DEVONthink To Go 4 vs TextExpander
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DEVONthink To Go 4
Manage your entire knowledge library on your iPad and iPhone. Organize, edit, and annotate documents, notes, and more. Leverage generative AI for summaries, content creation, and advanced search. Syncs privately and securely across devices.
- Document organization and management
- AI-powered summaries and content creation
- PDF annotation and editing
- On-device OCR for searchable documents
- Cross-device secure synchronization
- Custom metadata and tagging
- Shortcuts automation
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Your entire knowledge library. Always with you. Always private. DEVONthink To Go is your document repository when you're not at your Mac. Collect, organize, edit, and annotate. Use generative AI to work with your stored knowledge or create new documents. Automate with Shortcuts. Our time-tested technology keeps all your data in sync between your Mac, iPad, and iPhone, privately and securely. The professional document and information manager for iPad and iPhone. From DEVONtechnologies, driving innovation since 2002. - Students: Annotate research papers with AI-powered summaries - Teachers: Organize your materials, use AI to create handouts and tests - Researchers: Have your data with you in a robust, powerful knowledge manager - Lawyers: Keep all case files organized and encrypted Have your important documents with you at all times: - Never lose an important document again, keep everything organized - Store PDFs, notes, images, bookmarks, just about any type - File your documents in groups, even more than one group at a time - Use tags, mark documents with flags or as unread, give them a star rating - Versioning lets you return to a previous state of a document - Revision-proof databases prevent edits to documents with special requirements - Sync your data between Macs, iPads, and iPhones, securely and privately Work with your documents: - Edit texts, Markdown files, or rich text documents - Annotate and edit PDFs with common tools - Make scans, scanned PDFs, or images searchable with the built-in, on-device OCR - Add custom, searchable metadata fields to enrich your documents Use generative AI: - Work with your favorite provider and model - Chat with your documents, analyze or summarize them - Transform text or extract text from images and even handwritten notes - Create new images from your data - Find documents using natural language with the AI-powered search assistant - Let the AI make order from chaos, rename documents, add tags, or label or rate them DEVONthink To Go is well-integrated with other apps: - Link to your documents from other apps with universal links - Access all your documents also through the Files app - Clip data from almost any app with the Clip to DEVONthink extension - Use drag-and-drop, inside DEVONthink To Go or between apps - Automate repetitive tasks with Shortcuts actions DEVONthink To Go is great standalone but also works perfectly with DEVONthink for Mac and across multiple devices. Synchronize your databases securely and privately over the local network or through a cloud service of your choice. You decide what data is synced, when, and where. Strong encryption makes sure that your data belongs to you, not to your service provider or us. Privacy policy: https://www.devontechnologies.com/r/privacy End user license agreement: https://www.devontechnologies.com/r/eula
TextExpander
Access your saved text snippets and expand them instantly across any app on your iPhone and iPad. This keyboard app offers features like autocorrect, emoji search, and swipe typing, making it easier to input frequently used phrases, addresses, or links.
- Instant text expansion via custom abbreviations
- Customizable keyboard with swipe typing
- Emoji search and suggestions
- Autocorrect and long-press for accented characters
- Snippet suggestions in the suggestion strip
- Fill-ins for dynamic snippet content
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Your TextExpander snippets, on your iPhone and iPad. Sign in with your TextExpander account to access your snippet library at your fingertips. Type ";addr" to expand to your mailing address. Type "zcal" to expand to a link to your schedule / availability. You can type it in Messages, in Mail, in Slack, in your CRM, in your EHR. You get the idea. Your shared snippets are readily synced with the rest of your team. A KEYBOARD WITH SNIPPETS, SWIPE, EMOJI, AND AUTOCORRECT Swipe across the keys, and TextExpander now matches your path to English words and to your abbreviations. Swiped abbreviations automatically expand to their snippets. Plus you have everything else that you'd expect in a keyboard: Autocorrect, emojis (searchable by name, with skin tones, and recents), long-press for accented characters, one-handed mode, haptic feedback, and undo/redo. SNIPPETS THAT COME TO YOU Start typing, and matching snippets appear in the suggestion strip beside your word suggestions. Tap it to expand it. You never need to go looking. PERSONALIZE AND CUSTOMIZE WHAT YOU TYPE Fill-ins give superpowers to your TextExpander snippets, and they work in the app as well. Type the abbreviation, complete your fill-ins, and send. WHAT YOU NEED A TextExpander account, created at textexpander.com. Then add the keyboard in Settings and switch on Full Access (TextExpander needs this to read your abbreviations and insert your snippets). Your snippets now work everywhere you type.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TextExpander at 100% against DEVONthink To Go 4's 45%. TextExpander also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). DEVONthink To Go 4's advantage is ratings volume (242 vs 2). On price, 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. DEVONthink To Go 4 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. TextExpander asks for nothing beyond the download.
TextExpander holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DEVONthink To Go 4 has 242 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of DEVONthink To Go 4's written reviews are positive against 100% of TextExpander's.
| Parameter | DEVONthink To Go 4 | TextExpander |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (242 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 242 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 193 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DEVONtechnologies, LLC | TextExpander, Inc. |
Customer experience
DEVONthink To Go 4
TextExpander
In-app purchases
DEVONthink To Go 4
- Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Yearly1 Month trial$19.991 Year
TextExpander
No in-app purchases
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