Lightweight Text Editor User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience84.6% of reviews
Neutral5.1% of reviews
Negative experience10.3% of reviews

~ Based on 39 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Lightweight Text Editor Safe?

Lightweight Text Editor appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Lightweight Text Editor is 81/100.

This assessment is based on 51 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

82.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
15.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 51 App Store ratings for Lightweight Text Editor.

Is Lightweight Text Editor Legit?

Lightweight Text Editor appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Lightweight Text Editor is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

I use this to edit AI responses outside of the email, text or word processor. Very convenient.

If I see something I want to quickly store for later use or reference I use this app. I use Google Keep on my phone but on the iMac I use this app. Its simplicity is the biggest reason I use it.

Great app, but needs a small fix for file exporting!

Thank you for creating such a wonderful and useful text editor app. I really enjoy using it!However, I found a small bug when exporting files to the iOS Files app. When saving a new file to local storage, the app does not automatically add the ".txt" extension. This causes the file to appear greyed out and unopenable in the Apple Files app and other applications.The problem is solved only when I manually type ".txt" at the end of the filename during export. It would be much more user-friendly if the app could automatically append the ".txt" extension to exported files.Thank you again for your hard work and great app! I look forward to future updates.
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Lightweight (it’s in the name)

Brilliant notebook app to use, I have to use several as a writer, and this is one of the best I regularly use. Thank you.

Thank You x a Zillion!

Thank You x a Zillion!

Only some file types

Didn’t let me open or edit CSS files although they are essentially plain text.

Response from developer

Fixed in the latest app update. Thank you for your feedback.

Update

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Perfect

Exactly as advertised. No fuss. Even has option for folders. *chef’s kiss*

Clean & Easy-to-use

This app lives up to its name perfectly - it’s simple to use, a few minimalistic features and clean. For many things I don’t feel I need all the extra flashy features of a word processor but rather just a simple place to type and make sure my indentation is clean and consistent and this does just that. I think it’s a small step up from Apple’s built-in text editor in all the right ways.
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Just A Text Editor. Nothing More.

The basic test editor I was searching for a while. Finally I found this one.

Top wie erwartet

Die App macht genau was sie verspricht, danke!

Straightforward text editor

So far this app is doing what I hoped (I’ve been using it only a few times in the one week since I downloaded it.) This app took a plaintext image transcription created by Google Gemini 3 and retained the layout and spacing. Google Gemini creates transcriptions in a Plaintext format that I could not easily figure out how to get MS Word or Google Docs to retain. This gem did the task by default, no special keys or menu gyrations. Simple copy & paste in to Text Editor.

This is a very good addition to my toolkit.
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Simple and efficient

Very easy and quick platform that doesn’t necessarily need you to have strong wifi to write on the go and save with no extra fancy stuff.

Problems with big files

First it worked very well and as expected. After I had to read a bigger file (>4GB) it didn’t stop loading and had to be deinstalled. Didn’t even work after reinstalling. 🤷‍♂️

Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback. Lightweight now includes a 100 MB file size limit to prevent the app from getting stuck when opening files that are too large to handle reliably.

Great app

Works great! I wish that it saved files as .txt, or other files types. Las, I wish the app icon was more minimalistic and customizable

Just working

Just do for what it was created

This is the one

Sometimes you just need plain text with no fuss. It has Find and Replace and a few other utilities but keeps things tasteful by not presenting toolbars and buttons.

Simpel, funktional und dennoch sehr leistungsfähig.

Dieser Texteditor kann mehr als man erwartet. Ich bin positiv überrascht und sehr von diesem kleinen Hilfsmittel angetan. Der Leistungsumfang ist wesentlich umfangreicher als Apple´s Texteditor - meine ganz besondere Empfehlung.
Danke an das gesamte Team.

Simple Text Editor

Simple and just right

Just what I wanted

Just to prove sometimes the simplest is the best, this is a perfect little app.

I wanted a plain ASCII text editor which I could use for text based files such as .txt, .ini and .html files, and this is great. It doesn’t attempt to change or interpret different formats, it just lets me edit.

Super Helpful

I frequently have to work with formatted text where I just want an easier editor that will let me work on it in a large size without its original format and then paste it elsewhere as plain text. This app does just that, and I love it. Thank you for making it!