Textastic Code Editor vs Termpolis R
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Textastic Code Editor
A powerful text and code editor for mobile devices, offering syntax highlighting for over 80 languages, code completion, and formatting tools. It allows connection to various servers and cloud storage for seamless file management and editing.
- Syntax highlighting for 80+ languages
- SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, and Dropbox client
- Built-in SSH terminal
- Code completion and formatting
- External keyboard and trackpad support
- Split View and Slide Over multitasking
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Textastic is a comprehensive and versatile text and code editor for iPad and iPhone. It supports syntax highlighting for more than 80 programming and markup languages. Connect to SFTP, FTP, and WebDAV servers or to your Dropbox account. Use the built-in SSH terminal to work directly on your server. Features: - Syntax highlighting for more than 80 languages, including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, C++, Swift, Objective-C, Rust, XML, Markdown, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Lua, YAML, JSON, SQL, shell scripts, and many more (full list available on the website) - Compatible with Sublime Text 3 and TextMate 1 syntax definitions and themes - Code completion for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C, Objective-C, and PHP - SFTP (SSH), FTP, FTPS (FTP over SSL), WebDAV, and Dropbox clients - SSH terminal connections - Code formatter for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and JSON - Git repositories from the Git client app Working Copy can be opened as external folders in Textastic - Emmet support - JavaScript console - iCloud Drive file synchronization - WebDAV server for easy file transfer between Textastic and your Mac or PC over Wi-Fi - Symbol list for quick navigation within a file - Full support for external keyboards, trackpads, and mice - Configurable keyboard shortcuts - Additional keys above the virtual keyboard for frequently used programming characters - Cursor navigation wheel for easy text selection - Move the cursor using swipe gestures - Split View and Slide Over multitasking on iPad - Open multiple files in tabs - Multiple windows on iPadOS - Dark Mode support - Support for common text encodings such as UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1 - Support for different tab widths and soft tabs (spaces instead of tabs) - Custom fonts - Find and Replace, including regular expression search - Find in multiple files - File information such as character and word counts - Local and remote web preview for HTML and Markdown files Pricing: Textastic requires a monthly or yearly subscription or a one-time purchase. Each subscription includes a 7-day free trial with full access to all features. Privacy Policy: https://www.textasticapp.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Termpolis R
Control and monitor terminals running on your computer directly from your phone. View output, send commands, and manage multiple desktop connections securely. Requires the companion desktop application.
- Remote terminal viewing
- Type commands remotely
- Monitor running terminals
- Secure end-to-end encryption
- Pair with multiple desktops
- Granular permission control
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Termpolis Remote is a companion for the Termpolis desktop app. It lets you check on the terminals already running on your computer, read what they have printed, and type into them, from your phone. It is a viewer and a keyboard. Nothing runs here. The work happens on your desktop, signed in the way it was already signed in, on the machine where your files, your repositories and your tools already are. Close this app and the work carries on without it. REQUIRES THE TERMPOLIS DESKTOP APP Termpolis Remote does nothing on its own. You need Termpolis running on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer, with Remote turned on in Settings. Termpolis is free and open source: github.com/codedev-david/termpolis RELAY ACCESS IS A SUBSCRIPTION The app is free to install. Your phone reaches your desktop through a relay we run and pay for, and that is what the subscription covers: Relay access -- $4.99 per month, auto-renewing. New subscribers get the first week free. The desktop app stays free and open source. There is no free tier here and nothing is held back from subscribers; the relay is the one thing this app does. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of that. Manage or cancel it in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Any unused part of a free week is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://termpolis.com/privacy.html PAIRING TAKES ONE SCAN Your desktop shows a code. You scan it. Both screens then show the same eight words -- if they match, the two devices agreed on a key nothing in between can derive. If they do not match, something is in between, and the right move is to unpair. ONE PHONE, SEVERAL DESKTOPS Pair with up to 16 computers -- a work machine, a home one, a Linux box in the corner -- and switch between them from the terminal list. Each pairing has its own key and its own name, so each desktop grants what this phone may do on that desktop alone, and unpairing one leaves the others exactly as they were. END TO END, NOT JUST IN TRANSIT Every message between your phone and your desktop is sealed with a key the two of them derived together, using X25519 key agreement and ChaCha20-Poly1305. The relay that carries the traffic sees a room id, a size and a time. It cannot read a single byte of what passes through it, and it keeps nothing. YOUR DESKTOP DECIDES WHAT THIS PHONE CAN DO Reading output, starting terminals, typing, closing terminals -- each is granted on the desktop, in Settings, and each is checked again on the desktop for every request. This app can report what it has been allowed. It cannot grant itself anything. WHAT IT STORES One encryption key and one pairing record for each desktop you have paired with, in the iOS keychain, on this device only. No transcript, no scrollback, no cache of what your desktop said. Unpairing erases that desktop's key and record, and works whether or not the desktop is reachable. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising identifier, no tracking of any kind. There is no server of ours that your terminal output ever reaches, because there is nowhere for it to go. CAMERA Used for one thing: reading the pairing code on your desktop screen. Frames are decoded on the phone and thrown away. If you would rather not, the pairing code can be typed in by hand. Termpolis is open source under the Apache 2.0 licence, and the wire format this app speaks is published in full.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Textastic Code Editor at 2.5K against Termpolis R's 1. Textastic Code Editor also leads on chart position (#16 vs unranked). Termpolis R's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Textastic Code Editor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Termpolis R sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Termpolis R holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Textastic Code Editor has 2.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Textastic Code Editor ships an update every 3 weeks, Termpolis R every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Textastic Code Editor | Termpolis R |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | #16 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Blach | David Engelhart |
Customer experience
Textastic Code Editor
Termpolis R
Bugs and requests
Textastic Code Editor
Reported bugs
3 issues- Issues with SSH/SFTP connectivity and authentication
- Problems with handling large files or files with certain extensions
- Inconsistent text selection and editing behavior
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for more cloud storage providers (e.g. Google Drive, OneDrive)
- Implement a more seamless remote file editing and syncing workflow
- Improve code editing features like code folding, multi-cursor support, and code beautification
- Add a built-in terminal or ability to run code directly within the app
Termpolis R
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Textastic Code Editor
- Textastic Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Textastic Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Textastic Pro (One-Time)$69.99
Termpolis R
- Termpolis Remote7 Days trial$4.991 Month








