eScribo vs Prexy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eScribo
A clean and powerful writing tool designed for aspiring authors. It offers a distraction-free environment with features like focus mode and typewriting mode, allowing you to concentrate on your story. Export your work in PDF or ePub formats.
- iCloud Sync
- Unlimited books and chapters
- Focus Mode
- Typewriting Mode
- PDF export
- ePub export
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Let the writer inside you out with this simple and powerful writing tool. eScribo is a powerful tool for all those people who love to write. With a clean, beautiful and simple design you will have a real portable writing studio at your fingertips. Everything you need to focus on what matters, your story. IMPORTANT: an iCloud account is required. eScribo bets on a future in the cloud. That is why eScribo require iCloud enabled and storage available. Main Features • iCloud Sync. • Create unlimited books, with the option to add Introduction and/or prologue independently. • Complete range of colors for your books. • Focus Mode. • Typewriting Mode. • Unlimited chapters, with character count, paragraphs, lines, words, writing time and reading time. • Preview of the book with all its chapters. • PDF export. • ePub export. • And much more to come. Thanks you for use eScribo and stay tuned for new updates! **Public Books is on the way — a new way to share your writing and get feedback from others.**
Prexy
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Prexy is a notes app for people who work in stories. Every note carries a slug, a beat and a status. That one decision is the whole app: the file you write in and the list of what you owe are the same object, so nothing has to be copied from your notes into a tracker, and the tracker can never quietly go stale. THE BOARD Your stories, sorted by how work actually moves: Not Started, In Progress, Completed. Filter by beat. Beats are yours to define — the list ships generic and every one of them is renameable, deletable and reorderable, so it can describe your desk instead of somebody else's. On iPad the board and the story sit side by side, and the list steps aside when you want the whole screen for writing. On the Mac, one keystroke from inside any app opens a small panel: type a few letters of a story's name and you are writing in it. WRITING A real editor, not a text box. Bold, italic, inline code, strikethrough and links, and find-in-note for long files. Story text follows your Dynamic Type size, with a proper dark mode, a warm paper or bright white page, and a typeface chosen for reading a screen full of prose. PLAIN FILES, ALWAYS On the Mac, Prexy keeps a plain-Markdown copy of every note in a folder you choose, alongside any files you attached. Ordinary text in ordinary folders: readable in any editor, searchable with any tool, backed up by Time Machine without knowing Prexy exists. This is the part worth caring about. Your work outlives any app it was written in, and it should never need this one to be readable. ATTACHMENTS AND LINKS Add any file or photo to a story — a document, an image, a PDF, a transcript. Link one story to another, and the story you linked to shows you what points at it — so the background you filed under one slug surfaces when you need it under a different one. TASKS THAT LIVE IN THE STORY A checkbox line inside a story can become a reminder in Apple Reminders, ticked off from either side. Notes are where the work is described; Reminders is where scheduling and notifications already work well. Prexy connects the two and then stays out of the way — it never sets a due date, and never overwrites one you set. SYNC THAT IS YOURS Your notes sync between your iPhone, iPad and Mac through your own iCloud account. Not through a server of ours — there isn't one. Edit the same story in two places before they can reconcile and Prexy keeps both versions rather than picking a winner, and every note holds a version history you can read. NO ACCOUNT, NOTHING COLLECTED No sign-up, no subscription, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party services. Prexy makes no network requests of its own. Nobody but you can see your notes, and that is a property of how it is built rather than a promise in a policy. PRICING Prexy for iPhone and iPad is free, with nothing to unlock. Prexy for Mac is free for 14 days, then a one-time purchase. Built for reporters. Useful to anyone who thinks in stories.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Prexy at Free against eScribo's $3.99. eScribo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#189 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads 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
Prexy is free to download; eScribo costs $3.99 up front. Prexy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. eScribo asks for nothing beyond the download.
eScribo ships an update every 5 days, Prexy weekly. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | eScribo | Prexy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #189 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oskar Pacheco | Mike Shear |
In-app purchases
eScribo
No in-app purchases
Prexy
- Mac 14-Day TrialFree









