Comparison

Text Editor vs Claw Companion

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

Head to head
About

Text Editor

A professional code and text editor for developers, students, and creators. It offers fast performance, extensive language support, and advanced editing features for a smooth and reliable coding experience on Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Professional code and text editing
  • Fast and lightweight performance
  • Tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting
  • Smart autocomplete and code suggestions
  • Built-in snippets for popular languages
  • Format code with Prettier
  • 30+ professionally designed themes
Features
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Text Editor is a fast, modern, and powerful code editor built for developers, students, and creators who want a professional coding experience on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro. Write, edit, and manage code with support for many popular programming, scripting, and markup languages all in one lightweight and easy-to-use editor. Whether you are building websites, editing configuration files, writing scripts, learning programming, or taking technical notes, Text Editor provides a smooth and reliable workspace designed for productivity. Supported Languages: Swift, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua, Perl, Bash, SQL, HTML, CSS, SCSS, JSON, JSON5, YAML, TOML, Markdown, Astro, Regex, Elixir, Haskell, Plain Text, and many more. Features: - Professional code and text editing - Fast and lightweight performance - Tree-sitter powered syntax highlighting - Smart autocomplete and code suggestions - Built-in snippets for popular languages - Context-aware suggestions with fuzzy matching - Auto-close brackets, quotes, and tags - Find and replace - Go to line - Undo and redo support - Duplicate and move lines quickly - Advanced keyboard editing controls - Format code with Prettier - Support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, YAML, Markdown, and PHP formatting - Adjustable tab width, line length, quote style, trailing commas, prose wrap, and more - Beautiful built-in light and dark themes - 30+ professionally designed themes included - Popular themes inspired by One Dark Pro, Dracula, Monokai, Solarized, Nord, GitHub Dark, Tokyo Night, Material, Paper, and more - Import and export custom themes - App-wide adaptive color scheme - Fully customizable keyboard accessory bar - Quick access coding symbols and actions - Powerful editing actions including indent, outdent, duplicate lines, move lines, and cursor navigation - Searchable advanced font picker with support for custom fonts - Adjustable font size, line height, and letter spacing - Multiple text encodings with automatic detection - Choose between UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more encodings - Line ending detection and preservation (LF and CRLF) - Enable or disable auto-correction - Enable or disable auto-capitalization - Enable or disable spell-checking - Hardware keyboard shortcuts for save, find, format, comments, and navigation - Auto-save and unsaved changes protection - Native Files app integration - Open, edit, and share files easily - Share Sheet support - Print documents directly from the app - Optimized for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro Built for Productivity: Text Editor is designed to help you stay focused with a clean interface, responsive performance, and powerful developer tools that make coding easier anywhere. Perfect for web development, mobile app development, backend scripting, configuration editing, Markdown writing, learning programming, technical notes, and everyday text editing. Simple enough for beginners. Powerful enough for professional developers.

About

Claw Companion

This app provides a mobile interface for developers to manage self-hosted AI agent servers. Connect to gateways, monitor agent activity, manage scheduled tasks, and access agent memory and skills remotely. It offers secure credential storage and features optimized for mobile workflows.

Highlights
  • Connect to AI agent gateways
  • Monitor live agent sessions
  • Manage scheduled tasks
  • Browse agent memory and skills
  • Remote operations dashboard
  • Secure credential storage
  • Mobile-optimized workflow features
Features
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Description (paste this into App Store Connect): Claw is an iOS client for self-hosted AI agent servers, built for developers who want to stay connected to their agents, gateways, and background tasks from anywhere. Connect to your AI agent gateway, browse active sessions, start new conversations, send messages, and watch agents work in real time. Claw gives you a clean mobile interface for managing agent workflows without needing to sit at your laptop. Chat with your agents: Start and continue agent sessions from your iPhone. View message history, stream responses, send prompts, and keep track of running or idle sessions. Spectate live agent work: Monitor active agents and subagents in read-only spectator mode. Watch terminal-style activity, inspect output, and see what your agents are doing while they work. Manage gateways: Add gateways manually, connect over WebSocket or secure WebSocket, save gateway details, and reconnect quickly when your connection drops. Control scheduled tasks: View, create, rename, enable, disable, and delete scheduled cron jobs directly from the app. Browse memory and skills: Search your agent memory store, manage saved memory entries, and view skills available through your gateway. Remote operations for developers: Use Claw as a lightweight operations dashboard for connected infrastructure. Monitor remote instances, view health checks, inspect containers, run custom SSH commands, review GitHub Actions, and surface logs alerts when configured. Secure credential storage: Private keys, tokens, and credentials are stored using iOS Keychain. Pairing and device identity are handled per gateway. Built for mobile workflows: Claw supports a dark developer-focused interface, reconnect handling, push notifications, Live Activities, voice input, and iOS shortcuts so you can keep tabs on long-running agent work from your phone. Claw is designed for developers running self-hosted AI agent infrastructure who want a fast, native iOS way to control, monitor, and supervise their environment.

Screenshots

Text Editor4 screens
Claw Companion4 screens

Verdict

The call

Text Editor and Claw Companion both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Claw Companion's written reviews are positive against 0% of Text Editor's. Claw Companion also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). Text Editor's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 3). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Text Editor against 5.0 for Claw Companion. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Text Editor has 23 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Text Editor's written reviews are positive against 100% of Claw Companion's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Editor ships an update monthly, Claw Companion every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Text Editor versus Claw Companion: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText EditorClaw Companion
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (23 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDevashy RangpariyaAshton Damrel

Customer experience

Text Editor

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Claw Companion

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Text Editor

No in-app purchases

None

Claw Companion

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Text Editor free?
Text Editor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Claw Companion free?
Claw Companion is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Text Editor or Claw Companion?
Text Editor and Claw Companion are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 23 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Text Editor or Claw Companion have ads?
Neither Text Editor nor Claw Companion shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Text Editor or Claw Companion?
Text Editor ships an update monthly, and Claw Companion every 6 days. Most recently, Text Editor was updated on November 5, 2026 and Claw Companion on November 7, 2026.

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