Textile vs ScanText
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.
ScanText
Capture text from photos or PDF files and convert it into editable text. Edit, translate, share, or have the text read aloud. This utility works offline for convenient text extraction.
- Photo to text conversion
- PDF to text extraction
- Text editing
- Text translation
- Read text aloud
- Offline functionality
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Take a photo of any articles, and it will be converted to text. Scan any photos or PDF file to extract text. Continue to scan, edit, translate, share or read it out! It is that easy! No Internet connection needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Textile at 5.0 against ScanText's 4.7. ScanText's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Textile costs $2.99 and ScanText $0.99 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 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Textile ships an update every 2 weeks, ScanText every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textile | ScanText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | 4.7 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luke Bradford | Virtual GS |
Customer experience
Textile
ScanText
In-app purchases
Textile
No in-app purchases
ScanText
No in-app purchases
