Comparison

Textwell vs Split Screen Multitasking View

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

Head to head
About

Textwell

This app provides a distraction-free writing environment for various tasks like jotting notes, messaging, and blogging. It offers customizable actions for text processing and automatically saves content history, syncing across devices via iCloud.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free plain text writing
  • Customizable JavaScript actions for text manipulation
  • Automatic content saving and history search
  • iCloud syncing across Mac, iPhone, and iPad
  • Text routing to other apps and services
  • Character, word, and line count
Features
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Textwell is a multipurpose textbox which can be used for any writing tasks such as jotting, messaging, blogging, searching, posting, and so on. For the simplicity, Textwell doesn't have features for styling text or managing multiple notes, but it is always ready to start writing instead, and the bunch of customizable actions can process your text in unlimited ways. Actions can be modified and created by yourself with JavaScript. Textwell is like a single sheet of paper, but it automatically saves current content by appropriate timing as history, so that you can search and take it back some time later. Also, current note content, actions, and history items are automatically synced with other devices including Mac, iPhone, and iPad via iCloud. Textwell allows you to - Simply write and read on a plain text field without any functional complexity or visual clutter. - Route your text to other apps or services such as Email, Messages, Maps, Reminders, Google Search, and more, by choosing one from the action list. Actions are customizable with JavaScript. - Modify your text by using actions such as searching/replacing words, inserting specific characters, reordering paragraphs/lines, time-stamping, location-stamping, changing cases, adding bullets, URL-encoding/decoding, escaping/unescaping HTML, and more. - Preview HTML or markdown by also using actions. - Search and restore previous content from the automatic history. - Share current note, actions, and history items with other devices including Mac, iPhone, and iPad automatically via iCloud. - Check numbers of characters, words, and lines. - Use "Textwell" Widget. - Use "Open" and "Open as Blank" Lock Screen Widgets (iPhone). - Use "Textwell" share extension. - Use "Add to Textwell" action extension. - Use "Textwell" iMessage app. - Change font size, line space, and some behaviors is Settings app. Follow @textwell on Twitter to keep in touch.

About

Split Screen Multitasking View

This app allows users to view and interact with two applications or web pages simultaneously on their iPhone or iPad. It provides a split-screen experience for enhanced productivity and multitasking, offering features like a social plugin, file manager, and customizable browser.

Highlights
  • Dual split screens for simultaneous app viewing
  • Social media plugin for easy account switching
  • File manager for saving downloads and screenshots
  • Customizable split view browser
  • Left-handed user interface support
  • Page capture for full web page screenshots
Features
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Stop juggling tabs and apps on iPhone. Do 2+ things at once on your iPhone and let private on-device AI take a look at two or more panes and get you answers from across things you're doing in the app. From the original split screen browser, this parallel view app is now the multitasking you have always missed on your iPhone. Split Screen began in 2015 as the first of its kind, original split-screen browser, it went on to become the #1 utility/productivity app in 50+ countries, it also became the Top 10 in around 100 countries, including the USA, China and Japan. Version 3.0 is the leap the technology finally allows: two live panes, 40+ built-in tools, four home themes and a private, on device AI brain getting better over time.. This is the complete split screen multitasking experience for iPhone that I've always dreamed of building for you and me. TWO PAGES, ONE SCREEN • Two independent panes, read, watch, shop and research in both at once • Drag to resize, tap to swap, long-press for quick actions • Each pane keeps its own tabs, history and scroll position ON-DEVICE AI THAT READS BOTH PAGES • RECONCILE: One tap and the AI reads BOTH open panes, then reconciles them into a single clear card. Two product pages become one verdict. A claim and its source become one check. • SUMMARY: distills the page you are reading into a crisp, private summary. Pinch in, done. • COMPANION: an on-device chat about the page in front of you. Reconcile, Summary and Companion use Apple's on-device AI and require an Apple Intelligence-capable iPhone. Nothing you read is ever sent to a server. On every other iPhone, both panes, the 40+ tools, everything else works in full. Prefer to do the reading yourself? Optional Tandem sync-scroll: switch it on in Settings and both panes scroll together as you read. EVERY AI, SIDE BY SIDE Open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok side by side, each in its own pane, each with its own signed-in session, and compare their answers on one screen. The AI Row puts 20 AI services a tap away, the AI Cube swipes between them, the AI Compare bento sends one question to two at once. Ask them all the same thing. See who is right or gives you the best answers. 40+ TOOLS, BUILT IN Notes, Calculator, Translate, QR scanner, Read-Aloud, Maps, Weather, Stocks and more, 40+ tools and mini apps that open right in a pane, so nothing pulls you out of your flow. Plus every browser essential: smart address bar, private browsing, bookmarks, reading list, full-page capture, save as PDF and left-handed layout support, rare on iOS. Three Themes: • Atelier: clean, calm and editorial • AI Stage: scroll tabs like cards for easy overview of everything you want to do simultaneously • Matrix: code-rain for night owls PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no tracking • The app collects no data, there is nothing to leak • The AI runs on your iPhone, so your reading stays on your iPhone • Optional family-safety suite: parent PIN, web filtering, approved-sites list and time limits, parent-configured, off by default MADE TO ADAPT TO HOW YOU MULTITASK • Students: read the paper with the textbook right under it. • Shoppers: compare two products before you buy. • Traders: watch the market while you read the news. • Parents: cartoons on top, your feed below. • Developers: run an AI coder beside the docs. • Fact checkers: put the claim next to its source. • Whatever two things you do, do them at once, and let Reconcile connect them. ONE PRICE, EVERYTHING INCLUDED Split Screen 3.0 is a one-time purchase, every feature, no subscription, no ads, no account. The next chapter moves new downloads to a different pricing model; buy 3.0 now before prices go up. Since 2015 this app has been built by a one man army. I'm back at full speed, write to me when something is off or you wish it did more: I read everything and build what you need quickly. ► Download Split Screen now, open two pages, ask one question, get one answer. ◄

Screenshots

Textwell4 screens
Split Screen Multitasking View4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Textwell at $2.99 against Split Screen Multitasking View's $8.99. Textwell also leads on review sentiment (58% vs 41%). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Textwell costs $2.99 and Split Screen Multitasking View $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Textwell ships an update every 3 months, Split Screen Multitasking View every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Textwell versus Split Screen Multitasking View: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextwellSplit Screen Multitasking View
Price$2.99 — better$8.99
Rating3.3 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews57.8% of reviews — better40.7% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB42 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSociomediavishnu rao

Customer experience

Textwell

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive57.8%
Neutral14.1%
Negative28.1%

Split Screen Multitasking View

Written reviews194 reviews
Positive40.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative57.2%

Bugs and requests

Textwell

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Split Screen Multitasking View

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Login and account issues
  • Compatibility problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Support for more apps
  • Landscape mode
  • Customization options
  • Improved stability and performance

In-app purchases

None

Textwell

No in-app purchases

None

Split Screen Multitasking View

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Textwell free?
Textwell costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Split Screen Multitasking View free?
Split Screen Multitasking View costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Textwell or Split Screen Multitasking View have ads?
Neither Textwell nor Split Screen Multitasking View shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textwell or Split Screen Multitasking View?
Textwell ships an update every 3 months, and Split Screen Multitasking View every 2 months. Most recently, Textwell was updated on September 28, 2026 and Split Screen Multitasking View on September 28, 2026.

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