EZText vs txt Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
txt Editor
Create, edit, and save plain text files with an intuitive interface. This app offers essential features like importing and exporting text documents, making it a handy tool for managing your files on the go.
- Create text files
- Edit text files
- Save text files
- Import text files
- Export text files
- Intuitive interface
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txt Editor is a simple and easy-to-use app for creating, editing, and saving txt files on your device. With its intuitive interface and essential features such as import and export, txt Editor is the perfect tool for anyone who needs to manage their text files. Download Txt Editor now and enjoy effortless text editing on-the-go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: EZText at 78% against txt Editor's 23%. EZText also leads on rating (4.2 vs 1.9) and ratings volume (27 vs 7). txt Editor's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EZText holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of EZText's written reviews are positive against 23% of txt Editor's.
EZText ships an update every 6 weeks, txt Editor every 9 days. Both last shipped on September 20, 2026.
| Parameter | EZText | txt Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (27 ratings) — better | 1.9 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better | 23.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Krenek | Julian Lau |
Customer experience
EZText
txt Editor
In-app purchases
EZText
No in-app purchases
txt Editor
No in-app purchases
