Runestone Text Editor

Runestone Text Editor

By Simon B. Støvring

  • Category: Developer Tools
  • Release Date: 2022-05-05
  • Current Version: 1.6.1
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 63.87 MB
  • Developer: Simon B. Støvring
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 15.0
Score: 4.76184
4.76184
From 1,457 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

  • Very bad

    1
    By F4CDRF
    This editor doesn’t allow for and deleting stuff you have cut. When you copy and paste, it also adds seven carriage returns to the end of the each line so that you have to go through and delete them by hand. I do not recommend this editor
  • This is soo because i thing i got hacked

    1
    By Mohammed H A M
    It’s bad
  • Auto saves without prompting

    1
    By Vdrumpro999
    Lord. Don’t test on a file that matters. Did a find a replacement test… it saves without asking… clicked undo, it crashed… original corrupted. Great work. Auto save is a Great option. OPTION. Christ how many years did we spend clicking NO to “replace original file?” On save. Remember… iterations? File1, file1a, etc etc…
  • Finally a text app that doesn’t try to extort you

    5
    By tnyfgr3
    Provides good text editor functionality w/o hiding “basic” features behind a pay wall.
  • My preferred iOS text editor

    5
    By Jmm-g
    This is becoming my preferred iOS text editor. I will say that I would have given 5/5, but there seems to be a crash issue when updating markdown files. I’m also unable to set runestone as the default open app for these file extensions. —update— 7 November 2025 Updated my review to 5 ⭐️ Thanks for the fix!
  • It could be 5…

    3
    By Maximus OmegaPrime
    It’s really good I like it more than a lot of others the problem is it crashes a lot. Both on iPad and iPhone it freezes up a lot. I'm using the copilot app research app for personal use fails and crashes in the middle of me working maybe 50,000 characters big but not insanely big. It will freeze up with without being used. Not recommended to go over 100,000 characters it can open them but it will crash if you try to View them Beyond what's visible. Searching for other apps that won't do this. Y'all need to know because it's really good but this is the exact reason why I will not pay $10 and why I am regretful I paid 10 for a Pythonista because it freezes just trying to open tech files bigger than 1000 characters not exaggerating
  • Good, but missing a couple of key functions (for me).

    2
    By Joe in NC
    Runestone is in many ways one of the better text editors for IPad that I’ve tried, but it’s missing the “Share Sheet” iPadOS function and a refresh function. The lack of those means I can’t use it with shortcuts I frequently use.
  • 1.6.1 Cashing

    3
    By fuzzbucket12
    10/24/25 1.6.1 Crashing after opening app
  • Great app!

    5
    By Er_Shulo
    Helps a lot when quickly transfering code back and forwards. Very easy and enjoyable.
  • Please add tabs!

    5
    By 小老鼠朋友
    This is the best text editor for iPad. Two needs, if the dev would please be so valiant: 1. Tabs, please, tabs, and more tabs! I have premium and need more tabs! 2. Vertical text mode for CJK scripts, please! I know, not likely, but it would be helpful and lovely. Thank you, please keep up the good work.

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