MyText Widget vs Filebar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | MyText Widget | Filebar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.6 (14 ratings) | 4.3 (350 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.2% of reviews | 66.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 350 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 40 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 142 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kappz LLC | 水峰 徐 |
Customer experience
MyText Widget
Filebar
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
MyText Widget
No in-app purchases
Filebar
- Filebar Pro Lifetime$9.99









