Runestone Text Editor

I don’t usually feel inclined to leave a review for the apps I enjoy, but this one-man team deserves all the praise. The app is exactly what it advertises, and it looks beautiful! Just an all round fan-tas-tic app.

Runestone does it all! I cannot think of a more pleasant text-editor for iOS than this app. It's simple without any distractions, yet offer perfectly capable customization in almost every aspect one can think of. It's fast, trustworthy and a really good text-editor all-in-all you want to use everyday. It's quickly becoming the de-facto standard in other coding apps - and it's clear why that is. The developer, Simon, is also really passionate about his work and always willing to answer questions from his users. A truly all-around pleasant experience. Try it and buy it. You won't regret it!

Best mobile text editor I’ve tried so far 👌

Simple yet powerful text editor. Love all the customization options! Can take any size file you throw at it with ease. It’s now my go-to text editor for viewing and editing code on my iPhone and iPad🤩

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.