Comparison

iWriters vs EZText

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iWriters

This text editor allows you to create, edit, and manage multiple documents across cloud services like Dropbox and Evernote. It offers robust editing tools, synchronization capabilities, and flexible text formatting options for seamless workflow on iOS devices.

Highlights
  • Multi-document editing
  • Cloud sync (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Evernote)
  • TextExpander snippet expansion
  • Search and Replace with regex
  • Customizable text settings
  • File encoding and newline code support
Features
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iWriters is the text editor of the free application. iWriters supports the iCloud Drive, the Dropbox and the Evernote. Do you want to edit a shared text between your computer and iPhone any time creative inspirations strike? That's easy with iWriters! iWriters is a powerful and versatile Text Editor having lots of nice features, available for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. iWriters combines practicality with portability - that is what a Writer's Workshop should be. With iWriters, you have all the power you expect from a full-featured multipurpose text editing program - writing and editing several text documents at a time, saving each file hierarchically in your memory, exchanging them between iOS devices and a Mac, PC, or other devices. You can email an editing text instantly. iWriters also allows you to use the iCloud Drive, the Dropbox or the Evernote directly online, and supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion. We sincerely hope iWriters will serve you well, being a good friend for your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. With iWriters, enjoy writing flexibly anytime, anywhere! [iWriters Features] * Create, open, edit, and modify multiple text documents in parallel, and save each one hierarchically in your memory. * Writing and editing are so natural - using just your fingers, and the standard onscreen keyboard and spell checker, and autocapitalize sentences help you write. Buttons like a keyboard's arrow keys do come in mighty handy to move an editing cursor to the left and the right. * For a closer look, zoom in a text up to 500% by pinching out. * Capable of both landscape and portrait. * Supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion. * Send any currently open text, or part of this text directly from iWriters via email. * Save, open, and sync files onto/from/with the iCloud Drive, the Dropbox Server and the Evernote directly in iWriters. * You can sync iWriters text files to a Mac or PC manually in iTunes. * The left edge of the screen is useful. Jump to a particular line by tapping, or scroll up or down very quickly by dragging. * With a few taps, change the selection to uppercase, lower case, or capitalize, or also change it to double width or the normal width. * Search & Replace. Search the current text or all files for any word or phrase including diacritic letters. You can search for a text with the Regular Expression as well. * A variety of text settings. Select which best suits your editing - the text style, including the font, size, color, adjustment, margins, etc. * Keep the file-compatibility while exchanging files between a Mac, PC, or other devices. You can save all the files remaining their character encodings and New Line codes as you opened each file. * Choose any you want from LF, CRLF, or CR to the return code, and from ASCII, UTF-8, Western (Windows-1252), or Western (Mac OS Roman) to the character encoding. * Browse the statistics for the whole text or the current selection, including the number of characters, words, paragraphs, and indicate the line numbers. * Change the overall look of iWriters by choosing each of the appearance, including the background color, ruled line, and Navigation bar.

About

EZText

This app is a versatile text editor for viewing and editing various file types, including plain text, RTF, HTML, and markdown. It offers rich formatting options, live previews for web content, and robust editing tools like search and replace, undo/redo, and style copying. Easily manage files across cloud services and export to PDF.

Highlights
  • Edit any text file
  • Rich text formatting
  • Live HTML/markdown preview
  • Search and replace
  • Undo/redo functionality
  • Export to PDF
  • Dark mode support
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A free simple text editor for viewing and editing any kind of text file, including TXT, RTF, RTFD, HTML, XML, markdown, and more. For files like RTF and RTFD, EZText displays them fully formatted and lets you edit all the style information, such as font, point size, color, and paragraph alignment. You can even view the raw RTF text and edit that directly. For HTML and markdown, you can view a live preview as you edit. Features: - Edit any text file on your device, in iCloud, or in other cloud services (such as DropBox) that appear in the Files app - Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript - Text foreground and background color - Paragraph alignment - Line & paragraph spacing - Bulleted lists - Copy & paste text style and paragraph style - Search and replace text - Undo and redo - Create plain text file, rich text files (RTF), rich text with graphics (RTFD), HTML, and markdown files - View and edit the raw text for files that supports text style - Live previews of HTLM and markdown - Export to PDF - Convert between plain text, RTF, and RTFD - Print - Supports multitasking on iPad - Dark mode support

Screenshots

iWriters4 screens
EZText4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: EZText at every 6 weeks against iWriters's every 17 months. EZText also leads on review sentiment (78% vs 67%) and ratings volume (27 vs 6). iWriters's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

EZText holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of iWriters's written reviews are positive against 78% of EZText's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iWriters ships an update every 17 months, EZText every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iWriters versus EZText: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriWritersEZText
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings)4.2 (27 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews78.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings627 — better
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLIGHT,WAY.Mark Krenek

Customer experience

iWriters

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

EZText

All ratings26 ratings
Positive80.8%
Neutral3.8%
Negative15.4%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral4.9%
Negative17.1%

In-app purchases

None

iWriters

No in-app purchases

None

EZText

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iWriters free?
iWriters is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EZText free?
EZText is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iWriters or EZText?
EZText is rated higher. iWriters averages 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while EZText averages 4.2 from 27 ratings.
Do iWriters or EZText have ads?
Neither iWriters nor EZText shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iWriters or EZText?
iWriters ships an update every 17 months, and EZText every 6 weeks. Most recently, iWriters was updated on September 17, 2026 and EZText on September 20, 2026.

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