Comparison

OWrite Pro vs PhraseX

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

Head to head
About

OWrite Pro

This app consolidates notes, plans, habits, focus timers, outdoor workouts, reminders, and important dates into a single, organized space. It helps users capture ideas, track progress on goals, and stay mindful of key events.

Highlights
  • Rich-text notes with photos and search
  • Habit tracking with streaks and targets
  • Task management with subtasks and deadlines
  • Outdoor workout recording with GPS tracking
  • Focus timer with statistics and Live Activities
  • Important date countdowns with widgets
  • Customizable reminders
Features
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OWrite Pro brings notes, plans, habits, focus, outdoor workouts, reminders, and important dates into one calm personal space. Write down what matters, take the next small step, and make room to move. Now adapted for iPhone Duo, with Screen Time controls for focus and workout statistics that include data from other apps. WRITE DOWN IDEAS WORTH KEEPING Use rich-text notes for journals, plans, excerpts, drafts, or unnamed thoughts. Add photos, style your text, search your content, restore deleted items from Trash, and turn a note into an image to save or share. BUILD HABITS AT YOUR OWN PACE Choose daily streaks or cumulative targets for reading, stretching, exercise, and more. Set dates, colors, icons, and reminders. Check in with one tap and review progress on the calendar. BREAK GOALS INTO SMALL STEPS Create tasks for long-term plans or everyday work. Set deadlines, reminders, tags, and colors. Divide a goal into scheduled subtasks with checklists and notes, then review progress in week, month, and timeline views. GO OUTSIDE AND MOVE Record outdoor runs, walks, hikes, and rides. Follow your route and live duration, distance, pace or speed, and calories. Pause or resume, mark splits, revisit workout details, and explore distance trends. Supported devices can show an active workout with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Routes need Location permission; Health data requires authorization, and heart-rate readings depend on a compatible device such as Apple Watch. FOCUS WITH INTENTION Create a focus goal and record sessions with an immersive timer. Review daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics. Follow a running timer through Live Activities on supported devices. As a goal nears completion, the timer becomes a countdown and your effort blooms into a mathematical flower. KEEP IMPORTANT DATES IN SIGHT Save birthdays, trips, anniversaries, launches, and other days worth anticipating. See countdowns and elapsed days, choose reminders and recurrence, add a photo or Live Photo, and display a selected date in the Home Screen widget. REMINDERS THAT FIT YOUR DAY Create one-time reminders or repeat them on selected weekdays, monthly, or yearly. Add notes and images, then manage reminders in one dedicated center. ONE HOME FOR YOUR LIFE See habits, tasks, recent notes, focus goals, workouts, and important dates together. Search titles, content, and tags or filter by color. Completing habit, task, and focus goals unlocks distinctive Maurer Rose achievements. DESIGNED FOR YOU OWrite supports VoiceOver, Voice Control, accessible actions and widgets, Reduced Motion, enhanced contrast, appearance choices, and 12- or 24-hour time. Data stays on your device by default, with optional iCloud sync. Protect app content with Face ID or the device passcode. OWrite Pro offers an optional lifetime purchase and auto-renewable monthly or annual subscriptions. Upgrading unlocks all Pro features. Actual prices appear on the in-app purchase screen and App Store confirmation sheet. Manage or cancel subscriptions in Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://github.com/HuangRobin/OWrite/blob/master/OWrite%20Terms%20of%20Service%20and%20Privacy%20Policy

About

PhraseX

Organize and quickly insert frequently used text into any app with a custom keyboard. Save clipboard history, capture content, and use custom scripts for text transformation. Offers core features for free with an optional Pro upgrade for enhanced functionality.

Highlights
  • Organize phrases into categories
  • Custom keyboard for quick insertion
  • Save clipboard history
  • Capture clipboard content
  • JavaScript scripting for text transformation
  • Import/export backups
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Keep the words you use every day ready to go. Save replies, email signatures, addresses, and work templates in PhraseX, then insert them with a tap from your keyboard. Organize your text, reuse copied content, and choose just the words you need for chats, email, and everyday work. SAVED PHRASES, READY TO USE Group your phrases into categories and use the PhraseX keyboard on iPhone and iPad to insert them. Pin important items, reorder them manually, and search across categories. Pin or delete multiple categories and phrases at once, or move several phrases together. REUSE YOUR CLIPBOARD HISTORY Save copied text, pin frequently used entries, and arrange them your way. Access your history from the keyboard or save an entry as a phrase in the category you choose. PICK THE WORDS YOU NEED Split a saved phrase or clipboard entry into words. On iPhone and iPad, tap or swipe across words to insert them directly into the text field. On Mac, preview your selection in the quick panel, then copy the result. TEXT TOOLS AND JAVASCRIPT Add tools from the script library to change letter case, trim extra whitespace, remove blank lines, format JSON, or insert the date and time. Write your own JavaScript to process selected text or generate new text. WIDGETS, SPOTLIGHT, AND SHORTCUTS Open common actions from Home Screen widgets or by touching and holding the app icon on iPhone and iPad. Enable Spotlight to find phrases, clipboard entries, and scripts in system search. Shortcuts actions let you get or save phrases, run scripts, and save clipboard entries. YOUR TEXT ACROSS DEVICES Enable iCloud sync for phrases, categories, text clipboard history, and scripts on iPhone, iPad, and Mac using the same iCloud account. On Mac, open the quick panel from the menu bar or a custom global keyboard shortcut, copy an item, and press Command-V in your destination app. The Mac image clipboard stays on that Mac. READ ON APPLE WATCH Send the phrases you choose from your paired iPhone to Apple Watch. Browse by category, read full text in large type, and view received content offline. You can also open the app from your watch face. MAKE IT YOURS AND BACK IT UP Adjust keyboard height, font size, and phrase previews. Import and export JSON backups. The interface supports 19 languages. Core features are free. PhraseX Pro adds higher content limits, the full built-in script library, iCloud sync, the iOS main app's privacy lock, and custom keyboard starting pages and column layouts. See the app for purchase options and pricing. BEFORE YOU START • Add the PhraseX keyboard in your iPhone or iPad settings. • On iOS, clipboard entries are captured only in permitted situations, such as when the clipboard page or the keyboard's clipboard mode is open. PhraseX does not continuously monitor the clipboard in the background. • Reading the system clipboard, saving entries as phrases, syncing directly with iCloud, and running online scripts from the keyboard require Allow Full Access. • Apple Watch receives content through your paired iPhone, not directly from iCloud. The iPhone app's privacy lock does not apply to Watch. Sync depends on network conditions and system scheduling. See the in-app guide for details. Privacy Policy: https://phrasex-legal.wtx132.com/en/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

OWrite Pro4 screens
PhraseX3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OWrite Pro at 5.0 against PhraseX's 3.0. OWrite Pro also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). PhraseX's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. OWrite Pro sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and PhraseX sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OWrite Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of OWrite Pro's written reviews are positive against 86% of PhraseX's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

OWrite Pro ships an update every 5 days, PhraseX weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
OWrite Pro versus PhraseX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOWrite ProPhraseX
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better85.7% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer琳钧 黄兴宇 吴

Customer experience

OWrite Pro

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PhraseX

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

OWrite Pro

Subscriptions4
  • OWrite Pro Monthly1 Month trial$0.991 Month
  • OWrite Pro Monthly1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • OWrite Pro Annual1 Month trial$9.991 Year
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  • OWrite Pro Annual1 Month trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • OWrite Pro Lifetime$12.99
3 purchases

PhraseX

Subscriptions2
  • PhraseX Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • PhraseX Pro Yearly$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • PhraseX Pro Lifetime$12.99

Questions

Is OWrite Pro free?
OWrite Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PhraseX free?
PhraseX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, OWrite Pro or PhraseX?
OWrite Pro is rated higher. OWrite Pro averages 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while PhraseX averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do OWrite Pro or PhraseX have ads?
Neither OWrite Pro nor PhraseX shows ads.
Which is updated more often, OWrite Pro or PhraseX?
OWrite Pro ships an update every 5 days, and PhraseX weekly. Most recently, OWrite Pro was updated on November 12, 2026 and PhraseX on November 13, 2026.

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