Comparison

Text Box vs KinTerm

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

Head to head
About

Text Box

This app offers a suite of text manipulation tools, including converting text to realistic handwriting images and PDFs, repeating text, removing excess whitespace, and converting text case. It also generates placeholder text and creates social media-ready images from text.

Highlights
  • Text to handwriting converter (image/PDF)
  • Text repeater
  • Whitespace remover
  • Case converter (sentence, title, upper, lower, mixed, inverse)
  • Text to image for social media
  • Lorem Ipsum generator
Features
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Text Box is a 'all-in-one toolbox' of useful text processing utilities. All text tools are simple and easy to use. Text to Handwriting Converter : This tool made for converting texts into handwriting and downloading them as image or PDF for different handwriting font types, ink colors and papers. It looks like real handwriting on a real paper. If you need handwriting images or documents which looks real, you can use this tool. You can choose font, ink color and paper type from the list and get the handwritten output in Image and PDF format. All font families are suitable for creating handwritten texts while all has different characteristics. There are 3 ink types, black, blue, and red where all has its light and dark versions. There's over hundred sample letters for you, personal letters can be written for many reasons. It can be a difficult task to draft a letter a new every time you need to send a message. Fortunately, you can avoid this hassle by using a personal letter template. Text to Image for Social Media: Creating amazing, professional images for social media. Text Repeater: Text Repeater is your go-to app for all things repetition. Our process is simple, just add text, repeat, copy, and share! Whether you want to entertain your friends with endless emojis or drop a full-fledged text bomb, our easy-to-use app is here for all your needs. Multiple Whitespace Remover : This tool made for removing all unwanted multiple whitespaces and line breaks from a text. If you have a long text which includes many double or multiple whitespaces, unwanted multiple line breaks and untrimmed lines, this tool will make your life easier for you. Sometimes, people need to edit long texts before they publish them. If these texts have unnecessary spaces and line break. Case Converter: If you have a wrongly formatted text you want to convert it to a specific case, case converter will assist you to perform it immediately. β€’ Sentence Case: First letter of all sentences will be uppercase while remaining will be lowercase. Sentences will be identified with punctuations which ends a sentence such as dot, question mark or exclamation mark. 
 Example: "This is the first sentence. This is the second one." β€’ Title Case: First letters of each word are uppercase while remaining will be lowercase. 
Example: "This Is An Example For Title Case" β€’ Uppercase: All letters in the text will be uppercase.
 Example: "ALL LETTERS ARE IN UPPERCASE." β€’ Lowercase: All letters in the text will be lowercase. 
Example: "all letters are in lowercase." β€’ Mixed Case: It is a sequence of one letter uppercase, one letter lowercase for each word.
 Example: "OnE LeTtEr UpPeRcAsE, OnE LeTtEr LoWeRcAsE In EaCh WoRd." β€’ Inverse Case: It is a sequence of one letter lowercase, one letter uppercase for each word.
 Example: "oNe lEtTeR lOwErCaSe, oNe lEtTeR uPpErCaSe iN eAcH wOrD." Lorem Ipsum Generator : Generate Lorem Ipsum placeholder text for use in your graphic, print and web layouts, and discover plugins for your favorite writing, design and blogging ...

About

KinTerm

Features
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Going home for the holidays, a wedding banquet, a family gathering β€” and you can't remember what to call that relative. KinTerm starts from you. Tap through Father, Mother, Older Sister, Cousin... and it shows the correct Chinese kinship term right away. It also keeps your family tree, birthdays and anniversaries, a Chinese almanac, greetings and a red envelope log in one place. β–  Free β€’ Kinship term calculator Up to five levels of relatives, with the terms commonly used in Taiwan. Reverse lookup: who is "granduncle's granddaughter"? It works that out too. Shows the legal degree of kinship (Taiwan Civil Code, Article 968). β€’ Family tree (up to 5 people) Add family members and see the relationship chart. Add a profile photo or mark someone as deceased. β€’ Days Birthdays, wedding anniversaries and your own occasions together, with the next 30 days at a glance. β€’ Almanac Daily guidance, calendar, fortune and festival culture. β€’ Greetings and red envelopes Copy a festival greeting in one tap. The red envelope log keeps what you gave and received separately (up to 5 records), with suggested amounts. β–  Premium (one-time purchase, no subscription) β€’ Unlimited family tree members and red envelope records, plus export as a table β€’ Kinship terms for 7 regions: Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Hokkien, Hakka, Singapore, Malaysia β€’ 4 greeting tones, with your surname as the signature β€’ Voice reading of kinship terms (uses your phone's built-in voices; available voices depend on the device) β€’ Family tree PDF export β€’ A photo album for each family member β€’ Almanac extras: years 1900–2100, auspicious day search, monthly focus, baby naming and name matching, seasonal food, temple visits, daily fortune stick, dark theme, larger font, add to calendar β€’ Backup and moving to a new phone: backup files and automatic iCloud sync, with your data and photos together β–  Your data β€’ Your data is stored on your own phone. No sign-up, no account. β€’ A copy goes to your own iCloud only when you turn on sync or share a backup file yourself. β€’ No ads. β€’ Permissions are requested only when needed: photos are chosen through the system photo picker, which hands over only the one you pick; notifications are requested when you turn on a reminder; calendar access when you tap add to calendar. No camera, location, contacts or microphone. β€’ The kinship calculator, family tree and almanac all work on the phone, without a network connection. β–  When it helps β€’ Visiting family for the holidays β†’ check what to call everyone before you walk in β€’ Wedding gifts β†’ log who came and how much they gave β€’ Family group chat β†’ pick a greeting and copy it β€’ Introducing your partner β†’ build the family tree first and explain who is who β€’ An elder's birthday is coming β†’ see it early in Days The full privacy policy is in the app under Settings β†’ Privacy Policy. Languages: Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese

Screenshots

Text Box4 screens
KinTerm4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: KinTerm at none against Text Box's shown. Text Box's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Text Box sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and KinTerm sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Box ships an update every 4 days, KinTerm fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 6 level
Text Box versus KinTerm: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText BoxKinTerm
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews50.0% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyEvery 4 days β€” betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo β€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesβ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac β€” betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 β€” better15.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size148 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerδ½™ εΌ KUN WEI TU

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Text Box

One-time1
  • Premium Version$1.99
1 purchases

KinTerm

One-time1
  • KinTerm Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Text Box free?
Text Box is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is KinTerm free?
KinTerm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Text Box or KinTerm have ads?
Text Box shows ads; KinTerm does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Box or KinTerm?
Text Box ships an update every 4 days, and KinTerm fortnightly. Most recently, Text Box was updated on September 30, 2026 and KinTerm on October 6, 2026.

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