Comparison

Text Stats vs Pocket Council

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Pocket Council

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PocketCouncil puts a private boardroom of AIs on your phone. Pick up to three on‑device models (including GGUF models you download from Hugging Face Hub), watch them debate your question, see their peer rankings, and get a single chaired answer—without sending your conversation to the cloud. What you can do: • Browse and download GGUF models from Hugging Face Hub (optional token for gated/licensed models you have access to). • Download compact models (Qwen 0.6B/1.7B/4B, Gemma 3 1B/4B, Phi-3 Mini) and run them locally. • Start a new conversation, choose your council members and chair, and kick off a three-stage debate: responses, peer rankings, then a synthesized final reply. • View each persona’s “thinking” and the aggregate ranking before the chair answers. • Works offline once models are downloaded; history stays on-device via local storage. • No accounts or analytics; terms and privacy live in-app. Designed for privacy-first brainstorming, writing help, and on-the-go use when you don’t have a signal. PocketCouncil is a single-turn experience—one prompt per chat—built for clarity and speed on modern devices.

Screenshots

Text Stats4 screens
Pocket Council4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pocket Council at Free against Text Stats's $0.99. Pocket Council also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months). Text Stats's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pocket Council is free to download; Text Stats costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Stats ships an update every 7 months, Pocket Council every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Stats versus Pocket Council: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText StatsPocket Council
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB26 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer(optional.is)Ting-Chun Matthew Man

In-app purchases

None

Text Stats

No in-app purchases

None

Pocket Council

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Stats free?
Text Stats costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Council free?
Pocket Council is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Text Stats or Pocket Council have ads?
Neither Text Stats nor Pocket Council shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Stats or Pocket Council?
Text Stats ships an update every 7 months, and Pocket Council every 4 days. Most recently, Text Stats was updated on November 2, 2026 and Pocket Council on October 30, 2026.

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