Comparison

SnapPaste Keyboard vs TextLab

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

Head to head
About

SnapPaste Keyboard

Features
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SnapPaste is a custom keyboard that lets you save and paste text snippets instantly in any app. FEATURES (Requires SnapPaste+ Subscription): - Custom Keyboard - Access your snippets from any app - Quick Paste - Tap to paste instantly - Organize with Folders - Keep your snippets organized - Pin Favorites - Quick access to your most-used snippets - Usage Tracking - See which snippets you use most - Paste Count Options - Paste 1, 3, or 10 times with a single tap Perfect for: - Customer support replies - Frequently used messages - Email templates - Social media responses - Any text you type repeatedly SUBSCRIPTION INFO: - SnapPaste+ Weekly: $4.99/week - SnapPaste+ Monthly: $9.99/month - SnapPaste+ Yearly: $49.99/year All plans include a 3-day free trial. Full access to all features requires an active subscription. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms: https://tall-polo-b58.notion.site/Terms-Of-Use-2df966adec808085a28df24741740ac8 Privacy Policy: https://tall-polo-b58.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-2df966adec80809a9c50f5d5bfabf500

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

SnapPaste Keyboard3 screens
TextLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SnapPaste Keyboard at weekly against TextLab's every 2 weeks. TextLab's advantage is 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. SnapPaste Keyboard sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and TextLab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SnapPaste Keyboard ships an update weekly, TextLab every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SnapPaste Keyboard versus TextLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnapPaste KeyboardTextLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperErdal AsikIgor Bidenko

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SnapPaste Keyboard

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Plan$4.997 Days
  • SnapPaste+ Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Yearly Pro$49.991 Year
1 purchases

TextLab

One-time1
  • TextLab$9.99

Questions

Is SnapPaste Keyboard free?
SnapPaste Keyboard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TextLab free?
TextLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SnapPaste Keyboard or TextLab have ads?
Neither SnapPaste Keyboard nor TextLab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SnapPaste Keyboard or TextLab?
SnapPaste Keyboard ships an update weekly, and TextLab every 2 weeks. Most recently, SnapPaste Keyboard was updated on October 28, 2026 and TextLab on October 22, 2026.

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