BCheckbook vs EZText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BCheckbook
Manage a single account's finances with this straightforward checkbook ledger. Access your financial data from any device without needing an internet connection. Ideal for users who prefer a simple, offline approach to tracking their money.
- Single account tracking
- Offline access
- Cross-device synchronization
- Simple ledger interface
- No internet required
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A simple checkbook ledger for those that only need to keep track of one account that they can access from anywhere without Internet.
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 review sentiment: EZText at 79% against BCheckbook's 33%. EZText also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.2 vs 3.0). BCheckbook's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 27.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
EZText is free to download; BCheckbook costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EZText holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EZText has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of BCheckbook's written reviews are positive against 79% of EZText's.
BCheckbook ships an update every 5 weeks, EZText every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BCheckbook | EZText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.2 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryce Campbell | Mark Krenek |
Customer experience
BCheckbook
EZText
In-app purchases
BCheckbook
No in-app purchases
EZText
No in-app purchases
