Comparison

Meraki Diary vs TextLab

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

Head to head
About

Meraki Diary

Features
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Meraki Diary — Capture memories, track goals, share your journey Meraki turns life’s moments into a clean, searchable timeline. Create “tasks” with target dates, record daily memories with photos and location, stay on track with smart reminders, and share beautiful cards of your progress. Key features (Free) - Task timeline - Create tasks with target dates and tags - See remaining or passed days at a glance - Memories - Add notes with title, content, photos, and optional location - Auto-grouped by date in a smooth, scrollable timeline - Maps and location - View memories on a map and auto-focus to your latest geo-tagged memory - Reminders - Reminder time, repeat, advance alerts, and end date - Local notifications following iOS best practices - Sharing - Generate a shareable image of your task card and (optionally) recent memories - Share via the native iOS share sheet - Refined UI - Clean visual design, light-mode optimized - Fast, focused writing experience Pro features (One-time purchase) - Task Highlight: visual emphasis for important tasks - Task Icons: personalize each task with custom icons - App Lock: extra security for your notes and tasks - Export & Import Data: back up and restore across devices In‑App Purchase - Optional one‑time purchase to unlock Pro features (no subscription, no recurring charge). - Purchases are tied to your Apple ID and can be restored on new devices. Privacy - Your data stays on your device. Export/Import is user‑initiated and fully under your control. Organize goals, capture memories, and share progress—CleverNote keeps it simple, with optional Pro tools when you need more.

About

TextLab

Transform and clean text with a variety of tools. Convert cases, remove extra spaces, count words, and more. Premium features include workflows, data formatting, and advanced search.

Highlights
  • Case conversion
  • Text cleanup
  • Word counting
  • Reverse and sort text
  • JSON and data formatting
  • Regex find and replace
  • Apple Intelligence integration
Features
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TextLab is a fast text utility for iPhone and iPad. Paste any text, pick a transformation, copy the result. No setup, no signup, no clutter. Whether you write copy, ship code, edit content, or just clean up messy text from emails and documents, TextLab handles the boring parts so you do not have to. Everything runs on your device. Your text never leaves your iPhone. WHAT IT DOES • Convert case in one tap. UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, camelCase, PascalCase, snake_case, kebab-case. All the formats developers and writers actually use. • Clean up text fast. Remove extra spaces, empty lines, line breaks, duplicate words, duplicate lines. Trim whitespace. Strip rich text formatting in one tap. • Count what matters. Characters, words, lines, sentences, paragraphs, reading time. Live as you type. • Reverse, shuffle, sort. Reverse words, reverse letters, sort lines alphabetically or by length, shuffle randomly. PREMIUM TOOLS • Workflows. Chain any number of actions into a single reusable transformation. Save it, name it, give it an icon, run it on any text in one tap. Edit a workflow once, use it forever. • JSON and data formatters. Beautify or minify JSON. Format XML, HTML, YAML. Convert CSV to JSON and back with custom delimiters. Strip HTML tags. Strip Markdown. • Encoders and decoders. Base64, URL encoding, HTML entities, hex. Encode or decode in one tap. • Find and replace with regex. Full NSRegularExpression support for advanced search and replace. • Extract anything. Pull emails, links, phone numbers, dates from any block of text. Or write your own regex pattern to extract whatever you need. • Line tools. Sort lines, number lines (decimal or Roman), add prefix or suffix to every line, delete lines containing or not containing text, break lines after every word, sentence, or position. • Cleanup pro. Remove diacritics. Remove invisible Unicode characters that break text from web pages. Remove emojis. Filter words by pattern. • Markdown tools. Convert Markdown to HTML. Strip Markdown syntax to plain text. Clean Markdown formatting. • Apple Intelligence. On supported devices running iOS 26, run text through the on-device language model with your own prompt. Translate, rephrase, fix grammar, summarize. All on device. • Shortcuts integration. Every TextLab action and every workflow you create works as a Shortcuts action. Build automations, run them with a tap, a Siri command, or a Home Screen widget. • Share extension. Select text in any app, hit Share, run any TextLab action without leaving the app you are in. • iCloud sync. Your workflows follow you across iPhone and iPad. PRICING Free tier covers basic case conversion, cleanup, counters, and reverse. Genuinely useful with no time limits, no daily caps, no nags. PRIVACY TextLab does not collect any data. No analytics. No tracking. No accounts. All transformations run on your device. Your text is never sent over the internet. iCloud sync uses your private iCloud database, encrypted by Apple. WHO IT IS FOR • Developers who format JSON, debug data, convert case styles, encode tokens, test regex patterns. • Writers and journalists who clean up draft text, fix smart quotes, strip formatting, count words. • Marketers and copywriters who format headlines, generate slugs, count characters for ad copy, prepare social posts. • Students and researchers who clean up scraped text, format citations, transform data sets. • Anyone tired of pasting text into ten different websites just to fix capitalization. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Meraki Diary4 screens
TextLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: TextLab at every 2 weeks against Meraki Diary's every 6 months. TextLab also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Meraki Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and TextLab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Meraki Diary ships an update every 6 months, TextLab every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Meraki Diary versus TextLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeraki DiaryTextLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size187 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer晨波 张Igor Bidenko

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Meraki Diary

One-time1
  • Meraki PRO$2.99
1 purchases

TextLab

One-time1
  • TextLab$9.99

Questions

Is Meraki Diary free?
Meraki Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TextLab free?
TextLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Meraki Diary or TextLab have ads?
Neither Meraki Diary nor TextLab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Meraki Diary or TextLab?
Meraki Diary ships an update every 6 months, and TextLab every 2 weeks. Most recently, Meraki Diary was updated on October 24, 2026 and TextLab on October 22, 2026.

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