Comparison

Textwell vs The Cube App Pro

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

The Cube App Pro

This app provides cubers of all levels with essential tools for timing, tracking, and learning. It features a competition-style timer, customizable sessions, detailed statistics, and a vast library of algorithms with illustrations. Practice and track personal bests offline.

Highlights
  • Customizable competition timer
  • Session tracking and statistics
  • Algorithm library with illustrations
  • Offline functionality
  • Data export and import
  • Visual scramble representation
Features
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The perfect app for cubers. Beginners or professionals, speedcubers or not! Every single tool a cuber would ever need, combined into an app that you can bring wherever you go with your cube. Quick awesome feature list: - Customizable timer to record solves with, that behaves just as an official competition timer. - Create and customize sessions to track your timed solves in. - See statistics and graphs of sessions. - Export and import sessions so you can share or backup your data. - Different scrambles to choose from in timer. - Displays visual representation of a scramble. - Simplistic and smart look, easy to navigate through. - Over a thousand algorithms to learn (each having its own illustration). - Algorithms are customizable. - 'Learn' feature that makes learning algorithm sets easy and fun. - Practice lots of algorithms with another learning feature similar to flash cards - Keep track of all your personal bests, either manually or automatically. - Does not require an internet connection. - Completely ad free.

Screenshots

Textwell4 screens
The Cube App Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Cube App Pro at 4.6 against Textwell's 3.3. The Cube App Pro also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (83% vs 58%). Textwell's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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 The Cube App Pro $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Cube App Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Textwell's written reviews are positive against 83% of The Cube App Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Textwell ships an update every 3 months, The Cube App Pro every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Textwell versus The Cube App Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTextwellThe Cube App Pro
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating3.3 (6 ratings)4.6 (18 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.8% of reviews83.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings618 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSociomediaLudvig Sandh

Customer experience

Textwell

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

The Cube App Pro

All ratings18 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Textwell

No in-app purchases

None

The Cube App Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Textwell free?
Textwell costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Cube App Pro free?
The Cube App Pro costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Textwell or The Cube App Pro?
The Cube App Pro is rated higher. Textwell averages 3.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while The Cube App Pro averages 4.6 from 18 ratings.
Do Textwell or The Cube App Pro have ads?
Neither Textwell nor The Cube App Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Textwell or The Cube App Pro?
Textwell ships an update every 3 months, and The Cube App Pro every 8 days. Most recently, Textwell was updated on November 13, 2026 and The Cube App Pro on November 2, 2026.

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