EZText vs smrtkbd
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
smrtkbd
This keyboard app allows you to save frequently used text, links, images, and PDFs to quickly paste them into any application. It offers advanced features like dynamic templates, secure clips, and iCloud synchronization for seamless cross-device access.
- Save and paste text, URLs, images, and PDFs
- Organize content with folders, tags, and search
- Dynamic templates with smart placeholders
- Secure clips requiring biometric authentication
- iCloud sync across devices
- Privacy-focused with no data collection
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smrtkbd is a smart system keyboard for iPhone and iPad that lets you save the things you type most - and paste them into any app with a single tap. Stop retyping the same email, address, phone number, canned reply, code snippet, link or template. Save it once as a Clip, then pull it up from the smrtkbd keyboard wherever you type - in Mail, Messages, Notes, Safari, banking apps, forms, chat apps, anywhere. Custom System Keyboard Enable smrtkbd once in iOS Settings, and it's available in every app with a text field. Switch to it with the globe key, tap a Clip, and it's inserted right where the cursor is. Clip Library Save four kinds of Clips: • Text — signatures, canned replies, addresses, IDs, boilerplate • URLs — links you share often • Images — logos, screenshots, memes • PDFs — receipts, forms, documents Organize with: • Folders — nest Clips exactly the way you think • Tags — colored SF-Symbol tags for cross-cutting groups • Sort — by name, date created, or most recently used • Full-text search across names, contents and tags • Bulk create — paste a list and turn each line into a Clip Smart Placeholders Clips aren't just static text. Drop in smart placeholders that fill themselves in when you paste: • Dates & times in any format • Time- and timezone-aware greetings ("Good morning", "Guten Abend", …) • Counters that increment on every use • Text Bits — small reusable pieces you can compose into bigger Clips • Clipboard & selection tweaks — transform the current clipboard or selected text (uppercase, lowercase, trim, and more) before pasting Build your own dynamic templates without any scripting. Secure Clips Mark sensitive Clips as secure — recovery codes, IDs, private notes — and require Face ID or Touch ID before they can be viewed or pasted. iCloud Sync Your Clips stay in sync across all your devices via your private iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit. Nothing goes through our servers - because we don't have any. Privacy First • Nothing you type is collected, stored or transmitted • No analytics, no tracking, no ads • No third-party SDKs harvesting your data • Your Clips live on your device and in your private iCloud account — nowhere else Even when Full Access is enabled, no data leaves your device. Granting Full Access is optional for the basic use of the keyboard, but required for features like: • Access to Clipboard and Clipboard Notifications (required for pasting Images or PDFs, resolve Clipboard Placeholders inside Clips, update preview of relevant Clips). • Communicate back to the smrtkbd main App (e.g. storing last used time/date of a Clip). • Open the main App or the iOS Settings from within the keyboard extension. Designed for iOS • Native SwiftUI interface • Light, Dark and System appearance • iPhone and iPad • Fully localized in English, German, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese • Configurable paste behavior (add return, space, switch keyboard, or nothing) • Usage tracking so your most-used Clips are always one tap away
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: smrtkbd at 5.0 against EZText's 4.2. EZText's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (30 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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. smrtkbd sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. EZText asks for nothing beyond the download.
smrtkbd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EZText has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
EZText ships an update every 6 weeks, smrtkbd monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EZText | smrtkbd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (30 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 26.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Krenek | Michael Klug |
Customer experience
EZText
smrtkbd
In-app purchases
EZText
No in-app purchases
smrtkbd
- Small Tip$3.99
- Medium Tip$8.99
- Large Tip$17.99









