Split Notes vs EZText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Split Notes
A versatile text editor that allows for split-screen viewing in both vertical and horizontal orientations, along with tabbed interfaces. It offers automatic saving, folder management, and advanced search capabilities. Users can also synchronize scrolling between panes and export notes to CSV.
- Split-screen editing (vertical/horizontal)
- Tabbed interface
- Synchronized scrolling
- Automatic saving
- Folder management
- Character and regex search
- Export to CSV
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This is a simple notepad which can switch between vertical and horizontal screen division, tab use screen. You can synchronize the scrolling of each text view by enabling the magnet button. Notes is saved automatically. Others - Folder management. - Character search, regular expression search. - Undo/Redo - Character count display. - Change font size. - Export to CSV file. - Backup/Restore with iCloud.
EZText
This app is a versatile text editor for viewing and editing various file types, including plain text, RTF, HTML, and markdown. It offers rich formatting options, live previews for web content, and robust editing tools like search and replace, undo/redo, and style copying. Easily manage files across cloud services and export to PDF.
- Edit any text file
- Rich text formatting
- Live HTML/markdown preview
- Search and replace
- Undo/redo functionality
- Export to PDF
- Dark mode support
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A free simple text editor for viewing and editing any kind of text file, including TXT, RTF, RTFD, HTML, XML, markdown, and more. For files like RTF and RTFD, EZText displays them fully formatted and lets you edit all the style information, such as font, point size, color, and paragraph alignment. You can even view the raw RTF text and edit that directly. For HTML and markdown, you can view a live preview as you edit. Features: - Edit any text file on your device, in iCloud, or in other cloud services (such as DropBox) that appear in the Files app - Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript - Text foreground and background color - Paragraph alignment - Line & paragraph spacing - Bulleted lists - Copy & paste text style and paragraph style - Search and replace text - Undo and redo - Create plain text file, rich text files (RTF), rich text with graphics (RTFD), HTML, and markdown files - View and edit the raw text for files that supports text style - Live previews of HTLM and markdown - Export to PDF - Convert between plain text, RTF, and RTFD - Print - Supports multitasking on iPad - Dark mode support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Split Notes at 4.9 against EZText's 4.2. Split Notes also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). EZText's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Split Notes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. EZText asks for nothing beyond the download.
Split Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Split Notes's written reviews are positive against 78% of EZText's.
Split Notes ships an update every 4 months, EZText every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Split Notes | EZText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better | 4.2 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 78.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KAZUTERU YOKOI | Mark Krenek |
Customer experience
Split Notes
EZText
In-app purchases
Split Notes
- Remove ads$1.99
EZText
No in-app purchases
