Runestone Text Editor 1.6.1 - App Store

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About Runestone Text Editor

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 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

Version History Fixes an issue where the "Always Open" option in the Unsupported File Type dialog would be disabled even after purchasing Premium. 1.6.1 09/15/2025 Brings a fresh new design for devices on the latest iOS and iPadOS and keeps the app running smoothly. 1.6 09/10/2025 Replaces the Tintable app icon with a Dynamic app icon. The new Dynamic app icon adjusts accordingly to match the appearance of your Home Screen. 1.5.2 10/01/2024 Fixes a performance issue introduced in the document browser in version 1.5. 1.5.1 09/30/2024 - Introduces a new launch experience for iOS 18. - Enables quick access to creating temporary files from the new launch experience. - Adds the Tintable app icon, suitable for tinting on the Home Screen on iOS 18. 1.5.0 09/27/2024 Fixes an issue where text selection could start behaving incorrectly after navigating between word boundaries using a hardware keyboard. 1.4.8 02/23/2024 Highlighting inline LaTeX in Markdown documents is now disabled by default. This can be enabled again in Languages settings. 1.4.7 02/16/2024 Bug fixes and smaller improvements. 1.4.6 02/12/2024 - Redesigns the App Icon settings. - Improves the behavior of several toolbar items on the iPad. - Automatic language detection based on file extensions is now case-insensitive. - Improves navigation in font picker on iOS 17. - The text showing the cursor position now scales correctly. 1.4.5 02/05/2024 Fixes an issue where highlighted search results could be covered by the Find & Replace panel. 1.3.21 09/25/2023 Fixes an issue where the caret would not appear until the second time the text view was selected when running the app on iOS 17. 1.3.20 09/24/2023 Fixes an issue where renaming a file would show the old filename and cause the editor to become unresponsive. 1.3.19 03/20/2023 Fixes an issue where the app would sometimes crash when editing documents with nested languages. 1.3.18 03/16/2023 - Improves the text layout by trimming leading whitespace on line fragments. This closely matches the text layout of the standard text editors on iOS. - Fixes an issue where invisible character symbols would sometimes be placed incorrectly. 1.3.17 02/13/2023 Fixes issues working with files containing Windows-style line breaks. 1.3.16 01/16/2023 - Adds setting to set the minimum width of the gutter containing line numbers. Find the new setting in the Lines settings. - Fixes an issue where Markdown was not correctly highlighted. 1.3.15 01/14/2023 This update contains fixes for some minor issues. 1.3.14 01/03/2023 - Adds support for highlighting SQL. - Fixes an issue where code blocks in Markdown were not highlighted. 1.3.13 12/19/2022 Fixes an issue where the header in the editor would sometimes display incorrectly after rotating the iPad. 1.3.12 11/18/2022 Fixes an issue where the placement of the caret was not updated correctly after deleting a word using Option+Backspace. 1.3.11 11/09/2022 - Adds support for syntax highlighting Haskell files. - Fixes an issue where entering marked text did not work properly. This bug would, for example, affect users writing in Chinese. - Fixes an issue where adding a comment to the end of a Swift file would sometimes cause the app to hang infinitely. 1.3.10 11/07/2022 Improves support for writing text in Korean, and other languages that use combined glyphs. 1.3.9 11/02/2022 Adds a customizable toolbar to the editor. The new toolbar is available on iPads running iPadOS 16.1 or later. 1.3.8 10/24/2022 - Sometimes the position of the caret was not updated after pasting text. - Fixes a few issues that would cause the app to crash. 1.3.7 10/17/2022 Attempting to place the caret on the last line in the editor would sometimes move it to the beginning of the document instead. 1.3.6 10/12/2022

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Previous Versions

Here you can find the changelog of Runestone Text Editor since it was posted on our website on 2022-07-26 19:11:48. The latest version is 1.6.1 and it was updated on 2026-06-23 06:40:19. See below the changes in each version.

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