TextArray vs Editpad
Updated August 26, 2026
Editpad describes itself as an "online notepad developed for editing plain text", wrapped around AI writing features — paraphrasing, summarising, essay writing and plagiarism checking — with roughly 25 further utilities and an interface in 20 languages.
It is a place to write. TextArray is a place to process what you have already written: several hundred single-purpose tools that each take text in and hand text back.
Where Editpad is strong
- A real notepad with autosave, which TextArray deliberately is not.
- Editpad states that "we do not save any of your private data. All notes are saved on your local device using cookies."
- AI paraphrasing and summarising, which need a model on a server — outside what TextArray can do locally.
The two answer different questions. If you want somewhere to draft, Editpad is the closer fit and its local-storage note handling is a fair claim. If you want to strip HTML out of a paste, renumber a list, convert a CSV, hash a string or check a subtitle file's reading speed, that is a tool per job, and TextArray has several hundred of them.
TextArray has no login and no Premium tier, so nothing is metered or held back, and it installs as an offline app. It also carries no AI features at all: every tool is a deterministic function, which is what makes "nothing leaves your browser" a checkable claim rather than a promise.