Runestone Text Editor

Runestone Text Editor

By Simon B. Støvring

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2022-05-05
  • Current Version: 1.5.2
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 63.86 MB
  • Developer: Simon B. Støvring
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.7
4.77095
From 847 Ratings

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

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Reviews

  • Worth the Premium

    5
    By Heretic312
    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!
  • Best I have found for iPadOS so far

    5
    By GDU3man
    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.
  • Very good

    5
    By Sevikha
    Thank you! Keep improving!
  • Ultimately Useful for My Needs

    5
    By WaywardHiker
    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.
  • As A Beginner

    3
    By CalSaid
    For a free text editor I’m pleasantly surprised. I’ll review it again, once I have used it for a while.
  • Just what I needed!

    5
    By popa_smurf
    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.
  • Add support for macOS?

    5
    By NCPSNetworks
    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?
  • Nearly perfect

    5
    By fixbin
    A beautiful, thoughtful and useful text editor. I wish all apps were like this.
  • Super Lightweight and Intuitive

    5
    By tylero056
    This just came out and I had it pre-ordered, so I haven't had a huge amount of time to use it yet, however so far my experience has been absolutely fantastic especially compared to my other text editor apps which seem to be very resource-heavy. Also, I love how customizable it is, and it is definitely the easiest way to do a simple edit for any code in a pinch! I'll update this review if I run into any issues but so far, so good! Glad to support the dev too who made it by themselves! 💪
  • Basic tabbing operations cause crashes

    2
    By DMM1224
    I’m all for spending money where it’s worth, but simple things like selecting a section of code to tab it out causes the app to crash often. The situation with tabs is really frustrating, because there’s hardly any automation you’d expect. At least implement auto tabbing when opening curly braces! Why does selecting code and shift-tabbing erase it?? And I’m not even expecting this editor to automatically tab format pasted code, but for the love of god, give me at least the BASICS like shift-tabbing and no crashes while doing it!

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