Pretext User Reviews

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Too limited

Doesn’t handle tables. Doesn’t handle UTF-8 without a BOM.

This is the best text editor app hands down!

LOVE IT!

Gets work done but need some more feature

Almost perfect, but few issues I faced is when we are writting text in middle of text file and then switch apps and come back cursor automatically goes to bottom forcing us to again scroll to text where one was editing.
2. There should be functionality to search across the text, missing search feature.
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Doesnt open grok markdown files

Advertises it, but does not open markdown files

Shouldn’t have to save before you start typing

I downloaded this to have a Text Edit equivalent on iOS, because I do a lot of copy/paste where I want plain text. Biggest flaw here is you have to create/save a file before you do anything, rather than just start typing and save (or in my case don’t) later. So this won’t work for me. I’ll stick with Notes for now.
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Bonne appli, ne lag pas

Marche bien pour les gros fichiers et ne lag pas vraiment.

The little editor that could

Imagine being able to simply open plaintext and markdown files.

iOS can’t, this app can.

Thank you, Pretext.

App crashes

After install, I create a new md document and begin editing. When I tap return on keyboard, the app crashes. Unusable.

Pay option is failed

Great app and works very well. I can’t tell I am using Pretext or Files app ☺️

Unable to pay for the additional features. Got an error.

Stop bugging me.

I gave a one star rating because I could barely get 5 minutes into trying this App out, and every time I turned around it pops up this obnoxious rating and review dialog. You want a rating? One out of five. You want a review? Stop asking for a goddamn review every time I leave and return to the app. That is a terrible experience.
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Good but need optimisation.

Hi, can you turn off highlighting for big lines? As example one-line data array for some kB lead to app friezes.

Needs Work

Until recently, this was a 4 star app. Then, the “recents” tab stopped showing the last item I opened. Now I need to search. That REALLY slows me down and has me looking to replace the app. So 2 stars instead of 4.

Muy buena

Por favor, agreguen más funciones, está muy bien.

Manda Panda

Says hi

TextEdit for the iPad

I’ve been searching for TextEdit for the iPad every since its inception. Apple was supposed to just make it - but they never did. Thankfully, Pretext got it right - and added in some nice .md formatting options.

I wanted something like pieces of paper open on my iPad Pro in little windows - and this is it.
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I want word count too.

great simple editor.
but I need word count.

Almost perfect

App is great, for me though the lack of search is a huge loss.

For convenient easy to use!

I enjoy pretext
Save me a lot of time
My normal computer froze and needed to submit my class documents in time
IT SAVE THE DAY !!

Me encanta

Es súper sencilla, pero no quería más solamente poder escribir en texto plano

Good voiceover and voice control support

I really like how simple this editor is to use. However, this app restricts the file extensions that are supported making it less than useful for my purposes. Please let users decide which file extensions contain plain text regardless of the file extension. I have thousands of .tex files which makes it impractical to rename them all just to edit them and then have to rename them back.
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