Text Editor vs Find&Replace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Editor
This app is a powerful text editor designed for coding and general document creation. It offers AI-powered summarization, rewriting, and translation, along with robust file management across multiple cloud storage services. Enjoy features like multi-tab editing and side-by-side file comparison.
- AI summarization, rewriting, and translation
- Multi-tab editing
- Two-pane side-by-side view
- Syntax highlighting
- Support for multiple cloud storage services
- File management and export
- Automatic backup and history restore
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PWEditor Next is a powerful text editor that lets you edit text files directly across a wide range of storage services. You can edit in real time while viewing a preview tailored to each file format. Based on the original PWEditor app, PWEditor Next has been redesigned for the latest iOS and iPadOS environments. ・Supports 10 storage types Supports local files, five cloud storage services (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and Box), and four server types (FTP, SFTP, SMB, and WebDAV). - SFTP supports username and password authentication. - WebDAV supports username and password authentication and connects over HTTP or HTTPS. ・Previews 16 file formats - Dedicated previews: PDF and images - Document formats: HTML, Markdown, and AsciiDoc - Diagram and chart formats: Mermaid, PlantUML, Graphviz, D2, and Pikchr - Tree formats: JSON, YAML, XML, and PropertyList - Table formats: CSV and TSV The 14 formats other than PDF and images also support real-time previews. For CSV and TSV, you can configure whether the file has a header row and choose the delimiter. ・Advanced editor features - Syntax highlighting - 20 languages: Arduino、Bash/Shell、C、C++、C#、Dart、GO、Java、JavaScript、Kotlin、Lua、Objective-C、PHP、Python、R、Ruby、Rust、SQL、Swift、TypeScript - 13 formats: AsciiDoc, CSS, D2, Graphviz, HTML, JSON, Markdown, Mermaid, Pikchr, PropertyList, PlantUML, XML, and YAML - Display of invisible characters (half-width spaces, full-width spaces, tabs, and line breaks) - Status information (character encoding, line endings, character count, and line count) - File path display - Line numbers - Horizontal and vertical guide lines - Auto-indentation - Symbol input, including Undo and Redo - Cursor movement - Character encoding and line ending conversion ・Multiple tabs and split-screen view Open and edit multiple files at the same time in tabs. The free plan supports up to two tabs; the Pro plan removes the tab limit. In split-screen view, you can display two files or a file and its preview side by side within a single tab. Split-screen view is available on the free plan for local files and iCloud Drive. The Pro plan is required for all other storage services. ・Three types of search - Find and replace within a file - Search for file and directory names - Search across multiple files ・File manager features - File list - Rename, copy, move, and delete files and directories - Export files - Recently opened files - Favorites ・Backup history Files are backed up before saving, before converting character encoding or line endings, and before restoring from backup history. You can use the history to restore an earlier version of a file. ・AI features Use Apple Intelligence to summarize, rephrase, and translate text. ・Other features - Switch the display language (Japanese, English, Spanish, or Chinese) - Switch between light and dark themes - Support for cloud storage sharing links - Support for files shared from other apps ・Free plan and Pro plan Basic features are available for free. The following features require the Pro plan: - More than two tabs across all storage services - Split-screen view, AI features, copy, move, and export for storage services other than local files and iCloud Drive - Search within subdirectories and search filters for some storage services ・Terms of Use (Apple’s Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Find&Replace
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-Find&Replace -Rename files/folders alongside your finding and replacing! -Plain text, make case-sensitive -RegularExpressions, 'Insert Pattern' style tokens. -Customizable highlighting colors for both general matches in a file, and specific instances you're examining at the moment. -Intelligent Parsing analyzes your files and detects patterns in them, allowing you to see what the two files are missing from each other, or what are different, so you can drag a block of code over to the desired file instantly, if you have a large enum, and a specific element you like in an alternate implementation you can instantly carry that over flawlessly. The search regular expressions features a user friendly TextEdit style, ("Insert Pattern") as well as advanced, called Tokens & Regex, Respectively., Between lets you set specific anchors, replace the anchors themselves with something else, and even extract that section to a new file. The log truncation capabilities of 'collapse' is also very valuable, run it to clean up a file with a bunch of noise, A log or something else repeating many times can be an important bit of information, however you don't need the log to physically be 10x the size when you can replace with something like "$1\nThis error is repeated $count times" and it beautifully shrinks your log or file by taking out that repeated text!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Find&Replace at none against Text Editor's 4. Find&Replace also leads on ads (none vs shown). Text Editor's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price 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. Text Editor sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Find&Replace asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Text Editor | Find&Replace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masatsugu Futamata | Inspirationull |
In-app purchases
Text Editor
- Ad-Free (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Ad-Free (Yearly)$5.991 Year
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- Pro (Yearly)$11.991 Year
Find&Replace
No in-app purchases









