText is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Text Search Replace or FindText?
Text Search Replace is rated higher. Text Search Replace averages 3.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while FindText averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Text Search Replace or FindText have ads?
Neither Text Search Replace nor FindText shows ads.

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