Plain Text is simple and works well with Dropbox and OK on iMac, iPad and IPhone. It is not the same as the Plaintext app for iPad or iPhone.Plain Text ($0.99) is a “Simple and Clean text editor and Format remover” for use on computers such as my iMac . I find that Plain Text is very useful when I get formatted text sent to me that does not match that of the newsletter I am working on. I copy the mis-formatted text to Plain Text ( .txt), cut and paste from there to my newsletter and it automatically goes in with the font and size of the insertion point. The .txt file converts bolds, colors, active links to plain, black text. There are cases where you might rather use TextEdit (.rtf) and change font and size manually, but keep the selective bolds etc.The new version of Text Edit will open a text file from the application, but not if you double click on the text document or try to have Quickeys open it with Plain Text selected as the application. If you open a text file from the application and then edit it and save it, it will replace the old version only if you type in the old name on the save (and choose replace).Another feature of Plain Text allows you work “undistracted” using the whole screen. When you open Plain Text to a new document, there is a double headed arrow on the top right. Click that and it goes full screen and you can type away. How do you get out out of full screen? You need to move the cursor up and off the top of the document. A bar will appear with the double-headed arrow icon on the upper right. Click that icon once and you are back to normal.

When I write into NOTES and copy and paste the results into an email that I regularly send to a small group of friends, the text in the email comes out double spaced. With PLAIN TEXT, I simply paste the results into PLAIN TEXT and then recopy what's in PLAIN TEXT before pasting it into the email. The result is single spacing and neat looking text. It was the only reason I purchased PLAIN TEXT and it turned out to be just what I needed. I am very happy with the product.

I happily used this app for years, then the developer had accidentally ruined the app in version 1.03; it could no longer be used at all without a Save window popping up that cannot be closed; the app needed to be force closed, losing your text. Clicking the Support link showed a website that doesn’t exist, so there wasn’t support either. Then after nearly a year, the developer finally read this review, fixed this issue in version 1.04, and notified me. It finally works again, like it used to. It is now back to being a good plain text editor.

The app is fine as a text editor and is able to open existing txt files, but the Save option is disabled so I cannot create txt files. This is a severly limiting factor. Also, you can only have one txt file open at a time, which is also limiting as I like to take various notes in different windows throughout the day. I found this out when I was testing the open feature and it overwrote the contents in my window (with no way to revert), which were not saved because the save option is disabled. If you only need a text editor for copying/pasting text between applications this may work for you, but otherwise you might want to keep looking.