Text Stats vs MDPaper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Stats
This app analyzes your written text to provide detailed statistics. It calculates word and character counts, offers a readability score, and identifies writing habits like excessive exclamation points or sentences starting with 'So'. It also highlights difficult words and sentences for improved clarity.
- Word and character count
- Flesch-Kincade reading ease score
- Bad writing habit detection
- Difficult word and sentence identification
- Share extension for other apps
- Action Extension integration
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Text Stats analyses the text and produces lots of information. The basic stats are word and character count. It also uses the Flesch-Kincade equation to give you a reading ease score (The higher the better). There is an optional section about bad habits. This flags excessive exclaimations! So you can tone it down a bit. It also flags sentences that start with 'So', which should be looked into. Additional sections are produced for difficult words (four or more syllables) and difficult sentences. These are the top 10 most difficult sentences to parse according to the Flesch-Kincade equation. There is also a little icon at the top to send the text to other apps. Text Stats is also an Action Extension, so in other writing apps you can easily pass the data to this app and get some stats without leaving your favorite text editor. When you press the little arrow leaving the box (the share action icon), you will need to enable Text Stats (it is probably under 'more') in the menu. Then you'll get a pop-up window with your text's stats.
MDPaper
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simple Markdown Editor on iOS - basic markdown supported - iCloud doc supported for GTD, BuJo - support TODO format "[ ] item" - support Dated TODO format "[@2023/12/31] item" icons by https://icons8.com/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: MDPaper at Free against Text Stats's $0.99. MDPaper also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). Text Stats's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On in-app purchases 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
MDPaper is free to download; Text Stats costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Text Stats ships an update every 7 months, MDPaper every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Stats | MDPaper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | (optional.is) | Tomoaki Yagishita |
In-app purchases
Text Stats
No in-app purchases
MDPaper
No in-app purchases
