Comparison

EZText vs WhiteStar StarDrop

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Edit any text file
  • Rich text formatting
  • Live HTML/markdown preview
  • Search and replace
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Export to PDF
  • Dark mode support
Features
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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

About

WhiteStar StarDrop

Features
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WhiteStar's StarDrop is an anywhere-to-anywhere, post-quantum encrypted file transfer system that allows you to send files, pictures, videos and more (of any size of course!) to any StarFiles server. Transfers do not pass through a Cloud, and thus are much faster than other solutions. If your company is already using StarFiles, StarDrop is your mobile solution, fully integrated into the WhiteStar ecosystem. That means quick, fully encrypted file transfers to and from anywhere in the world over the WhiteStar Secure Overlay Network. StarDrop has full end-to-end pure post-quantum cryptography (Category 5) utilizing ML-KEM-1024 and ML-DSA-87 algorithms, alongside SHA-512 and AES-256. This protects your data against not just traditional brute-force attacks, but also secures your data against quantum superposition and factoring. New private keys are generated every time you start a transfers, with unique keys rolled on every packet, making your file transfers incredibly safe, even in hostile environments. Importantly, because WhiteStar StarDrop is not bound by the technical limitations of TCP/IP, and instead uses dynamically scaled packet size over the WhiteStar Network, there is not a 1:1 relationship between keys and content, making it far harder to intercept network frames containing key exchange information, let alone deciphering keying information. This is a marked improvement over older systems that utilize SFTP, AFP, Wireguard and other network security solutions for transferring data remotely. And of course, because it's fully integrated into the WhiteStar ecosystem, you can optionally receive detailed sensor data on data transferred through your organization's WhiteStar Files servers - but importantly, this data ALWAYS stays within your organization's control, is fully private, and is not seen by anyone outside of your company. Plus, StarDrop is integrated into the WhiteStar Dashboard for quick visibility into network traffic (that only your organization can see), email notifications on completion of StarDrops, enterprise-level server access controls and more! StarDrop encryption is automatic, and doesn't require you to worry about encrypting or decrypting your files, making or managing passwords, or teaching clients how to use complex cryptography tools. We do the hard part for you, so you can focus on what you do best and let us handle the heavy lifting of complex state-of-the-art cryptography. Never send secure documents over email again. Use StarDrop instead to easily encrypt and send your sensitive files!

Screenshots

EZText4 screens
WhiteStar StarDrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: WhiteStar StarDrop at weekly against EZText's every 6 weeks. WhiteStar StarDrop also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 27.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

EZText ships an update every 6 weeks, WhiteStar StarDrop weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
EZText versus WhiteStar StarDrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEZTextWhiteStar StarDrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS27.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMark KrenekWhitestar Communications

In-app purchases

None

EZText

No in-app purchases

None

WhiteStar StarDrop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is EZText free?
EZText is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhiteStar StarDrop free?
WhiteStar StarDrop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do EZText or WhiteStar StarDrop have ads?
Neither EZText nor WhiteStar StarDrop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, EZText or WhiteStar StarDrop?
EZText ships an update every 6 weeks, and WhiteStar StarDrop weekly. Most recently, EZText was updated on October 24, 2026 and WhiteStar StarDrop on October 30, 2026.

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