Comparison

Lightweight Text Editor vs ELAPIZ Parent / Student

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

Head to head
About

Lightweight Text Editor

This app allows users to work with plain text files without formatting concerns. It can open any text file, create folders for organization, and adjust encoding and line endings.

Highlights
  • Open any plain text file
  • Create folders for organization
  • Change text encoding
  • Adjust line endings (CR/LF/CRLF)
  • No formatting concerns
Features
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Lightweight Text Editor is a great tool for users who work with plain text files. If you want to work with raw text without having to worry about formatting, then this app is for you. It can open any plain text file, regardless of the extension. You can create folders to organize your documents. You can also change the encoding and the line endings (CR/LF/CRLF).

About

ELAPIZ Parent / Student

Features
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This application is for the benefit of parents and students of a school. Each eligible students and their parents will be provided with the logins from their schools. This app will help the schools to manage their student attendance records and easier to take attendance and communicate with the students and parents and share the statistics about the students with their parents. Also this mobile application can help parents to apply for leave and the teachers approve the leave applications by the students and parents from their mobile devices. This app also will help the students and parents borrow books from the library and keep a record of the due dates and get reminders when the books are due. The students and parents can go through the library books catalog and put hold on the library books. This application will reduce many manual operation steps by students, parents, teachers and administrators and reduce manual errors and get the reports accurately and instantly by the school management. The features include: - Applying for leave by parents and students. - Review the library books and holding books for future check outs. - Check out and check ins of books by librarians. - Alerting the students when the book is due or overdue. - Notifying Parents when a student attendance is taken. - Alerting Parents when student is absent without leave. - View student's class time-table.

Screenshots

Lightweight Text Editor3 screens
ELAPIZ Parent / Student4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ELAPIZ Parent / Student at Free against Lightweight Text Editor's $2.99. ELAPIZ Parent / Student also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 26 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On 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

ELAPIZ Parent / Student is free to download; Lightweight Text Editor costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lightweight Text Editor ships an update every 26 months, ELAPIZ Parent / Student monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lightweight Text Editor versus ELAPIZ Parent / Student: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightweight Text EditorELAPIZ Parent / Student
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.3 (58 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings58 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 26 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErik WegenerRajasekaran RAJADURAI

In-app purchases

None

Lightweight Text Editor

No in-app purchases

None

ELAPIZ Parent / Student

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lightweight Text Editor free?
Lightweight Text Editor costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ELAPIZ Parent / Student free?
ELAPIZ Parent / Student is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lightweight Text Editor or ELAPIZ Parent / Student have ads?
Neither Lightweight Text Editor nor ELAPIZ Parent / Student shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lightweight Text Editor or ELAPIZ Parent / Student?
Lightweight Text Editor ships an update every 26 months, and ELAPIZ Parent / Student monthly. Most recently, Lightweight Text Editor was updated on October 20, 2026 and ELAPIZ Parent / Student on October 19, 2026.

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