Only Text Editor vs Find&Replace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Only Text Editor
A minimalist text editor for iOS that prioritizes simplicity and speed. It allows users to view and edit plain text files without any formatting distractions, offering a clean writing experience with customizable typography and seamless integration with the Files app.
- Pure plain text editing
- Zero clutter interface
- Customizable typography
- Modern iOS integration
- Lightweight and fast performance
- iCloud Drive support
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Meet Only Text, a stripped-down text editor for iOS that brings back the simplicity of classic text editing. Inspired by the beloved, no-nonsense text editors of the past, Only Text focuses entirely on doing one thing perfectly: letting you view and edit plain text files. No markdown formatting, no color-coding, and no distractions. Just your words. Key Features: * Pure Plain Text - Seamlessly open, view, and save plain text files from your device, iCloud Drive, or anywhere else the Files app can reach. * Save Exactly Where You Want - When you create a new document, nothing is written to disk until you choose to save it at which point you pick the destination yourself, whether that's iCloud Drive, On My iPhone, or another location entirely. * Never Lose Your Work - Existing documents save continuously as you type. If Only Text is ever interrupted before you've saved a brand-new document, it's offered back to you the next time you open the app. * Zero Clutter - No complex toolbars, formatting menus, or markdown to learn. The interface gets out of your way so you can focus on writing. * Built-in Search - Quickly find text within long documents without leaving the editor. * Custom Typography - Enjoy the beautiful, monospaced Iosevka Curly Slab font set as the default, switch to your device's system font, or pick any custom font installed on your device with adjustable sizing to match your taste. * Adaptive Light & Dark Themes - Follow the system appearance or choose your own; the whole app, including documents already open, updates instantly. * Share & Print - Send a document to any app, or print it directly, right from the editor. * Modern iOS Integration - Built natively for iOS to ensure smooth performance, fast load times, and perfect integration with the Files app. * Lightweight & Fast - Opens instantly. Perfect for quick notes, writing code snippets, or keeping track of your thoughts on the go. Only Text is free to use, with no ads and no subscriptions. If you enjoy it, you can leave an optional tip to support future updates.
Find&Replace
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-Find&Replace -Rename files/folders alongside your finding and replacing! -Plain text, make case-sensitive -RegularExpressions, 'Insert Pattern' style tokens. -Customizable highlighting colors for both general matches in a file, and specific instances you're examining at the moment. -Intelligent Parsing analyzes your files and detects patterns in them, allowing you to see what the two files are missing from each other, or what are different, so you can drag a block of code over to the desired file instantly, if you have a large enum, and a specific element you like in an alternate implementation you can instantly carry that over flawlessly. The search regular expressions features a user friendly TextEdit style, ("Insert Pattern") as well as advanced, called Tokens & Regex, Respectively., Between lets you set specific anchors, replace the anchors themselves with something else, and even extract that section to a new file. The log truncation capabilities of 'collapse' is also very valuable, run it to clean up a file with a bunch of noise, A log or something else repeating many times can be an important bit of information, however you don't need the log to physically be 10x the size when you can replace with something like "$1\nThis error is repeated $count times" and it beautifully shrinks your log or file by taking out that repeated text!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Find&Replace at none against Only Text Editor's 2. On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Only Text Editor sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Find&Replace asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Only Text Editor | Find&Replace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Randy Tjahjono | Inspirationull |
In-app purchases
Only Text Editor
- Tip$0.99
- Slightly Larger Tip$1.29
Find&Replace
No in-app purchases
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