Text editor vs Jedit Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text editor
This app is a powerful text editor designed for source code, HTML, and general text input on iOS devices. It offers advanced editing features like syntax highlighting, symbol pads, and undo/redo, with cloud storage integration and an optional online compiler.
- Syntax highlighting
- Symbol input and cursor pads
- Undo/Redo functionality
- Line number display
- Search and replace
- Cloud storage integration
- HTML/Markdown preview
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A text editor optimized for source code editing on iPhone and iPad. In addition to source code, it supports editing of HTML, Markdown, notes, and various other text formats. ■ Online Compilation Compile your code by integrating with an online compiler. Powered by Sphere Engine A Sphere Engine account is required Supported languages vary — please refer to the official website https://sphere-engine.com/ ■ Editor Features Syntax highlighting Symbol input and cursor control pad (toggleable) Undo / Redo (iPhone supported) Line numbers Search and replace Character / line count display (toggleable) Multiple file editing Invisible character display (line breaks, tabs, spaces) ■ File Management File / directory listing Create / delete / copy / move View file details (path, size, creation date, etc.) Local grep search ■ Cloud Integration Requires an account for each service iCloud Dropbox Google Drive OneDrive Box Google Drive is currently available only to a limited number of users ■ Other Features HTML / Markdown preview Font customization (type and size) FTP support Image / PDF viewer Feedback and feature requests are always welcome. Follow development updates on X (Twitter): @devpweditor Contact: devpweditor@gmail.com
Jedit Lite
Edit and process plain and rich text with a comprehensive set of tools. Features include line numbering, invisible character display, automatic encoding detection, and regular expression search. Supports text-to-speech for various formats.
- Line numbering
- Invisible character display
- Automatic encoding determination
- Rich text editing (RTF/RTFD)
- Regular expression search/replace
- Text-to-speech
- HTML/Markdown reading
- Syntax coloring
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A "comprehensive text tool" that supports editing and processing of a variety of text from rich to plain text. Supports line numbering, display of invisible characters, automatic encoding determination, rich text (rtf/rtfd) editing, regular expression search/replace, text speech with position display, HTML/Markdown text reading, syntax coloring, and more. Both Apple TTS and Google TTS (free up to 1 million characters per month) are supported for text-to-speech. ■About Subscriptions A subscription registration prompt will appear each time you close the editing document.. Once you register, the prompt will no longer appear. Please refer to the following for terms and conditions regarding the use of subscriptions. 1. Privacy policy: https://www.artman21.com/en/sparkle/jedit-lite-privacy.html 2. Terms of Use: https://www.artman21.com/en/sparkle/jedit-lite-eula.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Text editor at weekly against Jedit Lite's every 3 months. Jedit Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (14.4 vs 16.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Text editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Jedit Lite sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Text editor ships an update weekly, Jedit Lite every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text editor | Jedit Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (113 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 47.6% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 14.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Masatsugu Futamata | Artman21 Inc. |
Customer experience
Text editor
Jedit Lite
Bugs and requests
Text editor
Reported bugs
22 issues- Font size always 1 pixel
- Cannot export files
- Files stuck on iPad
- Google Drive not working
- Files not showing in Files app
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- Cannot access local files
- Crashes on opening
- Doesn't save changes
- Randomly resets
- App doesn't open
- Mismatched file names with cloud storage
- Export error: 'No subdirectory in directory info list'
- Incorrect UTF-8 encoding and line endings
- Messed up HTML by replacing characters (dashes to underscores)
- Replaces straight double quotes with curly ones
- Cursor does not always position correctly
- App doesn't read editor correctly (e.g., 'type' attribute)
- Transparently substitutes multi-character Unicode for straight text
- Forgot password, no reset option
- App closes immediately after starting
- Irritating reset problem still exists
- Resets when hitting Save
Requested features
10 requests- Option to turn off ads (paid version)
- Dark mode option
- Share sheet integration
- Local version of Dropbox files
- Ability to search within a file while editing
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- Improve dark mode with dark keyboard
- Ability to write file contents before naming/saving
- Fix Google Drive integration
- Improve UI to be more modern
- Show up in share sheet menu to open files directly
Jedit Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text editor
- Hide ads$0.99
Jedit Lite
- Jedit Lite 1 year Subscription$3.991 Year









