Runestone Text Editor 4+

Edit plain text and code

Simon B. Støvring

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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

What’s New

Version 1.5.2

Replaces the Tintable app icon with a Dynamic app icon. The new Dynamic app icon adjusts accordingly to match the appearance of your Home Screen.

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
181 Ratings

181 Ratings

Jonny Adams ,

Perfect text editor

Runestone is an incredibly useful utility app, with a gorgeous, clean design and thoughtful interface. It feels like an app that should always have existed. Would also recommend to check out this developers other of apps, Jayson & Scriptable which have the same level of simplicity and attention to detail.

🎶 MB ,

My Review

My 3* review could be increased, if the developer could please explain how when both saving or searching for files. The user can navigate folders etc similar to the Files application? By default this App saves to Apples iCloud which could possibly be an Apple restriction. For my phone I have configured multiple connections G drive, Dropbox etc also to my NAS. If this app could navigate already active connections to view and edit files I’d be happy to 5*

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your review.

Runestone for the iPhone does not support browsing folders for files while editing a file. In the iPad, however, you can have multiple windows open to browse files while editing a file. This is akin to the experience that TextEdit provides on the Mac.

You can browse files from file providers configured through the Files app by selecting the relevant file provider in Runestone.

Best regards,
Simon

Ulleskelf ,

Absolutely brilliant; just needs a few tweaks for prose

I wanted a note-taking app that synced with iCloud and didn’t do rich text, and so Runestone is perfect for that.

I suggest the functionality for writing prose/non-code could be improved. With things like auto-capitalisation, spell check. But these are just minor points.

In-App Purchases

Premium
Premium
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£9.99

App Privacy

The developer, Simon B. Støvring, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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