Lightweight Text Editor User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience80.6% of reviews
Neutral6.5% of reviews
Negative experience12.9% of reviews

~ Based on 31 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

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.

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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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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

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.

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!

Great!

It takes notes. I don’t need a subscription or the cloud. It’s a good app.

The launch app window is too small

The window size s not remembered when you close and relaunch the app. It opens in small size. Fix it please.

Response from developer

Fixed!

Perfect

Exactly what it says it is, love it

fontastic

I can't stand apple's text editor and have searched the universe for a replacement. So far, this is the best. I want simple. This is simple. I want a reliable save function. Text Editor has it. A bonus I enjoy = the ability to choose fonts. This feature increases the readability of my notes. Thank you developers!
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A no-nonsense editor

I like a stripped down text editor with very little memory overhead. This perfectly fits that bill. Highly recommended.

Simple yet Effective

Does exactly what it says and nothing less or more

Best light weight text editor

Was looking for a nice simple text editor for Mac. On testing a couple this one was easily the best.