Comparison

Textcraft vs Browser Note

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

Head to head
About

Textcraft

This utility app offers over 100 text transformations, from case changes and spacing adjustments to encoding and hashing. It features an intuitive interface with copy and share gestures, supporting light and dark modes, and multi-window functionality for seamless integration with other apps.

Highlights
  • 100+ text transformation formats
  • Intuitive tap-to-copy and long-press-to-share
  • Light and dark mode support
  • Multi-window and drag-and-drop support
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Customizable themes and tints
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Textcraft is a magical utility that allows you to transform any text in real-time into a variety of 100+ different formats. WHY YOU’LL LOVE TEXTCRAFT: It’s built with iOS design guidelines in mind to look great in light and dark mode alike, along with containing multiple tints and themes to tweak the app your way. The intuitive ‘tap to copy’, and ‘long-press to share’ gestures coupled with the keyboard shortcuts also makes using the app super simple to pick up and use. Multi-window support coupled with Drag and Drop is also extremely useful for quickly and easily dragging text from other apps directly into the app for quick transforming. Whether this is to add hashtags to words social picture sharing sites, or mimic mocking Spongebob in conversation with your friends, there’s something for everyone. There are also various ASCII text face emoticons for quick and easy copying. Text transformations include: - Upper Case - Lower Case - Word Case - Alternating Case - Remove All Spaces - Remove Multiple Spaces - Add Spaces - Reversed Characters - Reversed Words - Replace Spaces with Underscores - Replace Underscores with Spaces - Replace Spaces with Dashes - Replace Dashes with Spaces - Replace Underscores with Dashes - Replace Dashes with Underscores - Initials - Initials with Dot Separation - Initials with Dash Separation - Initials with Underscore Separation - ROT13 - Bold - Italics - Underline - Strikethrough - Slashthrough - Upside Down - Bubble - Filled Bubble - Square - Filled Square - Cursive - Gothic - Monospace - Demonic - Satanic - Replace Spaces with Claps - Replace Words with Emoji - Remove Emoji - Remove Punctuation - Classified - Hashtags - Full Stops - Remove Links - Strip HTML - URL Encoded - URL Decoded - Base64 Encoded - Base64 Decoded - Replace Spaces with Pluses - Replace Pluses with Spaces - SHA256 Hex - SHA512 Hex - Remove Commas - Remove Single Quotes - Remove Double Quotes - Flatten List Using Commas - Flatten List Using Full Stops - Flatten List Using Pipes - Flatten List Using Underscores - Flatten List Using Pluses - Flatten List Using Forward Slashes - Flatten List Using Backslashes - Replace Single Quotes with Double Quotes - Replace Double Quotes with Single Quotes - Remove Vowels - Remove Consonants - Remove Numbers - Dashed to Bulleted List - Bulleted to Dashed List - MD5 Hash - Add Commas - Replace Line Breaks with \\n - Single Quotes Around Words - Double Quotes Around Words - Convert to Dashed List - Convert to Bulleted List - Convert Commas to Dashed List - Convert Commas to Bulleted List - Hex to Binary - Binary to Hex - 1337 - Superscript - Remove Line Breaks - Remove Line and Paragraph Breaks - Random Case - Sentence Case - Trim Whitespace - Trim Whitespace and New Lines - Small Caps - Lightning - Double Lightning - Double line breaks - Zalgo - Colons to dashes - Dashes to colons - Numeronym - Add percent encoding - Remove percent encoding - Remove citation numbers - Remove citations - Came case to spaces - Spaces to camel case - Numbers to text GET IN TOUCH: If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Textcraft was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through Twitter @JPEGuin.

About

Browser Note

Add reminders and notes directly to any website to help you pause and think before acting. Block specific pages or entire sites, customize snooze timers, and sync notes across your Apple devices. Improve mental health and break habits by adding prompts to news or shopping sites.

Highlights
  • Add reminders to any website
  • Block websites or specific pages
  • Customizable snooze timer
  • Sync notes via iCloud
  • Text and video tutorials
  • Privacy-focused, no data collection
Features
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Put a pause between you and bad browsing habits. The web is full of places we open without thinking. Browser Note lets you place your own reminder directly in front of a website, giving you a moment to reconsider before doomscrolling, ordering another takeaway, checking social media, or making an impulse purchase. Your reminder appears whenever you visit the chosen page or website in Safari. It can be a gentle prompt, an important instruction, or simply a note you want to have close at hand. USE BROWSER NOTE TO: • Interrupt websites you open on autopilot • Add reminders to product pages and checkouts • Leave useful context on websites you return to • Create a pause before distracting or time-consuming browsing • Put frequently copied information exactly where you need it POWERFUL, SIMPLE CONTROLS • Add notes using the Safari extension or the iOS share sheet • Apply a note to one page or an entire website • Begin with an emoji to give each note its own icon • Choose whether a note can be temporarily snoozed • Set your preferred snooze duration • Adjust the note text size • Tap a note to copy its text • Manage all your notes from the app AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE Browser Note works across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your notes sync through iCloud, so a reminder created on one device can appear on all the others without needing to create a new account. Step-by-step instructions inside the app make installing and using the Safari extension straightforward. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Browser Note contains no advertising, analytics, or browsing tracking. Your notes remain on your devices and in your iCloud account. TRY IT FOR FREE Create up to three notes for free. A single one-off purchase unlocks unlimited notes forever on all of your supported devices. There is no subscription. Browser Note was created by independent developer Ben Dodson.

Screenshots

Textcraft3 screens
Browser Note4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Browser Note at Free against Textcraft's $4.99. Browser Note also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). Textcraft's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (20 vs 4). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Browser Note is free to download; Textcraft costs $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 — 4.3 for Textcraft against 4.3 for Browser Note. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Textcraft has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Textcraft's written reviews are positive against 100% of Browser Note's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Textcraft ships an update every 5 days, Browser Note every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Textcraft versus Browser Note: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextcraftBrowser Note
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (20 ratings)4.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.617.6
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPixelfolio Inc.Dodo Apps

Customer experience

Textcraft

All ratings20 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative30.0%

Browser Note

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Textcraft

No in-app purchases

None

Browser Note

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Textcraft free?
Textcraft costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Browser Note free?
Browser Note is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Textcraft or Browser Note?
Textcraft and Browser Note are both rated 4.3 out of 5 on the App Store, from 20 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Textcraft or Browser Note have ads?
Neither Textcraft nor Browser Note shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textcraft or Browser Note?
Textcraft ships an update every 5 days, and Browser Note every 6 months. Most recently, Textcraft was updated on September 25, 2026 and Browser Note on September 23, 2026.

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