Text Editor.
Reviews and Complaints

Don’t bother with this offensive app. After the first few days, it will no longer open documents, it just goes to an upgrade page. It will let you upgrade to a paid subscription or exit the app, but it won’t let you open your existing docs with the free version.

This isn’t an app, it’s a trap! Word to the authors: you have to actually give value in the free version; that’s what motivates people to upgrade.

Tried to edit a text file on OneDrive. It let me open it, make edits, but there is no option to save the file, as far as i could find. I tried poking around a bit and quickly got blocked by a paywall. If you want me to pay for your app, at least make a functional trial long enough where I can verify it does what I want. All you did is succeed in getting me to delete the app and find something else. Well done.

What a stupid app. I used it for 5 minutes then I was prompted to buy it to use it again. There’s no escape or way to get out of the stupid Lock Screen without closing the app entirely. Horrible business practice by a crappy company. I will say, in the 5 minutes I used it I liked what it offered. But its ridiculous to even download this app as it does nothing and then forces you to buy the paid app and subscribe.

Edit: Thanks so much for fixing the problem! It works perfectly now! This app is awesome and has been so useful for writing my stories. Great job.

The dark mode feature is not working. Whenever I try to use any of my files, the dark mode feature is applied but the font also stays black as well. In order to write, I have to change the font color to white so that I could see the words better. Very tedious task to do for all my files.

I am new to the iPad and was surprised to find there is no simple text editor (?!) I wanted to fix an error in a CSV file so I d/l this one. Total surprise #2: it is a subscription based payment plan that kicks after 3 days. Oooookay! Credit card required just to kick the tires? Ugh! But then, this goofy text editor could not even handle opening the file (much less copy + paste one line to fix the poorly written CSV). Oh well… it’s probably great for RTF stuff.

I probably should have payed closer attention to the terms, but it really should be made more clear. If you write something on here without the premium version and then try to access it later you will be locked out of your paper! I wrote a whole paper for my class, and now I’m locked out of it; I’m screwed. I can’t help but feel like my paper is being held hostage, and unfortunately my bank account is empty, so I will miss my deadline for school thanks to this app.

This app hides that you can’t open a 2nd file without being forced to give feedback via a non-closeable pop up. Upon the 3rd file being opened, the user gets a no -close able pop up that demands you start the “free trial of paid features” with no way to use the app until you accept their terms to run as a paid subscription of $52/year. Very deceptive, very expensive, and WAY too little value nor features when so many 100% free options exist. But … it was usable for the first 2 text files I opened.

Got rid of this thing almost immediately. Tried to find a one word text string to get to where I wanted to edit. It initiated the search after one letter, guess what there were many thousands of hits. Then it got hung, I couldn’t cancel, the Done button was dead. What did work perfectly? The pop up saying the free version only allows 10 files per week. Guess we know where the dev’s priorities are. I’d happily pay if this thing actually worked. But it’s useless for longer files. Too bad, there’s a need for a tool like this.

This app does not do anything unless you pay for their “premium” version. You can open and edit two files before it forces you to either pay up, or uninstall. Reading and writing are the two most basic features a text editor can have, not “premium” features. This is software that’s been around for literally decades, and putting a staggering $52 annual fee for the most basic of tools in this way is dishonest and absurdly expensive. I hope they either remove the premium lock or add features besides “dark mode” to make it an ACTUAL upgrade.

The app covers the bottom line below the keyboard and will not allow you to scroll down to see where you are typing.

I purchased the 99¢ a month subscription which paid out, and now it will not allow me to open any documents or create a new document without buying another subscription.

Now I get to figure out how to end my monthly subscription payments by phone, for an app that does not function at all.

I would stay away from this app until they figure out how to code it where it where it’s actually useable and doesn’t lock paid users out.

I’m not gonna lie I was pretty excited to get this and be able to edit some txt files however once I figured out I could only edit 3 before I would have to purchase a subscription is just a massive turn off. I understand that the company has to make a profit but I’m not paying a dollar weekly just to edit a couple files. Overall the quality seems great and it’s sad that I feel the need to write a negative review because this is a useful app with a purpose but since I would have to pay a subscription for editing a few files I don’t see this as a great investment for my time and money

I got this on recommendation from Google. There’s a paid version called Text Editor+, but all I really needed was to read a few files. First couple opened with minimal fuss. Now I’m on the fourth file and the app refuses to let me open a file without signing up for me free, cancel-anytime trial of Text Editor+. This is just another scam by a subscription product to get you signed up some something that you then forget about and end up unconsciously paying $1/week for. Sure, I can afford the $1/week, but I’m deleting the app on principle now because of their extremely heavy-handed tactics.

UNLESS you subscribe, ZERO use is allowed, but the trial period and condition of use without subscription is NOT laid out. What is laid out only says “subscribe to enable dark more and unlimited tools” rather than what happens.

No subscription means no access to any files you created during the free use of the tool that you were led to believe was forever unless you wanted the advanced tools.

I’m not saying this was nefarious, but it seems the developer reads/writes english fine, so I’m just guessing it’s another attempt to strongarm subscriptions when you haven’t REALLY used the tool, but thought you could grow into it.

When I launched the app for the first time it presented me with a screen that gave me one option only: pay for a subscription. No other option – not even to try the app to see if it's useful for me or whether it functions at all. Between the deceitful design that makes it look like a free app when it has no free functionality at all and the abysmal reviews citing constant crashes and disappearing documents, it appears to me that the entire value in downloading this app is that it allows one to write a review like this, warning others off before they fall victim to this seemingly maliciously crafted software.

I know *I'moutta here...

It looks like my trial for text editor ended, but I was surprised to found that I couldn’t access documents I’d already written in the past. While I understand that this may have been included in the terms somewhere, it really would have been nice if this was made clearer, or if TextEdit had stopped us from creating new documents and made the files read only. I hope I’m mistaken, and am happy to revise my rating if someone can explain how I can open my old files (and preferably copy/paste them into some other file).

Edit: Nevermind, if you’ve saved the files on the iCloud you can open them. Not sure what the situation is if you haven’t saved them. Sorry for the confusion.

This app on its own is completely useless…you create a text file, then you can’t reopen it without getting (buying) the plus version!

Then, to top things off, the price is 99 cents PER WEEK! I hate the software subscription model to begin with, but to pay weekly for a flippin’ text editor is ridiculous. At vest this would be a one-time $3-$5 app.

And: if you look at the In-App Purchases list in the App Store, it simply states “Text Editor+ $.99”, but neglects to mention that it’s per week. Apple has to prevent these developer tricks and encourage transparency.

Kudos on the no-tracking of personal info. Too bad everything else you do is suspect.

Congrats, guys: a new low in scamming people.

...but really it wouldn’t even be usable if it had been free. My phone is set to dark mode so the application supports dark mode which seems like it would be nice. However, it cannot view and RTF document creates on the MacOS with editing the text colors of the same document. But then that document will not display correctly on the Mac. If the colors are set to undefined for backgrand and text the Mac will correctly set the background to black and the text to white when dark mode is on. However this application will set the background and the text to both black. So, I lost my money and moved on to a different application especially after no replay to my earlier review from the application owner.

The freely downloadable version of this app is identified as having "in app purchases". What that really means is that after working with just three files, you have to subscribe to do any more.

I am not even slightly interested in software by subscription, no matter the price or how well it does the task it was designed to perform. I will be looking elsewhere for something that can be licensed in perpetuity and not by subscription.

Also: popping up a message asking me to rate my experience with the software is nigh unto inexcusable. Doing so and then completely losing the state of what I was working on is squarely in the territory of Just Don't Ever.

I rarely review apps owing to the rage inducing nature of the onscreen keyboard, but this one warrants an exception since a subscription for a text editor and interrupting my work to ask me how I like the application and messing up what I was doing in the process are all beyond the pale. Stay away...hopefully something better is out there.

Text Editor+ ads become more persistent as I use this program. Later the day I downloaded this I couldn’t open anything because it insists I subscribe to Text Editor+. It mayfer a free three day trial if you subscribe to pay afterwards but there seems to be no Text Editor app here without Text Editor+

Do I really need to explain how ridiculous and grimes this price point is? I really feel bad for people that feel forced into this app.

Thank you so much for offering a 3 day trial though! I’ll make sure to set my calendar so I don’t forget to turn it off right after my 3 month trial for Adobe Illustrator!

I've used this editor on my iPad for quite some time without any difficulty. But just now, version 1.3.3, on my iPhone, would not let me edit an existing file unless I subscribe to the premium version.That doesn't sound like a free app with a premium option; that's a premium app advertised as if it were free.

I know it’s not common for a large text file, but this app can’t handle it. It’s so frustrating. I have a hosts file I need to edit, and this app can’t do anything I need it to. As soon as I try to open the hosts file, this app freezes and becomes unresponsive. You want people to pay $4 a month for this uselessness?!

It crashes the Files app every time I click a text file. And when it crashes, it freezes the “Upgrade” (aka Give Us Money) message on the screen. I think that means they either did it deliberately or they don’t know how to program a quality app, doesn’t it? This app didn’t do anything close to editing text, for me.

So tired of these bait and switch trash apps. You can download the app but you can’t actually do anything with it unless you “upgrade to the free trial”. Can’t open, create, edit, nothing. Literally the first thing you do forces you to upgrade, and there are no other options. It’s also $0.99 EACH WEEK. $52/yr? Are you kidding? Don’t waste your time.

I tried using this app, it was having good features and i was thinking of buying it, then suddenly i am not able to open the file i just created .. it was not even allowing me to view the file i created without purchasing their weekly plan.. if this is the case do not allow to create in first place. I had to redo all my work again because of it .. pathetic.

Initially the app was fine. Now whenever you open a document it just keeps prompting you to subscribe to their paid services which they call “Claim your free Text Editor+ and unlock all features!”.

LOL, they say that while locking you out of ALL functionalities of the app, even the very basic ones.

Like one of the other reviews says: Try EasyEditText instead.

It’s been a long while since I’ve used this app but now I try to use it and I have to pay 99¢ a week to do something as simple as typing… thankfully there’s other apps out there now that are free and let you do that and even do RTF free. I’m not against paying, just not for something so simple. Charge for other features. The basics of the app shouldn’t be behind a paywall.

I just need need to type some text and be able to do a find and replace on some but not all occurs cues of a word. The app has a find and a replace all occurrences but to replace just some you have to type in the replacement word for every single occurrence . How hard could it be to add a “next” on the find and replace.

As for the dollar a week forever fee, that’s just laughable.

Yeah so after the trial they will try to get you to pay a $.99 per WEEK subscription fee. So let me get this straight…this company wants me to pay $51.48 per year for a text editor?!?! What a joke!
What would actually be more fair and not unbelievably greedy is paying a ONE TIME fee of $4.99 (or less). I would have no problem paying a one time fee of $5 for this app is what I’m saying…

With a app name as generic as "text editor" you'd be pretty surprised to see a paywall show up after only FIVE minutes of tasks that you feel like you shouldn't need to download an app for.

This thing better be one banger of a text editor if I'm being asked to pay for a mobile version of windows notepad.

Just get the EasyEditText app instead. It's basically just a free version of this app.

I just wanted a simple app to edit txt files. This let me edit a file once, then refused to open it again and just kept popping up the free trial to their weekly subscription upgrade when the basic version would do everything I need. I couldn't even view the file anymore while this was installed because Files just tried to open it in here and this would do nothing until I signed up for the subscription.

The moment you try to access a document you created on the app, It will not let you without you upgrading. There is no "free" app, it doesn't even let you try it before forcing you to upgrade even just to access. I deleted the document I created on the app, and unfortunately the document now remains on my iPad's Files app because the original was deleted. This app is a SCAM. Don't upgrade, don't download.

The subscription price is unreasonable for a text editor.

I cannot imagine too many people that work with text files so frequently that this cost would be worth it. I would MAYBE consider it if it were a monthly fee but even that would require some consideration.

Consider that BBEdit (widely considered the premier text editor on the Mac) is a $50 one-time purchase and offers so much more functionaility.

Don’t have search/replace function

As the title says, the app does not open text files (.txt) that were created elsewhere and stored in Google drive.
It can create new ones and even ones created in other text editors in an iPad.
It’s not a great solution to edit files that will modified in different applications/devices