Comparison

TextLab vs Text Cleanup & Copy

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

Head to head
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/

About

Text Cleanup & Copy

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Stop temporary notes from burying the important notes in your Notes app. onetext is a small text workspace for text you do not want to keep forever: paste it, clean it up, translate it, extract the useful part, and copy it to the next app. Quick drafts, chat replies, email text, AI prompts, copied web text, meeting notes, and small ideas often end up scattered inside your main notes app. onetext gives those temporary pieces of text their own place, so your real notes stay easier to find. What you can do: • Paste text and edit immediately • Clean extra spaces, blank lines, and line breaks • Extract only the paragraph or line you need • Translate cleaned text before sharing it • Copy the result quickly to another app • Check character and line counts • Clear after copying and move to the next task • Receive text from the iOS share sheet • Switch between simple focus-friendly themes onetext is not a large note database or a complex document editor. It is a lightweight temporary buffer for paste, clean, translate, copy. Use it before sending a message, drafting an email, preparing a social post, polishing an AI prompt, sharing translated text, or pulling one useful section out of a longer text. Free to use.

Screenshots

TextLab4 screens
Text Cleanup & Copy4 screens

Verdict

The call

TextLab and Text Cleanup & Copy are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. TextLab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Text Cleanup & Copy sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TextLab ships an update every 2 weeks, Text Cleanup & Copy fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
TextLab versus Text Cleanup & Copy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextLabText Cleanup & Copy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIgor Bidenkoenugo k.k.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TextLab

One-time1
  • TextLab$9.99
3 purchases

Text Cleanup & Copy

One-time3
  • OneText Pro$2.99
  • OneText Pro Mac$4.99
  • OneText Universal$5.99

Questions

Is TextLab free?
TextLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Text Cleanup & Copy free?
Text Cleanup & Copy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TextLab or Text Cleanup & Copy have ads?
Neither TextLab nor Text Cleanup & Copy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TextLab or Text Cleanup & Copy?
TextLab ships an update every 2 weeks, and Text Cleanup & Copy fortnightly. Most recently, TextLab was updated on October 31, 2026 and Text Cleanup & Copy on October 31, 2026.

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