Samurai Search vs WebA11Y
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Samurai Search
Efficiently search text and PDF files across your device, iCloud, and external storage. Preview matched files or open them in other applications. Supports advanced search options like regular expressions.
- Search text and PDF files
- iCloud and external storage support
- File preview
- Regular expression support
- Customizable file types
- Saved search locations
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Search your iOS device or iCloud for text, source code, plain text files, and PDFs. Find matches inside files and preview results instantly, or open any matched file in your favourite editing or viewing app. Flexible search options: whole word, case sensitive (all file types), and regular expressions (for text files). Choose which files to include by selecting standard or custom text file types, or by searching filenames that match a pattern. Select where to search from On My iPad, iCloud Drive, or external file providers such as SMB and USB folders. When possible, the app retains saved search selections so you can quickly repeat the same searches later. If you search selected folders in iCloud Drive, matching iCloud files are synced to your device before searching, ensuring fast local results. Searching plain text files is extremely fast and memory efficient. PDF search speed depends on the document content and can be slow. Note also that PDF search may consume large amounts of memory which can cause Samurai Search to crash.
WebA11Y
Enhance web accessibility with this Safari extension. It allows you to customize text appearance, underline interactive elements, reduce distracting animations, and apply custom fonts and CSS for a more comfortable browsing experience.
- Boldens all text
- Underlines links and buttons
- Reduces animations and transitions
- Applies custom fonts
- Inserts custom CSS
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Safari Extension to improve web accessibility. You can make the following changes to the Website: - Boldens all text - Underline links and buttons - Reduce animations and transitions - Use custom fonts - Insert custom CSS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Samurai Search at 5.0 against WebA11Y's 3.0. Samurai Search also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (25 vs 2). WebA11Y's advantage is device support (5 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Samurai Search holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Samurai Search has 25 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Samurai Search ships an update every 5 days, WebA11Y every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Samurai Search | WebA11Y |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (25 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Rourke | Cizzuk Shihu |
Customer experience
Samurai Search
WebA11Y
In-app purchases
Samurai Search
No in-app purchases
WebA11Y
No in-app purchases
