Subtext

A basic app that is exactly what I need on my iPad: take notes, copy and paste without formatting, and coding to flesh out and run later. This is an app that should be included with Apple OS, like Notepad is included with MS Win.

Please add the option to disable auto-save. To save the date when the file was last modified if it was accidentally edited.

Subtext is ideal for me as a text editor. Simple interface, line numbers, line wrap or not, encoding choices. It shows in the share sheet. The find and replace feature "replace all" if you press and hold "replace." This is pretty common in most text editors. Subtext is a terrific editor, no ads, completely free.

If you are looking for simplicity and functionality this is the best editor for IOS.

Strange problems with capitalization, appearing randomly, particularly after paste.

Sometimes you just need to write some quick things in notepad to a txt file. Why is this not more highly rated? I just want to edit some thingies without fuss. No data collection. OLED dark mode. Barely any settings, don’t need any. The app is like 400KB. You can open multiple windows on iPadOS or do slide over. Basically perfection.

It just works. Perfectly. Never crashes, doesn't collect any data about you, Flawless. Thank you.

No account creation required. No subscription. No ads. No user data collected. No bloated "productivity" features or AI. Just simple clean text editor that does its job. Solid 10/10.

It has been unbelievably difficult trying to find a simple text editor that behaves well with voiceover and Voice control combined. I wish developers included details about how accessible their apps are. The only thing I can think of that would make this editor even better is including it in the share sheet so you can send files to the editor from the Files app. Update: Unfortunately, this app only recognizes a limited number of file extensions so it is not possible to edit .tex files without renaming them. For now, the search continues until this restriction is lifted.

I don’t know why it’s so hard to find a simple text editor that can edit files in place in the iOS Files app. This app does exactly that and is free simple and easy to use. Kudos to the developer.