Runestone Text Editor

Runestone Text Editor

By Simon B. Støvring

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2022-05-05
  • Current Version: 1.4.8
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 63.94 MB
  • Developer: Simon B. Støvring
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.82906
4.82906
From 468 Ratings

Description

A plain text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search and replace, page guide, and much more. It's like TextEdit but more powerful and optimised for iPhone and iPad. Runestone is made by a single person with a love for text editors and a vision of building the most lightweight text editor for iPhone and iPad that still has the core features for editing code. Features: - Syntax highlighting of many languages including HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Swift, Python, PHP, YAML, and many more. - Select one of the twelve standard themes including popular themes like Tomorrow, Dracula, Solarized, and One Dark Pro. - Innovative find and replace for searching and modifying text while still viewing your file. - Choose font and font size, including support for custom fonts imported using another third-party app. - Show the line and column the cursor is located on. - Uses the standard document browser for an experience similar to the Files app. - Quickly navigate to a specific line. - Automatically close opening brackets and quotes. - Multiple windows on the iPad. - Format code using Prettier.js. Supported languages include CSS,HTML, JavaScript, JSON, PHP and more. - Choose text encoding between popular encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more. - Enable or disable autocorrection, autocapitalization, and smart punctuation. - Set default file extension of new files. - Open files in Runestone from the Share Sheet. - Print documents. Premium features: - Choose between eight app icons. - Show line numbers. - Highlight the selected line. - Increase line height and letter spacing. - Disable line wrapping to allow horizontal scrolling. - Show tabs, spaces, and line breaks using a selected symbol. - Enable page guide at a specific column to easily tell when lines are getting too long. - Add vertical and horizontal overscroll. - Remember the selected language per file. - Save file extensions and filenames that should always be treated as plain text files. - Enable soft tabs and choose the width of the tab character. - Specify whether pressing the tab key should insert a tab or indent the line. - Adjust the scaling of Markdown headings and disable highlighting of code blocks in Markdown. Runestone was built on the open-source framework with the same name. Find more information on the Runestone framework at github.com/simonbs/runestone

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Reviews

  • Simon

    5
    By Other right
    Have questions plz contact me direct thanks
  • Excellent visionOS Text Editor

    5
    By A Reviewer Name
    A button/toggle for read-only would be appreciated as my usecase (code review) doesn’t necessitate editing features but the ability to disable edits would be useful to prevent accidental changes.
  • No way to open folders?

    3
    By PowerObject!
    I did not see a way to open folders from iCloud Drive?
  • Syntax highlighting

    5
    By Kreikey
    Hi, could you add syntax highlighting for D? Thanks!
  • Spatially handy

    5
    By gordonross
    Great to have this on Apple Vision Pro. Thank you!
  • Super clean and lean

    5
    By Skydweller76
    Really nicely implemented. Cursor control actually works as opposed to many other early vision apps.
  • Amazing text editor

    5
    By Jad6os
    I use it for opening all sorts of files on iOS. It feels native, lightweight and just perfect. Bonus points if we could support protobuf files or even bigger bonus points if we can install our our highlighting for custom file types
  • Charging you to turn off word wrap

    3
    By specowos
    Look this would have been a great little text and code editor but you just cant charge people for everything. If you want people to pay for your app make it payed. Edit: I understand the idea of making an app that you can try and if you like buy, I just wish the execution could have been a little better, like having a 10/30 day try period and then asking people to pay, kind of like what doppler did. It enforces people to want to buy your app instead of making the app feel like it was made by a soulless company.
  • Predatory

    1
    By feverdream
    The only reason it ask you to unlock it for the pro version is so that you can actually use it for the languages that they claim that you can already use it for and so it’s basically worthless for python because you’re not able to see the number of spaces and so you can’t deal with non-terminals, which is a critical part of the language. They obfuscate this by making it free to download and then paying for premium and then they ask you for more than the top tier app because they know they’re not going to get it unless they put you in a bind. This feels like a bait and switch to me and it’s very clear that it was intentional so that makes it hurt all the more. It’s stuff like this that makes me want to release a free app that replaces this, so they actually have to work for the money.
  • My new text editor

    5
    By DRM 87654383557
    I have used pretext as my simple text editor for years. But it has a few limitations and is no longer being updated. I have tried quite a few alternatives but they were either poorly implemented or overkill for my desired use I continued searching and recently discovered Runestone. I find it to be very well constructed and the design intuitive. So far, I have not encountered any deficiencies or problems while using it. The basic free version is very functional and has no pop up adverts pushing for upgrade. The premium version has a few features that are worthwhile for me .. so I upgraded. This is now my preferred simple text editor

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