Great, But Recent Updates Broke It
This is a great basic text editor. No fancy features, no unnecessary bloat, and no price tag. It's perfect for editing plain text! However, something changed after a recent update. For some unknown reason, the "Recent" tab now displays everything single file available in Apple Files. Text files, images, everything. Maybe it's always been this way and I never noticed. Regardless, I now have 260 files listed when there should only be maybe 10, and any files I add or modify in Apple Files becomes the latest one in Subtext, too. It kind of defeats the purpose of the Recents tab… Otherwise, it's been treating me very well!
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Awesome - but missing something
absolutely incredible feel and look, but personally what’s stops me using it more is that there is no syntax highlighting for code, that feature would be incredible and would make me use it more. Also think that the option for Vim Motions would make the keyboard experience so much nicer but overall love the app. thank you for your amazing work
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review! I've been wary of adding features such as syntax highlighting for risk of bloating the app interface, but it's definitely something I'm looking into
Simple Text Editor
I wanted a simple text editor so I could edit text files in the Files app. It works as intended and meets my needs.
a must for ios
a must to compensate ios Files app deficiency. ty sir 👍👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
just a comment to improve it even better: i wish to edit nontext files without changing them to text file
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got your kind reply
great thanx and looking forward the PERFECT 1.2.5 version 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
just a comment to improve it even better: i wish to edit nontext files without changing them to text file
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got your kind reply
great thanx and looking forward the PERFECT 1.2.5 version 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Response from developer
Thanks for the great review! I've added support for all file types in version 1.2.5
One flaw
Subtext is a perfect example of a developer successfully coding a slim, efficient, easy to use, and very popular text editor. UPDATE: minus two stars - no way to copy/paste without line numbers.
Perfect for all text editing
I used this to quickly edit small CSS and JavaScript files too. Despite the small size this is the best simple text edit app by far. Tried 3 other apps today and deleted them all to return to Subtext. Don’t bother with others, this is what you want.
Response from developer
Thanks so much for the great review!
You will lose your work
How am I supposed to review this? It is, in fact, the only .txt editor on the app store without an insane price tag, or clearly unneeded fluff added. But three times now, it has failed to save my work, and I’ve lost what I was working on. It’s not a crash, the app doesn’t close, it just randomly decides everything you typed in the last 20 minutes never happened. There’s no way to communicate with the developer, to try and figure out what’s happening, or how to fix it. So - my first review.
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Response from developer
I'm so sorry to hear you've had this issue, that sounds incredibly frustrating. I've added some fixes to version 1.2.5 that should hopefully prevent this from happening again, but if you do encounter this issue again with the new version please contact support@charcoaldesign.co.uk
a must for ios
a must to compensate ios Files app deficiency. ty sir 👍👍👍🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
just a comment to improve it even better: i wish to edit nontext files without changing them to text file
just a comment to improve it even better: i wish to edit nontext files without changing them to text file
Pros & Cons
Bad news:
the review regarding poor network behaviour is making me feel like I want to delete the app forthwith. 😖
I couldn't find a cancel option, the 'X' to exit is a save&exit; no always what I want to do. A duplicate option used every time before editing should take care of screwed editing. 🤔
Good news.
I program in MacOs Bash which occasionally spits out script line numbers in its error messages: no other method but to count the lines! Subtext has line numbering ❤️
The UI is clean, well designed and intuitive.
Turning my phone on its side, the display rotated with it 🙂
It connected to the Files app seamlessly for selecting the file to edit. 🙂
The ... & V menu options and are just what I would expect, untested but 🙂
I hope the author of my review takes this in the spirit it is given, constructive feedback.
Yes, I'm keeping it. The are many I've investigated, this is the best I've seen
the review regarding poor network behaviour is making me feel like I want to delete the app forthwith. 😖
I couldn't find a cancel option, the 'X' to exit is a save&exit; no always what I want to do. A duplicate option used every time before editing should take care of screwed editing. 🤔
Good news.
I program in MacOs Bash which occasionally spits out script line numbers in its error messages: no other method but to count the lines! Subtext has line numbering ❤️
The UI is clean, well designed and intuitive.
Turning my phone on its side, the display rotated with it 🙂
It connected to the Files app seamlessly for selecting the file to edit. 🙂
The ... & V menu options and are just what I would expect, untested but 🙂
I hope the author of my review takes this in the spirit it is given, constructive feedback.
Yes, I'm keeping it. The are many I've investigated, this is the best I've seen
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review! Version 1.2.6 adds a manual save button for network-hosted files which should hopefully solve the autosave problem. Please get in touch at support@charcoaldesign.co.uk if you have any further issues.
bug jumps to top of doc
jump to top of page when trying set cursor on a blank line...
Excellent text editor
Subtext is ideal for me as a text editor. Simple interface, line numbers, line wrap or not, encoding choices. It shows in the share sheet.
Subtext is a terrific editor, no ads, completely free.
Subtext is a terrific editor, no ads, completely free.
Response from developer
Thanks for the great review!
Danke für diese App
Ich kann damit meine .txt Datei erstellen und meine ganze .js erstellen und bearbeiten für meine Browser die ich immer brauche. Ein muss auf jede iPhone den ich in Zukunft benutzen werden großen Dank an den Entwickler 🙏🏻 weiter so 😇
Response from developer
Danke für die tolle Bewertung - ich freue mich, dass dir Subtext gefällt!
Super!
Wirklich perfekt wenn man zum Beispiel ein Text in den Dateien speichert. Man konnte es bis jetzt nicht bearbeiten. Aber diese Lücke wird von Subtext wirklich perfekt geschlossen! Mega. Bin kein bot btw✌️
Response from developer
Danke für die tolle Bewertung!
No bloat
So simple
Too picky about extensions!!!
I have a renamed xml file with a different extension and it won't let me open it unless I rename it to txt first then rename it back after editing!!!!! Please fix!
Great, needs one feature
Love this app. But after using “Select all” it is difficult to unselect the selection. It would be great if the developer would add a “Unselect all” to the app. Otherwise it works great.
Response from developer
Thanks for the review! I'll look into adding this feature
Simple, brilliant
I’ve tried a lot of text editors and this is the best – does more than many much more bloated apps
Response from developer
Thanks! Glad you like Subtext
Very Bad Failure Mode on Network
I really do love this app, but it's unfortunately difficult to recommend at the moment because it fails very badly on network drives. It autosaves rather than giving you control over writes, so you can get non-atomic updates and data corruption. If your backend is locally cached this works great, but alas, I often use it to update network files and it bombs giving me the choice to leave the file in a corrupt state or continue to edit which will then soon result in the error reappearing. It's a lovely UI but this really needs more sensible behaviour; only update when the close button is tapped and provide a button to revert to the previous state of the file when opened. Only save locally to the app's state in the interim. i pray this will be remedied soon so I can go back to giving this the 5 stars it deserves!
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review, and sorry for this frustration. Please get in touch at support@charcoaldesign.co.uk to discuss the networking issue
unbrauchbar
wenn ich versuche eine neue Text-Datei anzulegen rödelt die App eine Weile rum und sagt dann: unable to open file; dito wenn ich versuche eine vorhandene Text-Datei zu öffnen
Response from developer
Das klingt sehr frustrierend. Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich unter support@charcoaldesign.co.uk und ich werde versuchen, das Problem zu beheben
Best simple vim-like app
OMG, how long I was looking for such a simple and functional tool! Brilliant! Many thanks for developers!
Response from developer
Thanks for the great review!
