Comparison

Scheminator 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

Scheminator

Easily create, compare, and refine color palettes. Once you achieve the ideal combination, export it directly into a color set file for your projects.

Highlights
  • Create color palettes
  • Compare color palettes
  • Adjust color balance
  • Export palettes to color set files
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Create, compare and adjust palettes. When you have the perfect balance, quickly export the palette into a color set file.

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

Scheminator4 screens
Runestone Text Editor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scheminator at none against Runestone Text Editor's 1. Scheminator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). Runestone Text Editor's advantage is ratings volume (2K vs 3) and chart position (#42 vs unranked). On price and ads 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. Scheminator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Scheminator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Runestone Text Editor has 2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Scheminator versus Runestone Text Editor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScheminatorRunestone Text Editor
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.7 (2K ratings)
Positive reviews—76.2% of reviews
Number of ratings32K — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#42 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS13.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKieran BrownSimon B. Støvring

Customer experience

Scheminator

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Runestone Text Editor

All ratings1,962 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews353 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral9.6%
Negative14.2%

Bugs and requests

Scheminator

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

None

Scheminator

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Runestone Text Editor

One-time1
  • Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Scheminator free?
Scheminator 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, Scheminator or Runestone Text Editor?
Scheminator is rated higher. Scheminator averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Runestone Text Editor averages 4.7 from 2K ratings.
Do Scheminator or Runestone Text Editor have ads?
Neither Scheminator nor Runestone Text Editor shows ads.

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