Textwell vs Fields
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.
Fields
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Fields is a private, encrypted vault for the personal details you cannot afford to lose — or leak. Passport and ID numbers. Bank and card details. Wi-Fi passwords, software keys, recovery phrases, insurance info, and the documents that go with them. Fields keeps it all in one beautiful, secure place — protected by your device's own Face ID and passcode, encrypted with AES-256, and stored entirely on your device and iCloud (optional) No accounts. No tracking. No cloud servers reading your data. Just your information, locked down and always at hand. Serious, On-Device Encryption * AES-256 Protection: Every field is encrypted with AES-256 before it is ever written to disk. * Secure Storage: Your master key is generated on-device and stored in the iOS Keychain — it never leaves your phone. * Biometric Authentication: Unlock seamlessly with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode. * Privacy Guard: Auto-locks when backgrounded, hides data from the App Switcher, and locks instantly on screenshots. Organise the Way You Think * Flexible Entries: Save anything as a simple Name + Value. * Sub-fields: Group related details together under a single entry. * Secure Attachments: Attach photos, PDFs, and documents — fully encrypted alongside your data. * Effortless Workflow: Tap to reveal, one-tap copy, templates, search, sort, and drag-to-reorder. * Universal App: Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Private, End-to-End Encrypted iCloud Sync * Zero-Knowledge Sync: Optional synchronization via a Sync Passphrase only you know. Not even iCloud or us can read your data. Backup, Export and Share — On Your Terms * Total Control: Encrypted export through the native share sheet, import to restore or merge, and share a single field or document safely when needed. Fields Pro Fields is free to use. Upgrade to Pro with a one-time purchase (no subscription) to unlock: * Unlimited fields (Free tier is limited to 10) * Advanced sub-fields and unlimited attachments * End-to-end encrypted iCloud Sync Buy once, keep forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Fields at Free against Textwell's $2.99. Fields also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Textwell's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). 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
Fields is free to download; Textwell costs $2.99 up front. Fields sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Textwell asks for nothing beyond the download.
Textwell ships an update every 3 months, Fields every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textwell | Fields |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sociomedia | Gaurav Rangnekar |
In-app purchases
Textwell
No in-app purchases
Fields
- Fields Pro Lifetime$4.99









