Typepad Editor vs EZText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Typepad Editor
A straightforward text editor designed for editing plain text .txt files. It supports various text formats, different fonts, and printing capabilities for efficient document management.
- Plain text editing
- Supports .txt files
- Reads most text formats
- Font customization
- Printing functionality
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Typepad is a simple no frills text editor. When you need to edit a plain text .txt file, Typepad has everything you need to get the job done. Can read most text format files. Supports different fonts and printing.
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: Typepad Editor at 5.0 against EZText's 4.2. EZText's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 13 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
Typepad Editor holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EZText has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Typepad Editor ships an update every 13 months, EZText every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Typepad Editor | EZText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.2 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 78.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Stecklein | Mark Krenek |
Customer experience
Typepad Editor
EZText
In-app purchases
Typepad Editor
No in-app purchases
EZText
No in-app purchases
