Textile vs Verse & Prose
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.
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Textile | Verse & Prose |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Luke Bradford | 帅 翟 |
Customer experience
Textile
Verse & Prose
In-app purchases
Textile
No in-app purchases
Verse & Prose
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$19.99









