JSON Tools vs Runestone Text Editor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
JSON Tools
A comprehensive toolkit for developers to visualize, validate, convert, and generate code from JSON data. It offers features like interactive tree views, schema generation, and code export for multiple programming languages.
- Interactive Tree View and JSONPath querying
- Convert JSON to XML, CSV, YAML, and more
- Generate type-safe model classes for multiple languages
- Auto-generate JSON Schema for validation
- Dedicated JSON syntax keyboard overlay
- Background processing for large datasets
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The ultimate JSON toolkit for developers. Visualize, validate, convert, and generate code - all in one powerful, beautifully designed iOS app. JSON Tools is the professional-grade JSON utility built for developers who demand speed, precision, and versatility. Whether you're debugging API responses, prototyping data schemas, or generating type-safe model classes, JSON Tools handles it all natively on iPhone and iPad. Visualize & Explore Dive into your JSON with an interactive Tree View and JSONPath-powered querying. Use the Table View to inspect arrays like a spreadsheet. Rainbow column highlighting makes CSV/TSV output instantly readable. Format & Transform Prettify nested structures with smart indentation or strip whitespace with the Minify engine. Convert JSON to XML, CSV, TSV, TOML, YAML, HTML, Markdown, Base64, and more instantly. Generate Production-Ready Stub Code Export type-safe model classes for Dart, Swift, Kotlin, Java, Python, TypeScript, and C# with intelligent property singularization and pluralization. Stop writing boilerplate JSON Tools writes it for you. Validate with Confidence Auto-generate JSON Schema from any object, then validate payloads against it in real time. Catch errors before they reach production. Built for iOS A dedicated JSON syntax keyboard overlay, native Document Picker integration, and background processing keep the experience fast and fluid even on massive datasets.
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 review sentiment: Runestone Text Editor at 76% against JSON Tools's 0%. Runestone Text Editor also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and chart position (#37 vs #114). JSON Tools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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; JSON Tools costs $0.99 up front. Runestone Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. JSON Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.
JSON Tools ships an update every 10 days, Runestone Text Editor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | JSON Tools | Runestone Text Editor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 76.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #114 | #37 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohammed Aadhil | Simon B. Støvring |
Customer experience
JSON Tools
Runestone Text Editor
Bugs and requests
JSON Tools
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
JSON Tools
No in-app purchases
Runestone Text Editor
- Premium$9.99
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