Comparison

Textile vs Verse & Prose

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 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.

About

Verse & Prose

A minimalist writing app for crafting and sharing poetry, stories, and personal reflections. Enhance your text with custom typography, themes, and integrated photos to create visually stunning pieces.

Highlights
  • Elegant typography and themes
  • Textured backgrounds and layout styles
  • Seamlessly weave photos into writing
  • Save and share creations as rendered images
  • Capture time and location of inspiration
Features
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Verse & Prose is a beautifully simple space for writing and sharing poetry, stories, and moments that matter. With Verse & Prose, you can craft your own poems and bring them to life with elegant typography, thoughtfully designed themes, textured backgrounds, and a variety of layout styles that make every piece uniquely yours. But Verse & Prose is more than a poetry editor. It’s also a place for essays, travel journals, personal reflections, or those unexpected sparks of inspiration that arrive without warning. You can seamlessly weave photos you’ve just taken into your writing, placing them anywhere within the text. Each time you revisit your work, those images become vivid reminders of the people, places, and emotions captured in that moment. When your creation is ready, you can save or share it as a beautifully rendered image, signed with your name and marked with the time and place where inspiration found you. Whenever inspiration strikes, wherever life takes you, open Verse & Prose and start creating. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Textile4 screens
Verse & Prose4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Verse & Prose at Free against Textile's $2.99. Verse & Prose also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). Textile's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (9 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Verse & Prose is free to download; Textile costs $2.99 up front. Verse & Prose sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Textile asks for nothing beyond the download.

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 Verse & Prose. 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 2 weeks, Verse & Prose every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Textile versus Verse & Prose: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextileVerse & Prose
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (9 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings9 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke Bradford帅 翟

Customer experience

Textile

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Verse & Prose

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

3 purchases

Verse & Prose

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Access$19.99

Questions

Is Textile free?
Textile costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Verse & Prose free?
Verse & Prose is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Textile or Verse & Prose?
Textile and Verse & Prose are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 9 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Textile or Verse & Prose have ads?
Neither Textile nor Verse & Prose shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textile or Verse & Prose?
Textile ships an update every 2 weeks, and Verse & Prose every 2 days. Most recently, Textile was updated on October 20, 2026 and Verse & Prose on October 19, 2026.

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