Raven vs Sift Text Diff
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Raven
Create, organize, and manage notes using Markdown on your Apple devices. Turn checkboxes into actionable tasks with local reminders. Your notes are stored locally, ensuring offline access and no vendor lock-in.
- Native Markdown editor
- Create notes with tables, images, code blocks
- Checkboxes to tasks with due dates
- Local reminders for tasks
- Offline access
- iCloud Drive sync
- Full-text search
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Beautiful notes. Never locked in. Raven is a native Markdown notes app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Write, journal, capture articles, and turn checkboxes into reminders—without putting your work in a proprietary note format. WRITE WITH CONTEXT Create notes with tables, images, checklists, code blocks, wiki links, and backlinks. Organize them with folders and tags, pin what matters, and find anything with full-text search. TURN NOTES INTO ACTION A checkbox can become a task with a due date and time. Raven gathers open tasks from across your notes, keeps each one linked to its source, and can send a local reminder when it is due. Complete or snooze it from the notification. JOURNAL WITHOUT ANOTHER SILO Daily and weekly journals live beside the rest of your writing. Save articles to Read Later, or capture a thought from widgets, Shortcuts, and the share sheet. MARKDOWN YOU CAN KEEP Raven works offline without an account. Keep notes on this device, choose a folder on Mac, or use iCloud Drive to keep the same Markdown files available in Files and Finder across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No proprietary note format. No forced account. One purchase, with no subscription.
Sift Text Diff
Compare two versions of any text side-by-side to quickly identify added, removed, or modified lines. Features include inline viewing, word-level highlighting, and options to ignore whitespace or case. Save comparisons locally for easy recall.
- Side-by-side diff with color coding
- Inline diff view
- Word-level highlighting
- Ignore whitespace and case
- Local archive for saved comparisons
- Quick input swapping
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Sift is a fast, focused text diff tool for writers, editors, and developers. Paste two versions of any text — drafts, code, contracts, emails, JSON — and Sift highlights every added, removed, and modified line in a clean side-by-side view. No accounts, no clutter, no upload to the cloud. KEY FEATURES • Side-by-side diff with line numbers and clear rose/sage color coding • Inline diff view that shows +/- changes in a single column • Word-level highlighting on modified lines so subtle edits stand out • Ignore whitespace and ignore case toggles for noise-free comparisons • Save useful comparisons to the local archive and recall them in one tap • Quick swap between LEFT and RIGHT inputs • One-tap clipboard paste into either editor BUILT FOR REAL WORK Whether you are reviewing a contract redline, checking a code refactor, comparing JSON payloads, or auditing a copy edit, Sift keeps the differences in front of you and the noise out of the way. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking. No network calls. All saved comparisons stay on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Raven at 57% against Sift Text Diff's 0%. Raven also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Sift Text Diff's advantage is price (Free vs $19.99) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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
Sift Text Diff is free to download; Raven costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Raven holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Raven's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sift Text Diff's.
| Parameter | Raven | Sift Text Diff |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 126 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Sivilay | Linh Phan Nhat Khanh |
Customer experience
Raven
Sift Text Diff
In-app purchases
Raven
No in-app purchases
Sift Text Diff
No in-app purchases









