Comparison

Textify vs Raw Text Editor

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

Raw Text Editor

This app offers a clean, distraction-free environment for creating and editing plain text files. It supports structured text formats like JSON, Markdown, and CSV, ensuring full control over raw content without hidden formatting.

Highlights
  • Create and edit plain text files
  • Supports JSON, JSON Lines, NDJSON, Markdown, CSV
  • Distraction-free editing environment
  • Handles structured text formats
  • Full control over raw content
Features
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Raw Text Editor is a lightweight and focused app built for working directly with plain text files. It provides a clean, distraction-free environment designed for users who need full control over raw content without hidden formatting or automatic styling. The app allows you to create new text files and edit existing ones quickly and efficiently. All content is handled as pure plaintext, ensuring that what you see is exactly what is saved. Raw Text Editor supports structured text formats with dedicated UI handling to make editing easier while preserving raw access. Supported file types include JSON (.json), JSON Lines (.jsonl), NDJSON (.ndjson), Markdown (.md), and CSV (.csv). These formats are opened and managed in ways that improve usability while maintaining complete control over the underlying text. Built for simplicity and performance, Raw Text Editor is suitable for developers, data editors, and anyone who regularly works with text-based files and needs a reliable, no-nonsense editing tool.

Screenshots

Textify4 screens
Raw Text Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Textify at 100% against Raw Text Editor's 0%. Textify also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Raw Text Editor's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, 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. Textify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Raw Text Editor sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Textify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Textify's written reviews are positive against 0% of Raw Text Editor's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Textify ships an update weekly, Raw Text Editor every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Textify versus Raw Text Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextifyRaw Text Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.3 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEthan GlickTan Kiet Phan

Customer experience

Textify

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

Raw Text Editor

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Textify

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
3 purchases

Raw Text Editor

One-time3
  • Quick Caffeine$1.99
  • Liquid Inspiration$4.99
  • Rare Infusion$9.99

Questions

Is Textify free?
Textify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Raw Text Editor free?
Raw Text Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Textify or Raw Text Editor?
Textify is rated higher. Textify averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Raw Text Editor averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Textify or Raw Text Editor have ads?
Neither Textify nor Raw Text Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textify or Raw Text Editor?
Textify ships an update weekly, and Raw Text Editor every 2 months. Most recently, Textify was updated on October 12, 2026 and Raw Text Editor on October 15, 2026.

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