Outline Memo vs iWriters
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Outline Memo
This app helps you create structured memos with a hierarchical outline format. Easily edit notes using swipe gestures and drag-and-drop functionality. It supports exporting to Notion and email, with options for customization and backup.
- Hierarchical outline creation
- Drag-and-drop paragraph movement
- Swipe-based hierarchy changes
- Export to Notion and email
- Dropbox backup and restore
- Customizable background and text colors
- Password protection
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Outline Memo is an outline processor that allows you to easily create memos with a hierarchical structure. It is perfect for creating lengthy texts, essays, specifications, and more. You can edit your notes with simple swipe actions and drag-and-drop operations. == Main Features == * Create text as paragraphs * Move paragraphs with drag-and-drop * Change hierarchy with swipe operations * Insert contents from other memos * Undo insertions * Specify background and text colors * Backup and restore to Dropbox * Newly added export to Notion functionality * Send emails in text or OPML format * Protect contents with password settings * Categorize with "tags" * Search by color pattern * Sort memos by name or creation date * Move paragraphs to another memo * Copy memos * Copy paragraphs * Copy hierarchy
iWriters
This text editor allows you to create, edit, and manage multiple documents across cloud services like Dropbox and Evernote. It offers robust editing tools, synchronization capabilities, and flexible text formatting options for seamless workflow on iOS devices.
- Multi-document editing
- Cloud sync (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Evernote)
- TextExpander snippet expansion
- Search and Replace with regex
- Customizable text settings
- File encoding and newline code support
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iWriters is the text editor of the free application. iWriters supports the iCloud Drive, the Dropbox and the Evernote. Do you want to edit a shared text between your computer and iPhone any time creative inspirations strike? That's easy with iWriters! iWriters is a powerful and versatile Text Editor having lots of nice features, available for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. iWriters combines practicality with portability - that is what a Writer's Workshop should be. With iWriters, 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 iOS devices and a Mac, PC, or other devices. You can email an editing text instantly. iWriters also allows you to use the iCloud Drive, the Dropbox or the Evernote directly online, and supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion. We sincerely hope iWriters will serve you well, being a good friend for your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. With iWriters, enjoy writing flexibly anytime, anywhere! [iWriters Features] * Create, open, edit, and modify multiple text documents in parallel, and save each one hierarchically in your memory. * Writing and editing are so natural - using just your fingers, and the standard onscreen keyboard and spell checker, and autocapitalize sentences help you write. Buttons like a keyboard's arrow keys do come in mighty handy to move an editing cursor to the left and the right. * For a closer look, zoom in a text up to 500% by pinching out. * Capable of both landscape and portrait. * Supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion. * Send any currently open text, or part of this text directly from iWriters via email. * Save, open, and sync files onto/from/with the iCloud Drive, the Dropbox Server and the Evernote directly in iWriters. * You can sync iWriters text files to a Mac or PC manually in iTunes. * The left edge of the screen is useful. Jump to a particular line by tapping, or scroll up or down very quickly by dragging. * With a few taps, change the selection to uppercase, lower case, or capitalize, or also change it to double width or the normal width. * Search & Replace. Search the current text or all files for any word or phrase including diacritic letters. You can search for a text with the Regular Expression as well. * A variety of text settings. Select which best suits your editing - the text style, including the font, size, color, adjustment, margins, etc. * Keep the file-compatibility while exchanging files between a Mac, PC, or other devices. You can save all the files remaining their character encodings and New Line codes as you opened each file. * Choose any you want from LF, CRLF, or CR to the return code, and from ASCII, UTF-8, Western (Windows-1252), or Western (Mac OS Roman) to the character encoding. * Browse the statistics for the whole text or the current selection, including the number of characters, words, paragraphs, and indicate the line numbers. * Change the overall look of iWriters by choosing each of the appearance, including the background color, ruled line, and Navigation bar.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iWriters at 4.0 against Outline Memo's 2.5. iWriters also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Outline Memo's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 17 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Outline Memo sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. iWriters asks for nothing beyond the download.
iWriters holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Outline Memo's written reviews are positive against 67% of iWriters's.
Outline Memo ships an update every 2 months, iWriters every 17 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Outline Memo | iWriters |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 4.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yuji Fujishiro | LIGHT,WAY. |
Customer experience
Outline Memo
iWriters
In-app purchases
Outline Memo
- search memo content by key word$0.99
- unlock memo count limit$2.99
iWriters
No in-app purchases









