# Plain Text Editor — user reviews > 87 indexed App Store user reviews of Plain Text Editor by Sindre Sorhus, rated 4.40/5 from 9 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plain-text-editor/id1572202501/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/plain-text-editor/id1572202501.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 7 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (14 of 87) ### 5/5 — Veloce e minimale *2025-11-19, version 1.8.2* App ottima, nessun problema riscontrato! ### 5/5 — Plain is good. *2025-09-28* No unnecessary features. Think of it like TextEdit from Mac but strictly for plain text. Hence the name. ### 5/5 — Plain txt *2025-09-05* Great app. It’s quick an easy to use and adaptable to my needs. Thanks guys ### 5/5 — Nice app, would be nicer if the text line height can be adjusted *2025-08-13* The app is really nice and simple! I really like it. It would be nicer if there are options to adjust the line height. The current behavior is that the line height seems to be fixed no matter what size of the font is, so does the cursor height. ### 5/5 — Another winner from Sindre! *2025-08-12* It’s like Christmas Day when Sindre drops a new app because you know it’s going to be something amazing! Plain Text Editor is no exception; it’s head and shoulders above every other app in its class and just delivers. Clean, simple, fast, and lightweight — what more can you ask for? This app immediately became my default text editor after I made a quick two letter shortcut via Alfred. And of course it has Dark Mode, so my eyes are happy too. Thanks Sindre! ### 5/5 — Simple et efficace *2025-08-06* Je m’en sers essentiellement pour écrire des brouillons de textes lorsque la limite de caractères peut poser problème. Je peux écrire du texte dans un format très simple, et l’application est jolie et gratuite, je n’en demande pas plus. ### 5/5 — Perfekt *2025-06-27* Kurz gesagt, perfekt. ### 5/5 — Essential *2025-05-15, version 1.7.0* Intuitive and useful. ### 5/5 — Very good *2025-05-08, version 1.7.0* I like having a modern execution of a good old text editor. Well engineered! ### 5/5 — Loveing it *2025-04-26, version 1.6.0* You are absolutely awesome ### 5/5 — A wonderful little app *2025-04-21* Everything I wished for to undertake my journaling. It is aesthetically pleasing and distraction-free. I appreciate this is not a subscription. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Beaucoup plus pratique *2025-04-14* Beaucoup plus pratique que textedit, c’est un texteur de base. Il a en plus une fonction fond clair, ce qui est plus pratique et lisible. TextEdit n’a même pas cette fonction. ### 5/5 — Great replacement for Apple’s TextEdit *2025-04-05* Simple, opens quickly, does the job. While I like editing Markdown in a more fully-featured editor with formatting and styles, I always end up needing a super fast app for plain text notes. Apple’s TextEdit has become slower and slower to open, and I just want something I can click on and (ideally, immediately) start typing. Plain Text Editor is about as perfect as I’ve found so far! Thank you so much. ### 5/5 — Parfait! *2025-04-03* Exactement ce dont j’avais besoin pour pouvoir éditer du texte brute de manière simple et efficace. L’interface est simple et les préférences sont exactement ce qu’elles doivent être. Pas de publicité, pas de « maintenant que tu es satisfait paie ». Tout simplement parfait. Je compte faire un don au développeur si possible. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Im Prinzip ja, aber bitte auch im Querformat *2026-04-13* Es gibt Menschen, die z.B. an einem iPad sitzen und das Programm im Querformat nutzen möchten. Diese bemerken dann, dass bei einer langen Zeile der Rest des Satzes nicht mehr lesbar ist. Aber vielleicht ist das ja auch nur ein neues Feature von Apple? Edit: Text verschwindet, Punkte im Querformat. iPad OS 26. Fazit: ein kleiner, aber leider ein Fehlkauf. ### 1/5 — plain text editor experiences *2025-09-06, version 1.7.0* plain text editor experiences This app has access to your entire file system from the get-go not as a choice after it opens. everything you own is exposed to this app when you first open it. This app presents files it cannot possibly edit your PNG files as an example. This app does not offer its own sandboxed storage solution. this apps filing system is your devices filing system and you can't keep them separated. not an option to limit your devices file access. again everything is wide open from the get go. Unless this app has access to your entire filing system it will not work, it will not create a new file. out of the box this app is allowed access to your iCloud and your on my iPhone and cellular data. Think about that an app that doesn't need cellular data is given automatic permission to cellular data. You need to go to settings before you ever open this app and switch off cellular data. Think about that, this app is given free range of your filing system including files it has no ability to edit and cellular data. Cannot paste into the rename input box. Cannot renamed once file is named from within the app. The user interface will cover end of file making that inaccessible when the file exceeds screen height. There is no way to bring up the end of file and start to add text from there without finagling and gestures uncommon, gestures found by accident. I would like to see the end of file so I can place the cursing position and continue after correcting previous edit somewhere mid page but that doesn't happen. There's no way to hide the user interface in order to allow a better reading/ proof experience. there is no undo, redo navigation. this app jumps cursor locations while reading and you will lose your focus in a heartbeat. I created the the review for this app from within this app and our completion the back nav button is unresponsive. I am unable to go back and create another document I have to close the app down and restart, shame! The app is AutoCorrect in my work. I'm told this is a simple text editor and it's correct in my work. These corrections are not improvements. These corrections are suggestions that don't relate to what I'm trying to write and I am unable to turn off this behavior. I tried to save this document I used to create this review and it's not allowed. I get a message telling me there is no location available to write it rather than a prompt asking me where to store it! after I close and open the app and I can see the documents I create written into the wide open of on my iPhone. No option to place these into a folder. the system to order these files by group into locations I can observe all at once and these settings I have to change the next time I want to observe another specific group of files or just an individual location. There is no context to this behavior. I wanted a plain text editor and this app is capitalizing words, auto correction I did not ask for. ### 2/5 — Good idea, Not Working *2025-08-07* I love this app but brain dump mode is not working when I type in other language. ### 2/5 — Works ok… *2025-03-09, version 1.6.0* …but crashes trying to open a 10MB json file for me. That’s not even that big, honestly. Should be able to handle a 10MB json file if it wants to be taken seriously. Sorry :/ ### 2/5 — Can't print *2024-05-07, version 1.4.1* App works, looks pretty good, but doesn't have printing capabilities. That's lame ### 3/5 — Неплохо *2025-04-15* Не плохо, но почему нельзя тупо закрыть документ без сохранения или хотя бы спросить нужно ли его сохранять, при выходе из приложения? Задумка прекрасная - реализация нулевая! Буду оформлять возврат, так как это базовый функционал любого текстового редактора, который в приложении отсутствует! **Developer response:** You can. It prompts you to save, but you can decline. It works exactly like all other document-based apps on macOS. ### 4/5 — A valuable text app *2025-10-23, version 1.8.0* Opens quick, iCloud Files sync. Use as a format cleaner/wiper. Love it. =Peace= ### 4/5 — macOS autocorrect doesn’t work *2025-05-11* I like the concept of this app, and it’s beautifully designed and executed. But macOS autocorrect and word completion don’t work in it, which seems odd, since it’s a native app. ### 4/5 — I really love the simplicity. *2025-02-13* The only feature I truly miss is the ability to display hidden characters, such as spaces. ### 4/5 — Could allow padding customization *2024-11-30* Good, but could allow padding customization. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — THANK YOU! *2026-07-21, version 1.9.0* Hey Apple, was this so hard? ### 5/5 — It does nothing, which is perfect. *2026-07-19* It is crazy how hard it is to find an app for iOS that will take my text and not apply formatting to it. Plain text editor saves the day, by doing nothing. Not mangling my text, not applying formatting, not replacing my 2 dashes with an emdash, not carrying over a font or font size that I didn’t want. Perfect simplicity. ### 5/5 — straight-up perfection *2026-05-04* literally nothing more I could ask for… beautifully plain, fully-featured, reliable. ### 5/5 — Thank you!! *2026-04-25, version 1.8.4* Hey Apple, was this so hard to do? ### 5/5 — Strips out everything - and thtat’s good *2026-04-15* This is how I use it: Paste in text that’s formatted with stuff I don’t want and bingo, it’s beautiful plain text. Highlight, copy, and use elsewhere. OK, there are other apps for Mac OS, but for iOS not so much - and it syncs everywhere - so this is my choice. ### 5/5 — Plain Text Editor is clean, simple, awesome! *2026-01-12* Love that it's cross-platform. I'll start writing on my Mac and later open the same text file on my iPhone and continue. ### 5/5 — 非常好用，五星好评 *2026-01-09* PIN 在屏幕上的功能，是我的刚需 ### 5/5 — Easy and simple editor *2026-01-04* This app is the best for me ### 5/5 — имба *2025-12-16* имба ### 5/5 — Let’s you focus… *2025-12-07* ... on what matters: thinking, writing. Not on formatting or unnecessary feature checking. Please keep it that simple and make sure it keeps running. Also perfect for collecting text from various sources unformatted. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*