Comparison

Userscripts vs Runestone Text Editor

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Userscripts

This open-source Safari extension allows you to run custom JavaScript and CSS code on any website. Enhance your browsing experience with personalized styling, automatic redirects, and ad-blocking.

Highlights
  • Run custom JavaScript
  • Inject custom CSS
  • Automatic page redirection
  • Website page manipulation
  • Custom ad-blocking
  • Open source
  • No user tracking
Features
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Userscripts is an open source Safari extension that lets you save and run arbitrary bits of JavaScript (and CSS) code for the websites you visit. Features: - Open source - No user tracking Use cases: - Automatic page redirection - Website page manipulation (styling, element creation) - Custom ad-blocking - Custom code injection - Custom style injection If you're looking for a way to easily create quality of life Javacript code snippets for your web browsing experience, give Userscripts a try. Visit the GitHub repository for help or to report bugs: https://github.com/quoid/userscripts/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Userscripts4 screens
Runestone Text Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Userscripts at none against Runestone Text Editor's 1. Runestone Text Editor's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Runestone Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Userscripts asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Runestone Text Editor holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Runestone Text Editor has 2K ratings behind it against 181, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Userscripts's written reviews are positive against 76% of Runestone Text Editor's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Userscripts ships an update monthly, Runestone Text Editor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Userscripts versus Runestone Text Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUserscriptsRunestone Text Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (181 ratings)4.7 (2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews — better76.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1812K — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#20 — better#40
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin WasackSimon B. Støvring

Customer experience

Userscripts

All ratings181 ratings
Positive82.3%
Neutral2.2%
Negative15.5%
Written reviews251 reviews
Positive78.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative16.3%

Runestone Text Editor

All ratings1,962 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews351 reviews
Positive76.1%
Neutral9.7%
Negative14.2%

User reviews

Userscripts

From 181 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Works well to inject CSS on iPad in Safari
  • 👍 Best thing since sliced bread
  • 💡 Allows you to do thousands of things that were previously desktop only
  • 🔒 Very stable and works flawlessly with Safari
  • 👍 Excellent Safari extension

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Satisfactory to an extent, stops working sometimes
  • 🐛 Broke until reinstall
  • 🐛 Slowed my Safari down to a crawl
  • 🐛 Unpredictable when it applies scripts, but still useful
  • 🐛 It's been way too unpredictable for a while now

Runestone Text Editor

From 2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💎 Excellent text editor
  • 🚀 Smooth and responsive
  • 🎨 Customizable themes and appearance
  • 🔒 Secure file storage and sync
  • 👍 Clean and intuitive interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
  • 🔍 Difficulty navigating files/folders
  • 📝 Limited functionality without premium
  • 🔌 Performance issues on older devices
  • 🔒 Difficulty accessing files in cloud storage

Bugs and requests

Userscripts

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Failed to load user data
  • Saying there's an error when trying to download something
  • Won't work, keeps saying there's an issue and retry
  • Disappeared from Safari preferences and won't return after troubleshooting

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for Safari Tech Preview
  • Allow editing of userscripts from the browser extension popup
  • Allow creation of a new script from the Safari Extension for the current site
  • Allow specifying the order in which scripts should be loaded
  • Add support for running scripts in normal mode, private mode or both

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

None

Userscripts

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Runestone Text Editor

One-time1
  • Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Userscripts free?
Userscripts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Runestone Text Editor free?
Runestone Text Editor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Userscripts or Runestone Text Editor?
Runestone Text Editor is rated higher. Userscripts averages 4.3 out of 5 from 181 ratings, while Runestone Text Editor averages 4.7 from 2K ratings.
Do Userscripts or Runestone Text Editor have ads?
Neither Userscripts nor Runestone Text Editor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Userscripts or Runestone Text Editor?
Userscripts ships an update monthly, and Runestone Text Editor every 2 weeks. Most recently, Userscripts was updated on September 22, 2026 and Runestone Text Editor on September 23, 2026.
Which is more popular, Userscripts or Runestone Text Editor?
Userscripts currently peaks at #20 in the App Store charts, and Runestone Text Editor at #40. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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