Runestone Text Editor

Error handling, have you heard of it?

I used to really like this editor. I've been using the free version for a few months now, and it's a nice, cozy, "no frills" alternative to Apple Notes. It's the closest thing to having NotePad++ on my machine as I can get, and I've been enjoying the features I do use. However, I recently updated to iPadOS 18 and, since then, the app has been kind of laggy and sluggish. Prior to getting iPadOS 18, the app would open quietly and go straight to the file selection menu. Now, however, it opens to this screen with a blown-up icon scrolling vertically upward, hangs there and lags my iPad for a couple of seconds, and then opens the file selection menu on the bottom half of the screen rather than the entire screen. This makes me not want to use this particular app, anymore, since I can no longer quickly hop in, jot something down, and hop out. I have no real complaints beyond that. It crashes on occasion when deleting, undoing, or redoing… but that's more acceptable than this new startup sequence. I really dislike it that much.

I never buy premium as I can usually find open source software and apps to fit my needs, but this is an excellent editor that I can tell the developer put a lot of effort into creating so I will gladly support their efforts!

I am a long time coder. I have been coding since the late 1980s. A large part of my programming has been done using text editors. With the advent of and convenience of the iPad and the iPadOS I have been looking for a useable text editor. Notepad is good, but it is not really for plain text. None of the others I have tried have come close to my go to Mac text editor of Bare Bones. But Runestone is about as close as I am going to get on the iPad. So it was and is worth the premium. An excellent job done on a solid app.

Thank you! Keep improving!

I originally installed Runestone some time ago in my quest to find an editor to use on my iPad. The editor works well overall. The only thing I wish it provided was an explicit save option for files. Many times I open a file, code or other, just to review something, and perhaps noodle around an idea. Without an explicit save action, I just need to remember to undo changes. Despite this need, there are many times when I want to take content stored in the default Notes app, and bring it to another system. Runestone does this for me well.

For a free text editor I’m pleasantly surprised. I’ll review it again, once I have used it for a while.

A very neat lightweight minimalistic text / code editor with a user friendly interface and an intuitive settings menu. It even has syntax highlighting in some of my all time favorite themes (such as Dracula & Solarized Dark). Thank you dev! PS. I’m contemplating an upgrade to the Premium version, but it’s a bit pricey for me at this time.

I really like Runstone, but I noticed that there is no support for macOS in the compatibility section. Currently, I haven't found a suitable and visually appealing code editor for macOS. Are there plans to support macOS?

A beautiful, thoughtful and useful text editor. I wish all apps were like this.