Floating Text vs InStash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Floating Text
This utility app displays text prompts that float over any other application. It helps users remember speeches or scripts by providing customizable scrolling text with adjustable speed and visual styles. The app automatically saves prompts for easy access during practice sessions.
- Floating text over any app
- Variable color prompt line
- Customizable font and background styles
- Adjustable text scrolling speed
- Prompt text list with auto-save
- Suspended focus timer
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Are you still struggling with forgetting your speech at the conference? Is it still difficult to remember vocabulary in the studio? Here is a floating text prompter that can help you reduce word forgetting and mistakes during your speech, help you remember complex document content, and avoid tense forgetting of words. Features: # Support floating display of copy on any app interface # Support variable color on the prompt line when scrolling text to improve recognition # Support multiple font colors, font sizes, background colors, and other styles # Support text scrolling speed adjustment # Support prompt text list, automatically save your prompt text during practice, easy to open # Support suspended focus time for practice If you have any questions or suggestions during use, please provide us with feedback and suggestions.
InStash
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InStash = Instant + Stash Your Mac desktop stickies, now in your pocket. THE PERFECT COMPANION If you use InStash on Mac, your sticky notes are already here — floating on your desktop at home, accessible in your pocket everywhere else. If you're new, welcome to a better way to capture thoughts. WHY INSTASH? • Instant capture — Open, type, done. No folders, no organization, no friction. • iCloud sync — Your notes flow seamlessly between Mac and iPhone. • Desktop integration — Notes created here can appear on your Mac desktop automatically. • Minimal by design — No bloat, no subscriptions, just sticky notes that work. CORE PHILOSOPHY "Capture now, organize never." Quick thoughts deserve quick tools. InStash is built for the ideas that hit you in line, in meetings, in bed at 2am — thoughts that vanish if not captured in seconds. InStash — Your ideas, instantly stashed, universally synced.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: InStash at none against Floating Text's shown. Floating Text's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Floating Text ships an update fortnightly, InStash every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Floating Text | InStash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 周桂 吴 | yifan z |
In-app purchases
Floating Text
No in-app purchases
InStash
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Floating Text or InStash have ads?
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