Textile vs 3lines.org
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Textile | 3lines.org |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.6 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luke Bradford | Jon Hargett |
Customer experience
Textile
3lines.org
In-app purchases
Textile
No in-app purchases
3lines.org
No in-app purchases









