md writer vs EZText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
md writer
This minimalistic markdown editor offers a distraction-free writing environment with essential tools for formatting markdown text. It includes a file manager, quick rendering previews, and an augmented keyboard for easy input of markdown elements.
- Distraction-free editor
- Markdown file manager
- Rendered result preview
- Augmented keyboard for markdown
- Various export options
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Welcome to md writer. This minimalistic markdown writer allows you to write in a distraction-free setting while provide necessary tools to help formatting your markdown text. It's great for people who want a simple but powerful editor to write down their thoughts. FEATURES - A simple markdown file manager to organise all your .md files - Distraction-free editor - Quick view on rendered result - Augmented keyboard to input markdown elements easily. - Various export options
EZText
This app is a versatile text editor for viewing and editing various file types, including plain text, RTF, HTML, and markdown. It offers rich formatting options, live previews for web content, and robust editing tools like search and replace, undo/redo, and style copying. Easily manage files across cloud services and export to PDF.
- Edit any text file
- Rich text formatting
- Live HTML/markdown preview
- Search and replace
- Undo/redo functionality
- Export to PDF
- Dark mode support
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A free simple text editor for viewing and editing any kind of text file, including TXT, RTF, RTFD, HTML, XML, markdown, and more. For files like RTF and RTFD, EZText displays them fully formatted and lets you edit all the style information, such as font, point size, color, and paragraph alignment. You can even view the raw RTF text and edit that directly. For HTML and markdown, you can view a live preview as you edit. Features: - Edit any text file on your device, in iCloud, or in other cloud services (such as DropBox) that appear in the Files app - Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript - Text foreground and background color - Paragraph alignment - Line & paragraph spacing - Bulleted lists - Copy & paste text style and paragraph style - Search and replace text - Undo and redo - Create plain text file, rich text files (RTF), rich text with graphics (RTFD), HTML, and markdown files - View and edit the raw text for files that supports text style - Live previews of HTLM and markdown - Export to PDF - Convert between plain text, RTF, and RTFD - Print - Supports multitasking on iPad - Dark mode support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EZText at 4.2 against md writer's 3.7. EZText also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 56%) and ratings volume (30 vs 9). md writer's advantage is iOS requirement (10.3 vs 27.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EZText holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of md writer's written reviews are positive against 79% of EZText's.
| Parameter | md writer | EZText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (9 ratings) | 4.2 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.3 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ITHK | Mark Krenek |
Customer experience
md writer
EZText
In-app purchases
md writer
No in-app purchases
EZText
No in-app purchases








