Runestone Text Editor vs Snippet Dev Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Snippet Dev Tools
A native, cross-platform code snippet manager and developer utility for iOS development. It offers a robust code editor with extensive language support and various built-in developer tools, all while prioritizing user privacy and offline functionality. Data is securely saved locally and synced via iCloud across Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
- Cross-platform code snippet management
- 110+ languages with syntax highlighting
- Offline functionality and iCloud sync
- Multiple developer tools (Base64, Hashing, JSON to Model)
- Markdown preview
- Organize snippets with folders and tags
- Status menu bar mode
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Codelime is a native cross platform snippet manager with many dev tools for iOS development. It is universal that works across Mac, iPhone and iPad. - Native first. Codelime is built with native Swift code for true platform experience. - Privacy focused. It works offline, your data remains on your machine and all logic is done offline. - Data is saved locally and synced via your iCloud - Ongoing list of dev tools Code snippet editing - Battle tested editor with over 110+ languages supported and 20 themes for light and dark mode - Advanced settings to adjust font size, line numbers, themes and wrapping - Name and add note to a snippet - Splendid syntax highlighting - Organize snippets into folders and tags - Customize tags with name and colors - Customize folders with name and default language - Create nested folders - Support GitHub markdown and preview markdown - Share snippet - Get summary about number of lines, characters, words in a snippet - Backup all snippets any time - Enable iCloud sync to sync snippets across devices Mac, iPhone and iPad - Quickly search snippets by name, tag and content - Status menu bar mode. You can create and save snippet on the go conveniently in the menu bar. Dev tools - Ongoing list of 7+ dev tools with focus on iOS development - Encode and decode for base64 - Hash with many popular hash functions - Encode and decode URL - Generate asset catalog AppIcon set - Generate model from JSON - Transform text into many cases - Convert number to different number bases For more information, visit https://indiegoodies.com/codelime Terms of use https://indiegoodies.com/codelime/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Runestone Text Editor at 2K against Snippet Dev Tools's 7. Runestone Text Editor also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and chart position (#35 vs unranked). Snippet Dev Tools's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Runestone Text Editor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Snippet Dev Tools sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Snippet Dev Tools holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Runestone Text Editor has 2K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Runestone Text Editor's written reviews are positive against 67% of Snippet Dev Tools's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Runestone Text Editor ships an update every 2 weeks, Snippet Dev Tools monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Runestone Text Editor | Snippet Dev Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2K ratings) | 4.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #35 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon B. Støvring | Khuong Pham |
Customer experience
Runestone Text Editor
Snippet Dev Tools
Bugs and 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
Snippet Dev Tools
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Runestone Text Editor
- Premium$9.99
Snippet Dev Tools
- Monthly$0.991 Month
- Yearly$4.991 Year
- Lifetime$19.99
Questions
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