Textwell vs Paint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Paint
Create and share augmented reality experiences by adding 3D holograms and special effects. Paint and sculpt in 3D, record your creations, and remix your world with mixed reality.
- Add 3D holograms
- Apply special FX
- Paint and sculpt in 3D
- Record video
- Share with friends
- Mixed reality storytelling
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Paint-AR is an augmented reality app for creatives. Add 3D holograms & special FX, paint & sculpt in 3D. Join featured artists, record video & share with friends. Remix your world & tell trippy mixed reality tales.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Paint at Free against Textwell's $2.99. Paint also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.3) and review sentiment (83% vs 58%). Textwell's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On ads 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
Paint is free to download; Textwell costs $2.99 up front. Paint sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Textwell asks for nothing beyond the download.
Paint holds the better App Store score, 4.0 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 Paint's.
| Parameter | Textwell | Paint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) | 4.0 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.8% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 857 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Sociomedia | James Tunick |
Customer experience
Textwell
Paint
In-app purchases
Textwell
No in-app purchases
Paint
- Magic Brush Pack$0.99
- 3D Object Pack$0.99
- Special FX Pack$0.99
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- Premium 3 Pack$1.99









