Textile vs Buddy Offshore
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.
Buddy Offshore
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Free shift calendar for offshore workers in Norway. Keep track of rotation, certificates, helicopter flights and weather — all in one place. Built for people working offshore. Simple, fast, and collects nothing about you. All data stays local on your phone. iCloud backup is optional and goes through your own Apple account. What you get: • Shift calendar with rotation, overtime and courses. Add certificates (safety course, HLO, MOB boat, first aid) and get reminders 1, 2 or 3 months before they expire. • Heliport with live departures from every Norwegian heliport. Pick your rig and heliport once — the app remembers. • Flight weather with lightning, static activity, fog risk and heliport weather. Data from MET Norway and Avinor. • Tools: week number, wind calculator, sleep log, BMI, packing list, expense log, emergency numbers. • Share your calendar as PDF or image — includes overtime, courses and certificate expiries. • Norwegian and English. Light and dark mode. iCloud backup. Feedback and requests: buddyoffshore99@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Buddy Offshore at Free against Textile's $2.99. On update cadence, ads, 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
Buddy Offshore is free to download; Textile costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Textile ships an update every 2 weeks, Buddy Offshore every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textile | Buddy Offshore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luke Bradford | Rune Gundersen |
In-app purchases
Textile
No in-app purchases
Buddy Offshore
No in-app purchases









