Comparison

Textify vs QuickNotation

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

Head to head
About

Textify

Easily transform plain text into visually appealing content with custom styling. Create reusable themes to apply colors, fonts, and effects to specific words or phrases, perfect for documents, cards, or study materials. Share your beautified text directly or copy and paste it anywhere.

Highlights
  • Customizable text styling
  • Color and font options
  • Reusable themes
  • Rule-based text modification
  • Embed links in text
  • Copy and share functionality
Features
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Textify allows you to easily make your text more elegant, colorful, fancy, or however else you want it to be! Make beautiful holiday and birthday cards. Stylizing worksheets or study material to make them more readable or color coded. Because of the reusability of the themes, its perfect for tasks that you intend to do numerous times. By configuring rules, you can change the text color, background color, font, text size, shadow, underline style, and strike-through style of every occurrence of a given words or words, as well as embed links within them. You can make as many rules as you want and, since you can save your configurations (themes) for later, you can easily apply these rules over and over again, to any text you want! Once you've finished beautifying your text, you can copy and paste it anywhere you want, or share it directly from the app! Supports iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

About

QuickNotation

This note-taking app helps you organize thoughts and ideas with features like drag-and-drop, priority marking, and image support. It offers multi-mode support for a comfortable experience on iPhones and iPads.

Highlights
  • Drag and drop organization
  • Priority marking
  • Image support
  • Light and dark modes
  • iPhone and iPad optimized
  • Portrait and landscape orientation
Features
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QuickNotation is a versatile note-taking app powered by Apple's latest Swift Data framework. It's designed to help you organize your thoughts and ideas with ease, offering a wide range of features that make note-taking a breeze. Key Features: -Drag and Drop: Effortlessly organize your notes using drag-and-drop functionality. Rearrange, prioritize, and group your notes in a way that makes sense to you. -Priority Marking: Stay organized by marking your notes with different priorities. Easily distinguish between high-priority and low-priority notes. -Image Support: Enhance your notes with images. Add visuals to your notes to capture memories or provide context to your thoughts. -Multi-Mode Support: QuickNotation supports both light and dark modes, ensuring a comfortable reading experience in any lighting condition. It's optimized for both iPhones and iPads, and it seamlessly transitions between portrait and landscape orientations. -QuickNotation empowers you to capture and manage your ideas, tasks, and memories like never before. Stay productive, organized, and inspired, no matter where you are or what device you're using. Download QuickNotation today and take your note-taking experience to the next level!

Screenshots

Textify4 screens
QuickNotation4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: QuickNotation at none against Textify's 1. Textify's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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

Both are free to download. Textify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. QuickNotation asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Textify against 5.0 for QuickNotation. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Textify ships an update weekly, QuickNotation every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Textify versus QuickNotation: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextifyQuickNotation
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEthan GlickNicholas Pompea

Customer experience

Textify

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

QuickNotation

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Textify

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
None

QuickNotation

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Textify free?
Textify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is QuickNotation free?
QuickNotation is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Textify or QuickNotation?
Textify and QuickNotation are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Textify or QuickNotation have ads?
Neither Textify nor QuickNotation shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textify or QuickNotation?
Textify ships an update weekly, and QuickNotation every 17 months. Most recently, Textify was updated on October 24, 2026 and QuickNotation on October 15, 2026.

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