Comparison

iText Pad vs Textwell

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

Head to head
About

iText Pad

A versatile text editor for mobile devices that allows users to write, edit, and organize multiple text documents. It supports cloud storage integration and snippet expansion for efficient content creation and management.

Highlights
  • Multi-document editing
  • Hierarchical file saving
  • Cross-device file exchange
  • Cloud storage integration (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Evernote)
  • TextExpander snippet support
  • Direct file preview
Features
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Do you want to pick favorite expressions out as you browse webpages or ebooks and store them in your notes directly? Do you want to edit a shared text between your computer and iPhone any time creative inspirations strike? That's easy with iText Pad! iText Pad is a powerful and versatile Text Editor having lots of nice features, available for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. iText Pad combines practicality with portability - that is what a Writer's Workshop should be. With iText Pad, you have all the power you expect from a full-featured multipurpose text editing program - writing and editing several text documents at a time, saving each file hierarchically in your memory, exchanging them between iPhone devices and a Mac, PC. You can email an editing text instantly, and preview webpages, ebooks, and downloaded files directly in iText Pad to utilize their texts. iText Pad also allows you to use the iCloud Drive, the Dropbox or the Evernote directly online, and supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion. We sincerely hope iText Pad will serve you well, being a good friend for your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. With iText Pad, enjoy writing flexibly anytime, anywhere!

About

Textwell

This app provides a distraction-free writing environment for various tasks like jotting notes, messaging, and blogging. It offers customizable actions for text processing and automatically saves content history, syncing across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free plain text writing
  • Customizable JavaScript actions for text manipulation
  • Automatic content saving and history search
  • iCloud syncing across Mac, iPhone, and iPad
  • Text routing to other apps and services
  • Character, word, and line count
Features
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Textwell is a multipurpose textbox which can be used for any writing tasks such as jotting, messaging, blogging, searching, posting, and so on. For the simplicity, Textwell doesn't have features for styling text or managing multiple notes, but it is always ready to start writing instead, and the bunch of customizable actions can process your text in unlimited ways. Actions can be modified and created by yourself with JavaScript. Textwell is like a single sheet of paper, but it automatically saves current content by appropriate timing as history, so that you can search and take it back some time later. Also, current note content, actions, and history items are automatically synced with other devices including Mac, iPhone, and iPad via iCloud. Textwell allows you to - Simply write and read on a plain text field without any functional complexity or visual clutter. - Route your text to other apps or services such as Email, Messages, Maps, Reminders, Google Search, and more, by choosing one from the action list. Actions are customizable with JavaScript. - Modify your text by using actions such as searching/replacing words, inserting specific characters, reordering paragraphs/lines, time-stamping, location-stamping, changing cases, adding bullets, URL-encoding/decoding, escaping/unescaping HTML, and more. - Preview HTML or markdown by also using actions. - Search and restore previous content from the automatic history. - Share current note, actions, and history items with other devices including Mac, iPhone, and iPad automatically via iCloud. - Check numbers of characters, words, and lines. - Use "Textwell" Widget. - Use "Open" and "Open as Blank" Lock Screen Widgets (iPhone). - Use "Textwell" share extension. - Use "Add to Textwell" action extension. - Use "Textwell" iMessage app. - Change font size, line space, and some behaviors is Settings app. Follow @textwell on Twitter to keep in touch.

Screenshots

iText Pad4 screens
Textwell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iText Pad at 3.5 against Textwell's 3.3. iText Pad also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

iText Pad costs $2.99 and Textwell $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iText Pad holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of iText Pad's written reviews are positive against 58% of Textwell's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iText Pad ships an update every 2 months, Textwell every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
iText Pad versus Textwell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriText PadTextwell
Price$2.99$2.99
Rating3.5 (6 ratings) — better3.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews52.5% of reviews57.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings66
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLIGHT,WAY.Sociomedia

Customer experience

iText Pad

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive52.5%
Neutral21.3%
Negative26.2%

Textwell

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive57.8%
Neutral14.1%
Negative28.1%

In-app purchases

None

iText Pad

No in-app purchases

None

Textwell

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iText Pad free?
iText Pad costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Textwell free?
Textwell costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iText Pad or Textwell?
iText Pad is rated higher. iText Pad averages 3.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Textwell averages 3.3 from 6 ratings.
Do iText Pad or Textwell have ads?
Neither iText Pad nor Textwell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iText Pad or Textwell?
iText Pad ships an update every 2 months, and Textwell every 3 months. Most recently, iText Pad was updated on September 30, 2026 and Textwell on September 28, 2026.

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