Comparison

Text Stats vs Jot

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

Jot

This app offers a unique approach to task management and note-taking, focusing on daily clarity and task resolution. It uses a physics-based simulation for unfinished tasks and a markdown editor for notes, with a history feature to review past work.

Highlights
  • Swipe to complete or shelve tasks
  • Physics simulation for daily task pile
  • Full-screen markdown note editor
  • Task history and filtering
  • Daily task expiration philosophy
  • Export tasks as markdown
Features
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Jot. Swipe down to add tasks or notes. No menus, no nested folders, no project-management overhead. Just today's plan, focused and clear. — EVERY TASK HAS A FATE — Jot. doesn't believe in infinite backlogs. Swipe to complete a task. Hold to shelve it for another day. Rescue it from yesterday's pile if it still matters. Active, completed, shelved, rescued. Every task finds its resolution. — A PHYSICS PILE, EVERY MORNING — Unfinished tasks don't vanish quietly at midnight. They tumble into a letter-pile physics simulation overnight. Drag the pile to send letters flying. Pick up what still matters. Let the rest go. — DAILY NOTES — Pull down on the note page to open a full-screen markdown editor with a floating toolbar. Bold headers, bullet lists, numbered lists, code blocks — your thoughts, formatted the way you mean them. — HISTORY — Every resolved task is saved by date. Browse by week, month, year, or all time. Filter by completed, shelved, or uncompleted. Search by task name. Export any day's work as a clean markdown file. — THE PHILOSOPHY — Jot. is built on one idea: your to-do list should expire every morning. Yesterday's priorities are not today's. A fresh start, every day. Do more. Think less. Just Jot.

Screenshots

Text Stats4 screens
Jot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Jot at Free against Text Stats's $0.99. Text Stats's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 27.0). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Jot is free to download; Text Stats costs $0.99 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 Jot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Stats ships an update every 7 months, Jot every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Text Stats versus Jot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText StatsJot
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer(optional.is)Justin Cabral

Customer experience

Text Stats

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Jot

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Text Stats

No in-app purchases

None

Jot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Stats free?
Text Stats costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Jot free?
Jot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Stats or Jot?
Text Stats and Jot are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Text Stats or Jot have ads?
Neither Text Stats nor Jot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Stats or Jot?
Text Stats ships an update every 7 months, and Jot every 4 months. Most recently, Text Stats was updated on October 7, 2026 and Jot on October 7, 2026.

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