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30+ Best TextEdit - Text Editor Alternatives for iPhone (2026)
TextEdit - Text Editor is C tier, #32 of the 40 tiered apps in document editing. Here is everything that competes with it on iPhone, in tier order.
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All 39 alternatives, in tier order
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Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 7,687,263 ratings · score 99Creates, edits, and shares online documents with real-time collaboration, comments, and offline editing. - 2
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 816,976 ratings · score 98PDF reader and editor for reading, annotating, filling, signing, converting, merging, splitting and compressing PDF. - 3
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 13,893,655 ratings · score 98Word-processing app for creating, editing, viewing and sharing Office files and PDFs on mobile devices. - 4
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 2,280,504 ratings · score 96Document app for writing, layout, and design on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with templates and real-time collaboration. - 5
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 69,604 ratings · score 94Edits, fills, signs, scans, and converts PDFs on iPhone, with an AI assistant for summaries, rewrites, and grammar… - 6
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 209,825 ratings · score 94Views, scans, annotates, fills, signs and shares PDF files on iPhone and iPad. - 7
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 122,019 ratings · score 91Reads, edits, annotates and fills PDF documents on iPhone and iPad, with full-text search across a PDF library. - 8
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 32,943 ratings · score 91Mobile PDF app for scanning, editing, signing, converting, protecting and reading PDF files on iPhone and iPad. - 9
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 167,202 ratings · score 89Mobile office suite for creating and editing Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files on iPhone and iPad. - 10
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 6,688 ratings · score 89Opens, edits, converts and shares Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files on iPhone and iPad. - 11
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 775,305 ratings · score 87Scans, converts, edits, annotates, and signs PDF documents. - 12
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 26,625 ratings · score 85Free file manager and mini office suite for viewing and editing documents, spreadsheets, photos and media on iPhone. - 13
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 44,989 ratings · score 85Free iOS app for viewing, printing, annotating, editing pages, filling forms and signing PDF files. - 14
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 2,443 ratings · score 85Opens, reads, annotates, edits, converts, merges, splits and organizes PDF files on iOS. - 15
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 21,230 ratings · score 85PDF reader, editor, scanner and converter for annotating, signing and converting documents on iPhone, iPad and Mac. - 16
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 46,350 ratings · score 84Free PDF app for reading, editing, scanning, converting, annotating, signing, and sharing PDF files. - 17
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 28,639 ratings · score 84IOS PDF app to view, edit, annotate, convert and sign PDFs, with subscription features such as an AI Assistant and OCR. - 18
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 235 ratings · score 83Edits, scans, signs and converts PDFs and other document files on a mobile device without desktop software or cloud. - 19
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 87,038 ratings · score 82Free PDF toolkit for merging, splitting, compressing, converting, editing, annotating and reading PDF files. - 20
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 18,426 ratings · score 82Free app for iPhone, iPad and Mac to edit, convert, OCR, sign, annotate and share PDF files. - 21
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 7,973 ratings · score 82Views, edits, fills, signs and annotates PDF files, scans documents, and converts photos to PDF. Listed under Business. - 22
$4.99 · ★ 4.5 · 12,424 ratings · score 81Office suite and file manager for iPhone that edits spreadsheet, text, and image files and transfers files to cloud. - 23
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 13,467 ratings · score 81Mobile app for editing, eSigning, sharing and storing PDF documents, with access to a library of fillable templates. - 24
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 49,707 ratings · score 79Reads, edits, signs, scans and organizes PDFs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Vision Pro and Apple Watch. - 25
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 12,233 ratings · score 76Office suite for viewing, editing, importing and exporting OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on. - 26
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 31,112 ratings · score 74PDF viewer and editor for iPhone and iPad that lets you annotate, fill and sign forms, and manage PDF pages and files. - 27
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,902 ratings · score 74Writing app for Mac, iPhone and iPad with a markup-based editor, document library, sync, grammar checking and export. - 28
Free + IAP · ★ 4.2 · 321 ratings · score 74Scans paper documents and lets users edit, sign, convert, and organize PDFs. - 29
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 155,623 ratings · score 71Mobile office suite for editing spreadsheet and rich text files on iPhone and iPad, with online and offline use. - 30
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 47,115 ratings · score 70Quip is a productivity app combining chat, docs, slides, and spreadsheets for team collaboration across iPhone, iPad… - 31
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 58,569 ratings · score 70Docs,Flashcards,Voice Recorder - 33
Free + IAP · ★ 3.9 · 17 ratings · score 68Edits, signs, organizes and manages PDF documents, including rearranging pages and adding text and custom elements. - 34
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 12,949 ratings · score 68Research web browser with PDF annotation, Word and Markdown writing, AI help and cloud sync on iPad and iPhone. - 35
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 38,272 ratings · score 66Mobile app to create, view, edit, share and manage Word documents and other file formats. - 36
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 11,655 ratings · score 65IOS editor for writing.tex LaTeX files, compiling them to PDF with PdfTeX or LuaTeX, and previewing the output. - 37
$9.99 + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,798 ratings · score 65PDF editor for iPhone, iPad, and Mac for editing, annotating, signing, scanning, OCR, and studying PDFs. - 38
Free · ★ 4.3 · 8,684 ratings · score 64Writing app for Mac, iPhone and iPad with a markup editor, synced library, grammar checks and export. - 39
Free + IAP · ★ 4.3 · 3,185 ratings · score 63PDF reader and editor for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo with AI chat, summaries, translation, editing and conversion. - 40
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 1,646 ratings · score 63Free PDF app for iPhone and iPad to read, annotate, edit, fill forms, convert, compress and sign PDFs.
Questions people ask
- What is the best alternative to TextEdit - Text Editor on iPhone?
- Google Docs, S tier, #1 in document editing.
- Is there a free alternative to TextEdit - Text Editor?
- Yes: Google Docs (S tier, #1) is free to download, with in-app purchases.
- Does anything rank above TextEdit - Text Editor?
- Yes. 31 apps rank above it in document editing: Google Docs (#1), PDF Expert: Editor & Reader (#2), Microsoft Word (#3) and more.