Textastic is a comprehensive and versatile text and code editor for iPad and iPhone. It supports syntax highlighting of more than 80 programming and markup languages. Connect to SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV servers or to your Dropbox account. Use the built-in SSH terminal to work directly on your server.
FEATURES:
• Syntax highlighting of more than 80 languages: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, C++, Swift, Objective-C, Rust, XML, Markdown, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, YAML, JSON, SQL, shell scripts and many more (full list available on the website)
• Compatible with Sublime Text 3 and TextMate 1 syntax definitions and themes
• Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C, Objective-C, and PHP
• SFTP (SSH connection), FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), WebDAV and Dropbox clients
• SSH terminal connections
• Git repositories from the Git client app Working Copy can be opened as external folders in Textastic
• Emmet support
• JavaScript console
• iCloud Drive file synchronization
• WebDAV server to easily transfer files from your Mac or PC over Wi-Fi.
• Symbol list to quickly navigate in a file
• Full support for external keyboards, trackpads, and mice
• Configurable keyboard shortcuts
• Displays additional keys over the virtual keyboard to make it easy to type characters often used for programming
• Cursor navigation wheel for easy text selection
• Easily move the cursor using swipe gestures
• Split View and Slide Over multitasking on iPad
• Open multiple files in tabs
• Multiple Windows on iPadOS
• Support for Dark Mode
• Supports most encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1
• Supports different tab widths and soft tabs (spaces instead of tabs)
• Custom fonts
• Find & Replace (including regular expression search)
• Find in multiple files
• File information like character count and word count
• Local and remote web preview for HTML and Markdown files
Don't hesitate to tell me the features you want to see in the next version!
https://feedback.textasticapp.com/
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4.78 out of 5
241 ratings
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Delivered on expectations
They are only few Great Apps on the apple App Store that truly deliverer on the quality & capability of what is expected from a premium App Store app, This App is one of them. My hats off to the developers.
Please continue to live up t the high standard i hold you at
Frequent crashes and session closes
App frequently crashes and ssh shell no longer persists in background as was the case in previous versions. It was great before the last few updates.
For Working Copy
Came for the Working Copy integration, stayed for perfect text editor. After years of trying dozens of other text editor apps both free and paid, I'd given up, and assumed there must be something impossible about developing a usable text editor for iPhone. But here's Textastic to prove it can be done. Great work, dev.
Best text editor for iPad
Easy to set up and get working. Love the flexibility of the code editor and the UI theme availability. However the best part is the remote development integration, in my case over SSH/SFTP. It is easy to connect to a remote server via SSH and access all the files for your workspace.
The ability to upload/download files is relatively easy - once you tell the app which files you want from the remote server, you can upload your changes to the remote server with a keyboard shortcut. However, one area of improvement may be to automatically upload the files when they're saved - this is the behaviour of VS Code's Remote Explorer tool. I understand this might not be desired for everyone, so perhaps this could be an opt-in feature if it were to be implemented.
One other thing I miss from my desktop code editor - some more advanced code editing shortcuts. I'm used to sublime shortcuts like "Move Line Up" as Ctrl + Shift + Up, or "Select Word" with Ctrl + D, or "Duplicate Line" with Ctrl + Shift + D. If this app had these, it could really compete as a daily driver of coding productivity.
Overall though, I love it and it outmatches anything else available!
Top-notch!
This is my go-to coding app on the iPad. Intuitive, full-featured, customizeable, support for all popular programming languages, and easy server connectivity. The additional bar above the keyboard is an ingenious time saver. The developer's timely customer service is also five-star and puts this app in a league of its own. Highly recommended.
No Google Drive Support = No Good Review
I am unable to use this without Gdrive support. PLZ
Missing a crucial function for programmers
I’m surprised that an application that is so feature rich like this one is missing the ability to tidy up code. Especially for those that use it for HTML
Invaluable
This is the best thing since soft toilet paper! I use VSCode at the office and home, but this is a life saver when I am on the road. I can open source code directly on my iCloud and upload the changes to the server. And the code editor works great. Thanks!
fantastic app
best code editor I’ve tried on iPad.
Great code editor
This is a very capable text and code editor for iOS. I have used it since 2012 and it continues to improve.