Comparison

Keka vs TextPad

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

Head to head
About

Keka

This app allows you to compress and encrypt files for secure storage and sharing. It also supports browsing and extracting a wide variety of compressed file formats, including encrypted and encoded archives.

Highlights
  • Compress files in multiple formats
  • Encrypt files for secure sharing
  • Extract various archive formats
  • Support for 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, and more
  • Handle encrypted and encoded archives
Features
Currently charting
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Keka is a full featured file archiver, as easy as it can be. With Keka you can compress as many files as you want in a bunch of formats. You can also encrypt them to store and share securely and with privacy. Keka can also browse and extract lots of compressed files, from ZIP and 7Z to RAR archives. Whether they are encrypted or encoded in with old charsets this is not a problem for Keka. Compression formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, TAR, ZSTD, GZIP, BZIP2 and AppleArchive (AAR) Extraction formats supported: 7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, AAR, XZ, ZSTD, ISO, LZMA, EXE, CAB, MSI, PAX, JAR, APK, APPX, XPI, IPA, CPGZ, CPIO, XIP, CPT and many more Terms of Use: https://www.keka.io/termsofuse

About

TextPad

Features
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TextPad is a plaintext-first notebook for people who want clean text without formatting surprises. Write notes, drafts, lists, snippets and journal entries in a simple monospaced editor. Paste formatted text into TextPad and keep only the characters. Copy text out and it leaves as plain text, ready for email, messages, documents, code editors or anywhere else you need it. TextPad is built for focused writing with useful tools close at hand: • Create multiple plaintext notes. • Pin the ones you use regularly. • Mark important notes as read-only. • Dictation mode for creating notes quickly by voice • Password-protect sensitive notes. • Plaintext-only copy and paste. • Monospaced editor for clean, readable text • Undo, copy, share and duplicate • Sort lines, deduplicate lines, trim spaces and remove emoji • Version history for restoring older note contents • iCloud sync support TextPad is ideal when you want the simplicity of a classic notepad, with modern tools for privacy, cleanup, search, dictation and note management. No rich text. No hidden formatting. Just clean plaintext.

Screenshots

Keka4 screens
TextPad3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TextPad at weekly against Keka's every 2 months. Keka's advantage is chart position (#119 vs unranked). On price, 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

Keka costs $3.99 and TextPad $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Keka ships an update every 2 months, TextPad weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Keka versus TextPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKekaTextPad
Price$3.99$3.99
Rating4.8 (163 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings163 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#119 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJorge Garcia ArmeroApp Anthology

Bugs and requests

Keka

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Occasional decryption failures
  • Compression fails when using the share button
  • Background tasks fail when resuming
  • Permission to access files reappears after being revoked
  • Cannot decompress .part files
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  • Cannot decompress .tar.gz files
  • Cannot decompress LZ4 files
  • Windows compatibility issues with character encoding
  • Removal of .7z AES256 encryption support
  • Inability to decompress external split archives
  • Extraction failed errors reported by some users
  • Compression fails for large numbers of files
  • Permission bug: permission reappears after revoking

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add support for .tar.gz decompression
  • Add support for .part files
  • Add option to name archives before compression
  • Add ability to compress multiple folders at once
  • Add ability to add files to existing compressed files
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  • Add option to delete compressed file after compression
  • Add option to view documents without creating a copy
  • Add password confirmation fields
  • Add testing of archives for integrity
  • Add support for LZ4 file decompression
  • Add support for splitting archives on iOS (like macOS)
  • Add Chinese language support
  • Improve German translation quality
  • Clarify location of 'keka folder'

TextPad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Keka

No in-app purchases

None

TextPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Keka free?
Keka costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TextPad free?
TextPad costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Keka or TextPad have ads?
Neither Keka nor TextPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Keka or TextPad?
Keka ships an update every 2 months, and TextPad weekly. Most recently, Keka was updated on October 18, 2026 and TextPad on October 16, 2026.

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