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: 4.76093
4.76093
From 778 Ratings
Free On itunes

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

  • 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!

  • so bad

    1
    By 🐝Fly
    After updating to the new version, it's really hard to use. Devices with iOS 18 are lagging a lot and getting really hot, especially with this new feature. It's just not practical. Could you let users choose whether to display the quick create interface when reopening? This feature feels pretty unnecessary in many situations.

  • Bad buggy update

    4
    By mrAssman
    I’ve loved this text editor app til a recent update added the big new file button at the top which seemingly has caused the app to run very poorly. It lags/stutters like crazy now and heats up the phone during use. I looked for a way to disable it and there’s no option to do so. I think this is caused from the 1.5 version update

  • Curtis

    5
    By Curtis87rr
    Thanks

  • Can’t get a refund!!

    1
    By armychick45
    I just downloaded and purchased the Premium version of Runestone. I opened it and started to play around with it, only to discover that there is no way to actually preview what I am coding. When I went to request a refund of the $9.99 I just paid, I got a message stating “failed requesting refund, unable to request refund.” So now I’m stuck with an app that doesn’t have what I need and I can’t get my money back!! If I could give this app 0 stars, I would!! Buyer beware!!

  • super great app

    5
    By MacBeth 112358
    never have I found a text editor for the iphone that I've felt to be reliable until this (well, there used to be Coda). /// bugs to please fix: 1) when "cutting" text, the cursor highlight remains although the text is removed, resulting in an inconsistent editing state, where normally the user would expect no highlight after the "cut", and is unclear how the app will respond upon subsequent text input without moving the caret to clear the invalid highlight. 2) opening a file from iCloud, viewing (but not editing!) the file, then closing the file, causes the app to attempt to resync the file with iCloud (with visible status messages in the file line item in the folder list), even though no changes occurred and the modified date is not altered. commonly the immediate status text will explicitly state "error" and pause a few moments before finalizing the resync. this behaviour is very offputting and makes me want to wait (every single time I open a file -- just to view it!) to watch the "update" complete to verify it "syncs" okay, due to apple not always being reliable with syncing. but this behaviour doesn't occur outside of this app, so there is something this app is doing to cause it. /// feature requests: 1) when I open a file that is short -- the end of file is maybe mid-screen, I can't just tap the blank space on the bottom of the screen to put the caret at the end of the file, I have to actually tap at the blank space of where the last line actually is. it would be very nice if I could just tap the blank space below it. 2) it would be extremely nice if I had an option to make wrapped lines be indented to match the current line's indent, or also option for a hanging indent. this would make files extremely more readable. 3) it would be very nice to have an option, like the "go to line" option, in order to "go to end" of file and put the caret there. some files I edit are long (<1 MB) and I get tired of having to scroll through it all. I can't even use the "go to line" option and put a huge number (like 99,999) to force it to jump, because it requires a valid line number. a bonus would be to add an "apple shortcuts" command to "open file and go to end"... I already use the apple builtin "open in" command, but the addition of the jump would be much more pleasant.

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