Comparison

Text Stats vs Krux

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

Krux

Features
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You open a long markdown document on your iPhone. You need section four. You scroll. And scroll. And scroll. Your current editor -- the one that costs $19.99, or charges you every month -- doesn't have a document outline on iPhone. It never has. You've been asking for years. Krux has it. Day one. Tap the outline panel and jump to any heading in your document instantly. On iPhone. On iPad. On Mac. It works the way it should have always worked. --- WRITE EVERYWHERE Krux is a native markdown editor built for every Apple device you own. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch. Your documents sync through iCloud Drive as standard .md files -- the same files you open in VS Code, BBEdit, or any editor you choose. Dictate a note on your Apple Watch while your phone is in your bag. It's in your Files app by the time you sit down. --- WHAT YOU GET -- Document outline with jump-to-heading navigation on every platform -- Live syntax highlighting with real-time preview -- Side-by-side preview on iPad and Mac, tabbed preview on iPhone -- Focus mode that dims everything but the current paragraph -- Apple Watch companion with dictation, offline reading, and watch face complication -- Export to HTML, PDF, or raw markdown in one tap -- Formatting toolbar with 13 actions plus full keyboard shortcuts -- OLED-optimized pure-black dark mode -- iOS 26 Liquid Glass design, built in Swift --- YOUR FILES. YOUR FORMAT. FOREVER. Every file Krux creates is a plain .md file. No proprietary database. No invisible metadata. No lock-in. Open a Krux file in any other editor -- it looks exactly the same. Because it is exactly the same. Standard markdown, stored in your iCloud Drive, readable everywhere. Zero data collection. No accounts. No tracking. Confirmed by Apple's required PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy declaration. --- ONE PRICE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Pay once. Write forever. No monthly fee. No annual renewal. No "upgrade to Pro." Krux for iPhone and iPad: $4.99. Krux for Mac: $9.99. Apple Watch companion: included. --- THE LANGUAGE OF AI, NATIVELY Claude Code, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot all write in markdown. Krux is where that output lives on your iPhone -- rendered cleanly, navigated with the outline, stored as plain files that feed right back into your workflow. Markdown is the language of AI. Krux is its native home. --- Built for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass. Runs on iPhone and iPad. ---

Screenshots

Text Stats4 screens
Krux4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Text Stats at $0.99 against Krux's $4.99. Text Stats also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.4). Krux's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Text Stats costs $0.99 and Krux $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Text Stats against 5.0 for Krux. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Stats ships an update every 7 months, Krux every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Stats versus Krux: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText StatsKrux
Price$0.99 — better$4.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer(optional.is)Daniel Murray

In-app purchases

None

Text Stats

No in-app purchases

None

Krux

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Stats free?
Text Stats costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Krux free?
Krux costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Stats or Krux?
Text Stats and Krux are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Text Stats or Krux have ads?
Neither Text Stats nor Krux shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Stats or Krux?
Text Stats ships an update every 7 months, and Krux every 2 months. Most recently, Text Stats was updated on October 7, 2026 and Krux on October 25, 2026.

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