Comparison

MyText Widget vs Filebar

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

MyText Widget

Display personalized text on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode. Customize fonts, colors, and sizes for reminders, quotes, or notes. Keep important information visible at a glance without unlocking your device.

Highlights
  • Display text on Home Screen, Lock Screen, StandBy
  • 5 font styles
  • Multiple color options
  • Adjustable text alignment
  • Automatic font size adjustment
  • Multiple widget sizes
  • One-tap clipboard paste
Features
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Display your personalized text directly on your Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy mode with MyText Widget. Perfect for reminders, affirmations, quotes, or any text you want to see at a glance. Keep important information visible without unlocking your device. Whether it's a daily motivational quote, a reminder of your priorities, or a note to yourself, MyText Widget makes your text accessible with just a glance. Personalize your widget with a variety of options: • Choose from 5 elegant font styles: Serif, Rounded, Monospaced, Bold Italic, and Script • Select vibrant colors including Auto (adapts to light/dark mode), Yellow, Cyan, Pink, Blue, Lime, and Orange • Align text to left, center, or right • Automatic font size adjustment based on text length for optimal readability Multiple Widget Sizes • Small widget for short phrases • Medium widget for longer messages • Large widget for extended quotes or notes • Extra large widget for iPad users • Lock Screen widgets for quick viewing Easy to Use • Simple, clean interface with widget preview • One-tap clipboard paste functionality • Update widgets instantly with keyboard toolbar button • Visual feedback confirms all changes

About

Filebar

A versatile multimedia player that handles video and music playback from local files, cloud services, and media servers. It also includes robust file management capabilities for both local and remote storage.

Highlights
  • Plays numerous video formats (MP4, MKV, AVI, etc.)
  • Supports local and cloud music playback (MP3, FLAC)
  • Manages cloud services (SMB, WebDAV, FTP, SFTP)
  • Browse and play from media servers (Plex, Emby)
  • Comprehensive file management (move, copy, delete)
  • Batch renaming for files and folders
Features
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# Filebar Filebar is a modern multimedia player that offers video player, music player, cloud services and file management features. ## Main features ### Video player Filebar offers a powerful video player that allows you to play more video formats, including standard MP4, M4V and MOV, plus MKV, AVI, WMV, FLV, OMG, OGV, 3GP, RMVB and more. You can browse and play videos from your mac, pc, NAS, FTP, and also support playing videos from media servers (such as Emby/Plex/Jellyfin media server), and you can also play videos from cloud services. ### Music Player Filebar provides a nice local music player for playing local and cloud music, supported audio formats are MP3/M4A/FLAC. ### Cloud Services Cloud services are another core feature of Filebar. With Filebar you can easily manage cloud services, including creating folders/deleting/playing/batch renaming/viewing information. It also provides support for remote protocols. The supported protocols are SMB, WebDAV, Synology, FTP, SFTP. ### File Management Filebar also provides a file manager. You can manage your local and remote files: move, delete, edit, copy, upload, batch rename, etc. ## Customer Support Feel free to contact us if your have any suggestions or ideas. - Website: https://fileball.app - Email: filebox.app@outlook.com

Screenshots

MyText Widget4 screens
Filebar4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Filebar at Free against MyText Widget's $0.99. Filebar also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 40 months). MyText Widget's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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

Filebar is free to download; MyText Widget costs $0.99 up front. Filebar sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MyText Widget asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Filebar holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Filebar has 350 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of MyText Widget's written reviews are positive against 67% of Filebar's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MyText Widget ships an update every 40 months, Filebar every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
MyText Widget versus Filebar: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMyText WidgetFilebar
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.6 (14 ratings)4.3 (350 ratings) — better
Positive reviews37.2% of reviews66.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14350 — better
Update frequencyEvery 40 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS18.015 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB142 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKappz LLC水峰 徐

Customer experience

MyText Widget

All ratings14 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative35.7%
Written reviews43 reviews
Positive37.2%
Neutral4.7%
Negative58.1%

Filebar

All ratings345 ratings
Positive80.6%
Neutral5.5%
Negative13.9%
Written reviews211 reviews
Positive66.8%
Neutral11.8%
Negative21.3%

Bugs and requests

MyText Widget

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Filebar

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Playback issues with 4K and high-bitrate videos
  • Inconsistent behavior when connecting to SMB/FTP servers
  • Subtitle display problems, especially for Chinese characters
  • Inability to resume playback from the last position

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos
  • Implement a more intuitive and customizable user interface
  • Introduce a background download/upload feature
  • Add a built-in subtitle search and download functionality
  • Implement a cross-device playback sync feature

In-app purchases

None

MyText Widget

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Filebar

One-time1
  • Filebar Pro Lifetime$9.99

Questions

Is MyText Widget free?
MyText Widget costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Filebar free?
Filebar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MyText Widget or Filebar?
Filebar is rated higher. MyText Widget averages 3.6 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Filebar averages 4.3 from 350 ratings.
Do MyText Widget or Filebar have ads?
Neither MyText Widget nor Filebar shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MyText Widget or Filebar?
MyText Widget ships an update every 40 months, and Filebar every 2 weeks. Most recently, MyText Widget was updated on October 31, 2026 and Filebar on October 30, 2026.

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