Text Comp vs BLine Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text Comp
Easily compare two text files or directories with a clear 2-pane interface. Import files from iCloud or other apps, including archives, and analyze differences with filtering and search options. It also offers basic image comparison.
- Compare text files and directories
- Import from iCloud and other apps
- Archive file support (zip, tar, etc.)
- 2-pane comparison interface
- Filter and search results
- Basic image comparison
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With Text Comp, you can easily compare the two text files or directories. It's simple to use: 1. Import and select files to compare First, Let's import files that you want to compare from iCloud or other applications. You can also import archive files (zip, tar, gz, bz2, lzh, etc) and can unarchive it in Text Comp. Useful file finder interface makes you select files faster. You can quickly move directory hierarchy by Path bar. To select a file or a directory to compare, tap the red or blue highlighted button in Path bar. The red means source "1" and the blue means source "2" for comparison in Text Comp. 2. Compare and analyze results Comparison results are displayed in 2-pane interface to make you easily undarstand what and where differences are. In addition, you can filter the results partially to make differences more clear (by 4 buttons at the top center of the screen or "Filter" options page). Also, theare are useful features like search and line marker (Text Comparison only) that will help your analysis of the results. There are some options to control behaviors and appearances of the comparison. Please give it a try to change it to fit your needs. Text Comp can also compare the image files, that is lower functonality than Pixel Comp though. Please use Pixel Comp if you need more detailed image comparison. That's it. Let's compare! -- NOTICE Internally, Text Comp handles text in Unicode. So your text will be firstly coverted to Unicode if it's other than Unicode. Because of the lossy conversion, it's possible that the Text Comp's comparison result is different from the result that compared in the raw encoding of the original text. -- About full version Once upgrade to full version, following features will be available: - No ad-banners displayed. - "Export" available.
BLine Mobile
Easily create visual comparisons of text changes from your mobile device. This tool is ideal for reviewing documents, discussing edits, or sending feedback. It also offers an extension for blacklining directly from other applications.
- Create blacklines from electronic or paper text
- Review documents and discuss changes
- Send comments and feedback
- Extension for blacklining from other apps
- Mobile document comparison tool
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BLine allows you to create blacklines—a common way of showing changes between two texts—from anywhere on your iOS device. The source text can be electronic or paper. A handy tool when reviewing documents, discussing changes, or sending comments. Also adds an extension that allows blacklining from other apps. For the terms of use, please see https://bsparrow.com/terms_of_use.html.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BLine Mobile at 4.5 against Text Comp's 3.0. BLine Mobile also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). Text Comp's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.2). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Text Comp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BLine Mobile sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BLine Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Text Comp's written reviews are positive against 100% of BLine Mobile's.
Text Comp ships an update every 2 days, BLine Mobile every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text Comp | BLine Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yoichi Nozaki | Blue Sparrow Systems Limited |
Customer experience
Text Comp
BLine Mobile
In-app purchases
Text Comp
- Text Comp Full Version$7.99
BLine Mobile
- BLine Monthly$0.991 Month
- BLine Annual$5.491 Year








