BetterText
Simple plain-text editor
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A fast, no-nonsense text editor. Open any plain-text file from iCloud Drive, Dropbox or your device, edit it in place, and it's saved exactly as it was.
BetterText is a clean, fast plain-text editor for iPhone and iPad.
Open any text file — .txt, .md, .json, .csv, source code and more — from iCloud Drive, Dropbox, On My iPhone, or any location in the Files app, and edit it right where it lives. Changes save automatically.
RESPECTS YOUR FILES
BetterText detects each file's text encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16, Windows-1252, Latin-1) and line endings (LF, CRLF, CR) and writes the file back exactly the same way. No surprise conversions, no corrupted config files.
BUILT FOR TEXT
• Find & replace
• Optional line numbers
• Monospaced or proportional fonts, adjustable size
• Custom background colour with automatic text contrast
• No smart quotes or autocorrect getting in the way of code
• Keyboard ready the moment a file opens
• Save a Copy to any location
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No accounts, no tracking, no ads. Your files never leave your control.
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Kobus Marneweck
- Size
- 3.5 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kobus Marneweck