Comparison

iDepth NDI vs Text Editor

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

Head to head
About

iDepth NDI

This app captures depth data using a LiDAR sensor and streams it in real-time via NDI. It's designed for media artists and computer musicians to control multimedia content with depth information.

Highlights
  • LiDAR depth scanning
  • Real-time NDI streaming
  • Color and depth image output
  • Multimedia content control
  • Cross-device compatibility
Features
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An application scans depth using a LiDAR sensor and sends it through NDI. You can receive the NDI sources(color and depth image) from any device in real time. This application is for media artists and computer musicians to control multimedia content. Note: Depth capturing functionality requires an A12 Bionic processor(or later) and LiDAR sensor.

About

Text Editor

A professional code and text editor for developers, students, and creators. It offers fast performance, extensive language support, and advanced editing features for a smooth and reliable coding experience on Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Professional code and text editing
  • Fast and lightweight performance
  • Tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting
  • Smart autocomplete and code suggestions
  • Built-in snippets for popular languages
  • Format code with Prettier
  • 30+ professionally designed themes
Features
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Text Editor is a fast, modern, and powerful code editor built for developers, students, and creators who want a professional coding experience on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Write, edit, and manage code with support for many popular programming, scripting, and markup languages all in one lightweight and easy-to-use editor. Whether you are building websites, editing configuration files, writing scripts, learning programming, or taking technical notes, Text Editor provides a smooth and reliable workspace designed for productivity. Supported Languages: Swift, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, Perl, Bash, SQL, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JSON, JSON5, YAML, TOML, Markdown, Astro, Regex, Elixir, Haskell, Plain Text, and many more. Features: - Professional code and text editing - Fast and lightweight performance - Tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting - Smart autocomplete and code suggestions - Built-in snippets for popular languages - Context-aware suggestions with fuzzy matching - Auto-close brackets, quotes, and tags - Find and replace - Go to line - Undo and redo support - Duplicate and move lines quickly - Advanced keyboard editing controls - Format code with Prettier - Support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, YAML, Markdown, and PHP formatting - Adjustable tab width, line length, quote style, trailing commas, prose wrap, and more - Beautiful built-in light and dark themes - 30+ professionally designed themes included - Popular themes inspired by One Dark Pro, Dracula, Monokai, Solarized, Nord, GitHub Dark, Tokyo Night, Material, Paper, and more - Import and export custom themes - App-wide adaptive color scheme - Fully customizable keyboard accessory bar - Quick access coding symbols and actions - Powerful editing actions including indent, outdent, duplicate lines, move lines, and cursor navigation - Searchable advanced font picker with support for custom fonts - Adjustable font size, line height, and letter spacing - Multiple text encodings with automatic detection - Choose between UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more encodings - Line ending detection and preservation (LF and CRLF) - Enable or disable auto-correction - Enable or disable auto-capitalization - Enable or disable spell-checking - Hardware keyboard shortcuts for save, find, format, comments, and navigation - Auto-save and unsaved changes protection - Native Files app integration - Open, edit, and share files easily - Share Sheet support - Print documents directly from the app - Optimized for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro Built for Productivity: Text Editor is designed to help you stay focused with a clean interface, responsive performance, and powerful developer tools that make coding easier anywhere. Perfect for web development, mobile app development, backend scripting, configuration editing, Markdown writing, learning programming, technical notes, and everyday text editing. Simple enough for beginners. Powerful enough for professional developers.

Screenshots

iDepth NDI3 screens
Text Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: iDepth NDI at 100% against Text Editor's 0%. iDepth NDI also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Text Editor's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months). On 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

Text Editor is free to download; iDepth NDI costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iDepth NDI ships an update every 9 months, Text Editor monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
iDepth NDI versus Text Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriDepth NDIText Editor
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—22 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGwangyu LeeDevashy Rangpariya

Customer experience

iDepth NDI

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Text Editor

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

iDepth NDI

No in-app purchases

None

Text Editor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iDepth NDI free?
iDepth NDI costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text Editor free?
Text Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iDepth NDI or Text Editor have ads?
Neither iDepth NDI nor Text Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iDepth NDI or Text Editor?
iDepth NDI ships an update every 9 months, and Text Editor monthly. Most recently, iDepth NDI was updated on October 30, 2026 and Text Editor on October 31, 2026.

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