Textwell vs ClipStock
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.
ClipStock
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This app allows you to easily save frequently used phrases and templates, then quickly copy them whenever needed. By registering text that you type repeatedly—such as for emails, social media, chats, or work communications—you can copy it to your clipboard with a single tap. A history feature makes it easy to reuse recently used text. It also includes date and time template functions. You can create text that includes the current date/time or a specific date/time, making it convenient for drafting reports, logs, and work memos. Key Features ■ Save Templates Save frequently used text for use at any time. ■ History Management Automatically saves copied text to your history. ■ One-Tap Copy Quickly copy saved text or history items to your clipboard. ■ Date/Time Templates Automatically insert the date or time into your text. ■ Editing Functions Easily edit your history and saved data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ClipStock at Free against Textwell's $2.99. ClipStock also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
ClipStock is free to download; Textwell costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Textwell ships an update every 3 months, ClipStock every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textwell | ClipStock |
|---|---|---|
| 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 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sociomedia | Hideo Mizuno |
In-app purchases
Textwell
No in-app purchases
ClipStock
No in-app purchases





