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
Runestone is an incredibly useful utility app, with a gorgeous, clean design and thoughtful interface. It feels like an app that should always have existed. Would also recommend to check out this developers other of apps, Jayson & Scriptable which have the same level of simplicity and attention to detail.
Very good editor
Henry Paget-Lowe
This editor is great in many ways. I particularly like the close integration with the file system of the iPad, enabling the user to edit in place documents that are stored in other apps like Documents. I was wondering, though, about the possibility of adding newlines at the end of each line-break forced by the screen width. E.g. if I adjust the screen width to be 70 characters, would it be possible to add in a newline at each apparent break, making it a real break, instead of having the whole paragraph be one long line. I’m thinking of writing LaTeX documents that I then export back to my Linux box for final editing with Vim, where, of course, it is traditional and useful to have a series of short lines of about 70 characters.
Can no longer recommend
Richy1963
I was initially delighted with this App and paid for the premium version. However, with use I have found bugs, and reported them via Github but there has been zero support from the developer. Others have also reported issues which are also waiting to be addressed. The editor support for soft tabs doesn't work for me which is a fairly fundamental feature and makes the editor useless for YAML files and many others. Such a shame but it's rime to move on.
My Review
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My 3* review could be increased, if the developer could please explain how when both saving or searching for files. The user can navigate folders etc similar to the Files application? By default this App saves to Apples iCloud which could possibly be an Apple restriction. For my phone I have configured multiple connections G drive, Dropbox etc also to my NAS. If this app could navigate already active connections to view and edit files I’d be happy to 5*
Developer Response
Thanks for your review.Runestone for the iPhone does not support browsing folders for files while editing a file. In the iPad, however, you can have multiple windows open to browse files while editing a file. This is akin to the experience that TextEdit provides on the Mac.You can browse files from file providers configured through the Files app by selecting the relevant file provider in Runestone.Best regards,Simon
Fixes an issue where the "Always Open" option in the Unsupported File Type dialog would be disabled even after purchasing Premium.
Version 1.6.1
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£9.99
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