A free simple text editor for viewing and editing any kind of text file, including TXT, RTF, RTFD, HTML, XML, markdown, and more.
For files like RTF and RTFD, EZText displays them fully formatted and lets you edit all the style information, such as font, point size, color, and paragraph alignment. You can even view the raw RTF text and edit that directly. For HTML and markdown, you can view a live preview as you edit.
Features:
- Edit any text file on your device, in iCloud, or in other cloud services (such as DropBox) that appear in the Files app
- Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript
- Text foreground and background color
- Paragraph alignment
- Line & paragraph spacing
- Bulleted lists
- Copy & paste text style and paragraph style
- Search and replace text
- Undo and redo
- Create plain text file, rich text files (RTF), rich text with graphics (RTFD), HTML, and markdown files
- View and edit the raw text for files that supports text style
- Live previews of HTLM and markdown
- Export to PDF
- Convert between plain text, RTF, and RTFD
- Print
- Supports multitasking on iPad
- Dark mode support
I'm a career journalist who has used various text editors over the years for dealing with website management and pretty much every other kind of text issue. I needed a good, moderately versatile editor for occasional copy-fix-paste work on a few paragraphs here and there. The most frequent issue- "Unformatting" text for creating an email from copied text or personal notes without annoying fonts or formats. In other words, stripping the frills. It's a pain to strip formatting quickly from a few paragraphs in Word or other apps if that's all I need. This little app is perfect! Best of all it's free. It has just the right amount of options and is very user friendly. Thank you for a great tool and I highly recommend it!
Happily, a nice simple text editor for iPad.
Hop on Pop Jr.
I really like what you have made. Here are a few suggestions to help improve user experience 1. When turning the iPad from portrait to landscape, the screen position can jump around quite a bit. 2. When I have a document open and navigate to another app and then back, exiting out of the document sometimes/often jams up. I have to restart the app. 3. Formatting can be a little funky when copying and pasting from other sources. I.e. mainly sizing seems to be inconsistent. I suggest a button for clearing formatting to return text to a default appearance. 4. Maybe you already included this and I did not notice, but a how-to document to address some of the user experience questions I had when first trying out the EZText. For example it took me a bit to wrap my head around page indentation. I still wish there was a way to make indentation more fluid depending on what device one is on, but no biggie. Still Not sue what the orange triangles do. 5. Any intention to include tables? Or is this moving away from what this app is all about? Thanks for listening.
No Zoom, File Creation Metadata WRONG, No Lists
dysamoria
There should be control over the text rendering size on screen, so that font size is maintained but a mobile user doesn’t have to struggle with tiny text. Many text editing apps traditionally call this as a “Zoom” function.The font sizing also seems to lack any display of the actual point size; there’s just a + & - button *when accessed from the context menu* (the main formatting menu’s interface is fine).List buttons in formatting do nothing. The developer was told this and they replied that there’s no such feature. Yeah? Then maybe you shouldn’t expose these buttons in the formatting UI when someone selects text, swipes to “Format” and chooses “More…” The controls for bulleted lists are right there and they don’t work at all. This is inconsistent UI design and I’m fairly sure RTF documents support basic lists in the standard.Worse: all documents created in this app are stamped with a file creation date & time that is 100% WRONG. File metadata matters, folks!Other reviewers pointed out the same issues and the developer responses were clueless or absent.Easy editing of RTF on iOS is ridiculously kneecapped by Apple and no developer has managed to fill in for the lack of a TextEdit for iOS as is found on Mac OS.
Excellent text, RTF, HTML editor. FREE W NO ADS👍
inthesand
By far, this is the most full featured free text editor on the App Store, IMO, and I have tried just about all of them. It is better than most of the text editors on the App Store that have a cost or subscription. It is completely free, with no ads and no reduced functionality.EZtext comes in native iPad 👍 and iPhone versions. It shows up in the share sheet and supports iPad multitasking. It is loaded with RTF, HTML, Markdown and more. Perfect for text editing, though it could also be used as a lightweight and fast word processor. The developer is very responsive, answering a question I had about “replace all.” I use it regularly on an iPhone 16 and an iPad 13”. Works and looks great on a small and large screens. It’s the kind of app that I would pay for, but I am grateful that it is freely provided. 🙏
Developer Response
Replace All is available, just long-press on the Replace button.
- Works with iPhone Duo
Version 1.8.2
The developer, Mark Krenek, 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.
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