SaaS Metrics
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
Product Positioning & Context
Related Ecosystem & Alternatives
Discover adjacent products, open-source repositories, and developer tools sharing similar technical architecture.
Deep-Dive FAQs
What is Runestone Text Editor?
Runestone Text Editor is a digital product or tool described as: Simon B. Støvring
Where did Runestone Text Editor originate?
Data for Runestone Text Editor was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Runestone Text Editor publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Runestone Text Editor within our tracked developer communities was recorded on May 5, 2022.
How popular is Runestone Text Editor?
Runestone Text Editor has achieved measurable traction, logging over 1,869 reviews and facilitating 5 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Runestone Text Editor?
Based on metadata extraction, Runestone Text Editor is categorized under topics such as: Developer Tools.
How does the creator describe Runestone Text Editor?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "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..."
Community Voice & Feedback
I like the simplicity of the app. Would it be possible to add a preview view for html or markdown? Let know if it’s in premium purchase and I’ll get it asap.
Works fast and you don’t get stuck on a tor browser in another language
huge help back in ‘21. thank you Runestone!
I use Runestone to view and edit code, and to view plain text documents. When it comes to code, the feature set is ok. I subscribed to premium. I appreciate the one time purchase as opposed to subscription. The only feature I really want that isn’t included is a preview of the code. A side-by-side view, code/preview, would be awesome.
Editor is inserting 7 additional linebreaks for each linebreak when copy pasting a section that includes linebreaks, needs fix. Also the app is very unstable(it became more so recently?), editing existing text almost always crashes the app if it involves multiple lines at once or is done too fast. Great design but leaves much to be desired in stability
Allows awesome text editing on iOS. Doesn’t hijack the default viewer (like literally EVERY OTHER iOS text editor I’ve tried) but easy to open files with when I _do_ want to use it. I’d give it 6, 7, even 8 stars if I could!!
very useful
This is the perfect little app for when AI gives me text for various formats of docs and I need to copy them in and make sure the format is going to be right and it will save where I need. Thanks so much!
Funny thing is the people who don’t know what they’re getting themselves into are not the ones to blame but they do have the ability to make their own decisions about what they’re actually doing with the time they have left to spend with the joker’s life…
It’s fast, simple, and easy to use. It works very well for all my code files.
Spent 4 hours on a doc and when I went to save nothing happened. Tried manually saving, nothing. Closed the app and reverted all edits back to default. Absolute trash
Completely worth it
Pros:
Allows you to write code.
Allows file creation.
Allows file import.
Autosave
Con: (This is the reason I’m going to look for a better app)
No way to view pages created!
You have to upload your pages on your site to view and edit again, upload again. This gets old real fast!
Allows you to write code.
Allows file creation.
Allows file import.
Autosave
Con: (This is the reason I’m going to look for a better app)
No way to view pages created!
You have to upload your pages on your site to view and edit again, upload again. This gets old real fast!
I use this almost every day as I format different files to adjust Ai instructions and now it's a direct replacement of the Notes App, for me. Apple is stupid for not making you an offer to have this be a direct extension of the Files App, operating within it, or the Notes App. Especially where they are slowing moving into making their devices more Ai compatible...
You should approach Apple. I bet they would make you an offer.
They don't have a native app to create file types really, and have only recently added Markdown functions to the Notes App. That would be dope if instead it said "Open File/Note in Runestone"
I've noticed Runestone cannot open pre-existing files in the Files App, so I'm assuming Apple blocks that.
Who knows, maybe you can just patch that 🤷🏻♂️
Either way, I love this app. I've built so much with it. Thank you for making it. I hope you can eventually get a recurring revenue option from Apple. This App deserves to be a Native Apple App.
You should approach Apple. I bet they would make you an offer.
They don't have a native app to create file types really, and have only recently added Markdown functions to the Notes App. That would be dope if instead it said "Open File/Note in Runestone"
I've noticed Runestone cannot open pre-existing files in the Files App, so I'm assuming Apple blocks that.
Who knows, maybe you can just patch that 🤷🏻♂️
Either way, I love this app. I've built so much with it. Thank you for making it. I hope you can eventually get a recurring revenue option from Apple. This App deserves to be a Native Apple App.
Works great. Nice feature set, while still being straightforward and easy to use. Just wish there was a Mac version.
Discovery Source
Apple App Store Aggregated via automated community intelligence tracking.
Tech Stack Dependencies
No direct open-source NPM package mentions detected in the product documentation.
Media Tractions & Mentions
No mainstream media stories specifically mentioning this product name have been intercepted yet.
Deep Research & Science
No direct peer-reviewed scientific literature matched with this product's architecture.