Comparison

Large Text vs Daily Canvas

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

Head to head
About

Large Text

Transform your device's widgets into dynamic text displays. Easily showcase quotes, notes, or reminders with adaptive font scaling and full color customization. Shake your device to instantly flash vibrant text and background combinations.

Highlights
  • Adaptive font scaling
  • Full font style customization
  • Vibrant text and background colors
  • Home screen widget support
  • Shake to flash color feature
Features
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Introducing Your Text Display App – Make Your Words Stand Out! Transform your iPhone and iOS widgets into dynamic text displays with our innovative app. Whether you need to display a powerful quote, a quick note, or an important reminder, this app makes it seamless and visually appealing. Key Features: Adaptive Font Scaling: No matter how many words you type, the app intelligently adjusts the font size to fill your screen perfectly. Full Customization: Choose from a variety of font styles to match your mood or message. Vibrant Personalization: Customize text and background colors to create eye-catching displays that suit your needs. Widget Support: Display large, clear text directly on your home screen widgets for quick viewing at a glance. Perfect for creating standout messages, enhancing productivity, and personalizing your device with ease. Let your words take center stage! Shake to Flash: Shake your device to instantly flash the text color and background color in vibrant, eye-catching combinations. Perfect for grabbing attention at airports, rocking out at concerts, or just having fun! Make your message impossible to miss with this playful and dynamic feature.

About

Daily Canvas

Discover a new masterpiece from world museums daily, displayed on your devices. Explore art history and save favorites without ads or tracking. Upgrade for advanced features like unlimited shuffles and custom cropping.

Highlights
  • Daily curated artwork
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Artist biographies and context
  • Favorites and history browsing
  • Family-friendly filter
  • Wallpaper and widget integration
  • Ad-free and private
Features
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A new masterpiece, every morning. Daily Canvas brings one hand-picked painting from the world's great museums to your devices each day, framed for your Lock Screen, Home Screen widgets, Apple Watch face, Mac desktop and Apple TV. No feeds, no noise. Just one quietly extraordinary work of art to start your day. Every painting comes from the open-access collections of institutions like the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Statens Museum for Kunst: more than 2,700 masterpieces, each with the story behind it. ONE PAINTING A DAY • A curated work every morning, chosen to be worth looking at • The same painting on all your devices, in sync • Artist biographies, dates and context with every piece • Browse your history and save your favorites • A family-friendly filter, on by default EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK • iPhone and iPad: set the daily art as your wallpaper with a one-time Shortcuts automation • Widgets: the day's painting on your Home Screen, Lock Screen and StandBy • Apple Watch: today's art on your wrist, and a Photos watch face that changes daily • Mac: the painting becomes your desktop, refreshed automatically, with a menu bar view • Apple TV: a full-screen gallery that turns your TV into fine art QUIETLY PRIVATE • No account and no sign-up • Your favorites and history live in your own iCloud; we never see them • No ads, no tracking, and your data is never sold DAILY CANVAS PRO Daily art, wallpaper setup, widgets, favorites, history and cross-device sync are free. Pro adds unlimited shuffles, search across the full collection and the custom crop editor. Choose monthly or yearly; new subscribers get a one-week free trial. Subscription terms: Daily Canvas Pro renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and renewals are charged within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://dailycanvasapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://dailycanvasapp.com/terms

Screenshots

Large Text4 screens
Daily Canvas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Daily Canvas at 5.0 against Large Text's 4.5. Daily Canvas also leads on device support (5 vs 2). Large Text's advantage is ratings volume (60 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Large Text sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Daily Canvas sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Daily Canvas holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Large Text has 60 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Large Text versus Daily Canvas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLarge TextDaily Canvas
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (60 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings60 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB49 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer娜 张Joseph Lint

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Large Text

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
2 purchases

Daily Canvas

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Large Text free?
Large Text is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Canvas free?
Daily Canvas is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Large Text or Daily Canvas?
Daily Canvas is rated higher. Large Text averages 4.5 out of 5 from 60 ratings, while Daily Canvas averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Large Text or Daily Canvas have ads?
Neither Large Text nor Daily Canvas shows ads.

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