Comparison

Textile vs Minimal Notepad

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 iPhone notes app for people who just want an iPhone notes app. No login, no cloud accounts to manage, no half-built checklists. Just elegant typography and simple, rock-solid functionality. Here’s what it has that other apps don’t: Simplicity. If you want an app that does everything, look elsewhere. Seriously. Textile is built on the belief that a tool should do one thing perfectly, not ten things decently or a hundred things terribly. Typing a note to save for later is something your phone should be able to do instantly, easily, without drowning you in ads, cryptic screens, or unnecessary features. Textile has no user login, no cloud configuration, no complicated formatting, no drawing, no half-baked checklists — the list goes on. It’s made for people who want to use their phone as a tool, not a distraction. Typography. Typefaces have a huge effect on how we think and feel about the written word, so Textile comes loaded with a carefully curated selection of elegant fonts to make your notes look the way they were meant to look, including sans-serif, serif (both roman and italic), and monospaced fonts. Quality. Textile is a tool you can rely on. Its quality and its simplicity go hand in hand: a smaller feature set means every feature is bulletproof and never broken. Let your phone get out of your way. Use the feedback form in Textile’s settings menu or email lukebradfordapps@gmail.com to send questions, comments, requests, and any issues you find.

About

Minimal Notepad

A free, minimalist application for creating, editing, and deleting notes. It offers a straightforward and uncluttered interface for quick note-taking.

Highlights
  • Create new notes
  • Edit existing notes
  • Delete notes
  • Minimalist interface
  • Free to use
Features
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MiNo is a free minimal app for taking notes. Simply create new notes and edit or delete them with this minimal notepad.

Screenshots

Textile4 screens
Minimal Notepad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Minimal Notepad at Free against Textile's $1.99. Minimal Notepad also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Textile's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, 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

Minimal Notepad is free to download; Textile costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Textile against 5.0 for Minimal Notepad. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Textile has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Textile ships an update every 3 months, Minimal Notepad every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Textile versus Minimal Notepad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextileMinimal Notepad
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke BradfordJulian Lau

Customer experience

Textile

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Minimal Notepad

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Textile

No in-app purchases

None

Minimal Notepad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Textile free?
Textile costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Minimal Notepad free?
Minimal Notepad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Textile or Minimal Notepad?
Textile and Minimal Notepad are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Textile or Minimal Notepad have ads?
Neither Textile nor Minimal Notepad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textile or Minimal Notepad?
Textile ships an update every 3 months, and Minimal Notepad every 8 days. Most recently, Textile was updated on September 12, 2026 and Minimal Notepad on September 23, 2026.

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