CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method vs Clean Text
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method
This app digitizes the centuries-old grid drawing technique, allowing artists to easily copy, enlarge, or reduce reference images. It offers flexible grids, smart tools, and various filters to enhance accuracy and detail, making it accessible for beginners and experienced artists alike.
- Flexible grid types and customization
- Smart zoom and digital ruler
- Pencil sketch and onion skin filters
- Import/export via camera and sharing
- Universal app for iPhone, iPad, Mac
- Adjustable zoom and media sizes
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First released in 2010, CopyIt is the original and most feature‑rich grid drawing app. Trusted by artists, teachers, and students worldwide, CopyIt brings the centuries‑old grid drawing technique into the digital age, making it easier than ever to copy, enlarge, or reduce reference images with precision. Why CopyIt? The grid method, used by masters like Leonardo da Vinci, breaks images into manageable sections so you can focus on lines and shapes square by square. CopyIt eliminates the need to print and mark up photos, offering zoom, filters, and digital tools that enhance accuracy and detail. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced artist, CopyIt helps you achieve results with confidence. Key Features • Universal App: Works on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Silicon Macs • Flexible Grids: 6 grid types, customisable rows/columns, adjustable colors, transparency, and guidelines • Smart Tools: SmartMove zoom, Target mode, digital ruler, perspective lines, Crosshair, MixMap and TubeMatch™ for colour matching • Filters & Effects: Pencil Sketch, Onion Skin overlay, flips, rotations, and multiple image aspects • Import & Export: Capture with front/back cameras, load projects or albums, save and share via AirDrop, email, or social platforms • Customization: Portrait/landscape orientation, fullscreen mode, adjustable zoom (x1–x20), media sizes in imperial/metric • Support: In‑app help and a new tutorial Designed for Success CopyIt transforms the traditional grid method into a modern workflow tool. By working square by square, you can scale images accurately, refine details, and build confidence in your drawing skills. Connect with us: • Facebook: facebook.com/CopyItTheGridDrawingMethod Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Clean Text
This app helps you edit, correct, and organize text quickly. It offers tools to fix formatting issues, standardize content, and improve readability for various writing tasks. Leverage AI-powered features and powerful search and replace for efficient text management.
- Fix formatting issues from various sources
- Remove empty lines, extra spaces, and unwanted characters
- Standardize content with a single tap
- Integrates Apple Writing Tools for correction and summarization
- Powerful find and replace with real-time highlighting
- Access recent texts and reuse transformations
- Seamless cross-device integration via iCloud
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Clean Text helps you edit, correct, and organize text quickly and reliably, making everyday writing tasks easier. It’s designed for anyone who works with text: writers, students, developers, marketers, and anyone who copies and pastes content between different apps. From fixing formatting issues to preparing clean, readable text for emails, documents, websites, and social posts, Clean Text keeps your work consistent and well organized. Complete Text Cleanup Clean Text solves the most common formatting problems that appear when copying text from emails, PDFs, web pages, or chat messages. Remove empty lines, extra spaces, tabs, unwanted characters, smart quotes, or line breaks in seconds. A rich set of cleanup tools lets you standardize content with a single tap, making even the messiest text immediately usable. Editing with Apple Writing Tools Clean Text supports Apple Writing Tools, integrating them alongside all the classic text cleaning and formatting features. You can use them to correct, rewrite, summarize, and improve your text directly in the app. AI-based features are always optional and are only activated when you choose to use them. Powerful Find and Replace Real-time search instantly highlights all matches in the text, making it easy to locate words, phrases, or patterns even in long documents. Options like Case Sensitive and Whole Word give you precise control, while the live preview makes replacements safe and reliable. Recent Texts and Smart History Quickly access recently copied texts and reuse previously applied transformations to speed up repetitive workflows. Seamless Cross-Device Integration Thanks to iCloud, you can start working on iPhone or iPad and instantly find your text on your other devices. Recent changes are always available, with no manual steps required. Designed for iOS and iPadOS Clean Text integrates naturally with the system: • Dark Mode support • iPad multitasking • External keyboards and shortcuts • Context menus and system integrations Key Features: • Smart Clean and Clean & Compact • Clean clipboard content without pasting • Fix spaces, lines, and paragraphs • Convert tabs, spaces, and quotation marks • Text case conversion (uppercase, lowercase, title case, sentence case) • Indentation tools and line numbering • Line sorting and reordering • Encoding and decoding (URL, Base64, ROT13) • Convert HTML to plain text • Creative text transformations • Text statistics (characters, words, lines) • Find and replace with real-time highlighting • Regular expression support • Ignore List to protect specific words • Shortcuts and automation support Clean Text for iPhone and iPad is aligned with the macOS version in features and behavior, delivering a consistent experience across platforms with over 100 text transformation actions. AI Features Note AI-based features are separate from traditional tools and are never applied automatically. Apimac continues to independently develop and improve all classic text cleaning and formatting features. Subscriptions and Purchases With the purchase you unlock all the app’s core features. In addition, subscribers benefit from continuous improvements, new features, and regular updates delivered to the app over time. Plans available: • Monthly subscription: 1-month free trial, then automatically renews at the monthly price • Annual subscription: 1-month free trial, then automatically renews at the annual price • Lifetime purchase: one-time payment with unlimited access to all features and continuous improvements Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.apimac.com/about/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Clean Text at Free against CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method's $19.99. CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Clean Text is free to download; CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method costs $19.99 up front. CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Clean Text sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method against 4.6 for Clean Text. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 296 and 205 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method's written reviews are positive against 60% of Clean Text's.
CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method ships an update every 5 weeks, Clean Text every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method | Clean Text |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (296 ratings) — better | 4.6 (205 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 79.7% of reviews — better | 60.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 296 — better | 205 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nigel Green | Apimac |
Customer experience
CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method
Clean Text
User reviews
CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method
From 296 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for artists and painters
- 🚀 Accurate grid placement and sizing
- 💡 Variety of grid and image manipulation features
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 👍 Saves projects for later use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches, especially when switching between projects
- 🔒 Limited customization options for grid size and layout
- 🔒 Difficulty resizing and positioning the image within the grid
Clean Text
From 205 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Indispensable utility
- 🚀 Efficient text cleaning
- 👍 Easy to use
- 💡 Powerful text manipulation
- 👍 Saves significant time
Room to improve
- 😞 Retroactive paywall for existing features
- 😞 Forced subscription model
- 😞 Expensive subscription/lifetime price
- 😞 Removed functionality for past purchasers
- 😞 Restore purchase not working (initially)
Bugs and requests
CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method
Reported bugs
3 issues- Grid lines not aligning properly when rotating the image
- App locking up or crashing when switching between projects
- Inconsistent behavior when resizing the grid or image
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to save multiple projects at once
- More grid size and layout options
- Improved image resizing and positioning tools
- Onion skin mode improvements
- Faster performance and reduced crashes
Clean Text
Reported bugs
6 issues- Restore purchase not working for past purchasers
- App crashes when using functions
- Input text turns white in Dark Mode
- Caret (^) for beginning of line in regex search fails
- App closes when trying a simple search
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- Slide over doesn't display copy all
Requested features
13 requests- Bring back text sync between iPhones
- Customizable toolbar
- Optional iOS spell checker
- Support for parameters in shortcuts
- Create cleaning presets
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- Apply presets via Shortcuts/share sheet
- Apply presets via keyboard shortcuts (iPad)
- Auto-convert based on last edit
- Customizable clipboard cleaning
- Convert from share menu from any app
- Highlight line with caret
- Ability to add often used UTF characters
- Change fonts and colors independently
In-app purchases
CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method
- CopyIt Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- CopyIt Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- CopyIt Lifetime$29.99
Clean Text
- Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime License$49.99
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