PasteMe vs Runestone Text Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PasteMe
Effortlessly share code, logs, or text snippets to Pastebin with a shareable link. Features syntax highlighting, custom names, visibility controls, and full account support. Enjoy a secure, encrypted experience with a modern design.
- Paste to Pastebin instantly
- Syntax highlighting
- Custom paste names
- Visibility controls
- Full Pastebin.com account support
- Dark mode support
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NO SUBSCRIPTIONS - PAY ONCE, OWN FOREVER Sharing code, logs, or text snippets just got effortless. PasteMe lets you paste anything to Pastebin in seconds and instantly get a shareable link with no friction, no fuss. Features that actually matter: syntax highlighting for clean code display, custom paste names, visibility controls, and smart defaults for your preferred programming language. Manage all your pastes in one place with full Pastebin.com account support. Dark mode and the latest liquid glass design language are all supported! Security built in. All traffic is encrypted, your login stays private, and we never store your credentials. Use a strong password and you're set. Perfect for developers sharing code, troubleshooting with teammates, or quickly posting anything that needs a direct link. Note: Pastebin's API doesn't support editing pastes through third-party apps. If that's important to you, request it directly from Pastebin. Questions? Reach out: contact@randusoft.ro
Runestone Text Editor
A powerful plain text and code editor for iPhone and iPad. Offers syntax highlighting, line numbers, find and replace, and extensive customization options for developers and writers.
- Syntax highlighting for many languages
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Advanced find and replace
- Line numbers and cursor location
- Code formatting with Prettier.js
- Multiple windows on iPad
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A plain text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, search and replace, page guide, and much more. It's like TextEdit but more powerful and optimised for iPhone and iPad. Runestone is made by a single person with a love for text editors and a vision of building the most lightweight text editor for iPhone and iPad that still has the core features for editing code. Features: - Syntax highlighting of many languages including HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Markdown, Swift, Python, PHP, YAML, and many more. - Select one of the twelve standard themes including popular themes like Tomorrow, Dracula, Solarized, and One Dark Pro. - Innovative find and replace for searching and modifying text while still viewing your file. - Choose font and font size, including support for custom fonts imported using another third-party app. - Show the line and column the cursor is located on. - Uses the standard document browser for an experience similar to the Files app. - Quickly navigate to a specific line. - Automatically close opening brackets and quotes. - Multiple windows on the iPad. - Format code using Prettier.js. Supported languages include CSS,HTML, JavaScript, JSON, PHP and more. - Choose text encoding between popular encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, and many more. - Enable or disable autocorrection, autocapitalization, and smart punctuation. - Set default file extension of new files. - Open files in Runestone from the Share Sheet. - Print documents. Premium features: - Choose between eight app icons. - Show line numbers. - Highlight the selected line. - Increase line height and letter spacing. - Disable line wrapping to allow horizontal scrolling. - Show tabs, spaces, and line breaks using a selected symbol. - Enable page guide at a specific column to easily tell when lines are getting too long. - Add vertical and horizontal overscroll. - Remember the selected language per file. - Save file extensions and filenames that should always be treated as plain text files. - Enable soft tabs and choose the width of the tab character. - Specify whether pressing the tab key should insert a tab or indent the line. - Adjust the scaling of Markdown headings and disable highlighting of code blocks in Markdown. Runestone was built on the open-source framework with the same name. Find more information on the Runestone framework at github.com/simonbs/runestone
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Runestone Text Editor at Free against PasteMe's $2.99. Runestone Text Editor also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). PasteMe's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads and chart position 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
Runestone Text Editor is free to download; PasteMe costs $2.99 up front. Runestone Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PasteMe asks for nothing beyond the download.
Runestone Text Editor holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Runestone Text Editor has 2K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of PasteMe's written reviews are positive against 76% of Runestone Text Editor's.
PasteMe ships an update every 7 months, Runestone Text Editor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PasteMe | Runestone Text Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) | 4.7 (2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 76.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #71 | #39 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | RanduSoft SRL | Simon B. Støvring |
Customer experience
PasteMe
Runestone Text Editor
Bugs and requests
PasteMe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Runestone Text Editor
Reported bugs
6 issues- Disappearing files
- Difficulty pasting text
- Scroll position not saved
- Hangs on startup
- Trouble opening large files
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- Issues after iOS updates
Requested features
6 requests- Markdown preview
- Code folding
- Syntax highlighting for more languages
- Ability to run/execute code
- Multiple file/window support
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- Improved undo/redo functionality
In-app purchases
PasteMe
No in-app purchases
Runestone Text Editor
- Premium$9.99









