Textile vs NotiHive
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.
NotiHive
Create private or public groups to send instant push notifications to followers. Ideal for community updates, team alerts, or event reminders, this app ensures real-time connection with your audience.
- Create private/public groups
- Send instant push notifications
- Community updates
- Team alerts
- Event reminders
- Real-time audience connection
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Seamless app that lets you create private or public groups and send instant push notifications to all followers. Whether for community updates, team alerts, or event reminders, stay effortlessly connected with your audience in real time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NotiHive at Free against Textile's $2.99. NotiHive also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Textile's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On rating, review sentiment, in-app purchases and device support 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
NotiHive is free to download; Textile costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Textile against 5.0 for NotiHive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Textile ships an update every 2 weeks, NotiHive monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textile | NotiHive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luke Bradford | NotiHive LLC |
Customer experience
Textile
NotiHive
In-app purchases
Textile
No in-app purchases
NotiHive
No in-app purchases









