XmlPad vs EZText
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
XmlPad
A professional XML editor for mobile devices, offering both text and tabular views for efficient document processing. It includes syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and validation against various schemas. Run XQuery and XSLT transformations directly within the app.
- Text editor with syntax highlighting
- Tabular view for XML processing
- XML validation against DTD, XSD, RelaxNG, Schematron
- XQuery and XSLT transformation support
- Built-in command console
- Synchronized text and table views
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XmlPad is a professional editor for XML docs processing which allows presenting the data in tabular style. It includes a text editor with syntax highlighting, string numeration, collapsing and element autocompletion options. It is integrated with full-function table editor which considerably simplifies the documents processing at the tablet device. It maintains autoformatting and XML validation under the specified DTD, XSD, RelaxNG, and Schematron schemas while representing errors in the documents text at the same time. It allows to run XQuery queries and XSLT transforms. Built-in command console lets to run curl and base file commands. The table editor allows creating xml docs at several touches, it has a content panning function and is synchronized with document textual view. You are also able to switch the table and the text views of the document while making alterations where it is convenient at the moment. Visit http://xmlpad-mobile.com website to see the video presenting XmlPad capabilities.
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.
- 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: EZText at 78% against XmlPad's 33%. EZText also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 7 months) and rating (4.2 vs 3.9). XmlPad's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EZText holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of XmlPad's written reviews are positive against 78% of EZText's.
XmlPad ships an update every 7 months, EZText every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | XmlPad | EZText |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.2 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Semyon Chertkov | Mark Krenek |
Customer experience
XmlPad
EZText
In-app purchases
XmlPad
No in-app purchases
EZText
No in-app purchases









