Comparison

Textile vs 3lines.org

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

Head to head
About

Textile

A minimalist notes app designed for simplicity and speed on iPhone. It focuses on providing a clean interface for typing and saving notes with elegant typography, free from distractions like ads or complex features.

Highlights
  • Minimalist design
  • Elegant typography with curated fonts
  • No user login or cloud storage
  • Focus on core note-taking functionality
  • Bug-free at launch
  • Simple and fast interface
Features
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Textile is the notes app for people who just want to write. No login, no account, no subscription, no ads. Buy it once and it's yours forever. Textile does one thing perfectly: it gives you a beautiful, distraction-free place to type. WHAT YOU GET • A carefully curated set of elegant fonts, including sans-serif, serif (roman and italic), and monospace, because typography changes how writing feels. • Automatic iCloud backup and restore. Your notes are safe, and they come back if you reinstall. • A Home Screen widget: tap to jump straight into a new note. • Dynamic Type and dark mode, everywhere in the app. • Plain text, always. Nothing proprietary, nothing to lock you in. WHAT YOU DON'T GET No half-built checklists, no drawing tools, no cloud accounts to configure, no cryptic menus, no upsells. Textile is built on the belief that a tool should do one thing perfectly, not a hundred things badly. Simplicity, typography, quality. A smaller feature set means every feature is bulletproof: reliable, fast, and streamlined. Let your phone get out of your way. Questions or requests? Use the feedback form in Textile's Settings, or email lukebradfordapps@gmail.com.

About

3lines.org

Convert Chinese ePub files and web pages into a three-line format, adding romanization and translation. The converted documents can be saved as PDFs or copied for further use.

Highlights
  • ePub to three-line conversion
  • Add romanization (pinyin, Sidney Lau, Yale)
  • Add native language translation (English, Spanish)
  • Convert to PDF
  • Paste Chinese text
  • Import from URL
Features
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Import ePub files that are in Simplified or Traditional Chinese and then have them converted to add a romanization line (pinyin, Sidney Lau, Yale), and a native language line (English, Spanish). The document can then be converted to PDF. It is also possible to copy Chinese text and paste it into the app. In addition, you can copy a URL from the Safari web browser, and paste in the URL to pull up the entire web page in the app and then convert it to 3 lines.

Screenshots

Textile4 screens
3lines.org4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: 3lines.org at Free against Textile's $2.99. 3lines.org also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (66 vs 9). Textile's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

3lines.org is free to download; Textile costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Textile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 3lines.org has 66 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Textile's written reviews are positive against 85% of 3lines.org's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Textile ships an update every 2 weeks, 3lines.org every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Textile versus 3lines.org: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextile3lines.org
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings) — better4.6 (66 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better84.8% of reviews
Number of ratings966 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke BradfordJon Hargett

Customer experience

Textile

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

3lines.org

All ratings66 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative12.1%

In-app purchases

None

Textile

No in-app purchases

None

3lines.org

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Textile free?
Textile costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is 3lines.org free?
3lines.org is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Textile or 3lines.org?
Textile is rated higher. Textile averages 5.0 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while 3lines.org averages 4.6 from 66 ratings.
Do Textile or 3lines.org have ads?
Neither Textile nor 3lines.org shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textile or 3lines.org?
Textile ships an update every 2 weeks, and 3lines.org every 4 days. Most recently, Textile was updated on October 20, 2026 and 3lines.org on October 15, 2026.

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